my husband are out in the back 40 of the state of Nevada we waited 63 years to be here and we saw your video and you are well we hung on your every word thank you
Chris, you are so well spoken , and know your subject. You are a treasure to the prospecting community. With that said, I`m off to go run the triple threat. A drywasher plant with 3 151 trays !
Best of luck to you, I am sure it will be a successful venture. Take still pictures, you ne4ver know when you might want to do an article for the ICMJ.....
Great information Chris. Thanks for sharing with us. I've done a little exploring in norther Nevada. Looking forward to spending more time looking for gold in Nevada.
I so appreciate true educational videos like you provide. Thanks much! I am beginning to plan my NV detecting adventure with my Gold Monster 1000, after prospecting most of the North CA Sierra River systems for placer on the rivers with sluices and pans for decades. Time to up my game with some frustrating, Nevada summer days, to bring home a lil chunky Gold! Thanks for the info!
Thanks, Chris for the information. I've just ordered your "Fist Full of Gold" and "Gold Prospecting & Placer Deposits: Finding Gold Made Simpler" books. Can't wait to get your books and start learning what's around me, here in Nevada.
awesome info !! I was raised in Overton, Nevada (Clark County) and back in the early 70s around The Valley of Fire on the desert , we used to find like lots of wierd looking rocks , specially along the MUDDY RIVER (which ran alongside my dad's farm and Wayne Newton's Arabian horse farm which I used to work as a kid)and Rogers Springs (an old fish hatchery natural pond now full of tropical fish) , we farmed back in the day up there so we were constantly out on the desert along man made water reservoirs and used to find lots of wierd looking rocks, but back then we were kids and had no idea if any of them rocks had gold in them .. .
my mom used to take us to Rogers Springs and Bonnie Springs I don't know where they are I guess I could Google it but here and you mention those brought back some nostalgic memories.
@@DR_SOLOpeople who have been to Vegas have no idea about these wonderful gorgeous places out in the middle of nowhere , I have family who go to Vegas or have been to Vegas dozens of times and they have no idea about these wonderful natural treasures , Rogers Springs now has a warning sign ☢️ about something wrong about the water ... heck back in the days we swam there almost everyday and all day long , remember riding our 3wheelers all the way to Rogers Springs thru the 🏜️ desert and valley of Fire from LOGANDALE after work at Wayne's horse farm for a swim .... man or just take a dive and just float on the MUDDY RIVER all the way to Overton to go pig out at The Pirates Den (🍔🍟🍦🍧🍿)!!I miss those days ... 😢 ... I've googled map the old farm and now there's 100s of houses where our old farm used to be ,which was alongside the muddy river about quarter mile from Wayne Newtons farm which the muddy river also runs along his old farm (heard he sold it,I went to BYU in 88 and never went back, 1 of my childhood friends drowned in a reservoir while duck hunting, and cause of that I never went back .... 😢 ... big hello from Mexico and hopefully 1 of these days I'll get to go back for a walk around them towns which I love and miss and meen lots in my heart !! ✌🏻😚💨💚✌🏻
@@robertrodz5115 well man glad to hopefully Stirrup some good memories and not too many bad memories but I think there's been enough time that passed that you can probably go say hi to your friend or give yourself a chance to mourn and grieve a little it's a process that we all should learn how to go through and be caught but it's something that as a skill we must all learn on her own I guess but much love from Nevada to Mexico
Chris, sooooooo glad to discover you and your videos , website, book ect. I plan to get the book. Yours and Jeff Williams'. A friend and I are very much newbee, amateur prospectors. We have over the last 7+ years explored a half a dozen areas in Nv, using a metal detector, without any success. Zilch. Lake Mead, Gold Butte, Tulie Canyon, Johnnies, a couple of miles north, west of Goodsprings. Total bust. We are clueless to the mineral deposit we should look for, be aware of. Also , I'm speculating, perhaps, in yhe Tuli Canyon, the gold was 3 feet below the surface, beliw the range of our detector. And knowing the location of the source in all of these revions would be helpful. We were hindered by not having a 4 x 4 vehicle..Now we have. So Im hoping, optomistic we have better luck going forward. Thank you for your time. BEST
If you are going to look for placer gold, you need to look where placer gold has been found. some parts of lake meadhas gold, but a whole lot has no gold and almost all is illegal to detect. Gold Butte is a hard rock area, Nuggets have been found at Johnnie, but the area is well claimed. Goodsprings is a hard rock base metal area, no placer gold. Download the Gold placer of Nevada book by Maureen Johnson and read it.
The book got to my door last night and I feel like I know more already within the first few pages. I only recently rekindled my childhood love of digging stuff up from my backyard. I used to think I had a shot at treasure then. Now I feel after a year of poking around in the desert I am close to making my first find. Cant wait until the book is littered with post it notes and highlighter markings of all the most applicable stuff for my area and tools. Wish me yellow!!
Outstanding video. Thank you for the time and effort that it took to produce said video. Excellent narrating and visuals. I look forward to viewing your additional informative, entertaining and highly educational presentations.
Hi Chris! I bought your book recently, and I'm having trouble putting it down...lol!! What an excellent book for the novice prospector (like me), as it covers all the topics of how to!! I highly recommend your book to anyone who has an interest in prospecting!! Thanks for taking your valuable time to help others learn the in's and out's of prospecting!!
Losing my job December 6th due to it leaving to start production in Mexico. I'm being given a generous severance check and will be taking some time off of work to enjoy life for a bit. I plan on getting out west for a couple weeks with my metal detector to play around and see of I can't find some nuggets. Glad I found your channel as Nevada was on the top of my list to spend some time detecting!
Best of luck to you in your efforts, but it does take time to learn. Just dont expect as a newbie to go out there and find thousands and thousands of dollars.
@@ChrisRalph oh absolutely! I'm not expecting much at all other than to just get out and enjoy life for a bit before starting the next chapter! I mean, if I can find a tiny picker, that would make everything worth it in my eyes but as I'm a beginner, I'm not holding myself to any high expectations. Just looking forward to getting out, having fun, and enjoying my love of detecting and seeing a part of the country I've never seen before. If I can walk away with any gold at all would just be icing on the cake!
Your videos are excellent! Thank you for posting! Is there any chance you could do a video showing how to go about researching claims so you know you're not metal detecting on an active claim?
Thank you for all your information. Is there any use for rocks found with copper (not sure if I could grind this up) use in pottery glazes etc.? Where would you start learning about what is in this or that rock? We found an awfully heavy small rock with Iron, black rock, riddled with quartz, small crystals and possible pyrite etc. I know they are thinking about using pyrite in solar panel use. Also had no idea that it has or is arsenic? How do we identify what is really in this rock and handling it properly? Any information would be great. It’s hard to find info on unpolished rocks out there. Thanks Jul G
Thanks for sharing this wealth of information on Nevada placers. Fairly lean pickens down here in So NV, as the map indicates. Most of us head to AZ, where there's plenty to prospect. One of these days I would love to explore Northern NV. Best of luck to you Chris !
Chris I live in Miss. Thinking about going to Nevada to prospect for gold. Using a metal detector could you please tell me the best public land to prospect. Thanks Larry
thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience! I am in Texas ...so not much gold around. My father has a "bucket list" desire to find gold. He need not find lots of gold but I would love to take him somewhere that he is highly likely to find at least a few very small flakes so he can say he actually "found some gold". This is 100% about the experience rather than making money. Any suggestions? One caveat....I would prefer it be a natural setting rather than something like a gold mine that lets you pan as a tourist attraction in a crowded area.
The Llano river in Texas contains fine gold and people pan for gold there all the time. The gold is really small and you wont get rich, but good chance you will find gold and in your home state. Search Llano river gold on Google for more info.
I learned a ton from your show, lots knowledge on , I will purchase your books , I always wanted to at least fine a couple of nuggets before I go meet with the Lord , and Nevada is not just the richest gold producer in the states, but, according to information I got, Nevada has the largest gold deposits in the world .
Nevada has some good nugget locations,l but the big bulk of gold produced in Nevada comes from deposits with tiny, tiny gold particles that cannot be seen with a metal detector or even recovered with a gold pan.
Chris, I recently learned from a lecture from CWU, (Nick Z) that there is evidence of northern Nevada being over the hot spot that Yellowstone sits on now. It would explain the refractory in the high sulfidation zone and the big Gold being on the low sulfidation zone on the other side of the fault. Will Yellowstone produce this kind of Gold deposition one day ?
This idea of Nevada over the Yellowstone hot spot is not universally accepted, but is thought by some geologists. Will Yellowstone have gold maybe half a mile or a mile below the surface?, perhaps. Check out my video on Yellowstone and gold deposits.
@@ChrisRalph I did, and I'm a believer in Basalt flooding happening in stages. There is Basalt in Yellowstone older, like from an initial phase and opening. Then we have main phase emptying the caldera until collapse, (however long) , and a now closing phase of cooling over a long time with water that can't get out of the caldera and an goes through the down and up system of hydro-thermals. There's a basalt footprint from SW in Wyoming. I look at all Nevada from the sky and Southern Nevada looks like natural rift or trust faults merging with detachment faults under from subduction plates. they look almost like ocean waves, but not a lot in the Northern part of Nevada. The pattern disappears in the North. I watch all your videos.
When you look from the sky, half way from Yellowstone to Quin river crossing Nevada, you see Craters of The Moon National,...in what looks like a scar.
Currently living in Ontario, Canada but I'm making a trip up to Vegas this November. Hopefully I can find a few speck's of US Gold to take home with me and I'm sure this video will help !
@@ChrisRalph This partial sentence was accidently sent while the post was being written. Thank you for erasing the two long post that fallowed explaining the book The Art of Dowsing - Separating Science from Superstition, which adds a valuable prospecting tool to all of your videos. It has PROVEN PHYSICS for teaching the world how to dowse with the modern light weight ball bearing dowsing rod, which is the only dowsing rod that can decipher and gauge what is dowsed by pitting the power of gravity against the power of the elemental magnetic flux lines being dowsed. I could care less about you saying DOWSING DOES NOT WORK, what I care about is you standing on a shoe box misleading the general public about your ignorance to the physics that makes dowsing possible is the same physics used for electronic metal detecting. Within a couple of years the whole world will know how to dowse. Too bad the want-to-be comedian James Randi is dead because his million dollar bounty, (withdrawn in 2016 before I heard about it), on proving the physics involved in dowsing would have gone a long way in America's food banks.
Just show me the tons of gold you have found and if real, I will believe. Most folks who claim it works have never done it, they just believe someone has, somewhere, somehow. I only ask for proof. I dont believe unverified claims, theories, sales baloney, etc. I want to see actual gold and treasure in hand, because if someone actually could successfully dowse, they'd be a multi-billionaire. So far, I've heard loads of hot air and BS, with no proof.
Check out my videos on claim staking. If you do not have the skills to fully evaluate a claim for yourself and determine if it is rich or not, do not buy one on the basis of how great the claim owner says that it is. I know of many, many folks who are new to prospecting that have been extremely disappointed.
I am in Central Nevada. I actually work at Round Mountain gold in the assay department. I do want to find an area locally to hobby mine. Just curious if white’s GMT and TDI are viable detectors still?
You know that White's has been out of business for several years, right? It can be difficult to get repairs if something fails. I'd recommend another brand that is still in business.
Chris have you ever been up around Pahrump,Temple Bar, or Nelson? Would these be an okay place to get boots on the ground and prospect. Of course always always always checking land status first. I've recently moved to Henderson Nevada and I'm looking for a place if I can find one to file a claim for my hobby.
Temple bar is in the Lake Mead recreational area and prospecting there is a crime. Nelson is mostly a hard rock area. Most Vegas area residents prospect around Johnnie (near to Pahrump) or NW Arizona. Watch my videos on placer gold in Nevada and the similar one on placer gold in Arizona. Do a Google search to download the books I mention in both videos. And join the Vegas chapter of the GPAA.
I had a metal detector enthusiast and I told that I look for gold specimen's on ebay. This day was however a little different. This guy was selling a lot, not big not small that had chevron gold nuggets (real keepers.) And ask my buddy if he would like to spilt the sale. No answer so I turned to him where his lower jaw was hanging wide open. When he regained composure he stated he had never seen a piece a gold like this. By the way, these lots are across the way of the famous Gold Mine in Northern Nevada.
I have learned a lot on your videos but I want to know why the Placer district in Lamoille canyon Nevada isn't listed. I'm a host for camp and picnic grounds and have found nuggets and lots of gold while panning.
Hey, how you doing?I got a que out in the johnnie mine district What do you know about Lithium ore I've seen some unusual events out here. I know if it gets wet, it produces hydrogen. I've seen it burn coming out of the ground. It's got a very distinct pop. I got a few neighbors now. I have a few neighbors now Moving dirt around we get curious
I did a video on lithium ores - they don't burn out of the ground, only after the lithium is made into batteries. See: th-cam.com/video/BKx9MJhX0_s/w-d-xo.html
If your looking for topics I would be curious about geologically anomalous deposits. Just weird, rare or unexpected deposits of any metal or specific mineral/gem. Washington and Oregon video would be cool too.
Should do a video on how to find and get the old reports, I say this because everyone always says rind the mines reports and I can never find anything I bought a bunch of books hours of internet research talked with mines and it's always a background conversation of find the old reports and see what type of gold and sizes they were getting but I can't seem to find this one elusive thing I always hear about 😢
Not all reports will have all the exact information you would wish for. The books I recommend ,like gold placers of Nevada by Maureen Johnson have a bibliography. you can look up those books for further information.
First thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us I am from Dominican Republic and theirs not much information on how to find gold and now watching your videos I want to star the search of gold. Do you have any knowledge of the Dominican Republic having gold and thank you.
Hi you said you answer our comments and questions. So I literally just spent $160 on prospecting equipment. 2 large metal detectors, 1 hand held spotter, a shovel and hand held pick are. So I never done this before, but am very serious about doing prospecting. I heard that there are a lot of abandoned gold mines in Pahrump. For someone like me, a total rookie, where would be a good place for me to start mining for nuggets?
Just because there are old mines, it does not mean they are abandoned. Most of what looks old is under a current, legal mining claim. The GPAA chapter in Las Vegas and perhaps some others have claims near Pahrump in the Johnnnie district. These claims do have gold that you could recover. Going on an outing with experienced club members will help a total rookie like you learn the ropes of finding gold. You can find them with Google or you can also find them on Facebook at: facebook.com/Lvchaptergpaa/ Not really sure what metal detectors you have, but not every super cheap Chinese metal detector made to find coins is suitable to find gold. Again, you can learn a lot from the club members. Talk to Deanna, who is the president. So yes, I answered your question, it may not be what you wanted to hear, but its what you need to hear.
@@ChrisRalph ok. Thank you. As far as my detectors, I brought silver with me and tested them and it did pick up the silver. The one detector said in its manual that it does pick up gold.
Thinking about going to Elko area metal detecting for gold.. can I just drive out into the desert and if it looks empty detect? Blm ok? Any idea about legal issues in that area? Where can I not go and what should I be aware of? Thx for any replies or advice, really enjoyed the video
Did you watch the video? did it say just anywhere in the desert has good gold? No, you can’t just prospect anywhere - there are other people's mining claims and other lands not open. Join a prospecting club - there are many and you will learn more and they will have claims you can work for gold.
Chris I like your videos Could you give a lecture on great basin paleo gold Nobody seems to know anything about it nor does anyone talk about it I think it's the last big deposits of placier gold left unmined Nevada This is the type of deposit that I'm currently mining. It's taken me over 20 years to figure it out.
@@ChrisRalph OK forget the word paleo how about the Reconcentration of secondary gold bering alluvial gravel during the catastrophic floods that drained lake Bonneville
Except that the Bonneville flood drained into Idaho and Eastern Washington, not much at all into Nevada. No doubt some gravels were concentrated in Idaho and Washington, but most of that has been subject to ongoing erosion since and much that was formed is gone.
Hello I am born and raised here in Las Vegas Nevada and I've been into finding rocks and minerals lately since bought my metal detector. Honestly I know nothing of, but I've been just watching your channel and it's helping a lot but I want to say, I came across a lot of interesting stones in my yard, that has a lot of sea shells and rocks that a prior owner had put across. Its all sand, and goes on it and I did find two rocks full of silver next to green rocks. How can i get it checked
Hey Chris great video I am heading to Nevada soon to do some prospecting around sawtooth mountain area do you have any information on that area where to Hunt You’re welcome to show up the 4 through 11 June 👍🇺🇸
You didnt mention Jeff Williams and slim. (Ask ,jeff williams, on Y.T.) They wrote a book on how ho find gold,! He all but drags you out and puts the tools in your hand! Then point you in yhe right direction! He had dropped your name before in a video, mentioned your book and how to get it! He is the most ambitious and knowledgeable of the area of anyone i know of, he lives for these Old gold mines , and geology and finding the SHINY!
You've not watched all my videos. I have mentioned Jeff in other videos. This video is about WHERE to find gold in Nevada and Jeff, while he's a good guy, is not a place to go find gold. And he almost never uses Slim anymore.
ordered a carbon fiber shaft for my gold monster collapse the shaft. walk were i need to be detach it from my pack. start swinging (you how you walk down a wash and slip a bit). both hands free. be out to morrow. by hinkley ca. have a good day.
If you are going to look for placer gold, you need to look where placer gold has been found. some parts of lake meadhas gold, but a whole lot has no gold and almost all is illegal to detect. Gold Butte is a hard rock area, Nuggets have been found at Johnnie, but the area is well claimed. Goodsprings is a hard rock base metal area, no placer gold. Download the Gold placer of Nevada book by Maureen Johnson and read it.
Nevada has more turquoise deposits than all the rest of the USA put together. Our black opal deposits have beautiful stuff, but its unstable for jewelry use.
And here I thought that gold panning was a recreational activity. I can see why not allowing gold claims. But the government shouldn't stop panning. To me the government takes things too far. And the gold doesn't do anyone any good unless it found. And I doubt anyone would get rich.
are you saying we produce 156 tons of gold a year on average in Nevada? as remarkable that sounds it's a real eye-opener when you do the consensus report on gold reserves by country. USA being the leader and top most holder of gold at 8,300 + tons give or take. Which in today's market roughly equates to less than a half of billion dollars.🤔🤨😬🙄😞
more around 200 to 250 tons of gold per year. There are a lot of big gold mines in Nevada. That said, most of the gold is microscopic and recovered by cyanide leaching.
@@ChrisRalph I used to do some side work with this guy named Kevin his wife named Thelma. Kevin passed away a few years quite a few years back. he used to buy storage units one day he bought a storage unit that was full of mine maps. the kind of maps that you needed two hands to open the drawer and the drawer expanded beyond your two hand grip the paper maps were about 5 ft long and 4 ft wide and there was a rock specimen in the unit as well. the previous owner used that specimen to Swindle people into investing into the gold mine. I say Swindle because that rock specimen contained 8% gold 92% pyrite. especially in Rock was about as big as a basketball and cut in half exposing the minute amount of the gold,
my husband are out in the back 40 of the state of Nevada we waited 63 years to be here and we saw your video and you are well we hung on your every word thank you
That is very kind of you to say!
Chris, you are so well spoken , and know your subject. You are a treasure to the prospecting community. With that said, I`m off to go run the triple threat. A drywasher plant with 3 151 trays !
Best of luck to you, I am sure it will be a successful venture. Take still pictures, you ne4ver know when you might want to do an article for the ICMJ.....
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Great information Chris Now I want to come over the hill and find some Gold !!!!!!!
Yes, lets do that.
@@ChrisRalph I’ll text you
It's like having a free college course on prospecting! Thanks Chris!
Glad you enjoy the videos.
Great information Chris. Thanks for sharing with us. I've done a little exploring in norther Nevada. Looking forward to spending more time looking for gold in Nevada.
Have fun!
Thanks, Chris. I always like to learn what I can about prospecting and enjoy your videos. Thanks for doing them!
My pleasure!
I so appreciate true educational videos like you provide. Thanks much! I am beginning to plan my NV detecting adventure with my Gold Monster 1000, after prospecting most of the North CA Sierra River systems for placer on the rivers with sluices and pans for decades. Time to up my game with some frustrating, Nevada summer days, to bring home a lil chunky Gold! Thanks for the info!
Sounds great. I have found plenty of chunky nugget gold with my detector in the northern California.
Thanks, Chris for the information. I've just ordered your "Fist Full of Gold" and "Gold Prospecting & Placer Deposits: Finding Gold Made Simpler" books. Can't wait to get your books and start learning what's around me, here in Nevada.
The book, Fists Full of Gold is my book. The other one is not.
awesome info !! I was raised in Overton, Nevada (Clark County) and back in the early 70s around The Valley of Fire on the desert , we used to find like lots of wierd looking rocks , specially along the MUDDY RIVER (which ran alongside my dad's farm and Wayne Newton's Arabian horse farm which I used to work as a kid)and Rogers Springs (an old fish hatchery natural pond now full of tropical fish) , we farmed back in the day up there so we were constantly out on the desert along man made water reservoirs and used to find lots of wierd looking rocks, but back then we were kids and had no idea if any of them rocks had gold in them .. .
Lots of weird looking rocks out there.
my mom used to take us to Rogers Springs and Bonnie Springs I don't know where they are I guess I could Google it but here and you mention those brought back some nostalgic memories.
@@DR_SOLOpeople who have been to Vegas have no idea about these wonderful gorgeous places out in the middle of nowhere , I have family who go to Vegas or have been to Vegas dozens of times and they have no idea about these wonderful natural treasures , Rogers Springs now has a warning sign ☢️ about something wrong about the water ... heck back in the days we swam there almost everyday and all day long , remember riding our 3wheelers all the way to Rogers Springs thru the 🏜️ desert and valley of Fire from LOGANDALE after work at Wayne's horse farm for a swim .... man or just take a dive and just float on the MUDDY RIVER all the way to Overton to go pig out at The Pirates Den (🍔🍟🍦🍧🍿)!!I miss those days ... 😢 ... I've googled map the old farm and now there's 100s of houses where our old farm used to be ,which was alongside the muddy river about quarter mile from Wayne Newtons farm which the muddy river also runs along his old farm (heard he sold it,I went to BYU in 88 and never went back, 1 of my childhood friends drowned in a reservoir while duck hunting, and cause of that I never went back .... 😢 ... big hello from Mexico and hopefully 1 of these days I'll get to go back for a walk around them towns which I love and miss and meen lots in my heart !! ✌🏻😚💨💚✌🏻
@@DR_SOLO Rogers spring will always be there near lake Mead on the loop road. Bonnie springs the last I heard was sold. I used to love both places
@@robertrodz5115 well man glad to hopefully Stirrup some good memories and not too many bad memories but I think there's been enough time that passed that you can probably go say hi to your friend or give yourself a chance to mourn and grieve a little it's a process that we all should learn how to go through and be caught but it's something that as a skill we must all learn on her own I guess but much love from Nevada to Mexico
Chris,
sooooooo glad to discover you and your videos , website, book ect. I plan to get the book. Yours and Jeff Williams'.
A friend and I are very much newbee, amateur prospectors. We have over the last 7+ years explored a half a dozen areas in Nv, using a metal detector, without any success. Zilch. Lake Mead, Gold Butte, Tulie Canyon, Johnnies, a couple of miles north, west of Goodsprings. Total bust.
We are clueless to the mineral deposit we should look for, be aware of. Also , I'm speculating, perhaps, in yhe Tuli Canyon, the gold was 3 feet below the surface, beliw the range of our detector. And knowing the location of the source in all of these revions would be helpful.
We were hindered by not having a 4 x 4 vehicle..Now we have.
So Im hoping, optomistic we have better luck going forward.
Thank you for your time.
BEST
If you are going to look for placer gold, you need to look where placer gold has been found. some parts of lake meadhas gold, but a whole lot has no gold and almost all is illegal to detect. Gold Butte is a hard rock area, Nuggets have been found at Johnnie, but the area is well claimed. Goodsprings is a hard rock base metal area, no placer gold. Download the Gold placer of Nevada book by Maureen Johnson and read it.
The book got to my door last night and I feel like I know more already within the first few pages. I only recently rekindled my childhood love of digging stuff up from my backyard. I used to think I had a shot at treasure then. Now I feel after a year of poking around in the desert I am close to making my first find. Cant wait until the book is littered with post it notes and highlighter markings of all the most applicable stuff for my area and tools. Wish me yellow!!
Best of luck to you in your prospecting efforts. Its out there to be found.
Outstanding video. Thank you for the time and effort that it took to produce said video. Excellent narrating and visuals. I look forward to viewing your additional informative, entertaining and highly educational presentations.
Thank you very much! I've got more than 150 videos, so please enjoy.
Hi Chris! I bought your book recently, and I'm having trouble putting it down...lol!! What an excellent book for the novice prospector (like me), as it covers all the topics of how to!! I highly recommend your book to anyone who has an interest in prospecting!! Thanks for taking your valuable time to help others learn the in's and out's of prospecting!!
Awesome, thank you for the kind words!
Chris how about the Kumiva Peak Area just south of Black Rock Desert. Thanks.
Not sure of what you are asking - How about it?
Thank Chris. I like the newer banners on your videos. 👍🏻
Glad you like them!
Losing my job December 6th due to it leaving to start production in Mexico. I'm being given a generous severance check and will be taking some time off of work to enjoy life for a bit. I plan on getting out west for a couple weeks with my metal detector to play around and see of I can't find some nuggets. Glad I found your channel as Nevada was on the top of my list to spend some time detecting!
Best of luck to you in your efforts, but it does take time to learn. Just dont expect as a newbie to go out there and find thousands and thousands of dollars.
@@ChrisRalph oh absolutely! I'm not expecting much at all other than to just get out and enjoy life for a bit before starting the next chapter! I mean, if I can find a tiny picker, that would make everything worth it in my eyes but as I'm a beginner, I'm not holding myself to any high expectations. Just looking forward to getting out, having fun, and enjoying my love of detecting and seeing a part of the country I've never seen before. If I can walk away with any gold at all would just be icing on the cake!
Your videos are excellent! Thank you for posting! Is there any chance you could do a video showing how to go about researching claims so you know you're not metal detecting on an active claim?
Look through my old videos, I have done two of them on claim staking.
Thank you for all your information.
Is there any use for rocks found with copper (not sure if I could grind this up) use in pottery glazes etc.? Where would you start learning about what is in this or that rock? We found an awfully heavy small rock with Iron, black rock, riddled with quartz, small crystals and possible pyrite etc. I know they are thinking about using pyrite in solar panel use. Also had no idea that it has or is arsenic?
How do we identify what is really in this rock and handling it properly?
Any information would be great. It’s hard to find info on unpolished rocks out there.
Thanks Jul G
Take a look at my videos on how to identify minerals.
Sounds like a great place to prospect Chris, similar climate to the Western Australian goldfields.
Nevada is dry like WA, but much farther north and colder in winter. I spent 6 weeks prospecting north of Que in WA some years ago.
Virginia City was an awesome place to go, I visited when I was out in California on a prospectin adventure. 👍🇺🇸
Lots of gold and silver came from Virginia City.
Thanks for sharing this wealth of information on Nevada placers. Fairly lean pickens down here in So NV, as the map indicates. Most of us head to AZ, where there's plenty to prospect. One of these days I would love to explore Northern NV. Best of luck to you Chris !
Yes, most of the Nevada placers are in the north. Between Nevada and California, there is a lot up this way.
Will bring the Gold Rattler wash plant and hit some of the dry placers there. 👍🤠⚒⛏
Great information, i've found some of the pale colored gold on NE Peavine.
Very cool! Lots of trash over there however.
Chris
I live in Miss. Thinking about going to Nevada to prospect for gold. Using a metal detector could you please tell me the best public land to prospect.
Thanks Larry
The area north and northwest of Rye Patch Reservoir.
I'm living up in lamoille nv from NC and just bought a couple pans to give it a shot
Best of luck to you.
Awesome Chris
Glad you enjoyed it
@@ChrisRalph you are the best Chris
thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience! I am in Texas ...so not much gold around. My father has a "bucket list" desire to find gold. He need not find lots of gold but I would love to take him somewhere that he is highly likely to find at least a few very small flakes so he can say he actually "found some gold". This is 100% about the experience rather than making money. Any suggestions? One caveat....I would prefer it be a natural setting rather than something like a gold mine that lets you pan as a tourist attraction in a crowded area.
The Llano river in Texas contains fine gold and people pan for gold there all the time. The gold is really small and you wont get rich, but good chance you will find gold and in your home state. Search Llano river gold on Google for more info.
@@ChrisRalph thanks so much! When you say "fine gold" is that 1/30th or finer accumulator?
Do the research and you will find the info you need to know.
I learned a ton from your show, lots knowledge on , I will purchase your books , I always wanted to at least fine a couple of nuggets before I go meet with the Lord , and Nevada is not just the richest gold producer in the states, but, according to information I got, Nevada has the largest gold deposits in the world .
Nevada has some good nugget locations,l but the big bulk of gold produced in Nevada comes from deposits with tiny, tiny gold particles that cannot be seen with a metal detector or even recovered with a gold pan.
Chris, I recently learned from a lecture from CWU, (Nick Z) that there is evidence of northern Nevada being over the hot spot that Yellowstone sits on now. It would explain the refractory in the high sulfidation zone and the big Gold being on the low sulfidation zone on the other side of the fault.
Will Yellowstone produce this kind of Gold deposition one day ?
This idea of Nevada over the Yellowstone hot spot is not universally accepted, but is thought by some geologists. Will Yellowstone have gold maybe half a mile or a mile below the surface?, perhaps. Check out my video on Yellowstone and gold deposits.
@@ChrisRalph I did, and I'm a believer in Basalt flooding happening in stages. There is Basalt in Yellowstone older, like from an initial phase and opening. Then we have main phase emptying the caldera until collapse, (however long) , and a now closing phase of cooling over a long time with water that can't get out of the caldera and an goes through the down and up system of hydro-thermals. There's a basalt footprint from SW in Wyoming. I look at all Nevada from the sky and Southern Nevada looks like natural rift or trust faults merging with detachment faults under from subduction plates. they look almost like ocean waves, but not a lot in the Northern part of Nevada. The pattern disappears in the North.
I watch all your videos.
When you look from the sky, half way from Yellowstone to Quin river crossing Nevada, you see Craters of The Moon National,...in what looks like a scar.
So much more needs to be learned to make sense of it.
I lived in Vegas, Reno and Elko work at the mines . Never once did I go metal detecting for gold. 😓 no gold in Missouri, lots of corn.
There are traces of gold in Missouri - but not much.
Currently living in Ontario, Canada but I'm making a trip up to Vegas this November. Hopefully I can find a few speck's of US Gold to take home with me and I'm sure this video will help !
There is gold in the Ontario, Canada region. There is very little gold in the area close to Las Vegas.
@@ChrisRalph Yeah we actually have a ton of hard rock mining up here, Interesting geology in my area to say the least.
I found gold flakes in North East Nevada in a big creek some 8 years ago.
Sounds interesting.
Do you use stainless or aluminum accessories like shovels, picks....Do you have a link to a list?
Just regular steel. Aluminum is too soft, stainless is unnecessarily expensive.
Dowsing with the modern light weight ball bearing
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@@ChrisRalph This partial sentence was accidently sent while the post was being written. Thank you for erasing the two long post that fallowed explaining the book The Art of Dowsing - Separating Science from Superstition, which adds a valuable prospecting tool to all of your videos. It has PROVEN PHYSICS for teaching the world how to dowse with the modern light weight ball bearing dowsing rod, which is the only dowsing rod that can decipher and gauge what is dowsed by pitting the power of gravity against the power of the elemental magnetic flux lines being dowsed. I could care less about you saying DOWSING DOES NOT WORK, what I care about is you standing on a shoe box misleading the general public about your ignorance to the physics that makes dowsing possible is the same physics used for electronic metal detecting. Within a couple of years the whole world will know how to dowse. Too bad the want-to-be comedian James Randi is dead because his million dollar bounty, (withdrawn in 2016 before I heard about it), on proving the physics involved in dowsing would have gone a long way in America's food banks.
Just show me the tons of gold you have found and if real, I will believe. Most folks who claim it works have never done it, they just believe someone has, somewhere, somehow. I only ask for proof. I dont believe unverified claims, theories, sales baloney, etc. I want to see actual gold and treasure in hand, because if someone actually could successfully dowse, they'd be a multi-billionaire. So far, I've heard loads of hot air and BS, with no proof.
Chris,
Great video! What are your thoughts on purchasing a claim, patented or unpatented?
Check out my videos on claim staking. If you do not have the skills to fully evaluate a claim for yourself and determine if it is rich or not, do not buy one on the basis of how great the claim owner says that it is. I know of many, many folks who are new to prospecting that have been extremely disappointed.
I am in Central Nevada. I actually work at Round Mountain gold in the assay department. I do want to find an area locally to hobby mine. Just curious if white’s GMT and TDI are viable detectors still?
You know that White's has been out of business for several years, right? It can be difficult to get repairs if something fails. I'd recommend another brand that is still in business.
Yes I know, but detectors are expensive. Would like a minelab, but a little out of my price range right now.
Chris have you ever been up around Pahrump,Temple Bar, or Nelson? Would these be an okay place to get boots on the ground and prospect. Of course always always always checking land status first. I've recently moved to Henderson Nevada and I'm looking for a place if I can find one to file a claim for my hobby.
Temple bar is in the Lake Mead recreational area and prospecting there is a crime. Nelson is mostly a hard rock area. Most Vegas area residents prospect around Johnnie (near to Pahrump) or NW Arizona. Watch my videos on placer gold in Nevada and the similar one on placer gold in Arizona. Do a Google search to download the books I mention in both videos. And join the Vegas chapter of the GPAA.
@@ChrisRalph Thank you
I had a metal detector enthusiast and I told that I look for gold specimen's on ebay. This day was however a little different.
This guy was selling a lot, not big not small that had chevron gold nuggets (real keepers.) And ask my buddy if he would like to spilt the sale. No answer so I turned to him where his lower jaw was hanging wide open. When he regained composure he stated he had never seen a piece a gold like this. By the way, these lots are across the way of the famous Gold Mine in Northern Nevada.
Ok.
Will the heavy tain from Hilary bring out gold?
Likely in the southern California desert areas.
I have learned a lot on your videos but I want to know why the Placer district in Lamoille canyon Nevada isn't listed. I'm a host for camp and picnic grounds and have found nuggets and lots of gold while panning.
I am skeptical what you are finding is actually gold.
Hey, how you doing?I got a que out in the johnnie mine district What do you know about Lithium ore I've seen some unusual events out here.
I know if it gets wet, it produces hydrogen.
I've seen it burn coming out of the ground. It's got a very distinct pop. I got a few neighbors now. I have a few neighbors now Moving dirt around we get curious
I did a video on lithium ores - they don't burn out of the ground, only after the lithium is made into batteries. See: th-cam.com/video/BKx9MJhX0_s/w-d-xo.html
If your looking for topics I would be curious about geologically anomalous deposits. Just weird, rare or unexpected deposits of any metal or specific mineral/gem. Washington and Oregon video would be cool too.
I am guessing you are a resident of Washington / Oregon.
thanks for the information! you should do one on colorado!!
I'll bet you live in Colorado......
@@ChrisRalph that would be correct! great guess!
Is there a good gold spot near a lake?
Where? Someplace on earth?
Very informative. Would love to do what my Father dreamed of doing but he never got the chance ❤️
Live your life to the fullest.
Should do a video on how to find and get the old reports, I say this because everyone always says rind the mines reports and I can never find anything I bought a bunch of books hours of internet research talked with mines and it's always a background conversation of find the old reports and see what type of gold and sizes they were getting but I can't seem to find this one elusive thing I always hear about 😢
Not all reports will have all the exact information you would wish for. The books I recommend ,like gold placers of Nevada by Maureen Johnson have a bibliography. you can look up those books for further information.
First thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us I am from Dominican Republic and theirs not much information on how to find gold and now watching your videos I want to star the search of gold. Do you have any knowledge of the Dominican Republic having gold and thank you.
Sorry, I do not have any information on gold in the Dominican Republic.
Hi you said you answer our comments and questions. So I literally just spent $160 on prospecting equipment. 2 large metal detectors, 1 hand held spotter, a shovel and hand held pick are. So I never done this before, but am very serious about doing prospecting. I heard that there are a lot of abandoned gold mines in Pahrump. For someone like me, a total rookie, where would be a good place for me to start mining for nuggets?
Just because there are old mines, it does not mean they are abandoned. Most of what looks old is under a current, legal mining claim. The GPAA chapter in Las Vegas and perhaps some others have claims near Pahrump in the Johnnnie district. These claims do have gold that you could recover. Going on an outing with experienced club members will help a total rookie like you learn the ropes of finding gold. You can find them with Google or you can also find them on Facebook at: facebook.com/Lvchaptergpaa/
Not really sure what metal detectors you have, but not every super cheap Chinese metal detector made to find coins is suitable to find gold. Again, you can learn a lot from the club members. Talk to Deanna, who is the president. So yes, I answered your question, it may not be what you wanted to hear, but its what you need to hear.
@@ChrisRalph ok. Thank you. As far as my detectors, I brought silver with me and tested them and it did pick up the silver. The one detector said in its manual that it does pick up gold.
Thinking about going to Elko area metal detecting for gold.. can I just drive out into the desert and if it looks empty detect? Blm ok? Any idea about legal issues in that area? Where can I not go and what should I be aware of? Thx for any replies or advice, really enjoyed the video
Did you watch the video? did it say just anywhere in the desert has good gold?
No, you can’t just prospect anywhere - there are other people's mining claims and other lands not open. Join a prospecting club - there are many and you will learn more and they will have claims you can work for gold.
@@ChrisRalph 10/4 - was just wondering if they were marked like here in Colorado- thx :) preciate your reply
Interesting video thanks from Finland🍻
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Chris I like your videos Could you give a lecture on great basin paleo gold Nobody seems to know anything about it nor does anyone talk about it I think it's the last big deposits of placier gold left unmined Nevada This is the type of deposit that I'm currently mining. It's taken me over 20 years to figure it out.
Paleo just means of comparatively recent geologic age, and most placers likely fit into that category. Its not a special term.
@@ChrisRalph OK forget the word paleo how about the Reconcentration of secondary gold bering alluvial gravel during the catastrophic floods that drained lake Bonneville
Except that the Bonneville flood drained into Idaho and Eastern Washington, not much at all into Nevada. No doubt some gravels were concentrated in Idaho and Washington, but most of that has been subject to ongoing erosion since and much that was formed is gone.
How does Alaska fit into the order of gold production (or potential)?
Third, behind Nevada and California.
thanks !
You're welcome!
Hello I am born and raised here in Las Vegas Nevada and I've been into finding rocks and minerals lately since bought my metal detector. Honestly I know nothing of, but I've been just watching your channel and it's helping a lot but I want to say, I came across a lot of interesting stones in my yard, that has a lot of sea shells and rocks that a prior owner had put across. Its all sand, and goes on it and I did find two rocks full of silver next to green rocks. How can i get it checked
Find someone locally in Vegas, maybe join the local rock hounds club. I do not offer a picture ID service.
Hey Chris great video I am heading to Nevada soon to do some prospecting around sawtooth mountain area do you have any information on that area where to Hunt You’re welcome to show up the 4 through 11 June 👍🇺🇸
Best of luck to you with your prospecting.
I live in ny I would love to start a small dredging company,very small how do I start
Find a place with good gold. Do that first. Then you can figure what equipment you need to work that place.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
I always thought about gold prospecting in the souther part of nv you will see more of my comments thanks free ideas are a good thing
Glad you enjoyed the video.
You didnt mention Jeff Williams and slim. (Ask ,jeff williams, on Y.T.) They wrote a book on how ho find gold,! He all but drags you out and puts the tools in your hand! Then point you in yhe right direction! He had dropped your name before in a video, mentioned your book and how to get it! He is the most ambitious and knowledgeable of the area of anyone i know of, he lives for these Old gold mines , and geology and finding the SHINY!
You've not watched all my videos. I have mentioned Jeff in other videos. This video is about WHERE to find gold in Nevada and Jeff, while he's a good guy, is not a place to go find gold. And he almost never uses Slim anymore.
Hi sir i from nepal and i am intrested to search gold and i buy metal decetor also but i have no idea where to find gold please give me some sugession
Find some one who sells them in your country.
Awesome thanks For this
Glad you enjoyed it.
Wish eye lived there
There are good things to be found everywhere.
ordered a carbon fiber shaft for my gold monster collapse the shaft. walk were i need to be detach it from my pack. start swinging (you how you walk down a wash and slip a bit). both hands free. be out to morrow. by hinkley ca. have a good day.
Good luck to you.
Wow
Glad you enjoyed it.
Gregg's Hideout was a bust. Nothing there.
If you are going to look for placer gold, you need to look where placer gold has been found. some parts of lake meadhas gold, but a whole lot has no gold and almost all is illegal to detect. Gold Butte is a hard rock area, Nuggets have been found at Johnnie, but the area is well claimed. Goodsprings is a hard rock base metal area, no placer gold. Download the Gold placer of Nevada book by Maureen Johnson and read it.
Nevada should be known for its black opal....not turquoise....and plus we have variscite here anyways
Nevada has more turquoise deposits than all the rest of the USA put together. Our black opal deposits have beautiful stuff, but its unstable for jewelry use.
#PARKER
Parker who?
Lol yes the Humboldt is not much of a river at all. More of a canal
Mark Twain said if you were thirsty, you could drink it dry.
And here I thought that gold panning was a recreational activity. I can see why not allowing gold claims. But the government shouldn't stop panning. To me the government takes things too far. And the gold doesn't do anyone any good unless it found. And I doubt anyone would get rich.
The problem with panning in Nevada is not government prohibition, but a lack of water unless you haul it in.
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Glad it was helpful.
are you saying we produce 156 tons of gold a year on average in Nevada? as remarkable that sounds it's a real eye-opener when you do the consensus report on gold reserves by country. USA being the leader and top most holder of gold at 8,300 + tons give or take.
Which in today's market roughly equates to less than a half of billion dollars.🤔🤨😬🙄😞
more around 200 to 250 tons of gold per year. There are a lot of big gold mines in Nevada. That said, most of the gold is microscopic and recovered by cyanide leaching.
@@ChrisRalph I used to do some side work with this guy named Kevin his wife named Thelma. Kevin passed away a few years quite a few years back. he used to buy storage units one day he bought a storage unit that was full of mine maps. the kind of maps that you needed two hands to open the drawer and the drawer expanded beyond your two hand grip the paper maps were about 5 ft long and 4 ft wide and there was a rock specimen in the unit as well. the previous owner used that specimen to Swindle people into investing into the gold mine. I say Swindle because that rock specimen contained 8% gold 92% pyrite. especially in Rock was about as big as a basketball and cut in half exposing the minute amount of the gold,
Too bad many of these areas are getting minerally withdrawn and segregated. i.e. the Peavine District.
Its a process that is hard to stop.
All the gold in California is in a bank in the middle of Beverly Hills in somebody else's name (Larry Gatlin)
I have some of the gold from California.