Starting a Placer Gold Mine! - Part 2
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- First three test pit dug and tested, unfortunately Mother Nature is giving us warnings that winter is coming! Three test pits should tell us if this part of the claim is worth it, there are 2 other sections of this claim to test and 2 other claims in the area. Can the first spot be the one?????
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There's a couple of things about devil's club that's also good to know for prospecting purposes: First it's a plant that requires a lot of water. If you see devil's club, even if that area is dry now, you can know most of the year it's not. Second, it's a pretty slow growing plant. It doesn't reach maturity until it's about ten years old and it doesn't reproduce quickly either. So if you see a big patch of it, that soil probably hasn't been disturbed for quite a while.
I am one of your silent fans and I know you guys pay attention to our comments.
So, I just wanted to let you know that I absolutely love ALL of your content!
I love gems, semi-precious gems stones or rocks and gold prospecting and your mine visits!
Also, just know that whatever you chose to do going forward, you can count on me to keep watching your great content!!
I had a couple of claims up around Wells. It was a lot of fun. One of them had an old hydraulic sluice running through it. There were also some old wooden shacks and a holding pond. Good gold!
Try using a thick plastic layer to let the water run without erosion. Like a thick trash bag or tarp to move it 5-10’ before it hits loose dirt.
On the excavator bucket, instead of taking your sample off the top of the bucket, try to get some water in the bucket slosh the bucket around take off the top gravels, get your sample off the bottom of the bucket ❤ don't loose hope Dan
Love the double hat!
I've been looking forward to this 2nd part. Can't wait to see more.
Ack. Just the thumbnails are giving me flashbacks. Back in the early 80s, when I was 14 I was hauled up near Barkerville and press-ganged into working an open pit... Tally came and we were getting about $13.oo/yd of material processed.
At a cost of about $16.oo/yd...
Hardest I ever worked and came out with nothing in my pockets, and a bonus hernia.
Did find exactly one nugget the size of two pinky finger knuckles when I was shaking gravel through a shaker, and like the honest kid I was, immediately ran it over to the guy running the show. My first and last time handling raw gold.
How would that area be at today’s prices?
Quenel is a great area and town.
The gold was fine, and finer
@@kokonanana1 Adjusted for inflation, probably worse. :)
@ I spent all my time in the camp, getting devoured by mosquitos. Only benefit to me, was that for 30 years I seemed to be immuned to the little flying vampires. :)
Great show, Dan. Tyler looks to be a pretty sharp operator also. Really enjoying this!
The Devil's Club Mine💪
Im so glad you are in Quesnel! Keep going Dan and Ty!
I am excited for you I can't wait to see how this works out😊 good thoughts
Dan: Love it when you are "out .. standing ... in your field."
Nice to see tyler again missed his videos
Glad to see Tyler!
This kind of action is fun to watch. Keep at it Dan!
Wishing you guys the best of luck a lot of work goes into what you guy's are diving into
3:16 yep sitting in an excavator gives you a totally different perspective of the surrounding area and if there’s good gold there Tyler will find it he’s very experienced. ( I reckon that’s why your hired him😬) Back to the vid…well I’m guessing winter is over? And you’ve started again already ?? Fingers crossed for you Dan would love to see you go full scale like Tyler has done. Great episode thanks for sharing see you on the next one👍🏼👊🏼
Thank you Dan!!! ❤😊
Hi Dan! You should just bring a tarp for when you are high banking. Just unroll it into the pit and you wont have washout.
I got a batch of paydirt recently that had some itty bitty tiny little 0.5 millimeter garnets in it, and it reminded me of your recent garnet panning video! I got some gold out of it, too, and I saw first-hand how the garnets and the gold both pan in a similar way. Thanks for your advice!
Wishing you a wall of gold with your prospecting. Bought some Opal from your website and could not be happier.
Thanx for all Dan. Work and publish at your own rate. Be well.
HI Dan and Reg
There is hydraulic mining site here in oregon that is set up as an informational hike that we take our dogs for a walk on. Has several locations marked and informing you of what your looking at.
Love to watch your content. Interesting and educational
Good luck next season
that Devils-Club looks a like a good friend in a school fight....just to even things up. top show Dan.
I made a plywood strip for my highbanker to sit on and it channels the water and gravel away and not tip my gear over. I've tired a few highbankers over 😊
Love this series 🍻👍🏻
Watched you for quite a while now. Good to see your channel grow
I enjoyed the video Dan, the water flow into the high banker seems excessive and might flush the gold straight through. I am by no means an expert, just a novice observation.
I was thinking the same thing
THANKS Dan...another totally awesome video..like ALL the rest. Enjoy your future ahead.. Thanks
450 likes at the end of the premiere!!! Almost got that 500!!!
I like seeing the real life results and not some TV version with gold hype and people drama. By the way, from a personality standpoint, you and Adam Savage from Mythbusters are brothers from another mother.
Tyler really seems to know his stuff!
2:55 That old tailings pit/mound could have some interesting archaeology in it, if you wanted to try and be careful with the excavation of it...
Fun to watch the exploration process. Question....why not put a tarp at the end of the high banker? No more erosion.
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so is Tyler lol have you seen his chanel
@ no but your username is awesome. Dude where’s my car is a classic!
Moss and expanded metal. You know the drill
Great video Dan but don't get discouraged. You've hardly scratched the surface. You have lots of digging to do before you get discouraged.😁
Dan buddy, I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers devil club from over 30 years ago… lol
10:37 You can almost hear the gold, rolling under the edge of the bucket!!
Nice Meeting Dan at the 22nd street 2025 Gem Show !!!
Danny, as always I pray you hit a gold rich location. keep up tryin buddy it's out there. I used to see a couple of guys doing geology type work on here but haven't seen their channel in over a year, he once panned some of that blue clay and I was impressed by how much gold came out of it. I think they were on vancouver island but not 100% sure they were somewhere near you though.
Once you find the pay streak with all your testing then you can fallow that whole paystreak. The only down side to recirculating your highbanker is the muddy water can pick up that super fine gold and wash it out. But im from Colorado and all we deal with is 200 minus mesh gold.
The logs from the old underground log jam may have value as well.
Good luck. Fingers crossed
I'm still waiting to learn more about your outro song. But absolutely can't wait for next season to see you hit big! In the meantime, agates?
I remember hiking in Wells Grey. The Devils Club is nasty there.
There are more miners with the same thoughts Dan and Tyler. Good luck this season.
Tyler teaching :) good man Tyler!!!
Interessante!
Um belo aprendizado para mim.
If the gold is so fine. What about a gold cube with a small trommel
definitely need Tylers test tromel in there
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Dan we love you please slow down but don't stop making videos!
Enjoying.
Can you use a dryland dredge in BC? I'd think you could since your controlling the water and you can still have the highbanker high enough where your run off isn't going back into the river?
You did a couple of episodes, along with Dana, where y'all found gold in the tailings from a copper mine, I think!? 🤔
I'd love to do a few days on that with a sluice, and get some of what y'all got for the short time you were there, but probably hard as hell to get permission to access the sites!
Maybe test the tailings to see if the sleuce is working.
I'm glad we didn't have Devil's club in Texas when I was a kid. We'd have been swordfighting with THAT instead of baby mesquite branches. (For those that don't know, baby mesquite trees tend to grow out along the ground at first, and they have HUGE spikes all over them that can punch through a shoe and into your foot. Us Gen X kids were tough/stupid/insane/unsupervised psychopaths)
Also, I'm liking these episodes... They're like those gold mining reality shows, but without the stupid drama.
Regulations on top of regulations
hey dan, great video as usual. i have a suggestion though, for the outside footage that uses stereo camera audio, you should set the audio to be mono. as a headphone user there are a lot of moments where there is an unevenness between the ears. for example, you may be explaining something, but the audio comes into one ear louder than the other, distracting from what you are saying. just a small detail that would help viewer qol
GM
15:30 ... A piece of Plywood under the waterfall would have helped! .. but dragging ply wood into the forest is not fun :)
Rabbit Creek had Devil's Club.
Maybe it's a lucky sign.
Good luck. !
Roger Clapham.
Man I love high banking
if you get to the point of big mine operations, how concerned are you about the clay and gold sticking it it? Will it break up in the wash plant you guys would want to run or is there something special you have to do to account for the clay?
Love you video
Does not the water sloshing around in the excavator bucket was some gold off the dirt before you get it to the high banker? Just wonderin’
Devils club is a powerful medicine. The first nation stories are worth the time to understand
That devil's club could potentially make great jewelry.
The dirt roads in Canada look a lot smoother than the paved ones in California. We pay the most for gas taxes to fix the roads here but the roads never get fixed and the money always seems to disappear. Not saying there's corruption but the evidence sure leans that direction.
it always blow me away how quickly stuff washes off the top level of the high banker and yet the gold still drops down reliably - seems to me there is not enough time for it to wash out of the mud and rocks - but I am Jon Snow ie I know Nothing :)
Did you try using some of the Devil's Club for pain relief after getting stung by the Devil's Club? 🙃
Jarvy riffle might help you but also the gold hog system does not work in my area at all honesty I'm far happier with expanded mental and astro turf
As nasty as devils club is, just about every part of the plant is quite medicinal!
lots of heavies in that ground.
I think yourr gold collection will be a lot more with a trammel than a high banker, just too many larger rocks for a high banker to me. Plus you can run a lot more material by a large degree.
Hey Dan! What are the chances that you would let me come volunteer at this site. I've got some vacation time and nothing good to do with it.......
Something tells me that helmet on top.of the hat is not up to OH&S standard 😂😂😂
14:24 Long hose not needed: It might seem like a good idea to have Four 25' hoses .... instead of one LONG 100 footer?? ...
BUT100 feet of one and a half inch hose is about $60 (Canadian) . with fittings on each end? $120 !!
So one-100 foot hose is $120 .. four-25 hoses (if you cut them up and attached all 8 fittings your self) would be $300 !! Just not worth the money and extra time ..
PLUS every time a hose gets a leak? It's at the fittings so you increase the chance of leaks 400% :) .. plus? ... EVERYTIME you try to use a 25' hose?? .... You need 30 feet of it! :)
The Old Time Miners it appears didn't leave much left behind for the modern day prospectors, did they.?
Do you have to do anything special to sluice with that much clay?
Just break up the clay really well if you don't have a claw I usually break it down in a bucket of warm water at home
Dan I bought a Dream Mat! $40 out the door.
I reckon all the gold is in Dan's beard.
The Gold is 5 feet to the right.
One glance at that gold hog and i could tell you were running too much water. That pump woulda ran 5 of those sluices
Honestly you should check whether you're allowed to do something with wood on this property. Like those trees that you removed to make a road are just gonna rot there. Somebody definitely would value them.
Would say you are pushing that high banker far FAR two hard it's not a commercial tool dan
The water drop on the lense looks like you are censoring something, lol!
Would you two be better of with an old backhoe rather then the much larger machine
There's Def Gold in that ground.
When is he releasing the song?Because it's really catchy and it's really good
Oho Devil's Club is the worst!
Does anyone know the name of the song at the end of the video?
Is Dan a GIANT?
Clever to check your tailings.... smarter than your average bear
I would think any gold in the excavator bucket would sink to the bottom with very little vibration . It appears you only tested the top half of each bucket .
Exactly what I was thinking too, I say take your sample off the bottom of the bucket. Use the bucket as a huge classifier