Find the richest spots in the stream by Reading the River for gold.
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- Lots of gold is still out there waiting to be found. But when you go to a river or stream, where do you look? How can you find the good spots? Gold is not evenly distributed through any stream or drainage. Gold placers are almost always spotty - they are often naturally rich in few spots and poor in a large number of areas along the stream. To find those good spots, you need to be able to read the river and see where the good places are, and that is what this video is about - How to read a river for gold.
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The best video I've seen on reading the river. Thanks so much for the diagrams and especially the actual photos. 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Hey Ralph, I’ve been following you off and on for about 10 years now and you are still by far the best information out there. No wonder you have more than 110,000 subscribers. Keep up the great work. i’m hoping to use some of it over here in Australia one day maybe when I retire.Thank you🤠👍
Awesome! Thank you! Best of luck when you do get to retire.
Great stuff as usual chris. You get into things others only mention. One of the things i always do when placering is to just try to imagine what that area was doing a billion years ago.
Good point! Thanks for the kind words.
cool video! My wife bought me your book for my birthday and I'm slowly working my way through it.
That's great. I'm sure you will you enjoy it!
Back from Virginia just got time to watch !!!!!!! First Gold of 2024 found yesterday video coming soon !!!!!
Hope you had a great trip to Virginia. Congrats on first gold, got a couple inches of snow here. Be a while before I am out prospecting again.
Hope you had a great time in Virginia 🎉
Oldest Boy got Married and we ran down to the Outer Banks in North Carolina so it was a fun trip !!!! Thanks @@virginiarocks
Grab that snow shovel and head for California we have Sunshine and Gold just waiting for ya !!!!! LOL @@ChrisRalph
I saw your video and the frost and ice on your car and fence post. Looks pretty cold to me!
Great video, your knowledge should help me find more gold during my yearly week long trip to Roaring Camp Gold in California, FYI, river is spelled rive on your white board, no big deal, just noticed it
I noticed the mis-spelling right after I uploaded it - but I didn't want to re-shoot it. I was just in too much of a rush while filming. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Awesome explanation of river reading. Great amount of knowledge.thank you..And yes I bought the book awesome amount of knowledge in it I still haven't been all the way through it but still flip to certain sections to remind myself of your knowledge
Glad it was helpful and you enjoyed it
Thank you for yet another fantastic video, I really appreciate your knowledge and wisdom!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for these tips. I can try them out in a few weeks. I am curious. Of all these old mines, before they knew what uranium is, how often do you think they dug up uraninite and just discarded it to the side?
Uranium is not common. A very small number of hard rock gold mines have a tiny bit with the gold. So "how often do you think they dug up uraninite"? - almost never.
Chris is those deposit still out there can i invest on it or that is only TH-cam gold field
We may have a language problem. I never mentioned a company that might be in need of investment.
14:15 or clay
ok.
The missing 'r' was stolen by Pyrites. Arrrrrrrrrr.....
The dread pyrite Goldbeard, no doubt.
great video, well done.
Dan - Thank you very much. I've enjoyed your videos also.
I absolutely love and appreciate your videos! So educational! I got your book for Christmas and it's incredible the knowledge and tips you know. You are appreciated!
Wow, thank you for the kind words!
Hey Mr. Ralph, first of all thanks for the great content. I just got hired to work the Frac rigs in the Permian basin, 2 weeks on and one week off.
During my off-weeks, I plan to camp out in New Mexico on the margins of some of the many collapsed calderas to prospect for gold. My housing is provided while I'm working, so I can save money by camping while I'm not working.
There was a report from the 70s which suggests that there are over 30,000 ounces of placer gold still in the Hillsboro mining district, and there is plenty more to explore in NM as well!
Thanks for helping me in my endeavors, I truly appreciate your work. May God bless you and your loved ones!
There is some good placer in New Mexico for sure. Best of luck to you.
Seeing those images of flood stage waters ripping through a drainage like that, it makes me chuckle to think of folks absolutely freaking out about a little silt from an in-stream sluice, or even a 4 inch dredge. 😊
It's not about any environmental impact. It's all about the politics - that is the only thing that counts.
Great information thanks for sharing your wisdom
Where was that campground in the 90's ??? with more violent storms these days that area will be worth visiting since the gold is already there it just needs some good washing out.
Thanks again definitely worth watching COMPLETE PRESENTATION
Thanks much, and I'm glad it was helpful.
Where can I find Rive? Ha ha. Great video, much to take in and put into practice, cheers Chris.
Glad you liked it.
*-Cry-* Read me a river … 😀
Seriously, I love your channel. I need to search your videos to see if there's one that estimates what it would cost in equipment to pan for gold. Sounds like a fun *HOBBY* if not a real money-making enterprise!
It's doubly not a real money-making enterprise if you care coming in with no experience, no knowledge - and a lot of the guys who have never found any gold before think its just easy.
@@ChrisRalph True …
Of course, most hobbies are expensive. (Maybe chess?😀) My most expensive one was aviation!
Just *FINDING* gold would be fun, though. Sort of like fishing … sometimes you don’t catch anything, and sometimes it would have been cheaper to buy fish at the store, but it’s the _”experience”_ … 😀
@ChrisRalph gas cost is the biggest thing that makes it unprofitable so the only way it's rly possible is to find a pay streak and camp at it for weeks at a time , I only know one spot in my whole life that's acctually able to make a legitimate profit and it was a spot I was shown by old timers who basically only go to that spot xD
You have a high degree of teaching ability, if you had chosen to be a teacher none of us would need gold!
I come from a family full of teachers - some of it rubbed off.
I've found gold in dried up creek beds too, after digging down 2 feet to the gravel layer. That was years ago, I went there a year ago and water was flowing in places I'd never seen it run from.
The gold moves around when the water is flowing fast, but its still there where the waters left it when the water dries up.
Great video. I was wondering about where the best deposition zones are for large rocks that are to the side of a brook. I’ve been working around a rock that has water flowing along one side all the time, but has water flowing around both sides during high water events, and even over it completely during extreme events, which there have been at least 3 of in just the last year. My intuition says the best spot should be along and below the side closer to the bank, where there is only water flow when the river is getting high. Thats when the most material is being moved, so the most movement of gold. The rock I’m talking about is big enough that even the last 3 one hundred year storms (again, in a little over 12 months) haven’t moved it even an inch.
What about the upstream side of this same rock? There’s a lot of material that has been deposited there. I had been working that last year, and doing ok. Storms over the winter and early summer filled the area I had dug out, while making the downstream side more appealing this summer.
For the record I’m in Vermont. The gold here is generally small, but not the super fine stuff you see in some places. A good day here (a couple hours work) is 1/10 of a gram. If I get a few grams for the season I’m happy. No motorized methods allowed at all. Sluices only with a permit. I wish I could post pics to show exactly what I’m taking about.
I’d love to see more videos getting into the details of working brooks that don’t have easily reached bedrock. When you see a pile of rocks and dirt in the middle of a brook like a small island what’s the way to approach that? Are there any tricks to keep in mind when going after floor gold from floods that just happened? Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!!
There are a lot of complex factors in gold deposition - size of stream, bends of stream, fall grade of stream, size of boulder in relation to stream, shape of boulder, and others - so simple rules of "just look at this spot" are not possible. Usually the gold does not deposit on the upstream side of a boulder, but is some cases it can deposit there. Take lots of samples to see where the gold is. Often with streams that don’t have easily reached bedrock you are looking for some false bedrock where the gold deposits.
I listened to these to go to sleep but they are really good to watch - lots of work you've done with graphics and charts and pictures - mining and geology stuff is great to sleep to cause you travel to other places and lots of allusions to natural environments - prospectors and miners are outdoor cats for sure
OK.
Through vibration expansion and contraction crevices open up or close shut.
My dredging partner years ago took our bar and started prying on a big crack you couldn't squeeze a piece of paper into.
I said what are you doing nothing can get into that crack.
He opened up a slab of bedrock as big as a bed we took over 1/2 ounce outa that crack and nuggets up to two pennyweight .
Made a believer outa me as the crack or fracture was shut tight
Big cracks like that can have hidden side entrances too.
We had a well that pumped black sand. Doesn’t anyone know if that black sand was likely to have gold in it?
black sand is a million times more common than gold. Iron is the 4th most common element and oxygen is the first. Black sand is a combination of the two. If you think it might have gold, test it and see.
Can you analysis the rivers in india ... and where might be good deposits .....it will give you good views as well
I will do this eventually, but my Indian viewers are small in number.
Chris do you have a fire assayer you recommend? for hard rock samples.
For all my ore testing I use: ALS Minerals, 4977 Energy Way, Reno NV 89502 Their Phone number is (775) 356-5395.
Thanks Chris :)@@ChrisRalph
You're like Home Depot where they have to accept all returns and you will answer all questions so here goes - I live in Northern Ohio and below me is there potential 'gold' albeit tiny atomic amounts ? like I'd watched a great series called "Out of the Fiery Furnas" (which all episodes are on TH-cam - 1985 British excellent ) but one comment in there was that almost all handfuls of dirt contains tiny amounts of bauxite but it's concentrations are so so low - is that true of Gold ? like is there Gold below where I'm typing do you think ? and this is not so I'll start digging but more a philosophical question it's fascinating to think of a 'world' of earth below me
Yes, rocks contain tiny, tiny traces of lots of stuff. Aluminum is fairly common as its the 3rd most common element in the earth's crust. Gold is rare and present only in the tiniest, parts per billion traces. Deposits that are mined are natural concentrations of the elements caused by geologic action.
@@ChrisRalph Mr Encyclopedia ! you must have taken typing like me - most people send emojies
Always a pleasure to receive his new video alerts. Chris is leaps and bounds ahead of any of the mining cosplayers and pretenders on TH-cam (looking at you, Williams).
Ok, but we are not trying to be too hard on Jeff.
@@ChrisRalphThanks Chris for your Great knowledge about all types of prospecting.Second i live in Horn of Africa and i would like to ask you one question. How many feets Can i dig deep in sandy bar if there are more black sands?
2nd question is why can't they dig below like 8 miles or however deep the KOLA mines or holes ? in Russian go ? is the 'earth' too hard or the opposite where it is too hot and melting ? like do the drill bits melt ? I'm curious on the limitation outside of let's say economic factors like there is nothing useful below 40,000 feet
Yes, iron gets soft at bright red heat. and no one gets stuff from 40,000 feet deep because to get it from there, it cost 1,000 times more than its worth. Want to pay $200 for a single small nail? you get the idea.
@@ChrisRalph Without being difficult - you remove the carbon down to 99.9995% pure steel and you'll pay $200 for a nail at this point I try to buy super soft iron for Free Energy experiments and am amazed how expensive super soft iron is just an aside
Excellent video. this is a whole course about gold!!!
Glad it was helpful.
Hey Chris, my family and I moved to South Carolina a few years ago, and we happen to have a sizable creek on our property that runs year round and averages about 2 ft. deep. We are in a unique geological zone called the Augusta Zone - nestly smashed between the Carolina Slate Belt and the sandhills on the edge of the coastal lowlands. On our property my son and i have identified quartz geodes, greenschist, and iron oxide type feldspar. There is also an abundance of black sand in and around the creek. What would you suggest is the best way to sample the area, what equipment do we need, and what would you say are our chances of making a decent find on our own property? I should also mention we are a dozen/two dozen miles south of the Barite Hill bonanza lode. I dont want to be too exact, but if you wanted to examine our situation i can email some photos and maps. Please let us know what you think.
I would start out just sampling gravels with a gold pan, a pick and a shovel. If you get gold colors, you can move up to other stuff.
@ChrisRalph Thanks for the tip. Not sure what sample size to start with but we'll just poke around and have fun with it. Thanks for your very informative and comprehensive videos - I've been watching them end on end since I stumbled on your channel. My son is excited about getting out there and finding some neat stuff. Thanks again!
Take a sample that fills your gold pan. Test one pan full at a time.
Nevermind I found some of your videos that gave me some answers on it. Thanks
Glad you were able to find the information you were looking for.
The smart thing to do with check both sides of the bends
Occasionally, there can be gold on the outside bend, but normally, not much.
Did you ever do a dedicated video on "bench gravels"?
No, I have not done that - maybe one of these days.
New prospector here. I live in the driftless area in Wisconsin. Any advice not mentioned in the video is appreciated.
Here we have a lot of clay deposits I hear gold sticks too. I've heard if I find any it needs to be taxed, any input on that part? Not a big fan of the gov in my pocket.
Check out my video on Midwest gold - lots of info there. As far as taxes, each state has its own laws, and I don't try to keep up on all the laws in all the states and different countries.
@@ChrisRalph Me either lol. I'm looking into refining gold, silver, etc as well and don't see how they could prove where it comes from once in 999 to 9999 form.
I used to be a contract writer for crypto companies and it's largely due to a love for free markets / decentralized finance.
There is nothing more boring than tax law. That's no accident, either.
Thanks for the reply!
@@ChrisRalph I found gold on my very first pan, decent sized flakes just by watching this video and a few others and heading to the nearest Driftless area stream.
I dug in right behind a rock off an eddy where I saw a lot of clay/iron/quartz deposit and what do you know - three flakes on the very first pan!
I'm hooked. Lol.
Thanks for the motivation!
Hey Mr Ralph. What’s your take on the current band on dredging in California, fish and game lost there ban after 8 years and was ordered by a judge to reopen gredging and issue permits within one year. They in turn gave it to the water resources board and came out with permits but. With regulations banding all rivers and streams. What gives the state the right do that after a court order was issued to reopen dredge I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS
I'm not a lawyer, a legislator or a judge, I can't tell you what passes for laws in California. But I can tell you that California is super liberal, and full of environmental extremists. And those super liberal folks elect super liberal politicians and judges.
Thank you for your quick reply , and your right about the environmental extremism. It’s a shame we have the best gold bearing rivers in the US and we can’t recreational mine in them anymore
Its not the same as dredging, but one can still get away with sniping.
@@ChrisRalph ABSOLUTELY I still due a lot of sniping now a days and metal detecting
Great topic Chris! Most helpful.
I live on a 55 acre ranch with a patented placer lot on 7/8 mile of Mill Creek in Scott Bar Ca. 1½ miles from the Scott River. (You may have heard of Scott Bar. It's 15 pound pure placer nugget, and the largest placer strike ever in California around 1850.)
Somebody up there likes me. 😁
You know, it's hard to focus on your words because I can't unsee the word "Rive" on the white board 😂
Thank you for all you share here bro!
I have a guest house if you ever wanna check out this region and community. Contact thru my channel ✌️
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Yep, you live in a neat area. Lot's of Gold in your back yard.
@@snakejim
I'm truly blessed. Thanks!
One of these days, maybe. I have so many projects on the list.
A small community of 54, was 19,000 in the 1850s. Many old prospectors who'd love to meet you and trade golden lies... 😂
I always wanted to go up into that general area and hunt platinum.
Thanks Chris! Great information.
Glad it was helpful!
would reading a wash be same idea as a river?
Yes. In general a wash would be steeper.
"ONYA CHRIS" Another GREAT INFORMATIVE UPLOAD/VIDEO LOADED FULL OF EXELLENT CONTENT THAT YOU YOURSELF PREPARED FOR US FELLOW PROSPECTORS.I was wondering if you can do a upload/video about pressure & suction eddy's,just some food for thought about eddy's for those who don't know or heard about.MANY MANY THANKS CHRIS YOUR A TOP BLOKE/MAN.Shane Bathurst way Australia 🏞🇦🇺
Glad you enjoyed it. eddys are difficult to see. The ones you see when the stream is flowing at normal levels are nothing like the ones that exist when the stream is at a high flood flow level.
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That is the best river diagram I have ever seen,
Thank you . Glad it was helpful.
was in the pinacate district (perris ca). they built a house were the good hope mine was you could see the intrusive bed rock. rust in the dirt. but riddled with bullets. and seeing people shooting. found a old corner post ,some white paint on a 4x4 post laying there. go back further. off santa tosa mine rd. walk a bit more. just trash and bullets. today. have a good day.
When you get in areas where there are loads of people, there will likely be loads of bullets and trash. That has been my experience.
So drill and dig testing! I was thinking with my zero experience drill a hole 3"-12" possibly to bed rock. Then possibly spray water in the hole, then dredge it out test panning each level, use a gas or electric auger , i have seen up to 16" diameter, and capable of going over 10' deep! Take about 5 gallons of water, a high pressure low volume 12/24,v pump capable of 100+psi. Basically a car wash spray, then spray tge bottom of the holes, and pump the water out i to a gold pan or sluice! If the hole is 8-10' or less! If it brings up gold, follow it with a shovel! This is basically the same idea behind well drilling! Only alot different! Also a pocket can be opened a couple feet around the bottom of the hole similar to hydraulic mining. Onle concentraited using a tiny amount of water and recycling it! Pass through classifiers, a gold or heavies collector, then settling pond. With a large sentiment filter i was thinking about sewing large socks make a 18-36" ring with a 8-10" diameter tube filled with coarse sand, with another sewn on top possibly,3-4 put it in the tub , place the pump in the center! It should keep the solids out! The Pump being 5gph or less , im from the east, we have plenty of water about anywhere, id like to go out west prospect about a bit! Maybe get a old mine claim! Probably not a so great one. And possibly find something the miners though was mined out! As long as i can get a 1/4-1/2 oz every few weeks , month or less, id like to find a drift mine, like jeff Williams, though a quartz vein would be ok also, Maybe sneak a bit of black powder on a few holes. Use some feather and wedges, possibly a core drill, drill a 3"-4" core 6' place a peanut butter jar of powder in there bottom. Cement about 5' of the core back in the hole! Drill about 4-6 holes around it for displacement, go far away and let it rip , surely A pound or two of powder will break rocks! Haha. Probably not go that far! But i could definitely build a small wash plant. Rock crusher, pulverizer/hammer mill, possibly even shaker table! I even looked into a bit of ar,500, for a hammer mill, if you are going to crush it just as well turn it to dust! Jason at mbmm makes some nice EXPENSIVE equipment! Im thinking running everything from a single engine like a factory back 150 year ago! Possibly use. A car /truck engine a 5.9 Cummins diesel from dodge truck, or tractor, all kinds of equipment used this engine! It can generate power, spin a shaft to powe all the equipment and pumps. I was thinking, mount everything on a 20-30' trailer. With the sluice hanging off it. But what i was thinking to start would fit everything in s 8' trailer! Sorry to ramble. Have a awesome day. Thank for the info. If i ever make anything of it. Ill send you a nugget!! Or gem. We have gems in my area of NC!
You will find out drilling a hole in loose gravel is an adventure in itself!
I have a question about gold. I watched a man selling gold coins on a cable channel. He was throwing in a small tube of gold leaf. He made an interesting statement about it, though. He claimed that you can’t *MELT* gold leaf because it would *_BURN_* first! I somehow doubt this. Can it possibly be true? Even *IF* it would burn *under normal circumstances,* couldn’t you put it into a vacuum or inert gas first?
People make stuff that is "gold leaf" that actually contains no gold - its gold colored stuff. I have some. It does burn - but its not gold. Let the buyers beware of the hucksters on cable TV.
Hey Chris, your video here is a treasure. Thank you for sharing some of your decades of diverse mining experiences. I'll save to watch again for fun and for technical reference.
Good health and Happy mining to you sir. Question: Can 'pickers' be found at or around the Lower American? Say Nimbus, to the Sacramento river?
I'm glad to know that you enjoyed it.
Great info!! From NZ!
Glad it was helpful!
This is a good one Chris. Very informative and of huge relevance to me. Especially the bit about flooding because weve been getting tons of that. Have u ever been to the Antelope Valley of Southern California in Riverside county off the 15 or 215?
I know where Antelope Valley is, but I have never done any prospecting there.
This is usually the first lesson you get when learning to pan gold, if you have a good instructor. I had a few old timers teach me, and sorry to say they have all passed away. I've never used a metal detector, if it was know to be in the area that is all I need to know, just knowing it is there is enough to know you can find it.
The gold is there for those who know where to look.
At 26:45 time mark, you were talking about the tributary stream. You went from 7 & 8 then jumped to 10 & 11. You missed #9 the depression in bedrock that is listed in the stream..
yep - it was an oversight.
Thank you for the great video. Answered so many questions and learned so much. I was wondering about punching through the clay layer or false Bedrock to see if there was more on the real bedrock. Very interesting lots of good information to use on my next gold dredging trip thank you so much
Glad it was helpful!
I like all this education, It's like going to seminars,. A lot of this is a good confirmation.And I really appreciate it.Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks!
No problem!
It would be a lot easier to find gold if people would stop saying “GET OFF MY PROPERTY!” Meanwhile, the owner has never panned in their life. Ohhhh, it’s great to be an American! 😂
And yet if the owner allows folks on his property and one of them stumbles and falls - that person can sue him for every nickel he has. Given the way the laws are, I can't blame the owners.
@@ChrisRalph Yeah, you’re right. But…….it sure would be nice to go wherever you want without all the heat. If I sprained my ankle in a private creek, I’m positive I wouldn’t even think of suing the owner. Lol. I’ll sign the paperwork and everything. 😁
Over 40 years gold dredging and believe it or not most all my gold I found was on the outside bends not inside or middle of river or in the riffles after a deep hole...
Ok. Not my experience or the experience of many dozens of dredgers I know, but I don't doubt what you say.
Thanks Chris. Always enjoy the in-depth videos you do. Appreciated.
Glad you like them!
Your ears had to be burning as we were talking about this the day before your video was released.
I've been working on it a couple weeks - you must have overheard me!
Thank you for posting this Chris. It’s always good to get a refresher course.
You're very welcome!
i realy like your video and i have some land with a creek runing through do you think there be gold in it ?
Maybe. Go and test it to see.
For the flood waters, I have a question. In general Texas sucks for gold deposits. Apparently we are #1 here - #1 in having the least amount of gold in any state apparently.
But we do have some decent floods on some gold bearing rivers. The gold itself is a powder like gold - i.e. really fine. Would these rules apply as well here or because its so fine it goes everywhere? Thinking like the Colorado and Llano Rivers.
The skim bar / flood gold rules would apply (toward the end of the video).
@@ChrisRalph Thanks!
Chris I have a question about garnets and gold. Found half gramer nugget yesterday and flakes that all together weigh 0.25. an abundance of garnet in the sand. With that said did some other sampling found a couple fly poop in another wash but no garnets. Would the gold run with the garnets or does it have nothing to do with it?
Garnet is heavier than regular sand. So, like black sands, the garnets accumulate with places rich in heavy minerals. Gold of course is a heavy mineral and accumulates in places rich in heavy minerals. That is the association.
@@ChrisRalph last question on that is it likely to chase it to where the gold is coming or is that not gonna happen? There is a fork at the canyons that we haven't sampled yet. Going for the bigger gold wonder if following the garnet trail is the way? Everything has a indicator that's leads to it
Thank you,I always learn more from your knowledge
Thanks I'm glad to hear that!
hi, i just came across this video and i want to commend you on your knowledge of finding gold! Very informative! i live in Calgary and 11 years ago we had a huge flood. I lived and still live on the Elbow River where we were displaced for 6 weeks. The city did a lot of modifications to the river (added a bunch of rock and changed the flow). My question is with the huge flood and being that I live on the sharp bend, do you think there is a chance of any gold deposits?
In order to form a gold deposit, there must be gold in the stream. Calgary is not known for its gold deposits. A little gold has been mined near Edmonton.
@@ChrisRalph do you know if Calgary was ever mined? every year the spring runoff hits Calgary - some years pretty hard and there's always a flood risk. Does that mean the mountains carry gold that far?
I can find no information that gold was ever mined at Calgary.
This is the best prospecting video I have ever seen...
Glad you enjoyed it. I have lots more videos too.
Hi Chris I have a question about different mineral deposits in very deep red coloured dirt. I'm finding huge amounts of brecciated jasper with other metallic minerals inbedded in the rocks also a lot of other metallic mineral rocks and quarts all around. So my question is... Would gold be found in areas with such huge amounts of jasper?
Perhaps, but there is no guarantee. You need to test it and see for yourself. Red dirt is super common. Its caused by iron in the soil, and iron is the 4th most common element in the earth's crust.
@@ChrisRalph Thank you for the reply, Ok Ile do some testing and see what pops up 👍
So I had a more qualified person inspect my large stones and they are actually raw mineralised cinnabar. So would that make any difference if gold would be around as it's similar to gold being a mineral that's formed from the epithermal depths?
After listening off and on to sleep you must have traveled quite a bit and seen way more than me - it sounds exciting - like hunting all the time
Been to 5 of the 7 continents.
@@ChrisRalph This might be like sending chocolate to a guy working in a chocolate factory but here is a link to this series from 1985 All about metals and minerals great raining day stuff
Out of the Fiery Furnace - Episode 1 - From Stone to Bronze
th-cam.com/video/4vDDMYyhLBw/w-d-xo.html
So when there are heavy rains in normally dry states or there are earth quakes...does that expose new gold?
Earthquakes - no. Flooding will move gold around in streams that have gold in them.
@@ChrisRalph Ok, I see. Thank you. It is really nice that you answer our questions. You are very responsive and interactive and that is very much appreciated. God bless!
a grappler moment
And that is...........?
@@ChrisRalph i never commented on this video . I was referring to a live car chase in California.....weird?
That is weird.
Very informative. Thanks.
I'm glad it was helpful.
Great video message. Thank you
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Thanks for the great info and happy new year
Thanks much and a Happy new year to you and yours!
Great information as always.
Glad it was helpful!
Great Video
Glad you enjoyed it
“Glory hole” is another name, lol
that term has a double meaning -
Just excellent video.
Many thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
Hi.I ❤ it.The best.
I'm glad it was helpful!
The funny thing is no gold ever reported in the area the gold was found😂
Not sure what you mean.
River...r-i-v-e-r.
You did see the comment, right?
No, I only check for spelling errors.@@ChrisRalph
You didn't watch the video where I noted the mistake.
Great info! Looking forward to the video on bench gravels, I have huge gravel benches on one my best claims,..
Glad you liked the video.
I’ve been binging your videos all day. God I wish you had been my teacher back in school I would have for sure gone on to be a geologist myself I think had it worked that way. You explain everything so perfectly and easily digestible teachings. Ok off to go watch 100 more videos from you 😂🫡🫡🫡
Wow, thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the videos.