What is your favorite Treasure story, and have you ever found coins before. For more vids watch this video th-cam.com/video/jmremdUg1hQ/w-d-xo.html and smash that like button ...SMASH it HARD!!!
A moment when a person is on to something,;has a feeling and someone else with better machines and help of others gets to it and leaves a gaping hole half covered. Knowing to never give up searching respectfully.⛏️💪🏽❤
My favorite treasure hunt is with my grandson, 6 at the time. He found my metal detector. “What’s this?” I showed him how it works. “Let’s hunt for pirate treasure Papaw.” I made us pirate hats out of newspaper and a hook for his hand. We went in search in my property with a home built in 42’. About 30 minutes into our hunt he was getting bored. “Ain’t no treasure here.” The detector hit on something. We dug in the hard ground and about 6” down we found a 1927 Standing Liberty quarter.
I've got a 4 year old grandson and there's nothing on this planet that beats spending time with my little man doing things like that. I can assure you that is something he will cherish forever as will you.
All I've found in my yard are bits of copper wire, and old Budweiser beer cans. The cans are the old pull tab style. The copper gets tossed in my copper scrap bucket. I do detect an area that was a neighborhood in the 1950's until the Government acquired it and bulldozed all of the houses. Most of the streets are gone, but some of the concrete slabs are still there. Every coin I find is silver, and the pennies are all wheat cents.
Can't wait, but if you do find a treasure, don't tell anybody over here in New Mexico. A guy found a big treasure and then bragged about it, and the government got involved. To this day, he is still fighting the government to remove it.
ore more lickly there where loads of miners spending there hard earnt money on drink and telling tall tales because only idiots hide loads of money in hard to reach places and never get it
Its awesome that you set up a real life treasure hunt that anyone can join in on. You are one of a kind Jeff! Thanks for all of the information that you share with us, you are a wealth of knowledge when it comes to this stuff, keep up the hard work and stay on that gold!
I was working on a ranch over 50 years ago, southwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico. There was a spot on top of one of the mesas that still had a teepee standing with a shrunken hardened buffalo hide still fastened to a couple of the poles. I was told it was one of Geronimo rendezvous spots. There was also many places along the dry arroyos that you could tell were placer claims. Loved that life, $200 a month room and board.
I miss Nevada Jack. 😂 Just put into perspective how long I've been watching your videos daily. Thanks for all the entertainment and knowledge over the many years Jeff. Excellent! *Air Guitar!* -🇺🇲
You about gave me a panic attack when you were going through that squeeze! All I could think about was getting wedged in and not being able to back out 😅
WC Jameson has been a treasure hunter and author. He wrote a book about lost mines and buried treasures in Arizona. There was a story about stolen gold that was supposed to go to the US troops. The story goes the gold was in a shallow cave somewhere up near Clearwater Creek. It was supposed to be more than 50 million in today's gold. I could not find it LOL.
I'm also a treasure hunter, and I'm always asking myself (depending on the story)"Surely they didn't haul two heavy chests, without horses, through a tight cave???"
Well if you believe the story about Oak Island they supposedly hauled chests of valuable items to the site where they buried it 100+ feet underground and built an elaborate tunnel system. So dragging chests through a small gap seems doable
I found a 1908 Chinese Silver wrapped up in the tidepools in 2012 - After months of searching, finally saw the coin on a chinese coin museum website, with a price over 100k USD, all in chinese. Went back the next day and I couldn't find the page anymore... Took the coin in twice, but the coin collectors don't even know what it is and can't verify it (since it was in the ocean so long)... Anyways, long story short, is that it is valuable, if it were in mint condition. One day I hope to find where it came from.
"Characters and Cache Planters", by Harley Bissell is loaded with leads like this... Von Mueller, recommended it, and it's finally in print, by the man in the mirror...
“We hide it behind a big rock.” In an area full of big rocks. Talk about a needle in a haystack on a planet full of haystacks. Ole Slim, “Here lies Jeff. His last words, come on let’s gold. Man it’s tight, real tight.”
They say some of Jesse James loot is still lost . And the Apache in the drangoon mountains in Arizona have hidden loot when Geronimo was driven from his home. If one were to go and explore those areas where the cowboys and famous Indians roamed in New Mexico, Arizona., Texas, Utah u may find their loot. 😊
Jeff i have sandstone here in eldorado,town of,and some of this stuff is like red black loking irony rusty looking.theres Gold found all around here would it be in the sandstone? Great video.
Mormons. I am one. Momma joined in pioche. But dad's side goes back to New York state. Montezuma's treasure. Aztec descendants guard it. Carre shinnob it's resting in that sacred mine. Coronado searched for it. 13 cities of cibola. El Dorado. Chief wakara Jeff I been on top looked at the signs. Left my gun my metal detector my knife. My flashlight my ropes. All in my bronco. It's the only reason I was allowed to leave. I'll never go back more to the story. But it's real. Mormon gold coins are 70/30 gold content. Same as Spanish gold bars. I've held in my hand gold bar with the kings 5th I told you we could talk for hours at a camp fire. Now my knees are gone. I can't go back.
wow ...now thats a story ...... I wonder if you Bronco is still there .... would love to know more about the story and where this place is ...I am all ears my brother ....
@@Askjeffwilliams I'll clarify. I drove up the headwater of a major Utah creek that never reaches an ocean. On top of that mountain is a kings treasure. My bronco was below. Next to the last of the quake aspens. This story is long. Alot of research. As far as I know. I'm the only one that got this close and lived. Only because I went up with no weapons eye witness accounts are written in church history. Of whats inside. Some call it the lost rhoads mines. It's not. They were other mines close by worked by the Spaniards. Legends get confused. But once you dot all the It's and trace it it makes sense. Plus that was 1999. Then i got sent to rebuild a Mormon temple in Illinois. I got back in 2001 was organizing horses and Winchesters to go back. And I got cancer. Colon. Surgery in Payson Utah 3 indians visited me this is scary stuff. Mormons believe 3 cousins to Aztecs called nephite s are immortal. I met them three times. I don't think I'll live long enough now. But it's guarded. They say it's not time. It's the library of Atlantis all on gold and emerald tablets. There. Plus all the 80 pound stacks of gold bars from Spanish. And piles of placer gold. Spanish were driven out in late 1600s. A indian shaman organized the revolt. In old abandoned caves still today burro skeleton with feet cut off so they can't carry gold. And a cannon used to sit in Utah state house Seville Spain 1580. Yup it disappeared after renovations were finished. Hum. They don't want people snooping around
The Chieftain mine here in Idaho is supposed to have 4 to 6 powder kegs full of 1 ounce gold coins in them. The problem is that mine was flooded intentionally in 1942.
This was fun. Reminds me of the time I was looking for the lost cement mine somewheres around mammoth lakes California. One day I was in an area running down clues and noticed how quite it was al around. Nary a bird was chirping nor any critters running around. Well I thought I saw what looked like the old nasty big foot milling around in the trees. Needless to say I did high tail outta there fast as I could. Haven't had the urge to go back there since.
I ran across a detailed story about the lost cement mine. It was in an old California newspaper from the late 1800s. It appeared in the Sunday paper's magazine section and was presented in 5 installments over 5 Sundays. The last installment told a story about a guy that had found the deposit and barely escaped with his life from a Piute attack and returned to mine it after the Long Valley Piutes had been rounded up and confined to a reservation. It was a riveting story. Someone took that story and wrote a book about it that a lot of guys took to be the definitive description of the deposit's location. Some other guy even announced that he had discovered an old pine tree stump that had scars at the base from where the guy secured his windlass to lift the ore out of the shaft. The problem is the story was fake. The author of the newspaper article stated at the end of the 4th installment that he might write a fifth installment. He said that installment would be a romance based on the facts of the story. Calling it a "romance" meant it was a fictional story. The book failed to mention this fact.
@LuckyBaldwin777 yes I had read a book about it and had a suspection of it being made up. But there were/is a lot of gold mining goings-on in that area and being that I lived and worked in that area for 25 yrs, I spent much of my free time fishing the Owen's river and looking for the mother load. I had no idea what to look for. Jeff has taught me so much more than I tried to teach myself from reading books on geology. But alas I no longer live in that area. I'm in Florida now and way to old to move back and put my newly found information presented by Jeff to go a go at it. However I have since learned that the first gold rush in America was here on the east coast in the Carolinas and Alabama. I m researching some of the data about it and the " my land matters" web site, that Jeff mentioned in one of his videos. It showes a lot of mines in this area. Be wear when using the coordinate given they are correct except the x,y are in reverse order. Thanks for the information about the series of stories printed in the news papers .
@williebrother9518 I read that book first and that got me interested. Then I read Mark Twain's account about the Cement Mine in his book "Roughing It." In it, he told about a sample of the ore he saw that was on display in a saloon in Aurora. Nevada. He said that the gold was in nuggets all through the ore like raisins in a fruitcake, and it was very seductive looking. That really got me interested. I was living in Sacramento at the time and spent many rainy winter days in the state library's microfilm room where they have every newspaper printed in California going all the way back to a few years before the rush. I searched through the old papers looking for reports of old gold rush camps that had long been forgotten and had returned to nature. I found those old camps to be very good ground for dredging. On one of those library trips, I stumbled onto that series on the Cement Mine and the Long Valley Piutes. After reading that, it was clear that was the source material for the book. I also discovered several clues to the deposit's location that were left out of the book. There was one account of 2 guys that located the deposit but were attacked that night by the Piutes. One was killed and the other barely escaped. He was finally rescued on the north side of Mono Lake, half dead, crawling on the road to Aurora. As it turned out the reason the Piutes attacked them was because the Cement vein was very close to a grove of ironwood trees, the only ironwood grove for many miles around, and that is what the Piutes made their bows out of. I gave up looking for it because I was doing pretty good dredging near the old camps and figured that was a better use of my time. I'm in S. Arizona now and have other fish to fry. Best of luck to you in the southeast!
One thing, Jeff. If we ever have to run out to bug-out places because of a catastrophe, you won't have any problem finding a hidey hole for you and your loved ones.
Morning Jeff, awesome share, thank you brutha. You and the Fam take care and stay safe, best wishes and may you find colors in every pan my friend. ⛏⚒⛏ ~Jekyll the Hyde 🎩
Nice try! I can see the edge of the shelf in the box and if those bars were in there for a long length of time, they would be tarnished. Ive collected silver for over 30 years and if the silver isnt sealed, it would tarnish quickly.
That's quite an adventure. Lots of old stories of buried gold and silver out there... Maybe you could try the Lost Dutchman's Mine. That's a story worth retelling....
09:07 One way to prevent this in the future is you have to practice fasting. But you can't resist the smells coming from your kitchen. Your wife's cooking is irresistible! An Indian Elder and a descendant of Bandelier told me back in the late 1970's (I was a teenager then) that when Coronado came through NM that he had 40 mules with 40 bars of gold on each mule. Nobody has found it and if they did, they kept their mouth shut. I've always wanted to know what each of those gold bars weighed. I was also thinking what if Cornado buried that gold in an Ice Cave. There is one of those caves located in the El Malpais National Monument about 25 miles SW of Grants NM. My brother when he was alive said there is also an Ice Cave in the Jemez Mountains of NM.
I’m looking to join a couple of different groups on my gold journey. The first is a local prospecting club. Access to claims, information and knowledgeable hobbyists. The second is joining the premium Patreon group, but I’m debating if it would be worth it to spend the $10/m or $20/m. I’d like to get the 1 on 1 consultation, but being new to the hobby, I’m not sure if it would be needed. Do you happen to have a video explaining a little more about your Consultant Patron membership?
Hey Jeff I just bought 10 acres in vail AZ and I live deep in vail by the mountains and there this huge wash or old river bed and it’s full of cortz crystals some peace’s of 3 or 4 hundred pounds do you think there could be gold?
If your cache hunting Jeff you need to get rid of that small sniper coil and get something that can cover some ground. I like the 11×13 on my Deus it covers some ground quick lol. That og fisher you got there is hard to beat.
I know a guy that might have found Peg Leg's deposit. He said he found 3 buttes near the Salton Sea. The tallest butte was black and had an old road cut into it that circled the butte and led to the top. He said that at the base of the butte a faint trace of an old road led off into the desert in the direction of Mexico. He explored the butte and found an old adit. He said inside the adit there were ore cart tracks. Next to the tracks were pieces of jet black ore that had fallen out of the carts. He collected some of these and said if you rubbed the surface, the rocks would show a metallic sheen. When he had the ore assayed, it turned out to be rich manganese ore of almost pure manganese oxide. He knew nothing of the old Peg Leg legend, so he didn't look for the black nuggets. I told this story to an old timer I was friends with who lived on his claim on the Merced River between Briceburg and Bagby. When he heard it his face lit up and he told me this story. He said during WWI manganese was a strategic metal needed for the war effort. He said there was a group of miners in Sonora, Mexico, that were selling the US gov't rich manganese ore that came from an unknown source. He said I bet your friend discovered the source of that ore. He said that when the war was over and the US stopped buying ore it makes sense that they just abandoned the mine since they were mining it illegally and that's why they didn't salvage the rails. He then told me if that was Peg Leg's deposit you can be sure those Sonoran miners found the nuggets and took them. That's probably why there was a road to the top. He also said that was before metal detectors were invented and it might be worthwhile to hit that butte with one. He said even if the black nuggets are gone, that manganese mine might still be worth a small fortune. There was one more interesting fact about that butte that my friend told me. He said the top was covered with vegetation and with the heat shimmering off the desert you couldn't see the butte until you were very close to it, except just after sunrise when the sun shone off the black base of the butte. He said from a distance as the sun rose in the sky, the butte disappeared from view.
You have Jon's secret squirrel with you! I bet Jon has the treasure by now lol ! Just fooling hope to get the chance to meet you when I get there in the spring.
Wow Jeff your a very game man indeed Squeezing you self in there no way I would ever do it What a great treasure hunt you do amazing mate Cheers 🍻 CrouchOz Famos mate
Silver. Placed there 55,000 + days ago. Found. So now, for the next 1000 days 2200 people will be out in the middle of nowhere, searching. 2 will be thoughtful.
OK, Jeff, just know I decided for sure your jus a Lil bit crazier than I am, that tight squeeze caused me to have to get up and walk around dang it man ... great treasure hunt !
@@Askjeffwilliams Make it a national event sending in a breakdancer named ramrod to do whats called cave corking. Might be awkward trying to keep it a secret but can try pulling it off w/ the camera going.
SIMILAR STORY JEFF IN THE SILVER ISLAND MOUNTAINS OF UT/NV...SUPPOSABLY WHEN THE DONNER PARTY GOT OFF THE SALT DESERT,THE OXEN HAD RAN OFF TO LIGHTEN THERE LOAD,SILVER AND GOLD COINS WERE TAKEN TO THE MT,AND BURRED. THANK YOU JEFF,GREAT VIDEO AGAIN.
Gold coins from the Donner Party are found occasionally near Donner Lake in the Sierras. All the stories I've heard say that's where they buried their coins after they got stuck in the snow. When they were in dire straits, they sent off 2 men to try and make it over the Sierras and bring back help. They called this party the "Forlorn Hope." One night they discovered a gold vein and took some samples. The next spring after they were rescued, they tried to relocate the deposit but failed. Guys looked for it for years with no success. It became known as the "Lost Emigrant Mine." 50 years later it was finally rediscovered. You can visit the mine today. It's on the Foresthill Divide, near the top of the American River's North Fork Canyon on the south side.
My Grandfather found a gold vein in quarts back in the late 80's worth I think 70,000 I think. It was so long ago hard to remember but it was a large amount I do remember that
Hi Jeff- How does one sign up for your treasure hunt? I searched probably 10-12 times to find Forrest Fenn's treasure which was eventually found in Wy. My two girls and I had a blast getting out and looking. Thanks for any details!
What is your favorite Treasure story, and have you ever found coins before. For more vids watch this video th-cam.com/video/jmremdUg1hQ/w-d-xo.html and smash that like button ...SMASH it HARD!!!
This is total bullshit.
The story of Mel Fisher waking up every day and saying "today is the day" for 17 years until he found the motherload out there in the Caribbean.
A moment when a person is on to something,;has a feeling and someone else with better machines and help of others gets to it and leaves a gaping hole half covered.
Knowing to never give up searching respectfully.⛏️💪🏽❤
Dang Jeff Your not that Little My Daughter when she was 15 she was 80 pounds would Have a problem shinnie in threw That cave .
@@OzkAltBldgCo-bv8tt I remember that ..the Atocha
My favorite treasure hunt is with my grandson, 6 at the time. He found my metal detector. “What’s this?” I showed him how it works. “Let’s hunt for pirate treasure Papaw.” I made us pirate hats out of newspaper and a hook for his hand. We went in search in my property with a home built in 42’. About 30 minutes into our hunt he was getting bored. “Ain’t no treasure here.” The detector hit on something. We dug in the hard ground and about 6” down we found a 1927 Standing Liberty quarter.
now thats cool
I've got a 4 year old grandson and there's nothing on this planet that beats spending time with my little man doing things like that. I can assure you that is something he will cherish forever as will you.
Love it.
All I've found in my yard are bits of copper wire, and old Budweiser beer cans. The cans are the old pull tab style. The copper gets tossed in my copper scrap bucket.
I do detect an area that was a neighborhood in the 1950's until the Government acquired it and bulldozed all of the houses. Most of the streets are gone, but some of the concrete slabs are still there. Every coin I find is silver, and the pennies are all wheat cents.
All I've ever found is iron with my detector.... would be a fun day with my G/Daughter thx for the 💡 Idea 💡
Can't wait, but if you do find a treasure, don't tell anybody over here in New Mexico. A guy found a big treasure and then bragged about it, and the government got involved. To this day, he is still fighting the government to remove it.
I agree. That is devastating of that happening to that guy.🥺
Yeh. Just take it. Melt it down and claim you bought it online with bitcoin. Completely untraceable.
Very foolish!.
It's worth at least 20 times more than the bullion value. @@samnind9527
I remember that story Victorio's Peak in White Sands
@@samnind9527 bingo
I knew it was click bait but I can't quit you Jeff 😘
Gotta wonder how many caches of precious metals etc are still just sitting out there waiting to be found. So many mining camps, so many potentials!
ore more lickly there where loads of miners spending there hard earnt money on drink and telling tall tales because only idiots hide loads of money in hard to reach places and never get it
Its awesome that you set up a real life treasure hunt that anyone can join in on. You are one of a kind Jeff! Thanks for all of the information that you share with us, you are a wealth of knowledge when it comes to this stuff, keep up the hard work and stay on that gold!
always our pleasure my brother ....thanks
First rule of treasure. If you find it...DON'T TELL ANYONE.
Just go buy an island
for sure !
Behind a big rock? There are nothing but big rock out there!
I was working on a ranch over 50 years ago, southwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico. There was a spot on top of one of the mesas that still had a teepee standing with a shrunken hardened buffalo hide still fastened to a couple of the poles. I was told it was one of Geronimo rendezvous spots. There was also many places along the dry arroyos that you could tell were placer claims. Loved that life, $200 a month room and board.
Beware of the
LAND OF ENTRAPMENT 😢
Wow! Years ago I found 54 silver dollars and 4 double eagles out there. Should have looked harder. Never heard of no lost treasure. Oh well..😊
now thats cool Richard ..... but did you find any Gold hahhahahaha
Did you really?
@@brandoncrow768 yep
@@Askjeffwilliams were they Spanish double Eagles. LOL
“This is clearly a man riding a bicycle.” - Jeff Williams, gold miner, prospector, geologist, and anthropologist. 😜
and philanthropist
@@Askjeffwilliams and an educator/inspiration to thousands.
@@trevorwhat thanks
Jeff you are INSANE for climbing in that...
it was tight
I was terrified the whole time he was in there
@Askjeffwilliams normally I'm a big fan tight spots. Just not that kinda tight spot 😅
@@dustinwalker5481 hahhahahah whaaaah whaaaaaahhh
I would like to show you a place about a mile from there i found as a teenager, i dont think anyone knows about. @@Askjeffwilliams
As the years pass and I see your videos, you are continuously becoming more and more of a legend, awesome video Jeff thanks for all the infotainment!
I appreciate that!
I found a gold McKinney metal detecting once, a long a old driveway, off a old abandoned unused dirt road
That box is worth a lot of money alone. Unbelievable. I'm going to watch this again.
Jeff, squeezing through that gap gives me the heebee geebees…stay safe!
will do
Me to even roaming the cave system gets me too.
I smashed that like button before the video even started sonny jim ⛏🎧🤙🏻
hahahhaha thanks my brother from another mother
I miss Nevada Jack. 😂
Just put into perspective how long I've been watching your videos daily.
Thanks for all the entertainment and knowledge over the many years Jeff.
Excellent! *Air Guitar!*
-🇺🇲
we do to ....always our pleasure and thanks for the long-time viewership
I love watching your intriguing, fun, enthusiastic, and educational videos! Thank you.
thanks ....and you betcha
The stories along with the great drone footage was excellent...and the Treasure Hunt idea is genius! Thanks once again for making my Sunday! ♥
you betcha ....always our pleasure
Been awhile.. good to see you again jeff. I'm back in the game.
thanks and welcome back
You about gave me a panic attack when you were going through that squeeze! All I could think about was getting wedged in and not being able to back out 😅
Definitely should have come with a PTSD Warning announcement.
Looks like you had lots of fun out there Jeff 🤠⛏️ Thank you for sharing with us 🙏 God Bless
you betcha my brother
So happy to see slim again, good to see you healing Jeff.
WC Jameson has been a treasure hunter and author. He wrote a book about lost mines and buried treasures in Arizona. There was a story about stolen gold that was supposed to go to the US troops. The story goes the gold was in a shallow cave somewhere up near Clearwater Creek. It was supposed to be more than 50 million in today's gold. I could not find it LOL.
That's probably where jeff got the idea I heard the stories as well.
utterly gorgeous hi def video at 5:00 mark, just terrific, especially with the voice over story retelling
thanks
thanks for enriching our lifes with your great videos
Bruce Tucson
you betcha Bruce
Jeff don't tell anyone in New Mexico about your treasure finds..but you can tell me! 😸
hahhahhaa
That would be a spectacular find. Come on, let’s go.!!!!!!!
I'm also a treasure hunter, and I'm always asking myself (depending on the story)"Surely they didn't haul two heavy chests, without horses, through a tight cave???"
Of course they did... ;-)
Well if you believe the story about Oak Island they supposedly hauled chests of valuable items to the site where they buried it 100+ feet underground and built an elaborate tunnel system. So dragging chests through a small gap seems doable
You are an modern day Indiana Jones lol always exited to see you up loads 😀 😄
thanks
I found a 1908 Chinese Silver wrapped up in the tidepools in 2012 - After months of searching, finally saw the coin on a chinese coin museum website, with a price over 100k USD, all in chinese. Went back the next day and I couldn't find the page anymore... Took the coin in twice, but the coin collectors don't even know what it is and can't verify it (since it was in the ocean so long)... Anyways, long story short, is that it is valuable, if it were in mint condition. One day I hope to find where it came from.
"Characters and Cache Planters", by Harley Bissell is loaded with leads like this... Von Mueller, recommended it, and it's finally in print, by the man in the mirror...
You are going to need to stop eating so many beans and eggs if you are going to keep spelunking in those tight places Jeff. 😅
hahahaha I know...right
Yup. If the tight spaces don't get you, the noxious gasses will.
“We hide it behind a big rock.” In an area full of big rocks. Talk about a needle in a haystack on a planet full of haystacks.
Ole Slim, “Here lies Jeff. His last words, come on let’s gold. Man it’s tight, real tight.”
They say some of Jesse James loot is still lost . And the Apache in the drangoon mountains in Arizona have hidden loot when Geronimo was driven from his home. If one were to go and explore those areas where the cowboys and famous Indians roamed in New Mexico, Arizona., Texas, Utah u may find their loot. 😊
Good morning Jeff another good video to wake up on a good Sunday morning to you 🙂👍✌️
thanks James
Beautiful contact zone change at 6:45/14:53 .
you saw that to
I love a good treasure hunt that's awesome that you help people your a stand up guy..... 😬👌
holy cow .. thats a cool find.. The box is beautiful
I know...right
I love a good treasure hunt thanks for sharing Jeff loved it
Jeff i have sandstone here in eldorado,town of,and some of this stuff is like red black loking irony rusty looking.theres Gold found all around here would it be in the sandstone? Great video.
it can be but most likely from another source
You squeezing through those rocks gave me big anxiety!!! I had to hold my breath to keep you from getting stuck LOL! 😀
It was tight!
Coolest episode ever ever! Re-watching. 😎🤩
thanks
Mormons. I am one. Momma joined in pioche. But dad's side goes back to New York state. Montezuma's treasure. Aztec descendants guard it. Carre shinnob it's resting in that sacred mine. Coronado searched for it. 13 cities of cibola. El Dorado. Chief wakara Jeff I been on top looked at the signs. Left my gun my metal detector my knife. My flashlight my ropes. All in my bronco. It's the only reason I was allowed to leave. I'll never go back more to the story. But it's real. Mormon gold coins are 70/30 gold content. Same as Spanish gold bars. I've held in my hand gold bar with the kings 5th I told you we could talk for hours at a camp fire. Now my knees are gone. I can't go back.
wow ...now thats a story ...... I wonder if you Bronco is still there .... would love to know more about the story and where this place is ...I am all ears my brother ....
@@Askjeffwilliams I'll clarify. I drove up the headwater of a major Utah creek that never reaches an ocean. On top of that mountain is a kings treasure. My bronco was below. Next to the last of the quake aspens. This story is long. Alot of research. As far as I know. I'm the only one that got this close and lived. Only because I went up with no weapons eye witness accounts are written in church history. Of whats inside. Some call it the lost rhoads mines. It's not. They were other mines close by worked by the Spaniards. Legends get confused. But once you dot all the It's and trace it it makes sense. Plus that was 1999. Then i got sent to rebuild a Mormon temple in Illinois. I got back in 2001 was organizing horses and Winchesters to go back. And I got cancer. Colon. Surgery in Payson Utah 3 indians visited me this is scary stuff. Mormons believe 3 cousins to Aztecs called nephite s are immortal. I met them three times. I don't think I'll live long enough now. But it's guarded. They say it's not time. It's the library of Atlantis all on gold and emerald tablets. There. Plus all the 80 pound stacks of gold bars from Spanish. And piles of placer gold. Spanish were driven out in late 1600s. A indian shaman organized the revolt. In old abandoned caves still today burro skeleton with feet cut off so they can't carry gold. And a cannon used to sit in Utah state house Seville Spain 1580. Yup it disappeared after renovations were finished. Hum. They don't want people snooping around
Oh and as far as I know I've never met anybody else that met one of them indians and lived
@@rickjohnson6559those are called demons. Too bad you haven't escaped that powerful cult.
Good morning from Southeast South Dakota
good morning SWM
The Chieftain mine here in Idaho is supposed to have 4 to 6 powder kegs full of 1 ounce gold coins in them. The problem is that mine was flooded intentionally in 1942.
lets pump it out
This was fun. Reminds me of the time I was looking for the lost cement mine somewheres around mammoth lakes California. One day I was in an area running down clues and noticed how quite it was al around. Nary a bird was chirping nor any critters running around. Well I thought I saw what looked like the old nasty big foot milling around in the trees. Needless to say I did high tail outta there fast as I could. Haven't had the urge to go back there since.
I would have asked him for his Beef Jerky .Lol
@@Askjeffwilliams 🤣
I ran across a detailed story about the lost cement mine. It was in an old California newspaper from the late 1800s. It appeared in the Sunday paper's magazine section and was presented in 5 installments over 5 Sundays. The last installment told a story about a guy that had found the deposit and barely escaped with his life from a Piute attack and returned to mine it after the Long Valley Piutes had been rounded up and confined to a reservation. It was a riveting story. Someone took that story and wrote a book about it that a lot of guys took to be the definitive description of the deposit's location. Some other guy even announced that he had discovered an old pine tree stump that had scars at the base from where the guy secured his windlass to lift the ore out of the shaft. The problem is the story was fake. The author of the newspaper article stated at the end of the 4th installment that he might write a fifth installment. He said that installment would be a romance based on the facts of the story. Calling it a "romance" meant it was a fictional story. The book failed to mention this fact.
@LuckyBaldwin777 yes I had read a book about it and had a suspection of it being made up. But there were/is a lot of gold mining goings-on in that area and being that I lived and worked in that area for 25 yrs, I spent much of my free time fishing the Owen's river and looking for the mother load. I had no idea what to look for. Jeff has taught me so much more than I tried to teach myself from reading books on geology. But alas I no longer live in that area. I'm in Florida now and way to old to move back and put my newly found information presented by Jeff to go a go at it. However I have since learned that the first gold rush in America was here on the east coast in the Carolinas and Alabama. I m researching some of the data about it and the " my land matters" web site, that Jeff mentioned in one of his videos. It showes a lot of mines in this area. Be wear when using the coordinate given they are correct except the x,y are in reverse order. Thanks for the information about the series of stories printed in the news papers .
@williebrother9518 I read that book first and that got me interested. Then I read Mark Twain's account about the Cement Mine in his book "Roughing It." In it, he told about a sample of the ore he saw that was on display in a saloon in Aurora. Nevada. He said that the gold was in nuggets all through the ore like raisins in a fruitcake, and it was very seductive looking. That really got me interested. I was living in Sacramento at the time and spent many rainy winter days in the state library's microfilm room where they have every newspaper printed in California going all the way back to a few years before the rush. I searched through the old papers looking for reports of old gold rush camps that had long been forgotten and had returned to nature. I found those old camps to be very good ground for dredging. On one of those library trips, I stumbled onto that series on the Cement Mine and the Long Valley Piutes. After reading that, it was clear that was the source material for the book. I also discovered several clues to the deposit's location that were left out of the book. There was one account of 2 guys that located the deposit but were attacked that night by the Piutes. One was killed and the other barely escaped. He was finally rescued on the north side of Mono Lake, half dead, crawling on the road to Aurora. As it turned out the reason the Piutes attacked them was because the Cement vein was very close to a grove of ironwood trees, the only ironwood grove for many miles around, and that is what the Piutes made their bows out of. I gave up looking for it because I was doing pretty good dredging near the old camps and figured that was a better use of my time.
I'm in S. Arizona now and have other fish to fry. Best of luck to you in the southeast!
One thing, Jeff. If we ever have to run out to bug-out places because of a catastrophe, you won't have any problem finding a hidey hole for you and your loved ones.
exactly
Fantastic video.
Liberty Bleeds Silver didn't lie.
Rugged terrain looks challenging.
Good to see you out Jeff you put a smile on my face. But be careful about getting into tight places good way of getting into trouble...
Morning Jeff, awesome share, thank you brutha. You and the Fam take care and stay safe, best wishes and may you find colors in every pan my friend. ⛏⚒⛏ ~Jekyll the Hyde 🎩
good morning and you to
I just clicked on this video because it doesn’t surprise me to find something like this but sooo eager to just let your video play!
Sounds like a good time. Too bad I'm pretty well disabled. But I will definitely be getting surgery soon that will hopefully make things much better!
The Spirit of the West live on!
Can I get some lol. Thanks for sharing brother. Be safe 🙏
you betcha
Youd be a great teacher. You certainly are entertaining Jeff.
thanks
Awesome treasure chest!🎉❤
I found a Gold ring metal detecting a State Park Beach! Nice video Jeff!! cheers JJ
That is awesome!
Thanks for all the videos. I'm under doctor orders still to take it easy. I'll be back soon.
keep us posted and get well soon
LOL,, get's pretty tough to cave dive the older we get. Cool Video as always
“Behind a big rock” 🤦🏻♂️ thanks bud real life saver with that hint
Nice try! I can see the edge of the shelf in the box and if those bars were in there for a long length of time, they would be tarnished. Ive collected silver for over 30 years and if the silver isnt sealed, it would tarnish quickly.
Great episode Jeff!
thanks
@@Askjeffwilliams your welcome mate
That's quite an adventure. Lots of old stories of buried gold and silver out there... Maybe you could try the Lost Dutchman's Mine. That's a story worth retelling....
Slim knows where its at
@@Askjeffwilliams is his location on the east side or the west side?
09:07 One way to prevent this in the future is you have to practice fasting. But you can't resist the smells coming from your kitchen. Your wife's cooking is irresistible!
An Indian Elder and a descendant of Bandelier told me back in the late 1970's (I was a teenager then) that when Coronado came through NM that he had 40 mules with 40 bars of gold on each mule. Nobody has found it and if they did, they kept their mouth shut. I've always wanted to know what each of those gold bars weighed. I was also thinking what if Cornado buried that gold in an Ice Cave. There is one of those caves located in the El Malpais National Monument about 25 miles SW of Grants NM. My brother when he was alive said there is also an Ice Cave in the Jemez Mountains of NM.
we know of a few ice caves in AZ
@scuss2 Gold bars stashed away by Coronado? The Indians had smelters before Coronado arrived? Sounds fishy to me.
Awesome as usual Jeff. Thank you! ✨👊🏼
you betcha
Your the best Jeff!
thanks
Thanks, Jeff.
you betcha
I’m looking to join a couple of different groups on my gold journey. The first is a local prospecting club. Access to claims, information and knowledgeable hobbyists.
The second is joining the premium Patreon group, but I’m debating if it would be worth it to spend the $10/m or $20/m. I’d like to get the 1 on 1 consultation, but being new to the hobby, I’m not sure if it would be needed.
Do you happen to have a video explaining a little more about your Consultant Patron membership?
Best movie reference
E V E R. . . .😊
Great video I really enjoyed it
Wait... Arch Stanton? 😂 Isn't that the name on grave stone from the Clint Eastwood movie "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly?" 🤣😂
Jeff I love treasure hunting! Whens the next treasure hunt? I wanna find treasure, Yippy kye ay
Hey Jeff I just bought 10 acres in vail AZ and I live deep in vail by the mountains and there this huge wash or old river bed and it’s full of cortz crystals some peace’s of 3 or 4 hundred pounds do you think there could be gold?
it would be worth Sampling
Good morning.🌞 Thank you for sharing video.😊
good morning Rebecca ..you betcha
.....my luck....id be standing on the darned thing and not know it!!! LOL
If your cache hunting Jeff you need to get rid of that small sniper coil and get something that can cover some ground. I like the 11×13 on my Deus it covers some ground quick lol. That og fisher you got there is hard to beat.
Great video. Love the new camera.
Me too!
Tall tails make legendary stories
I know a guy that might have found Peg Leg's deposit. He said he found 3 buttes near the Salton Sea. The tallest butte was black and had an old road cut into it that circled the butte and led to the top. He said that at the base of the butte a faint trace of an old road led off into the desert in the direction of Mexico. He explored the butte and found an old adit. He said inside the adit there were ore cart tracks. Next to the tracks were pieces of jet black ore that had fallen out of the carts. He collected some of these and said if you rubbed the surface, the rocks would show a metallic sheen. When he had the ore assayed, it turned out to be rich manganese ore of almost pure manganese oxide. He knew nothing of the old Peg Leg legend, so he didn't look for the black nuggets.
I told this story to an old timer I was friends with who lived on his claim on the Merced River between Briceburg and Bagby. When he heard it his face lit up and he told me this story. He said during WWI manganese was a strategic metal needed for the war effort. He said there was a group of miners in Sonora, Mexico, that were selling the US gov't rich manganese ore that came from an unknown source. He said I bet your friend discovered the source of that ore. He said that when the war was over and the US stopped buying ore it makes sense that they just abandoned the mine since they were mining it illegally and that's why they didn't salvage the rails.
He then told me if that was Peg Leg's deposit you can be sure those Sonoran miners found the nuggets and took them. That's probably why there was a road to the top. He also said that was before metal detectors were invented and it might be worthwhile to hit that butte with one. He said even if the black nuggets are gone, that manganese mine might still be worth a small fortune.
There was one more interesting fact about that butte that my friend told me. He said the top was covered with vegetation and with the heat shimmering off the desert you couldn't see the butte until you were very close to it, except just after sunrise when the sun shone off the black base of the butte. He said from a distance as the sun rose in the sky, the butte disappeared from view.
now thats a cool story
Awesome!!! Congrats!!!
good to see slim i miss him
we do to
Good thinking jeff 👍
OMG YOU SET MY PHOBIA OFF GOOD. THAT IS SAW YOUR ARM OFF TIGHT
Awesome find!
Glad u got out of that random tiny cave
You have Jon's secret squirrel with you! I bet Jon has the treasure by now lol ! Just fooling hope to get the chance to meet you when I get there in the spring.
thanks
You'd never get me in that cave without lots of ropes and friends.
Good morning Jeff.
Good morning Jackie
Wow Jeff your a very game man indeed
Squeezing you self in there no way I would ever do it
What a great treasure hunt you do amazing mate
Cheers 🍻 CrouchOz Famos mate
Thanks CrouchOz ..... love a good adventure ...Cheers mate
Silver. Placed there 55,000 + days ago. Found.
So now, for the next 1000 days 2200 people will be out in the middle of nowhere, searching. 2 will be thoughtful.
Jeff I see the heart emogi. I left it for you to say, "...and 1 of those 2 will be me. The other will be my wife!!". lol
OK, Jeff, just know I decided for sure your jus a Lil bit crazier than I am, that tight squeeze caused me to have to get up and walk around dang it man ... great treasure hunt !
hahahahahaha
@@Askjeffwilliams Make it a national event sending in a breakdancer named ramrod to do whats called cave corking. Might be awkward trying to keep it a secret but can try pulling it off w/ the camera going.
SIMILAR STORY JEFF IN THE SILVER ISLAND MOUNTAINS OF UT/NV...SUPPOSABLY WHEN THE DONNER PARTY GOT OFF THE SALT DESERT,THE OXEN HAD RAN OFF TO LIGHTEN THERE LOAD,SILVER AND GOLD COINS WERE TAKEN TO THE MT,AND BURRED.
THANK YOU JEFF,GREAT VIDEO AGAIN.
thanks
Gold coins from the Donner Party are found occasionally near Donner Lake in the Sierras. All the stories I've heard say that's where they buried their coins after they got stuck in the snow.
When they were in dire straits, they sent off 2 men to try and make it over the Sierras and bring back help. They called this party the "Forlorn Hope." One night they discovered a gold vein and took some samples. The next spring after they were rescued, they tried to relocate the deposit but failed. Guys looked for it for years with no success. It became known as the "Lost Emigrant Mine." 50 years later it was finally rediscovered. You can visit the mine today. It's on the Foresthill Divide, near the top of the American River's North Fork Canyon on the south side.
My Grandfather found a gold vein in quarts back in the late 80's worth I think 70,000 I think. It was so long ago hard to remember but it was a large amount I do remember that
where?
@Askjeffwilliams it was at the Cotton patch gold mine in Stanley County North Carolina back in like 1989.
WHAT A FIND !!
Hi Jeff- How does one sign up for your treasure hunt? I searched probably 10-12 times to find Forrest Fenn's treasure which was eventually found in Wy. My two girls and I had a blast getting out and looking. Thanks for any details!
just click the link for the Treasure Hunt Tier www.patreon.com/askJeffWilliams
Pre date the campfire LOL
Now that silver is finally 2x from 14 or 15 ish... Does it make sense to mine again?
The greatest thing was the small stream.
"Sometimes water is worth more than gold." -Howard from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre