@@ChrisRalph Oh, believe me, I want to get back out there and see some friends and find some shiny. I will let you know if work permits me to take a trip back to the Motherlode next season.
Thanks again Chris, sounds a lot like the development of the Gold Mile mining operations in Kalgoorlie - alluvial picking and drywashing to sluicing, then underground vein mining to open-cut.
@@ChrisRalph Thank you for the correction. A buddy and I detected the local park there for fun.. we wanted to look elsewhere for "the good stuff" but we were unsure of where we could go without encroaching private property.
There is a big road cut right next to hwy 49. It's north of Mariposa near the reservoirs. East side of road a big deposit of blue clay! I'll take my 10% thank you!
Hey Chris! Great video! I live in Folsom. Do you ever do guided tours or consulting? I'd like to learn from you in person and I'd be willing to pay of course. I'm obsessed with this hobby haha. Thx
Do you think gold viens usually occur at fault intersections? Ive observed most dramatic intrusions of quarts seem to be at sharp turns in the river or at confuences.
Sorry that was a typo - I meant " Formation of gold deposits in gravels and formation of gold-quartz veins are very different - like night and day." I was hurrying too much.
Depends on what you mean by "like the old timers did" - not all of them found great gold. I've found gold in spots the old timers never worked, and though I got good gold I didn't strike it rich in a way that would change my life.
My Nevada City home deed claims I can't dig more than 21 feet down due to mineral rights. I have a few shovels....I wonder how I can get the mineral rights back from my property!?
How likely is there to be in situ pockets parallel to historic ones, i.e. the Briggs pocket? It's geology looks comparable to the grass valley area. You can see it on that map you showed. Sorry for the dumb question. You think just a chance? Or a good chance?
Good video my friend. As you know I’ve lived here since 1979 but only started prospecting in 95. Started using a metal detector in 96 and have done quite well. Unfortunately Nevada County is quite blue these days and very hostile towards mining as the last two mining companies that have tried to reopen the Idaho Maryland mine have found out. I still get out some but not as much as ld like.
I once told the guyz at Keene Engineering in S CA that the real Gold was in selling the dredging equipment rather than in going up into them thar hills. They agreed wt me. Arthur Fiedler in Nevada City was one of the original mfgs of the small operator suction dredges. His stuff was well built and heavy. Where he used Tractor Tire inner tubes for the floation of his dredges and burlap in the bottom of his sluices. Old school. I used one of his flaired jet tubes on my 4 in dredge. In the summer of 74 just S of Downieville on the N Fork of the Yuba a couple farmers out of Salanis, CA were operating a 6 in dredge with a surplus naval winch to pull the boulders out of the bottom of the river. They told me one summer they pulled a 34 oz nugget out and the previous summer they went down 30 feet into the river where all they found was an old shovel & pan. On that same trip we went up to Howland Flat in the La Porte district which is about 12miles SE of Poker Flat of Brete Hart fame. A retired irrigation contractor in his 70s from Pasadena CA spent his summers in a house on a claim he had there. He was moving boulders around in the the stream to cut down to bedrock because he felt it was rich wt Gold. Today that house isnt there anymore. That whole area was massivily hydrauliced starting in the early 1850s. You could get a couple of small flakes out of every shovel of dirt. I started out digging in the dirt for Gold on the East Fork of the San Gabriel river. I met a cement contractor from.Arcadia named Keith who was in his late 50s that ran a dry washer which he would billy goat up the mountain to some un godly places but he always found something. As a kid growing up in AZ during the Depression his Dad was a prospector. Where one day his dad who was walking behind him.through the desert said to him, "Do you always walk past Gold nuggets?" Where he proceeded to pick one up. Also on the E Fork i met an man in his late 70s that lived on his claim where he sold the Gold he found to Knotts Berry Farm. He started working an old Hydraulic mine in the mid 1940s. He knew that stretch of the river and where to look. A short time after i met him he passed away. During the 30s Depression because there was no work to be found a lot of men went up into the hills to dig for Gold to get by. So they reworked the same claims and streams that the 49ers did. Then in the 60s or so the hobbiest prospectors started digging in the dirt wt their modern equipment. It was a lot of fun that could be lucrative. So these areas have been worked several times over. It is true that new material gets washed down every year so hope springs eternal for someone who has the fever. Gold is so expensive because it is hard work getting it and is hard to find in large quanities. The era of the 49er were pretty much over by 1852 or so as all the easy to get surface pickins were picked clean Then it became the big operators that washed away the mountains. One thing about the 49ers they would be working their claim. Hear about a big gold strike in another area so they would pack up and move thinkin it would be easier to get rich. Thing is they would leave their claim half worked. So the idea is to find that bit of unworked virgin gravel they left behind. Another thing is that any area where the Chinese came in and worked claims you will have a hard time finding anything as they would literally use a toothbrush to clean bedrock to get every single flake there was. The biggest strike i stupidly missed out on cause it was a no brainer. I n the early 2000s the price of Gold got down to 260 an oz when the cost of digging it up was 250 an oz. At that point there was only one way for Gold to go and that was up.
Your professional prospector how long have you been in California? How long is your family been in California Woods Creek wonderful place to pull goal, but I still want the Fremont claim.
I live above coloma and never found any ! The ones making the huge money on gold is granite construction & teicherd in the ancient river beds of Sacramento vly ! Untouched
Oh Grass Valley there's no chance The Empire will ever reopen as it's a state park and apparently the same holds true for The Idaho-Maryland Mine - the mining company wanting to reopen it was shot down in a 5-0 vote.
I have a lot of rocks with quartz, flecks of silver and gold, but thin sheet quare shapes, others with clear glassish gold spots , then blubby grainy gold, silver, silver-white blubs? scattered in the fractured parts of rock, some rocks broken open are black to black blue with silvery micro glitter stuff, quarz has black, and iron type vein/fractures some with little mettalics - siver-gold, believe I have galena, sphalerite, and sulphides, the property is near a lead-silver mine and a sulphide mine, about. 1/4 mile away each, , I was looking for property that maybe was near a stream and would give me some gold panning experience in my retirement years, keep me active , well the property i got ,( I found by topographical map) in the area I was at, is in the path of the Great Flood, so now I think I have a natural location, which appears to have a small vent, I also have a quartz tube that was sticking out the side of my ridge which looked like petrified tree, 1/2 iron colored and half white quarz about 12 inch across, with all the other heavy rocks dumped there from the flood, I'm not sure what all this stuff is, can't seem to find a good visual vid on these types of occurrences, one that maybe uses a needle on a stick indicator that points to the precise mineral- sulfide -type of rocketc.. It looks I think also there also may be sylvanite and calaverite, is there a certain type of geologist to contact for what appears to be a complex spot in Idaho , Thanks for your vids, I've learned alot !!
It sounds like you have some amazing finds! I suggest you contact a qualified geologist to get those rocks properly identified and give you advice on your property. Unfortunately, I don't know of anyone to recommend in Idaho.
Yes, I think I bit off a bit more than I can chew, but It should keep me active, the rocks i pick up are on the surface, and All Heavy ,and most seem to be fully crystallized when broken open, grey to grey with metallic like that jamisonite I think you may have showed on a vid also green crystallization, so must be from fallen trees pulling up these heavy rocks, lots of old big and small river rocks too, add the glacial till, big black slates, boulders dropped from the canadian ice sheets, bedrock is down about 3-4 ft, with exposed area with a fracture between 2 different rock masses. Its close to where the ice wall broke through. Yeah a real mixed bag ! Thanks for your vids, I appreciate the way you present and go through category and subcategory, without sidetracking, Well Done ! , so I've been recently watching many of your vids. Thank You
Would the state an local government let someone mobilize a decent size mine in this area? Is it' possible to get claims? This is looking like a pretty developed area at this point. Given modern history, I'm thinking someone can't just walk out there and stake new claims. It's not useful to know where there's gold in the ground, but not be able to dig it out.
Just leave out the laws stating a person may only withdraw one half ounce of natural gold ore and nuggets in a single year, so .49 oz and larger nuggets have to be left in the ground unless you can get it to weigh less than half an ounce. Or the hand pan only law, that an individual prospecting on public land or BlM land can only take 15 lbs of concentrates or pay ore home per day. No one is legally allowed to take home a nugget weighing more than a half oz without being subject to the full prosecution of the natural resources officers, and jail time.
@@ChrisRalphBe careful in California. I worked for the State of CA thirty years ago. Prospecting was my boss's hobby and he lived in the foothills. He relayed stories of amateur gold prospectors stopping along the river to pan gold, and then hearing buckshots around them. Don't pan on someone else's claim, could be dangerous 😬
Been mining since I was a kid following my family. From shata county to Kings county. When you register, there no such info that states or enforces the laws op posted. Maybe if your a incorp. They might have different rules. You used to be able to bore two parallel holes and pump water down to extract. But you needed to in-turn repair the land around your claim. Nothing stating a daily limit on take. Most people that can move large amounts of earth have a back ground in geology, a license in general engineering, and held to the conservation of maintaining the earth from erosion. I'm curious to see if you can still bore hole hydraulic mine
Great video as usual. However, None of your content deals with claims and how to find out what land is ok to prospect legally. Many of the places listed on your webpage and in your videos are nearly 100% claimed. It’s great to encourage individual, small scale prospecting but there’s a lot more to it than just picking a geologically good spot.
Why do you say "None of your content deals with claims" when you have not bothered to check out my older videos? See: th-cam.com/video/1OSzRh1Da74/w-d-xo.html and also: th-cam.com/video/G9c3w5JLTKg/w-d-xo.html
I've lived in El Dorado County for close to 40 years yes we have gold but if your watching thus be very careful if you go looking on who's land your on alot of blm land butts up on private land its just the matter of a couple feet and digging on a claim that you think is on legal looking area you might get a terrible surprise
@ChrisRalph true I have faced this issue myself had a actual armed stand off with one of those land owners it's the reason for kind warning my wife's grandfather baiyne who has a actual road named after him in Coloma California was killed by claim jumpers on his own land so it can be both ways always check for claims in areas and know clearly where public or blm land is don't just go looking because you see the right geological signs research before digging please as a long time El Dorado County resident it's for the best of everyone I rarely hear you tube miner's state this only teach how to find metals not all but most it would be nice to hear figuring I personally live directly on a blm line and have had people actually walking in my driveway next to my home and cars because they get lost on blm land and look for roads or homes to get back to basic civilization
Do you prefer mining on the surface or are you against mining all together? If that is the case, then you better throw away all your tech, because that stuff all needs gold to run.
Did you hear China banned exports of RE minerals like germanium etc to the US? Found out germanium is an essential trace mineral for human health recently too, it wasn't known to be until very recently though. @@ChrisRalph
I enjoyed the mix of history and geology in this video, Chris. I also really like your book. Keep up the great work, my friend.
Good to hear from you my friend. Hope you make it out this way again one of these days.
@@ChrisRalph Oh, believe me, I want to get back out there and see some friends and find some shiny. I will let you know if work permits me to take a trip back to the Motherlode next season.
Another great episode from Chris Ralph - the man with two names
Thanks, glad you liked it.
Great job on the video Chris !!!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Sacramento and El Dorado Counties; I grew up there from 1952 and used to help my uncle on his gold dredge in the early 1960s.
Great memories, I am sure.
Thanks again Chris, sounds a lot like the development of the Gold Mile mining operations in Kalgoorlie - alluvial picking and drywashing to sluicing, then underground vein mining to open-cut.
Sweet comment. I'm in SoCal, where can I find gold?
See my video on southern California gold locations.
It sure does! These operations are very similar in many ways.
Thanks Chris!
Glad you enjoyed it.
I live in Grass Valley right now
Its a very interesting place.
How many marijuana shops in grass valley?
@@Oldguy-k3t One in Grass Valley and one in Nevada City, as far as I know. But these hills are full of weed farms. It's the green gold.
@@Oldguy-k3t Let's just say the local hardware store is always sold out of plastic totes....
I've taken a tour of the 16 to 1(non operational section)mine in Alleghany California. It's still in operation.
Been metal detecting in the 16 to 1 twice.
@@ChrisRalph Thank you for the correction. A buddy and I detected the local park there for fun.. we wanted to look elsewhere for "the good stuff" but we were unsure of where we could go without encroaching private property.
My club has a few claims in and around the Yuba River area. I was there In October for the first time and manage to find a little gold it was fun.
That's awesome, it's always a good time in the Yuba!
Love the history! Juat started the video!
Good!
Chris what would you say is best month of the year to prospect down there?
I'd say May through October.
There is a big road cut right next to hwy 49. It's north of Mariposa near the reservoirs. East side of road a big deposit of blue clay! I'll take my 10% thank you!
I hope you find some amazing gold there.
From one old guy to another, thanks for the tip. Are there any roads you’d like to mention?
From old guy to another are there any roads you’d like to fill us in on?
That’s mostly private property, or claimed property around there.
@@karlfonner7589 the road cuts along hwy 70 going north to paradise. Small diamonds have been found.
I used to dredge the feather when I was kid, we'd go camping and the gold would pay for the trip. It's a bummer isn't not allowed anymore.
I agree.
Malkoff Diggins should be on every gold bugs bucket list.
Its a State Park. Great place to visit, don't dig for gold on state park grounds. There are other places to dig nearby.
Hey Chris! Great video! I live in Folsom. Do you ever do guided tours or consulting? I'd like to learn from you in person and I'd be willing to pay of course. I'm obsessed with this hobby haha. Thx
I do not offer any services for personal training, consulting or advisement. I get many such requests and simply do not have time to help all who ask.
Great video!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Do you think gold viens usually occur at fault intersections? Ive observed most dramatic intrusions of quarts seem to be at sharp turns in the river or at confuences.
Formation of gold in veins and formation of gold-quartz veins are very different - like night and day.
Sure they are.
Sorry that was a typo - I meant " Formation of gold deposits in gravels and formation of gold-quartz veins are very different - like night and day." I was hurrying too much.
Hello Chris happy Sunday 😊 do you think there's any place on the planet that you could find gold like the old timers did ?
Depends on what you mean by "like the old timers did" - not all of them found great gold. I've found gold in spots the old timers never worked, and though I got good gold I didn't strike it rich in a way that would change my life.
Yes but it's all under the ice caps right now
@ChrisRalph I meant walking around picking up 10z nuggets and 1pound nuggets lol 😆 😅
Where could I get those maps? I need one for 20 miles north of the town of Nevada City up on San Juan ridge.
The maps I think you want is part of the Sierra Folio series by the USGS - Waldemar Lindgren.
@@ChrisRalph so they are available through USGS?
My Nevada City home deed claims I can't dig more than 21 feet down due to mineral rights. I have a few shovels....I wonder how I can get the mineral rights back from my property!?
Are you planning to dig deeper than 21 feet?
@@ChrisRalph Heck yes! According to your map you posted I'm in the vein! What could go wrong with a drift mine in the basement!
Pretty smart on why the streets were so wide
Yep, a good choice, but one that was born of experience.
Great video awesome history thank you for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
How likely is there to be in situ pockets parallel to historic ones, i.e. the Briggs pocket? It's geology looks comparable to the grass valley area. You can see it on that map you showed. Sorry for the dumb question. You think just a chance? Or a good chance?
I think just a chance - its possible but not likely.
Thank you
You're welcome
Good video my friend. As you know I’ve lived here since 1979 but only started prospecting in 95. Started using a metal detector in 96 and have done quite well. Unfortunately Nevada County is quite blue these days and very hostile towards mining as the last two mining companies that have tried to reopen the Idaho Maryland mine have found out. I still get out some but not as much as ld like.
I'm glad you're still getting out to prospect some. We will change that for the better next year.
I once told the guyz at Keene Engineering in S CA that the real Gold was in selling the dredging equipment rather than in going up into them thar hills. They agreed wt me.
Arthur Fiedler in Nevada City was one of the original mfgs of the small operator suction dredges. His stuff was well built and heavy. Where he used Tractor Tire inner tubes for the floation of his dredges and burlap in the bottom of his sluices. Old school. I used one of his flaired jet tubes on my 4 in dredge.
In the summer of 74 just S of Downieville on the N Fork of the Yuba a couple farmers out of Salanis, CA were operating a 6 in dredge with a surplus naval winch to pull the boulders out of the bottom of the river. They told me one summer they pulled a 34 oz nugget out and the previous summer they went down 30 feet into the river where all they found was an old shovel & pan.
On that same trip we went up to Howland Flat in the La Porte district which is about 12miles SE of Poker Flat of Brete Hart fame. A retired irrigation contractor in his 70s from Pasadena CA spent his summers in a house on a claim he had there. He was moving boulders around in the the stream to cut down to bedrock because he felt it was rich wt Gold. Today that house isnt there anymore. That whole area was massivily hydrauliced starting in the early 1850s. You could get a couple of small flakes out of every shovel of dirt.
I started out digging in the dirt for Gold on the East Fork of the San Gabriel river. I met a cement contractor from.Arcadia named Keith who was in his late 50s that ran a dry washer which he would billy goat up the mountain to some un godly places but he always found something. As a kid growing up in AZ during the Depression his Dad was a prospector. Where one day his dad who was walking behind him.through the desert said to him, "Do you always walk past Gold nuggets?" Where he proceeded to pick one up.
Also on the E Fork i met an man in his late 70s that lived on his claim where he sold the Gold he found to Knotts Berry Farm. He started working an old Hydraulic mine in the mid 1940s. He knew that stretch of the river and where to look. A short time after i met him he passed away. During the 30s Depression because there was no work to be found a lot of men went up into the hills to dig for Gold to get by. So they reworked the same claims and streams that the 49ers did. Then in the 60s or so the hobbiest prospectors started digging in the dirt wt their modern equipment. It was a lot of fun that could be lucrative. So these areas have been worked several times over. It is true that new material gets washed down every year so hope springs eternal for someone who has the fever.
Gold is so expensive because it is hard work getting it and is hard to find in large quanities. The era of the 49er were pretty much over by 1852 or so as all the easy to get surface pickins were picked clean Then it became the big operators that washed away the mountains.
One thing about the 49ers they would be working their claim. Hear about a big gold strike in another area so they would pack up and move thinkin it would be easier to get rich. Thing is they would leave their claim half worked. So the idea is to find that bit of unworked virgin gravel they left behind. Another thing is that any area where the Chinese came in and worked claims you will have a hard time finding anything as they would literally use a toothbrush to clean bedrock to get every single flake there was.
The biggest strike i stupidly missed out on cause it was a no brainer. I
n the early 2000s the price of Gold got down to 260 an oz when the cost of digging it up was 250 an oz. At that point there was only one way for Gold to go and that was up.
Digging gold is hard work and always has been.
Your professional prospector how long have you been in California? How long is your family been in California Woods Creek wonderful place to pull goal, but I still want the Fremont claim.
My family came to California in the 1880s, but I have not lived in CA for more than 40 years.
I live near the motherload in California, plenty of spots yo try
The Mother Lode is a great place to prospect.
My great great great grandpa hopped off a boat in sf bay in 1857 and went to grass valley to attempt to mine gold
I hope he was successful.
Should I buy every Carcon City Morgan dollar i can find?😅 ill definitely buy a metal detector if you tell us where to go!
No, it depends on the price.
Thank you Chris
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it!
I live above coloma and never found any ! The ones making the huge money on gold is granite construction & teicherd in the ancient river beds of Sacramento vly ! Untouched
Finding gold is a skill - its $2,700 an ounce because its rare.
But how much public land is there that you can prospect ? I'm sure that the best areas would be private land.
Right in town - not much but some miles out of the town - plenty.
Siskiyou county wasn’t too bad an area for gold protection.
Siskiyou has some good gold.
I love Nevada city
Its a great place.
Oh Grass Valley there's no chance The Empire will ever reopen as it's a state park and apparently the same holds true for The Idaho-Maryland Mine - the mining company wanting to reopen it was shot down in a 5-0 vote.
Yep, its the Socialist Republic of California
I have a lot of rocks with quartz, flecks of silver and gold, but thin sheet quare shapes, others with clear glassish gold spots , then blubby grainy gold, silver, silver-white blubs? scattered in the fractured parts of rock, some rocks broken open are black to black blue with silvery micro glitter stuff, quarz has black, and iron type vein/fractures some with little mettalics - siver-gold, believe I have galena, sphalerite, and sulphides, the property is near a lead-silver mine and a sulphide mine, about. 1/4 mile away each, , I was looking for property that maybe was near a stream and would give me some gold panning experience in my retirement years, keep me active , well the property i got ,( I found by topographical map) in the area I was at, is in the path of the Great Flood, so now I think I have a natural location, which appears to have a small vent, I also have a quartz tube that was sticking out the side of my ridge which looked like petrified tree, 1/2 iron colored and half white quarz about 12 inch across, with all the other heavy rocks dumped there from the flood, I'm not sure what all this stuff is, can't seem to find a good visual vid on these types of occurrences, one that maybe uses a needle on a stick indicator that points to the precise mineral- sulfide -type of rocketc.. It looks I think also there also may be sylvanite and calaverite, is there a certain type of geologist to contact for what appears to be a complex spot in Idaho , Thanks for your vids, I've learned alot !!
It sounds like you have some amazing finds! I suggest you contact a qualified geologist to get those rocks properly identified and give you advice on your property. Unfortunately, I don't know of anyone to recommend in Idaho.
Yes, I think I bit off a bit more than I can chew, but It should keep me active, the rocks i pick up are on the surface, and All Heavy ,and most seem to be fully crystallized when broken open, grey to grey with metallic like that jamisonite I think you may have showed on a vid also green crystallization, so must be from fallen trees pulling up these heavy rocks, lots of old big and small river rocks too, add the glacial till, big black slates, boulders dropped from the canadian ice sheets, bedrock is down about 3-4 ft, with exposed area with a fracture between 2 different rock masses. Its close to where the ice wall broke through.
Yeah a real mixed bag !
Thanks for your vids, I appreciate the way you present and go through category and subcategory, without sidetracking, Well Done ! , so I've been recently watching many of your vids. Thank You
Who do you use for fire assays? @@ChrisRalph
Would the state an local government let someone mobilize a decent size mine in this area? Is it' possible to get claims? This is looking like a pretty developed area at this point. Given modern history, I'm thinking someone can't just walk out there and stake new claims. It's not useful to know where there's gold in the ground, but not be able to dig it out.
In town it's mostly private property, but out on the fringes, there are possibilities.
You need to get tech to draw on screen and makenit easier
Want to send me a check for a few thousand to pay for it?
Regulation is the reason for the lower production now
Great video Buddy. Wouod love to hit to mountains with you one day. Im a prospector with a few claims in wrstern states. 🙏🏽💪🏽⚒️🔨 🤠
Best of luck to you on your claims.
Thanks for your stand on Jesus, more important than gold or silver. America has definitely been blessed, people forget.
No doubts about Jesus! My first and highest commitment is to Him.
Ww2 memorandums seized all operational mines to cease..
During WW2, yes, but after the war, many re-opened.
Should I buy every Carcon City Morgan dollar i can find?😅
No, it depends on the price.
On a side note, is this a UFO/UAP hotspot?
??
Only 6% was extracted the equivalent of 75,000 pounds of gold. Let me open the Fremont claim and I’ll show you gold.
I have no idea what you are talking about. I have no Fremont claim - and never have had such a claim.
They were that’s why they shut it down
OK.
Just leave out the laws stating a person may only withdraw one half ounce of natural gold ore and nuggets in a single year, so .49 oz and larger nuggets have to be left in the ground unless you can get it to weigh less than half an ounce. Or the hand pan only law, that an individual prospecting on public land or BlM land can only take 15 lbs of concentrates or pay ore home per day. No one is legally allowed to take home a nugget weighing more than a half oz without being subject to the full prosecution of the natural resources officers, and jail time.
That is not a national law, I am not sure where it is enforced.
@@ChrisRalphBe careful in California. I worked for the State of CA thirty years ago. Prospecting was my boss's hobby and he lived in the foothills. He relayed stories of amateur gold prospectors stopping along the river to pan gold, and then hearing buckshots around them. Don't pan on someone else's claim, could be dangerous 😬
Been mining since I was a kid following my family. From shata county to Kings county. When you register, there no such info that states or enforces the laws op posted. Maybe if your a incorp. They might have different rules.
You used to be able to bore two parallel holes and pump water down to extract. But you needed to in-turn repair the land around your claim. Nothing stating a daily limit on take.
Most people that can move large amounts of earth have a back ground in geology, a license in general engineering, and held to the conservation of maintaining the earth from erosion. I'm curious to see if you can still bore hole hydraulic mine
California was not named the Golden State because it did not have Gold!
Yep.
Great video as usual. However, None of your content deals with claims and how to find out what land is ok to prospect legally. Many of the places listed on your webpage and in your videos are nearly 100% claimed. It’s great to encourage individual, small scale prospecting but there’s a lot more to it than just picking a geologically good spot.
Why do you say "None of your content deals with claims" when you have not bothered to check out my older videos? See: th-cam.com/video/1OSzRh1Da74/w-d-xo.html and also: th-cam.com/video/G9c3w5JLTKg/w-d-xo.html
@ thanks. Will check those out soon.
I've lived in El Dorado County for close to 40 years yes we have gold but if your watching thus be very careful if you go looking on who's land your on alot of blm land butts up on private land its just the matter of a couple feet and digging on a claim that you think is on legal looking area you might get a terrible surprise
I've also encountered land owners who think there land goes much farther than it really does.
@ChrisRalph true I have faced this issue myself had a actual armed stand off with one of those land owners it's the reason for kind warning my wife's grandfather baiyne who has a actual road named after him in Coloma California was killed by claim jumpers on his own land so it can be both ways always check for claims in areas and know clearly where public or blm land is don't just go looking because you see the right geological signs research before digging please as a long time El Dorado County resident it's for the best of everyone I rarely hear you tube miner's state this only teach how to find metals not all but most it would be nice to hear figuring I personally live directly on a blm line and have had people actually walking in my driveway next to my home and cars because they get lost on blm land and look for roads or homes to get back to basic civilization
Mines underground with eaRth quacks aint for this duck
Do you prefer mining on the surface or are you against mining all together? If that is the case, then you better throw away all your tech, because that stuff all needs gold to run.
Did you hear China banned exports of RE minerals like germanium etc to the US? Found out germanium is an essential trace mineral for human health recently too, it wasn't known to be until very recently though. @@ChrisRalph
CMJ
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Yes, its a sad thing.
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Thanks my brother.