I’m 19 years old don’t know very much about mining precious metals but man I could watch these videos all day. Within a week of watching your videos my knowledge and understanding of prospecting and extracting precious metals has increased tenfold keep up the great work dan
Take care of that heart Dan I don't want to be without your videos. I had a woman like yours, but she up and died. I truely miss her.even after all these years and two more wives.
Dan, I had a valve replacement surgery 5 years ago. (open heart, aortic valve) i opted for the biologic valve over mechanical because I didn't want to take blood thinners forever. Now they can fix valves through coronary catheterization (TAVR) hopefully that's an option for you. God bless you praying for your complete recovery. Love your videos and appreciate all you do.
Another fine Sunday morning, piping hot coffee in hand and another fine Dan Hurd video to watch, Life is good. Always the teacher, you have a lesson for us to learn something new. Thanks Dan.
Thank you Dan for another great video. Very nice to see the family out with you again creating memories. You have been a blessed man my friend. Take it easy on the ticker !!
Thank you Dan and family for sharing this adventure. My family would be sitting in the vehicle watching me work and getting soaked by the rain. Love your videos!
Thank you for taking us on another amazing and educational adventure. Have you ever thought about running “mining as a hobby” classes either in person or online? I Would love to learn from you as would others I am sure. ❤️ from Saskatchewan
OMG I love when you get geeky and explain the chemistry... :) ! YAY family, way to keep him from overdoing--thank you! We'd all curl up and blow away without his cheerful, wonderful attitude every week or so!
The amount of gold dust left behind by early miners in Australia is astounding! They were literally looking for nuggets only... not even pickers.. then move onto the next site. People have been going over the slag/spoil heaps here for decades and still pull out amazing gold all the time.
Great video, Dan. Your family are real troopers feeding that highbanker in the rain. At the 5:09 mark, love the huge smiles on their faces, from your praise about "...workhorses". The washing on your highbanker looks awesome. Very informative about what you were feeding into the highbanker. Thank you all for sharing.
Back in '78 (1978, LOL) my wife and I, newlyweds, moved to Denver, Colorado. These were the good old days before commercial slight of hand turned the Rocky Mountains west of Denver into a theme park for wannabe primitives and mountainmen. Before the kids came, Trish and I spent every spare moment exploring. On the advice of an older gentleman I met while fly-fishing the South Platte I always brought a pan along. One morning we were panning Clear Creek, just below Idaho Springs. Came up with several pans rich in flake along the south bank. Took note of a seasonal in-wash just upstream, along the north bank of the creek. There was a dirt road east of the wash that led in the proper direction (uphill). We followed it for several miles and came to a turn where a massive slug of mine tailings (several thousand yards) and a weatherworn trailer hugged against the west shoulder. A man named Linc (short for Lincoln), 86 years old, lived in the trailer ( or one like it) periodically for 50 years, panning the lower margins of the tailings dump everytime it rained. The proceeds put two children through college. It wasn't raining but we shoveled up two 5 gallon buckets of washout and went to work panning. He, as did I preferred a fire-cured steel pan. Two hours of concerted work by the three of us, turned up nearly an ounce of fine gold. I was hooked. And on Linc's invitation we returned to his claim periodically for the next two years. Our last trip there found the trailer vacant and a note from Linc's daughter telling of his passing, and a suggestion that we go ahead and pan whenever we desired. We left a note expressing our heartfelt condolences. We never returned. It wasn't the same experience without him. But in the two years of our acquaintance T and I panned enough flake to buy a decent car, and fund my transition from wage slave to freelance graphic designer. I cast a tiny angel from some of the gold and pinned it to the hatband of my Fedora. T and I named it Linc. It rode with me for the next decade until the wind took it and the hat with it, one gnarly day on the Fryingpan River. Maybe that angel will turn up in someone's pan one day. May it bring the luck of the draw.
You earned my subscription a week ago and the wife and I are loving going through your old videos and we are enjoying it Sooooo Much, and has inspired us to buy our own claim near a beautiful river our big creek. Buy our own r/v and just do it. Maybe even start our own TH-cam channel and share our journey along the way ❣️
You know how much i enjoy all your videos for the content and knowledge i gain from watching. But when you prospect with the Family it just makes me smile. Really enjoyed this one. Keep on Keeping On. Angry Old HIppie Hermit Peace.
Another great video Dan. I like how you show that it's not always about finding gold...sometimes it's just about finding out what is there. Love the fact you family is part of this you. They are a good bunch I think...
I was just looking at the yield for Brenda Mines which was primarily A Copper Mine even though they recovered two tons of gold it was just a small percentage of production. Metals Produced From Brenda Mines. 278,000 tonnes Copper 66,000 tonnes Molybdenum 125 tonnes Silver 2 tonnes Gold
Dan appreciate the lesson with light. Don't know if i will ever need the information but have it filed away now for later if the need. Good way to keep the family together during this out of sort pandemic all around us. Haa, free labor. C ya, Troy
Hey dan just say I love your videos and positive vibe I have always been interested in prospecting so you inspired me to give it a try and I found some flakes and a 1 gram nugget!! Also your beard is awesome your always positive in your vids and I love your videos
I wish I had the money to get equipment like yours and travel to all the different claims and mines. Alas I'm disabled with no income so I just have my pans which I very thankful for. Great video with the Family.
It's amazing how much Earth Science I learn from you Dan! I use to be horrible in that class when I was a kid. I'm 38 now and I love everything you do lol. Go figure right? lol.
Just what the doctor ordered... My last campsite was close to a lot of copper claims from 1800's, but they are divots in the ground that left material similar to yours. Not far from there is a mine that was primary gold, secondary silver and lead. Very difficult road to that one.
Another great video, thank you Dan! Great to see you out with the family and also learn a little about the relationship between copper mining and gold. Best wishes to you and for a clear path to heart wellness in the near (post quarantine) future.
Oh my goodness what a worry, no don’t worry. My husband had a heart attack on the first day of our summer holiday 2019, doing well after surgery. Best wishes for your future health.
I've done a small smelting operation of high grade copper ores (mostly malachite and cuprite along with copper sulphites) and you're going to have to mill it down even further to a fine powder if you are to refine a decent amount of it. I used an ancient method used by the ancient Egyptians used to refine their copper using only lump charcoal with no flux. If you use a different method, like using a gas foundry with flux or using electrolysis, this advice may or may not work.
HI Banker!! (I'm sorry, I HAD too...) GRIN BIG thank you for showing the light work between real gold and the pyrite - very helpful. Great work family for helping Dan out on this one!
The stuff you were pointing to, green copper carbonate, is called malachite. The blue one is azurite. I know a rally neat, simple demonstration that shows how copper ions can change colour from blue to green.
That is funny, Dan! You have everyone but your dad doing all the work. Now I wish I was married! Love the beautiful, rainy mountain scenery. Please, send some of that rain down here to Arizona.
I love when u take us around to cool places and mines like this.. Did I ever tell u about the copper mine just outside my town in Ireland? They then found gold there too so u could be onto something there I hope! 😉 If you would like to read about it, it's called "the Avoca copper mine, Avoca, Co. Wicklow, Ireland" there's tonnes of articles about it and lots of lovely gold found there too haha. All the best Dan 👍
If you do a big smelt and get a big chunk of copper it would be interesting to disolve the copper in nitric acid and see how much gold is in the copper.
Thank you for showing the differant types of minerals under a microscope. I just purchased a microscope and was wondering how too tell the difference between a copper penny and a gold nugget. :)
Loved the video. Thank you. This video meant a lot to me. I was thinking of panning for gold. I am about 200 miles south of you. I know an area where there is an old copper mine. Directly above it there is a lake and a stream. The stream is loaded with black sand. Thinking of going up there and doing some panning. I should mention that the copper mine was also pulling out gold as well. Funny thing is, right now all I can think of is Paint Your Wagon. Do not know if you are old enough to remember that, I am. Once again, Thank you.
When I was young and in the Boy Scouts every other weekend we went on overnight hikes into the Olympic Mountains. On one hike we walked by boulders on a creek that were just covered in those pyrite cubes. Have been wondering if I was to ever find the place again would it be a good place to look for gold as well?
I think I have the same problem you do. I’m not overweight, I’m thin, I don’t smoke but whenever I take my sluice box to the river, my heart is beating out my chest with only 2 or 3 shovels worth of dirt in my bucket. You are lucky to have family who’s willing to help.
Hi Dan. I found your channel yesterday and can't stop watching it. I'd love to do what you do but unfortunately in England there isn't a y good 😂. But keep up the good work
Dan hello from Trinidad i am also a miner in South America your enthusiasm is the real gold
I’m 19 years old don’t know very much about mining precious metals but man I could watch these videos all day. Within a week of watching your videos my knowledge and understanding of prospecting and extracting precious metals has increased tenfold keep up the great work dan
Glad you enjoy it!
I'm looking forward to seeing you smelt the ore. It's good to see something a bit different and so interesting. Thanks
Playing in the dirt and rain with your family. It doesn't get any better. You are blessed.
I really am
Take care of that heart Dan I don't want to be without your videos. I had a woman like yours, but she up and died. I truely miss her.even after all these years and two more wives.
The drs are taking good care of me.
Sending some props to your kids, classic teens that kinda hate you but love you enough to help you out because they know its your passion
You summed them up perfectly
Thanks to the family from all of us. Great video thanks Dan
Dan, I had a valve replacement surgery 5 years ago. (open heart, aortic valve) i opted for the biologic valve over mechanical because I didn't want to take blood thinners forever. Now they can fix valves through coronary catheterization (TAVR) hopefully that's an option for you. God bless you praying for your complete recovery. Love your videos and appreciate all you do.
Your family is wonderful Dan, always enjoy them in your videos.
Thanks so much
Another fine Sunday morning, piping hot coffee in hand and another fine Dan Hurd video to watch, Life is good.
Always the teacher, you have a lesson for us to learn something new.
Thanks Dan.
Enjoy!
Love it! Great crew with Captain Dan at the helm!!
Thanks!
Enjoyed the vid, Dan. Sorry to hear about your health challenges, I hope you overcome those soon.
I like the diversity in videos, not just the same place week after week, it makes things more interesting. You have a great family to.
I appreciate that!
Thank you Dan for another great video. Very nice to see the family out with you again creating memories. You have been a blessed man my friend. Take it easy on the ticker !!
Thanks 👍
Great to see the family out working the claim with you. Priceless.
I do like it when they join me!
Thank you Dan and family for sharing this adventure. My family would be sitting in the vehicle watching me work and getting soaked by the rain. Love your videos!
Thank you for taking us on another amazing and educational adventure. Have you ever thought about running “mining as a hobby” classes either in person or online? I Would love to learn from you as would others I am sure. ❤️ from Saskatchewan
Very enjoyable treasure discovery. Thank you for your time. I hope you fed your workers well 😊
Always a pleasure to see the family out having fun with you the real treasure is your family thank you for sharing❤
OMG I love when you get geeky and explain the chemistry... :) ! YAY family, way to keep him from overdoing--thank you! We'd all curl up and blow away without his cheerful, wonderful attitude every week or so!
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Dan you found a woman that'll dig dirt in the rain. That's the real treasure.
She sure is
Dude, real women are like that. Dan is a lucky guy - just like me. I have one too.
Another great family video mate, please take care of your ticker mate 👍
Not all treasures are Silber and Gold, mate!
Wis has many women like that. Even ones that burp..fart..:D
The amount of gold dust left behind by early miners in Australia is astounding! They were literally looking for nuggets only... not even pickers.. then move onto the next site. People have been going over the slag/spoil heaps here for decades and still pull out amazing gold all the time.
Thanks for sharing your family with us.
Thanks for watching!
Dan and family, thanks for sharing a day in B.C.
Great job all! What a team! Another great lesson on what we get to see. Thanks Dan and family!
Glad you enjoyed it
Glad to see you are taking care of your HEART!!
My wife's been hounding me to
Great video, Dan. Your family are real troopers feeding that highbanker in the rain. At the 5:09 mark, love the huge smiles on their faces, from your praise about "...workhorses". The washing on your highbanker looks awesome. Very informative about what you were feeding into the highbanker. Thank you all for sharing.
I'm pretty lucky
Stay healthy! We enjoy seeing your adventures!
Back in '78 (1978, LOL) my wife and I, newlyweds, moved to Denver, Colorado. These were the good old days before commercial slight of hand turned the Rocky Mountains west of Denver into a theme park for wannabe primitives and mountainmen. Before the kids came, Trish and I spent every spare moment exploring. On the advice of an older gentleman I met while fly-fishing the South Platte I always brought a pan along. One morning we were panning Clear Creek, just below Idaho Springs. Came up with several pans rich in flake along the south bank. Took note of a seasonal in-wash just upstream, along the north bank of the creek. There was a dirt road east of the wash that led in the proper direction (uphill). We followed it for several miles and came to a turn where a massive slug of mine tailings (several thousand yards) and a weatherworn trailer hugged against the west shoulder. A man named Linc (short for Lincoln), 86 years old, lived in the trailer ( or one like it) periodically for 50 years, panning the lower margins of the tailings dump everytime it rained. The proceeds put two children through college. It wasn't raining but we shoveled up two 5 gallon buckets of washout and went to work panning. He, as did I preferred a fire-cured steel pan. Two hours of concerted work by the three of us, turned up nearly an ounce of fine gold. I was hooked. And on Linc's invitation we returned to his claim periodically for the next two years. Our last trip there found the trailer vacant and a note from Linc's daughter telling of his passing, and a suggestion that we go ahead and pan whenever we desired. We left a note expressing our heartfelt condolences. We never returned. It wasn't the same experience without him. But in the two years of our acquaintance T and I panned enough flake to buy a decent car, and fund my transition from wage slave to freelance graphic designer. I cast a tiny angel from some of the gold and pinned it to the hatband of my Fedora. T and I named it Linc. It rode with me for the next decade until the wind took it and the hat with it, one gnarly day on the Fryingpan River. Maybe that angel will turn up in someone's pan one day. May it bring the luck of the draw.
Looks like an awesome day made even better by having your family with you ❤
It was!
You earned my subscription a week ago and the wife and I are loving going through your old videos and we are enjoying it Sooooo Much, and has inspired us to buy our own claim near a beautiful river our big creek. Buy our own r/v and just do it. Maybe even start our own TH-cam channel and share our journey along the way ❣️
Wishing you luck on each old and new venture.
Come to Michigan, the UP is full of native copper just sitting on the ground. Lol and in Boulder size!
You know how much i enjoy all your videos for the content and knowledge i gain from watching. But when you prospect with the Family it just makes me smile. Really enjoyed this one. Keep on Keeping On. Angry Old HIppie Hermit Peace.
Thanks! I really do love it when the family joins me
Neat! Can't wait to see the results of the smelt!
Me too!
Great video and glad you had the fam to support you, they seem great! I must have missed it but what happened to your heart?
Bad valve
Another great video Dan.
I like how you show that it's not always about finding gold...sometimes it's just about finding out what is there.
Love the fact you family is part of this you. They are a good bunch I think...
Thanks 👍
I was just looking at the yield for Brenda Mines which was primarily A Copper Mine even though they recovered two tons of gold it was just a small percentage of production.
Metals Produced From Brenda Mines.
278,000 tonnes Copper
66,000 tonnes Molybdenum
125 tonnes Silver
2 tonnes Gold
Dan the man finds gold like no man can....SUPER DAN!
Video quality is top notch dan take it easy on your heart buddy 🙏🙏
Thank you, I will
Nice fun family adventure! Great work, team!! Or is it Great teamwork? And thanks Dan!!
Both!
Dan appreciate the lesson with light. Don't know if i will ever need the information but have it filed away now for later if the need. Good way to keep the family together during this out of sort pandemic all around us. Haa, free labor. C ya, Troy
hello sorry to hear about ur health hope things get better soon best wishes from england uk
Great video Dan
Always fun to see your family out with you
Cheers Dan and family
Glad you enjoyed it
Dan, tanks for taking us on this trip. I enjoy all of your videos even if the amount of shiny is small just because the locations are amazing.
Glad you like them!
Hey dan just say I love your videos and positive vibe I have always been interested in prospecting so you inspired me to give it a try and I found some flakes and a 1 gram nugget!! Also your beard is awesome your always positive in your vids and I love your videos
What an awesomely adventurous family! I truly enjoy your videos. May you all be continuously blessed with good health and happiness! 😃
Thanks!
I wish I had the money to get equipment like yours and travel to all the different claims and mines. Alas I'm disabled with no income so I just have my pans which I very thankful for. Great video with the Family.
This was really thinking outside the box. I really enjoyed this
Thank you
It's amazing how much Earth Science I learn from you Dan! I use to be horrible in that class when I was a kid. I'm 38 now and I love everything you do lol. Go figure right? lol.
keep well Dan , and good going to your wonderful family
Thanks! I'm pretty lucky
Awesome as usual Dan
Get well soon Dan! your videos helped me get through this lockdown 🙂
Glad I could help!
Thanks for the lesson on the light volume. Interesting.
You bet!
Nicely done with your fine family helping run the sluice box.
Thanks 👍
Just what the doctor ordered... My last campsite was close to a lot of copper claims from 1800's, but they are divots in the ground that left material similar to yours. Not far from there is a mine that was primary gold, secondary silver and lead. Very difficult road to that one.
Another awesome adventure. Love it. Thanks Dan!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Another great video, thank you Dan! Great to see you out with the family and also learn a little about the relationship between copper mining and gold. Best wishes to you and for a clear path to heart wellness in the near (post quarantine) future.
Thank you
Nice! Great family collab. Hope you´re well considering your condition. Looking forward to the smelt.
Oh my goodness what a worry, no don’t worry. My husband had a heart attack on the first day of our summer holiday 2019, doing well after surgery. Best wishes for your future health.
Thank you
I like this new series, Sundays with Dan's family.
Nice fun videos!
Glad you like them!
Dan I just love ur clips I love how great u are about life u are really a great guy
I've done a small smelting operation of high grade copper ores (mostly malachite and cuprite along with copper sulphites) and you're going to have to mill it down even further to a fine powder if you are to refine a decent amount of it. I used an ancient method used by the ancient Egyptians used to refine their copper using only lump charcoal with no flux. If you use a different method, like using a gas foundry with flux or using electrolysis, this advice may or may not work.
Hope sick ol' dad gets better soon! Thanks family for looking after the fella!😁😁
They've been very good to me
HI Banker!! (I'm sorry, I HAD too...) GRIN
BIG thank you for showing the light work between real gold and the pyrite - very helpful.
Great work family for helping Dan out on this one!
Glad you enjoyed it
The stuff you were pointing to, green copper carbonate, is called malachite. The blue one is azurite. I know a rally neat, simple demonstration that shows how copper ions can change colour from blue to green.
Awesome adventure fantastic to see the family out with you awesome knowledge thank you so much
Glad you enjoyed it
I always learn something new from your videos, thank you for the education !
You're welcome
Great video and I always learn something. Sending best wishes from the UK.
Awesome, thank you!
Can't wait to see you process the cons!
this is like the old empires looking for copper and finding gold
Love seeing your family!
I like it when they join me
That is funny, Dan! You have everyone but your dad doing all the work. Now I wish I was married! Love the beautiful, rainy mountain scenery. Please, send some of that rain down here to Arizona.
Your videography and production just keeps gettin better Dan! Nice audio intro as well....Copper is good too(LOL)
Wow, thanks!
Look after that big red chest nugget! Great to see the Fam help keep the channel beating 👍😁🍻⛏🇬🇧
Take care of yourself ... You got a fine family there.
Nice cubes you found. Good family fun. Well fun for you not having to shovel. I would have to ask them if it was fun. LOL 🤣
In the end I think they enjoyed it
Great to see u back!!.. Plenty of gold here in New Zealand's South Island.. Great rivers!
Start with the Clutha River..
One day...
wow you guys put in some work today. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!
Take care of that ticker.I want to learn from you for many years to come. God bless you and your family!
almost expected you to show up at my cabin at the beginning!
fun video,looking forward to the next!
👍
Thanks!
I love when u take us around to cool places and mines like this.. Did I ever tell u about the copper mine just outside my town in Ireland? They then found gold there too so u could be onto something there I hope! 😉 If you would like to read about it, it's called "the Avoca copper mine, Avoca, Co. Wicklow, Ireland" there's tonnes of articles about it and lots of lovely gold found there too haha. All the best Dan 👍
Quickly becomming my fav channel!!
Looks like y’all have a great time. Love your channel.
Thanks so much
Dan I'm sorry to hear about your heart issues, I hope the best for you and your family. 🤓
I really enjoy watching your videos. I find them so interesting and entertaining.
Glad you like them!
If you do a big smelt and get a big chunk of copper it would be interesting to disolve the copper in nitric acid and see how much gold is in the copper.
exciting video and its lovely to see you with your family x
Thank you!! 😊
Thank you for showing the differant types of minerals under a microscope. I just purchased a microscope and was wondering how too tell the difference between a copper penny and a gold nugget. :)
Glad it was helpful!
Loved the video. Thank you. This video meant a lot to me. I was thinking of panning for gold. I am about 200 miles south of you. I know an area where there is an old copper mine. Directly above it there is a lake and a stream. The stream is loaded with black sand. Thinking of going up there and doing some panning.
I should mention that the copper mine was also pulling out gold as well.
Funny thing is, right now all I can think of is Paint Your Wagon. Do not know if you are old enough to remember that, I am. Once again, Thank you.
Paint Your Wagon was my Dad’s all time favourite movie and we watched it every Christmas for 20 years until he passed away 12 years ago.
Be cool to smelt it all & see the sulfides turn into sulfates you rock Dan! Older video still very cool stuff as always.
Smelt it all Dan!! If you can separate in process!!! copper make's Shiney penny's!!!; )
I found copper pieces in Indiana panning for gold.. Enjoyed the video thanks
Nice!
When I was young and in the Boy Scouts every other weekend we went on overnight hikes into the Olympic Mountains. On one hike we walked by boulders on a creek that were just covered in those pyrite cubes. Have been wondering if I was to ever find the place again would it be a good place to look for gold as well?
always fun to mine with the family thanks dan
You're back! Woohooo! Always enjoy watching your videos, Dan :-)
Hey, thanks!
I think I have the same problem you do. I’m not overweight, I’m thin, I don’t smoke but whenever I take my sluice box to the river, my heart is beating out my chest with only 2 or 3 shovels worth of dirt in my bucket. You are lucky to have family who’s willing to help.
Yup - I have a faulty valve
kool footage..Thanks for the effort
You bet
Is this what it means to "live vicariously through someone"? lol awesome vids and scenes.
Thanks!
@@Danhurd is the sun a huge melted ball of gold? lol sure looks like it in the video of the sun!!
Hi Dan. I found your channel yesterday and can't stop watching it. I'd love to do what you do but unfortunately in England there isn't a y good 😂. But keep up the good work