Finding More Bedrock GOLD! (How to find gold panning on bedrock)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ค. 2023
- This is my second video of really working the bedrock on my new gold claim. I'm experimenting with new brushes to clean the bedrock.
This claim is really special as it has little nuggets everywhere, check out my channel to see the story.
If you're new to prospecting this is a good how-to video showing where to look, how to dig, and how to pan out the gold nuggets on bedrock.
If you missed my last bedrock gold video I spent more time here found even more: • There's so much gold o...
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Links to my favorite brushes and tools in this video:
Big wire brush: www.amazon.com/dp/B09QPH5JXN?...
Small wire brush: www.amazon.com/dp/B07TX8ZVJ9?...
Thin plastic bristle brush: www.amazon.com/dp/B08WM2YB9L?...
Loop brush: www.amazon.com/dp/B000VYMXSC?...
Blue hooked crevice tool: www.amazon.com/dp/B0B26N97XZ?...
Green shovel: www.amazon.com/ASR-Outdoor-Pl...
You can find a full tool list in this video: • CRACK TOOLS for bedroc...
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Great job getting that au fam. Keep on having fun and living the dream. Gold Squad Out!!!!
Thanks man, same to you!
Man I really like your videos keep doing your thing and your channel will grow big thanks for your time and effort 👍✌️
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. I'm having almost as much fun sharing as I am finding the gold. 🙂
Nice pile of color!
Thanks for sharing
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Thank you. Thanks for watching!
Love your video, can't wait to go back to Baja California and go prospecting again get thos pepita nuggets
Thank you. Does the Baja have good gold?
YOU'RE CRACKIN ME UP!
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That’s some really nice bedrock on your claim !!
You should come to the dig this Saturday at Union flats campground!!
It’s on the north fork yuba
We are throwing a nugget hunt on the
“Peteys place claim “ and others
Come on down the 29th of July this Saturday
Sounds like a fun get together. Someday I'm gonna have to come to that. Let me know how it went.
Sweet awesome stuff cant wait to see what you snipe those metal bristles suck when they start to break and then they get in the material id recommend some magic fingers from Keene very nice heavy pans Brother
I'll be out in the river in just a few days! (will take me longer to get time to put the video together though) Thanks for the suggestion, looks like a nice tool for moving overburden.
Great job Eric of demonstrating the brushes, I like the ideas of brushes & there's some good ones there but the fraying is a problem, I wonder if the harder straight steel brush might be better, last longer. Also, I have a 1.5 gal. DeWalt battery vacuum, it's small but powerful & I put a nozzle on end with about a 12" 3/4" surgical tube at the end to get into the small cracks & get all the dirt, this works really good & it would be perfect for you and the crevices you have there, your claim has some great looking crevices & looks like your finding some good gold there, the vac. would help you clean up better. There is a gray line about using vacuums in Cal., and i spoke with someone with the BLM one time about small vacuums, & he told me it's ok with him, so long as your not using it in the water or near it, but said that DFG might think differently about that idea, anyway thought I would share this.
And just a thought about the black sand with the small gold in it, instead of wasting your time panning the black sand out for the small gold, I take mine back in a freezer bag & run it on my homemade deep well Miller table (half Miller table & half small V mat), works great & I think it's best way to get rid of the black sand and get the small gold, Thank you for the vids, sorry about the long info,
Take care,
Serg
Hi Serg, thank you. It would be nice to find a skinny brush with long stiff bristles I think that would work well. That vacuum looks interesting and might be small enough to pack in, I'll have to look in to that one. Yeah I've just been snuffering up the black sand to process at some later date. Maybe I'll do a video someday of processing a bunch of black sand once I get a bunch saved up. Thanks again for watching!
Looking forward to the next video!!! New subscriber!!
Thank you, next video is coming very soon. I finally went river sniping and found lots of gold. I've got hours of video to sort through and edit to bring you just the good stuff!
Hi from Tasmania,,,, enjoying your vids,, stiff scrubbing brushes of different widths work well,,, all trial and error :-)
Hi, thank you. Someday I hope to visit Tasmania and maybe even do some gold sniping while I'm there.
That’s a perfect spot for the summer to go swimming
Yes, it will be nice to look for gold in the river in the summer. Videos on that coming soon!
Good job. New sub 👌
Awesome, thank you!
This was a good test, I think all I would use myself for dry areas however would be a shop vac and that metal crevice tool
Yeah, I'm looking into that. Trying to find one that is light enough to pack in but big enough to move a decent amount of dirt.
I love my milwaukee packout vacuum it is a beast I'd recommend it
@@Rockymountainprospector Interesting, looks like it's still a bit big to pack in though. Any idea how much it weighs? Also, this might be a dumb question but what do they mean by "packout"? Obviously doesn't look like it's built to go in a backpack.
I like your punny humor, I think you are awesome
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
Right on, video looks great! For you just starting out, this is perfect. I prospect in Wyoming, so what state are you working in? In the winter when the water doesn't run there, I go south to AZ.
Awesome thank you. Don't really want to narrow down the location at this time so PNW. Do you do dry washing in AZ? If so how does that compare to high banking with water as far as efficiency?
@@wildernesseric PNW is fine, I just didn't know if you were in Georgia or Sothern California. I don't have a puffer box, dry washer, but I made a high banker that is 8 inches wide so it uses way less water. The system can be set up to recirculate the water, but it depends on how much clay/dust is in the sand on how well it works. Like I said, I don't have a dry washer, but the experienced miners that are in the Association, say 30 to 40 percent. But they have older equipment and not the latest greatest mine looses less than yours does equipment. Might have to look into one this winter at the shows down there.
Nice pile of shiny pieces
Thanks 👍
I live in Louisville Ky..... 0.0000% gold around! Lol... How much does it cost to file a claim and how hard is it??? Also when you cant get in the water, do you think that old river bed would have better gold especially where the side streams have cut through it? Luv ya's from Kentucky!!!
It's not to hard to file a claim. I'll probably do a video on it at some point. It costs about $160/20 acres per year to keep it. Yes, the spot where I happened across some nuggets on the river bed is right below that old stream bed. Check out this video: th-cam.com/video/YGEqNsMo89g/w-d-xo.html
NICE NUGGETS!
Whipple
Thanks 😆
@@wildernesseric I’m a blacksmith and I use a stiff steel brush in my work to clean the scale off the mild steel that I forge. The scale forms naturally from the heating of the material. These brushes are usually used by butchers to clean off the wooden block tables they cut meat on. The bristles in these brushes are pretty springy and flat in cross section. These would be more than up to the challenge of crack cleaning if they were only one row wide. Unfortunately they are eight or ten rows wide. I have 2” and 4” long steel bristles on the two brushes I use most often.
I was also thinking that the needles from a pneumatic needle scaler could somehow be welded into a row to make up a narrow crack brush. These needles take a lot of abuse. Horrible Freight sells replacement sets in my area of the country.
Lastly, I’ve also seen some welders scale chipping hammers with steel bristles brushes welded to them to clean off welds. I’ll have to see if they are narrow enough to be used in a crack.
Cheers!
Whipple.
Search “welder’s chipping hammer with steel brush” and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Getting closer…………
@@Whipple1 interesting, I have one of those brushes because I do a little blacksmithing myself (one of my many.... many hobbies), didn't think about using it for this though as it is big and fat. But yeah if I had some of those flat stiff bristles that were longer and in a single line that would work good.
Watch "Dan hurd prospecting " and get an idea of what tools he and others use. I would think something along the lines of paint brush like bristles would be more effective and cheaper. A small wet dry vac would be awesome! Dan has videos on that too. Great vids !
Yes, @Danhurd has a great channel with some great prospecting tips, I watch his channel a lot. My claim is a hike to get in to so I've been looking for a more portable smaller battery operated vacuum of some kind. I'll check and see what he uses. Thank you!
If you can avoid metal bristled brushes, you wont have as much of that fraying out.
The stiff plastic bristle brushes are more resilient to being bent and will generally so back to shape after bending unless you really use them hard.
Thats beautiful gravel stuffed down in that crevice too, its been there a while !
I try not to recommend things that are a bit more expensive because i never know ones financial situations, but a small battery powered vacuum with a narrow nozzle is phenomenal too for cleaning out cracks.
Yes, I plan to get a vacuum at some point. The problem with that is it is a hike and it would be rough carrying it in. Gonna happen eventually though. Thanks for the feedback!
@wildernesseric a lot of small steps equal big journeys !!!
Sorry for the extra comments lol, but I figure it can't hurt to feed the algorithm a bit too 😊
@@John-ir2zf Not a problem at all I'm appreciating the feedback. I'm enjoying interacting with people who have the same interest, makes the hobby that much more fun.
Eric you need to get a steel brush from welding supply and cut down the middle for a skinny brush ha ha
That is a great idea, I should experiment...
How about the "fissure fisher"?
Every time he says crack or crack brush oh and he said crack and bottom in the same sentence 😂😂😂
Gold is at crack bottom.
Digging cracks,cracks and, digging gold
How did you find and purchase your clam? I am looking to invest.
Claim lol
It's not to hard to file a claim. I'll probably do a video on it at some point. It costs about $160/20 acres per year to keep it.
Extra nice video and you are in Washington state North west??
Thank you, keeping the location on the DL for now.
Nice outfit
U can use garden tools 4 that as well a crevice hook and a spoon if U have 2 😊😊 when U have good water and flow U can use a lay flat sluice I rather use a high banker myself I can run alot more material they use a small water pump U can use a 12 VOLT motor cycle battery 4 that and then aren't very heavy I would get the dirt by the 5 gallon buckets then run it usually 1O /5 gallon buckets 2 a clean up U wash the heavy material off 1ST in a bucket of water then U take the mat out and do the same thing and wash again after U take the mat out and make sure U tap the tap good and well top and bottom in water U can pour the water off down 2 a bit it's alot faster if U use a bucket 4 material bucket U can pan it later on when when U get back home even better if U have a gold wheel 😊😊 that will save U from doing all panning and clean up by hand it takes a long time 2 process material like that 😮😮 OMG 11 4 2O23
Yeah I need to figure out a quicker and more efficient solution to clean out these bedrock cracks and process out the gold. It's a fun hobby though.
Is this the Yuba? When I still lived in Cali I knew someone who traded a Jackhammer for a vial full of Nuggets. they were shaped like small to bigger sized gumballs , very round! we didnt have battery powered equipment back then but a battery powerd vacuum and a gaspowered jackhammer are worthwhile investments in my opinion.
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Keeping the river name/location private for now. That is a really unusual shape for nuggets, is he sure they were nuggets? This area is a hike in so a jackhammer probably is out, I've been looking into getting some kind of small battery powered vacuum.
@@wildernesseric it's possible it was an amalgam of gold. They were all a pale yellow color but round.
@@thomasackerman3995 strange
You may find coated gold with mercury sorta looks like lead bit more lighter colour shiny sorta
Yes, I have found some of that in this area.
@@wildernesseric be careful if you heat it up you can also sell your mercury after you go thru the process of doing it safely cheers
How about getting a battery powered wet dry vacuum
Looks like you had some fine gold in the black sand too.
Yes, I'm saving all the black sand to process out later.
Seen a guy have a battery operated vacuum and said he go yard sale get attachments and melt them to different shapes took it to clams to do the cracks at 1st I laughed but when he did clean up he had lots of gold it was a surprise to me but it was a small shop type vac and he said where the air blows out he screened it off to keep more gold in it was a very nice set up did a great job
Maybe something you could look in to
Yes, I want to get a vacuum setup eventually. Just need to find something that is light enough to pack in but still strong enough to work well. Thanks for watching!
I know that I'm late to the party, but have you tried leather gloves? Much more durable than nylon gloves. They also make nylon gloves with leather finger tips. That would help with moving the burden without eating up your gloves and finger tips.
I have tried leather and it seems to wear about as fast but they are much more expensive... maybe I'm not buying the right ones though.
Cracking for gold
Was i just imaging it.....at 21:40 - 21:50 was there gold in situ just to the left of the snare brush ??
Awfully bright chunk of something either on or in that bedrock, though camera color can be deceiving so it may have just been a piece of random rock, caught my attention though.
Hmm I see that, I doubt it's gold but I'll have to look there when I go back out.
@wildernesseric that rock looks like a metamorphosed schist so it could simply be a piece of mica catching the light just right.
@@John-ir2zf I have found pyrite cubes in the bedrock here in various places before too.
@wildernesseric gold and pyrite tend to deposit close to eachother and the upside is....... it's on YOUR CLAIM !
if it's gold, it's yours !
If it's pyrite, it's yours too !
Mineral claims are one of the best things ever.
I mean, you get the mineral rights annnnd you have a "private" campsight that you could stay at for 2 weeks at a time.
@@John-ir2zf Yes, very cool. I plan to camp on it at some point this summer when I have some time off. I can't wait to do that, it will be heaven. When winter comes around again I'm going to spend some time poking around the river edges and see if I can find any host rock veins. Some of the gold here doesn't look like it's travelled far.
Test the sledgehammer !!
Lol 😅 😆 🤣 😂 😹
Too heavy to pack in.
@wildernesseric The neat thing about having your own Claim, is the fact you can bring in gear that's too heavy on the odd trip, then Stash it on the Claim !! Bring in a sledge one trip & heavy pry bars on the next trip in, bring gear that doesn't rot , no wood handles for the stashed stuff because weather etc. I bring sluse boxes, pans, & tools , heck I've gone mining with NO Gear because it's already there !! I do leave a note in a zip lock with my phone number and ask they just not take my gear politely. I stsh everything really good and I've never had an issue.
@@captaincrunch5878 actually this is a really great idea and will work well for the spot I'm at. Thank you.
Maybe 🤔 “RockBottom prospecting” or “RockBottom sniping” 🤷🏻 either way love your content ✊🏼
Thank you! I'm thinking I'm gonna call the claim Goldie Rocks. Still need a slogan though.
there is a you tuber named pionaorpauly he uses a bamboo brush that is exallent for cracks
Yeah @pioneerpauly has some great videos. I'll have to look at his channel and see if I can find this brush you speak of. Thanks!
Get a "WISK" BROOM. A real one made from corn stalks. Plastic balls up on the tips. The small wisk hand brooms are always stiff all the way to the tips and you can wear them down just like a broom. Nothing better except a vaccum.
I need to look into this... is there a particular one (brand) that works well for you?
Hahahahahahaha.... suppose i should have watched the entire vid before commenting about plastic bristles !!!!
These four brushes are going in my pack.... To get the gold out of my crack
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Clean crack, sun burnt lower back 👍
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Mining my crack... lmao
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Scratching cracks
Here’s one for ya.. There’s gold in them cracks! Or Golden cracks! Clean golden cracks! Hahaha or the Golden Crack! Lol
Crackin gold, gold crackin... The Golden Crack sounds like a burger joint or a strip club... or maybe both. :)
@@wildernesseric hahahaha come on down to the Golden Crack and make sure you bring them dollars.. !
@@chrishansley6200 exactly
Hahahaha
The gold crackon
The gold kraken
Crack-on
It's gold by cracky!
Yes it is! Gold dispenser cracks.
It's a wilderness crackdown
Nice
Maybe mentioned before below, but I didn't see it. Those brass brushes with the blue handle they also do in steel bristles so therefore are stronger, if they flay out, trim them to shape with tin snips, or good cutters.
You can also get some very strong industrial cleaning brushes more like paint brush shape, typically about 1.5 inches width, x .25 inch: these have very thick strong plastic or nylon hairs, they are used where they don't want to scratch the surfaces typically on non ferrous materials. I've one but I cannot remember where I purchased it.
you need some really good gloves, sometimes there can be some really sharp edge rock splinters - basic rule don't use your fingers use the spike.
Good to watch best of luck in the future.
Just looked around for a brush like you are mentioning and couldn't find anything. Do you know what they are called?
Release the CRACK'N,
GOLDEN CREVICES, MY CRACKS ARE GOLDEN
Golden Cracks, Cracks-a-Golden, Goldie Cracks
I like that... I think I'm gonna call my claim Goldie Cracks
Take the prybar and bust out those cracks...
This bedrock is pretty solid.
Off the Crack on the gold!!
Use a portable vacuum
Or let's get crackin
Crack master 😂
You almost learned a lesson when you dropped gold in glass vials. Your demeanor instantly showed a certain oops
BedRock cracks into golden racks $$
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Why not get another set of gloves 🤔
Using the gloves isn't ideal or most efficient, just what I was doing before. The brushes will be faster and last longer.
By cracky
Call it “Cracking the Gold Code”
Krakatowa
Krackattack
@@wildernesseric i like yours better 👍
Name
Crevice master
Brushes use stiff plastic. Bristles and not metal
Sounds interesting, just looked online and couldn't find a "crevice master" brush. You have a link or a different search term to use?
@@wildernesseric what I meant was for your slogan don't use the word crack, but crevice instead.
Separately metal bristles on brushes bend and splay and don't last long. Stiff plastic or other none metal bristles work best. Take a yard brush and take bristles from that and then insert them in a pipe and glue them in. You can push a bundle of them tight in the pipe but allow the best length to remain for your purposes. Pipe length is up to you because that's your handle
@@robertcunninghammusic6712 Oh haha, gotchya. Yeah I need to experiment with making some custom brushes at some point.
Blz mn
Get yourself a five gallon bucket and a flat bar
Yeah, after I'm done testing stuff and finding the best areas I'm gonna bring in some bigger stuff and stash it somewhere on the claim.
Please use the brushes for finishing off like a normal person would. You got the hook and the did a review on the brushes when it should have been the hook being used. It like throwing a rock at wild boar with a gun sitting next to you and wondering why the rock didn't work. It was painful
Yeah, normally I would but I wanted to really put the brushes to use to see how they would last.
Crack on let's do it
How about cracks my gold
Nah perfect timing 😜 anyone wasting time on those is a rookie gold Miner 😂 break out the tools like a hummer and chisels . Break the bedrock then brush the stuff. Brushing the top WTF .
Yeah, normally I would not brush the top stuff but was just testing the durability of the brushes. This bedrock is tough as nails, you can't really break it up without a lot of extra work. However you do it you still gotta get the stuff out of the bottom of the crack once you have the big stuff scraped out.
How about, "don't dig in my Crack?"
Haha, I like that one.
nice fake gold 👏 whats sparay you use for painting rock look like gold?
You referring to this video?
@@wildernessericafter many years about gold prospecting i know in new videos you use painted rock!
@@azadrestore no that's not me, I would not be having fun if I was being dishonest. I did do a funny spoof in my metal detecting video with a giant painted rock(obviously fake). I'm doing TH-cam because it's fun to share this unusually rich spot with other people who are interested in the same thing and know how special it is, not to make money by deceiving people. Just curious, did you watch the whole video? You can see that it is real gold because it is heavier than the lead in the pan, you can also see other smaller gold flakes with it. Also in the end I weigh it out on a scale. In your prospecting have you found chunkier gold like this or have you only found flakes?
you delete my comment😆
Well I'm in recovery and u triggered me so I'm unsubscribing
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