Are you aware of a 12 year old boy finding a 17 lb. gold nugget in Concord, N.C., near Charlorre. And later a 26 lb nugget was found in the same area . This was in the late 1800's . Lots of gold has been mined in Va. I never hear anyone talking about the gold found here in the eastern part of the U.S. I love your program ! There is much to learn about prospecting !
Good job. I'd dig prospecting with you anywhere or anytime... Or Jeff or Dan or Jason... I've found quite a few respectable channels. All you guys give good insight.
Two Toes Prospecting is really good too. They all make wages on more user interactions and words and terms like secret, every time, anywhere, hack, etc, excite people. This is a good video. I like Chris and Jeff as a fellow geoscientists, I also like Two Toes as a non degree holding but profoundly educated prospector.
🔮I wanted to ask you for your opinion as a professional prospector on the similar subject of passing the soil in the Golden Cube but with a machine of my invention. I bought 2 pipes of 12 feet in length (4 inches in diameter) + 24 feet of grooved agricultural drain (4 inches in diameter & 1 cm depth). I cut the pipes horizontally, then into two 6-foot segments, so I make a vertical rack 6 x 2 x 6 feet high, with the 8 black half-pipes + half-drain segment and a mini-sluice Dream Mat at the top in order to bring water through the pump. I calculated that the finishing sluice gives 48 feet in length, so 1 to 3 buckets of Black Sand should deposit the majority of the nuggets, flakes and gold dust in the grooves and there should be none left in the 8th bottom pipe. At the end after a few buckets, I wash the agricultural drains in a recycling plastic container and filter everything with a boiler screen kit from 1/20 to 1/100 inch in order to collect all the dust or even up to with the dimensions of gold atoms. Ralph, is this 50 foot filtration machine a good idea instead of only having 1 to 3 foot mini-sluices which do not capture all the microscopic gold dust (5 ppm, 20 ppm, 100 ppm, etc)? If I repass the recycling soil 2 times, it make a 100 feet Sluice Machine and probably let about 0 gold particules. www.maxi-drain.ca/produits/
I don't know if your product will work as expected. Making sluices super long has been tried many times before. It doesn't usually make much of an improvement. But who knows, maybe yours will be different.
Only if all the mineralization is in place in the area you're looking for gold then you'll find gold if certain minerals are missing during the volcanic activity in the past then you won't find gold it's as simple as that
I watch Jeff on occasion, and he has taught me a lot. My only problem with him is... how do I put this,... he's too loud and enthusiastic. It kinda jangles the nerves. I love watching you, Chris! You are a GREAT teacher. I hope to run into you here in Reno, so I can thank you in person!
Since I'm a nobody I'll say that I WAS a patreon of Mr. Williams. He surely knows his "stuff" but all he does is try to sell memberships and stuff. Watching yours now.
It can be difficult to stay on topic. I was Paralleled thinking about the distribution of plated, filled, and Karat gold is nearby most people. But Natural gold - global distribution is on topic. It's just that the scrap guys are regularly processing 50 troy oz pure gold every year.
Donaldhoot You may find Jeff William asking for membership to be annoying but it’s fine. A man’s gotta eat. They’re not billionaires bored so they make movies for fun. Jeff Williams links to the book fistful of gold by Chris Ralph. Selling a book maybe different than a membership but it’s still a product that supports the content creator. In my view I think it’s great you see Jeff Williams supporting his book. It’s how I found this channel by Chris Ralph. But ya, people need to be less upset about people trying to earn a living or derive revenue somehow while creating tons of free information packed videos. It’s the body builder mark smells or something said. People hate that he makes money selling rubber bands for weight lifting but it helps him be literally more financial free and make more fun videos.
I would watch a video titled: _Finding Tiny Amounts of Gold in Somewhat Surprising Locations__ Or: _Finding Gold that's Barely Visible to the Naked Eye in Geologically Unfavorable Locations_ Or: _You Probably Don't Think There's Gold in the Oregon Coast Range (for Good Reason), but There's a Tiny Little Bit in the Tillamook Highlands_ But I'm not sure how many other people would. 😊 TH-cam is a cutthroat place and eyeballs are hard to come by, hence clickbaity titles, unfortunately. Underneath all the schtick and the clickbait, Jeff does indeed know what he's talking about.
As I stated really plainly at the start, this was not a video to criticize Jeff. And Yep, tiny amounts of gold can be found in in a surprisingly large number of places.
@@ChrisRalph - Yup, I know you made the point that you weren't criticizing him. Just for the benefit of folks not familiar with Jeff, I thought I would reiterate that he is very knowledgeable -- especially as people could get a different impression based on his thumbnails and his shtick and stuff.
Yes he absolutely does. He used to anoy TF out of me 10 years ago when I first discovered him, but the more I watched and actually listed to his content he seriously know his sh*t. Of course so does this man here lol 🤙🏼
I keep running across interesting and unusual (to me) articles about gold on the internet. Today I ran across a n intersting article at the "New Scientist" called "Antarctic Gold Dust". It said that volcanic gases emiting from Mt Erabus in Alaska, contain tiny specs of gold are being blown out that are between 0.1 and 20 micrometres and ones 60 micrometres are found in the nearby snow. Many of these tiny particles that form as tiny crystals are being blown by the wind many miles away. The article estimates Mt. Erebus emits only 80 grams of gold dust a day. I found this article fascinating, and thought, if you hadn't already heard about it, that you'd like to hear about it too.❤
First, Mt. Erabus is in Antarctica, not Alaska. There are a couple volcanoes like this - but they emit thousands of pounds of volcanic dust, a small part of which is gold. The volcano has been active for around 1.3 million years and has a long-lived lava lake in its inner summit crater that has been present since at least the early 1970s.
Another great video, straightforward, informative, and thorough yet concise. Have yet to find a better source to learn from. Me and my dad have made a habit of listening to your videos heading up the hill to our spot. Thanks again for sharing your wisdom, -C
Thanks Chris, just gave you a subscribe! Question: do you know of any general areas in Colorado & Washington State that one can prospect without needing a claim?
I love how talk about all the hard work that is involved in gold prospecting, nothing truly valuable in any sense can come without hard work. I really liked your video, it was very genuine. Your book was also presented realy well👍
Also, as a child our beach spot was called 'wash away beach' you could see the gold sheen behind some driftwood. Being young i never figured out how to get it, ive tried as an adult and its very very fine, and Washington is super regulated.
If you had a decent size boat or barge. With a few 4"-8" pumps , build a few nozzle bars , similar to pool vacuums That follows the floor of the ocean or river, like at the beach, in alaska. And use a sleuce similar to a giant gold cube. Or a spiral sleuce , i even saw someone attempting to buid a under water / submerged sleuce. Seems it would be possible, it may require the sluce to run up hill. Using a pump plenty large enough. And being sealed similar to a water pipe, so there is nearly a laminar flow inside. To prevent freezing, and to conseal, so not that much need!
Thank you for comments about access issues in NC and eastern US. Rivers, streams, and gravel beds in sharp bends are often worth prosessing the concentrates. Sluicing is very labor intensive but reveals the potential of an area .
Got a couple of questions for you Chris. First I want to thank you for passing on all your knowledge. Im new to this hobby. Now I have come to the conclusion that the western united states has most of the gold. When you talk about using a metal detector you say to go to old gold mines, check their tailings and the ground around the site. We dont have that here. So I have been panning some brooks and one river in my area. I go on the inside of curves dig some holes there, and behind big rocks.Sometimes I dig down as much as 3 feet. I haven't found any black sand. So ether there is no black sand. Or the bed rock is much deeper than I can reach. Or there is no clay bed taking the place of the of the bed rock. I see Garnets and garnet sand. Alot of mica and quarts. There are some people putting out video's telling people that there is gold in my sand and I need to get it out with chemicals. I did use a powerful lupe 60x and 90x, and I could see a few pieces of gold. Is it worth the time and money to extract this microscopic gold? Thanks Chris. I'm learning alot from you and others. Mark.
First, no its not worth it unless you see loads and loads of fine gold with your magnification. I don't know where you are searching so hard for me to suggest anything. As I said in the video, there is gold in many places, but its not really everywhere.
I have some rocks in the front yard that came from the hill across the street, where there is an old abandoned mine and diggings. These rocks may be crushed soon and checked, as the more I watch your videos, the more I get exciting (and crazy) ideas :)
Not really sure, this is an old volcanic area with a lot of crystalline desposits, quartz, reds and blacks in the rocks, small and large veins, so I would hope so. Not a large mine near me but over the hill someone was mining down into the hill as of last year.
I put a lot of hours into panning and metal detecting around an old placer mine from the 50's in Colorado. I've only ever seen 6 specs in a pan. Any signal on my detector is always junk. I think it's mostly you have to move a lot of dirt through a big sluice to get a little bit. It doesn't work so well with a backpack considering they were using back hoes and dozens of guys with aqua ducts.
Like I said in the video, there is small amounts of gold, mostly very fine sized, spread throughout the Midwest, and that includes the Great Lakes Region.
I live on a creek up in washington. I have been in it, under every rock, every bar and bank and nothing. 4 miles away a creek has flour gold easily found. Id guess theres microscopic gold here but not a flash in the pan after years. Its all the same hill, same basltic bedrock. Across the valley another creek produces flour also just less.
What region? West, south north? East? Are you deep in channel. Flood gold strange animal. Lot of heavies, sulfides? Glacial till? Do you have exposed basalt in creek?
@@ChrisRalph with your help I'll be working on that again this summer. You have a fine channel here Chris, I appreciate your pursuit of knowledge and willingness to share.
Good video. People shouldn't be encouraged that there's recoverable gold in any stream, it just fuels the yellow rock people that waste their own time and others.
Love this type of video. I would imagine 90% of the viewing audience of these types of videos live in regions considered non-gold bearing and would enjoy recreational time in a creek panning... if for only a single fly spec of gold. Good stuff Chris.
I am interested in the Chinle Formation Gold since I grew up in Chinle, Arizona. Yes the Chiinle Formation is just about everywhere in Northern Arizona.
Imet some of the ynots afew yrs ago you might check out the weaver mining district Out by Rich hill and the old Rock house They had 750 available acres to prospect on I dont know how much is available now...any way. Beautiful area. I think the GPPA has rights to the Lucky Linda mine Its out near its out by indecision corner
I live in the bituminous coal area of central PA, my family owned open pit mines up till the millennium and I’ve never heard of anyone saying gold is present. Very interesting information I want to see if there is any gold in the crick by my house
If your family worked in coal mines it’d be interesting to hear if they found anything cool. I listened to the archaix channel and I guess in the 1800s people burning lump charcoal sometimes found all sorts of weird things like hammers or jewelry or artifacts like as if coal seams contained unexplained artifacts. A more likely explanation is people threw things in the coal piles as trash, but seeing photos of hammers in rock sort of makes of ya wonder if there was human civilization millions of years ago.
@@ChrisRalph I’ve heard this as well also in the south eastern part of the state there’s a rich vein still producing. My uncle is a geologist he works with his brothers land surviving company doing permitting work for mines. I have 2.5 yrs aT Penn State for Hydrology and have spent 20 years dredging working Army Corp projects I find your knowledge fascinating thank you for sharing!
Ya I think it’s great when people can critique or add additional info to their peers without all the unnecessary drama that this crazy world for some reason loves. Good to support each other and simply be constructive. It’s like the other day I was on TH-cam and saw all the drama about Ben Shapiro firing candence. I just watched a few minutes cause it’s shocking but stopped watching cause of the drama.
Pretty sure your question was not "are there gold deposits within the city limits of Evans?" - But I get like 200 comments a day so I don't' remember each and every one in detail.
here in nc we got a lot of grey blue slate with small golf flakes and maganese wads and black strings with quarts ,blue and rose red color and purple from the maganese. loop at 20x and some i found with 40x,just not enough for mining. some assay say 90% maganese and 10 % gold i was told. hoping to assay and see if the gold here is microscopic. any help would be helpful thanks chris.
@@ChrisRalph finding sulfur and sliver grey and yellow sulfides with some color, i think most of golds and sliver here will be micro or flour size,more help and info on assaying, we have 4 geologic zones here behind my house. Maybe next time your this way to tn/nc line stop by. old timers would roast the ore over fire and sweat it out,one mine i know they done that to separate it from maganese.
I'm glad you mentioned in Ohio we have an area with sand and gravel mines I've heard of guys panning some of it but not profitable to was pre wash the sand and gravel for gold but o have heard of a mine who does pre wash for gold because it's very profitable for them in not sure if the mine was in Ohio or Michigan
@@ChrisRalph I have heard that also not sure if it's anything to write home about lol I'm an amateur prospector and just pan for the fun your videos are always informative thanks
I criticized that video about ‘finding gold everywhere’ as Clickbait. But maybe “not” economically viable gold is found in microscopic micron qualities like a small fraction of 1c penny ‘or’ 1c penny ‘or’ $1 dollar worth of gold “per cubic yard” is found everywhere if that’s what he meant.?
You are right that it is clickbait. Jeff did one 6 months ago about "How to find gold every time in any creek" - Its gotten more than half a million views. The more recent one "How to find gold every time in any creek and hillside" has also been really successful with like 150,00+ views in only a few weeks. That is why he did it even though he never really addresses if there really is gold in every creek or on every hillside. It gets clicks and views.
Many years ago some folks dredged in the Truckee River between Sierra and Virginia streets, and got a number of wedding rings. It used to be a tradition when Reno was the big divorce capital (1930s to early 50s) of the US to toss your wedding ring into the Truckee when the divorce was complete. I even once found a wedding ring at the west end of Wingfield park, likely tossed up on the park during flooding. But all that to say I don't think there is any gold in the Truckee.
@@ChrisRalph Thanks Chris. Too bad...it's such a beautiful river. I missed the last Comstock meeting. I messed up and didn't write it down on my calendar. I was going to ask about the hydraulic pit area high above Slate Creek on St Louis road near La Port. Was told it was heavily claimed and off limits. Anyway, I'm going to order your book right now. I've prospecting now for about 3-4 years and been lucky (~40 grams so far), but still trying to read the river. Last year sucked. Anyway, try to go to Tim's Nugget hunt...maybe see you there.
Actually Jeff has mentioned a condition that his statement is true only if you are looking in gold mining districts... however, he didn't said that repeatedly but has mentioned for sure... so, only in gold mining districts. Sample, sample, sample
@@ChrisRalph ... much appreciated, really thanks for your great content supporting down to earth perspectives, for sure more realistic 🙏 It's easy for Jeff to say something like that... but for myself, I am learning a lot about gold prospecting from everybody (from yourself, Jeff Williams, Two Toe Gary and prospector Jess ) and appreciate more realistic perspective. Now, I haven't seen much of content where gold prospectors using XRF analysers for prospecting, why is that... it seams like great assistance in the field. Even good for sampling and quick in the field assays... I wish somebody could cover topic about these XRF analysers and their diverse usage. Kind regards and thanks for all your perspectives and knowledge !
One of our ICP assays run for platinum in East Texas rivaled our best platinum assays in a platinum bearing volcanic mountain range in Wyoming. We have to see metal in a microscope before we will run an assay. Finding very large commercially viable surface mineable precious metal deposits worthy of putting multi-million dollar investments at risk are challanging to both find and define. I'd say if everybody had access to the extreemly accurate assay technology we have today... we would all find metal deposits in places where most would not expect them to be.
Another good video would be "Given gold is everywhere, can it be recovered using acids or other methods.".... the hazards especially. I would think a few that watched gold is everywhere, went on to find "how to recover gold using aqua-reg"... then got some stump removers, acids, ground up some heavy rocks.. and plopped them in acids to process via many other videos that are out there. Heck, I did. Even got a bit of gold along with a LOT of stuff I had no idea how to handle or identify in the form of salts. Eventually learned how to reduce it back to benign disposable elements, but was a long slow dangerous, expensive, and nasty journey. I am now at a point of once again using gravity to collect all heavies from my creek, and using Jason's smelt methods. Still collecting heavies.. probably be a year to two before I'm ready to smelt them. Very slow process... BUT, much fun getting into creek when time affords, which is where the real treasure exists (ie. - creek time).
If they recovered gold from ores by Aqua Regia, they were idiots. Recovery of scrap, like computer scrap by Aqua Regia is fine, but for ores it is almost always unsuccessful. In the coming months I will be doing videos on leaching gold with a non-toxic leach solution.
@@ChrisRalph Awesome ! I, along with 90% of your viewing audience in micro gold territory, will be eagerly awaiting that one. As a creator, remember this... ** The guy who sells big beautiful discus and angle fish for aquariums made thousands... but the guy who sold sea monkey's made MILLIONS ** Why, because sea monkey's "are" in EVERY CREEK ; ) Keep up the good work and videos & have fun !!
Not so complex ...you just need to know where the old volcanic activity was . Find magnetite lines and start searching in those areas. I love how you guys try to debunk each other.🤷🧐🤔
Did you watch the video? the glacier deposits of the Midwest - Glaciers are not volcanoes. The clay deposits of various parts of the west - sedimentary clay layers are not volcanoes. The beach deposits of various coasts - beach sands are not volcanoes. Sorry, but you really don't know what you are talking about.
Jeff is being a little dishonest with the title, just for reasons of getting more views. Clickbait. It works. I watched it 😅 He does say in the video that you can only find gold in a creek if it’s a gold bearing district.
My brother did a lot of placer mining in ND. He said he always found color but you'd have to pan until the middle of the next century to get enough gold to buy lunch.
I don't think id want to mine yellow stone! Haha, imagine doing a blast in a 200" deep mine, and setoff a super mega volcano Eruption!.. putting the earth into a volcanic winter!
It’s called marketing. He is Alf employees. What do you do for a job? I will bet that Chris Ralph has gotten work from viewers of his program or from his writings for the mining journal.
Not sure what you mean by "He is Alf employees" There is a line between clickbait and good marketing of a title. Sometimes its hard to tell the difference.
You had said - "I will bet that Chris Ralph has gotten work from viewers of his program or from his writings for the mining journal." and the answer is not really. I retired from the mining Journal almost 2 years ago and I don't do consulting or advisement work. I don't do patreon, offer guided trips or other things like that either. I am just as self employed as Jeff is. But I have no complaints about Jeff. Like I said in the video, I watch some of his content and he has made some really good videos over the years.
"gold is where you find it" is a meaningless statement. Its like saying gold is gold. The place where you find it is the place where you find it. It says nothing. We know more about gold than to imply its a total mystery as to where it occurs.
Ironically, diamonds are quite abundant where I live. ....relatively speaking... But I doubt I could find diamonds on my own land, even though they have been found within 15 miles of where I live... Vulcanism at its finest. [HOP HOP HOP!]
You could criticize Jeff Williams....it won't change my opinion of what he represents... _"so c'mon lets go"_ ... lol explain your opinion on the matter !
Respectful criticism is fine. But far too often I see content creators criticize someone else they knew in the same field. Now it generates more views and clicks but I think long term it’s not necessarily good. Constructive criticism is great but ya don’t wanna offend others unless if it’s like something special. If someone is blatantly lying or something and they keep lying about it like saying the annuanki we’re here 500,000 shars ago. Hancock and others assume everything Sumerian used the word shars to mean years so kings lived for 50,000 shars or years when in reality some sources say shars is turning of thr sun or day. It makes Sumerian stories way more believable if you hear a king ruled for 50,000 days and not 50,000 years. Thats like an extreme form of promoting falsehoods cause literally it’s so different or extreme between the two day or year.
It seems that even tho gold is nearly $3k an ounce, even the best skilled gold finders need you tube and tic toc to supplement their income. If gold was easy to find I'm sure you wouldn't be making videos at all.
No, I find commercial scale gold too, and sell that to mining companies. I cover this in a few videos, but its an advanced topic not for the average prospector. There are guys who make a living on just finds. I have enough other income that I dont really "need" TH-cam.
Are you aware of a 12 year old boy finding a 17 lb. gold nugget in Concord, N.C., near Charlorre. And later a 26 lb nugget was found in the same area . This was in the late 1800's . Lots of gold has been mined in Va. I never hear anyone talking about the gold found here in the eastern part of the U.S. I love your program ! There is much to learn about prospecting !
Lots of gold has come from N. C. and other eastern states. Access is an Issue because almost all is private property .
That's what now is Reeds Gold Mine in Midland, NC. about a hour away from me
Cheers Chris👍👍👍……congrats on reaching 100k🥳🥳🥳…well deserved 👍
That is very kind of you. Thank you so much 😀
Good job.
I'd dig prospecting with you anywhere or anytime...
Or Jeff or Dan or Jason...
I've found quite a few respectable channels.
All you guys give good insight.
Thanks 👍 Best of luck to you in your prospecting efforts.
Two Toes Prospecting is really good too. They all make wages on more user interactions and words and terms like secret, every time, anywhere, hack, etc, excite people. This is a good video. I like Chris and Jeff as a fellow geoscientists, I also like Two Toes as a non degree holding but profoundly educated prospector.
🔮I wanted to ask you for your opinion as a professional prospector on the similar subject of passing the soil in the Golden Cube but with a machine of my invention. I bought 2 pipes of 12 feet in length (4 inches in diameter) + 24 feet of grooved agricultural drain (4 inches in diameter & 1 cm depth). I cut the pipes horizontally, then into two 6-foot segments, so I make a vertical rack 6 x 2 x 6 feet high, with the 8 black half-pipes + half-drain segment and a mini-sluice Dream Mat at the top in order to bring water through the pump. I calculated that the finishing sluice gives 48 feet in length, so 1 to 3 buckets of Black Sand should deposit the majority of the nuggets, flakes and gold dust in the grooves and there should be none left in the 8th bottom pipe. At the end after a few buckets, I wash the agricultural drains in a recycling plastic container and filter everything with a boiler screen kit from 1/20 to 1/100 inch in order to collect all the dust or even up to with the dimensions of gold atoms. Ralph, is this 50 foot filtration machine a good idea instead of only having 1 to 3 foot mini-sluices which do not capture all the microscopic gold dust (5 ppm, 20 ppm, 100 ppm, etc)? If I repass the recycling soil 2 times, it make a 100 feet Sluice Machine and probably let about 0 gold particules. www.maxi-drain.ca/produits/
I don't know if your product will work as expected. Making sluices super long has been tried many times before. It doesn't usually make much of an improvement. But who knows, maybe yours will be different.
Awesome, Chris! Thanks for the presentation!
Glad you liked it!
Only if all the mineralization is in place in the area you're looking for gold then you'll find gold if certain minerals are missing during the volcanic activity in the past then you won't find gold it's as simple as that
I watch Jeff on occasion, and he has taught me a lot. My only problem with him is... how do I put this,... he's too loud and enthusiastic. It kinda jangles the nerves.
I love watching you, Chris! You are a GREAT teacher. I hope to run into you here in Reno, so I can thank you in person!
Thank you very much for the compliment.
Since I'm a nobody I'll say that I WAS a patreon of Mr. Williams. He surely knows his "stuff" but all he does is try to sell memberships and stuff. Watching yours now.
But this video is only very little about Jeff, its about the issue of gold being everywhere.
That's grreat! Less JW more you! I say.@@ChrisRalph
It can be difficult to stay on topic. I was Paralleled thinking about the distribution of plated, filled, and Karat gold is nearby most people. But Natural gold - global distribution is on topic. It's just that the scrap guys are regularly processing 50 troy oz pure gold every year.
Donaldhoot
You may find Jeff William asking for membership to be annoying but it’s fine. A man’s gotta eat. They’re not billionaires bored so they make movies for fun.
Jeff Williams links to the book fistful of gold by Chris Ralph. Selling a book maybe different than a membership but it’s still a product that supports the content creator.
In my view I think it’s great you see Jeff Williams supporting his book. It’s how I found this channel by Chris Ralph. But ya, people need to be less upset about people trying to earn a living or derive revenue somehow while creating tons of free information packed videos.
It’s the body builder mark smells or something said. People hate that he makes money selling rubber bands for weight lifting but it helps him be literally more financial free and make more fun videos.
What? Keyboard diarrhea.@@koltoncrane3099
I would watch a video titled: _Finding Tiny Amounts of Gold in Somewhat Surprising Locations__
Or: _Finding Gold that's Barely Visible to the Naked Eye in Geologically Unfavorable Locations_
Or: _You Probably Don't Think There's Gold in the Oregon Coast Range (for Good Reason), but There's a Tiny Little Bit in the Tillamook Highlands_
But I'm not sure how many other people would. 😊 TH-cam is a cutthroat place and eyeballs are hard to come by, hence clickbaity titles, unfortunately.
Underneath all the schtick and the clickbait, Jeff does indeed know what he's talking about.
As I stated really plainly at the start, this was not a video to criticize Jeff. And Yep, tiny amounts of gold can be found in in a surprisingly large number of places.
thank you for sharing!
@@ChrisRalph - Yup, I know you made the point that you weren't criticizing him. Just for the benefit of folks not familiar with Jeff, I thought I would reiterate that he is very knowledgeable -- especially as people could get a different impression based on his thumbnails and his shtick and stuff.
Yes he absolutely does. He used to anoy TF out of me 10 years ago when I first discovered him, but the more I watched and actually listed to his content he seriously know his sh*t. Of course so does this man here lol 🤙🏼
@@Shaftley69 You said it perfectly! but because of the rest of your comment, I'm going to watch again. Thanks!
So glad I can picture a 'skim bar' now, another deposition model to consider in the field. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful.
You sir, are a Scholar and an honest content creator. Your book is great, by the way.
Thanks for the kind words, I appreciate that!
The gold concentration map is a keeper! Thanks, Chris!
Thanks. Glad it was helpful.
The most detailed skin bar video I’ve seen so far! Thank you for your explanations they always are top notch
Glad it was helpful!
Good information, as always!
Glad you think so!
I keep running across interesting and unusual (to me) articles about gold on the internet. Today I ran across a n intersting article at the "New Scientist" called "Antarctic Gold Dust". It said that volcanic gases emiting from Mt
Erabus in Alaska, contain tiny specs of gold are being blown out that are between 0.1 and 20 micrometres and ones 60 micrometres are found in the nearby snow. Many of these tiny particles that form as tiny crystals are
being blown by the wind many miles away. The article estimates Mt. Erebus emits only 80 grams of gold dust a day.
I found this article fascinating, and thought, if you hadn't already heard about it, that you'd like to hear about it too.❤
First, Mt. Erabus is in Antarctica, not Alaska. There are a couple volcanoes like this - but they emit thousands of pounds of volcanic dust, a small part of which is gold. The volcano has been active for around 1.3 million years and has a long-lived lava lake in its inner summit crater that has been present since at least the early 1970s.
Another great video, straightforward, informative, and thorough yet concise. Have yet to find a better source to learn from. Me and my dad have made a habit of listening to your videos heading up the hill to our spot. Thanks again for sharing your wisdom,
-C
Thanks for the very kind words. I'm glad it was helpful!
Thanks Chris, just gave you a subscribe! Question: do you know of any general areas in Colorado & Washington State that one can prospect without needing a claim?
I have a whole video on prospecting opportunities in Colorado.... See: th-cam.com/video/Ij1RXJkVfuE/w-d-xo.html
I love how talk about all the hard work that is involved in gold prospecting, nothing truly valuable in any sense can come without hard work. I really liked your video, it was very genuine. Your book was also presented realy well👍
Thank you. Being honest about things is what I do.
Also, as a child our beach spot was called 'wash away beach' you could see the gold sheen behind some driftwood. Being young i never figured out how to get it, ive tried as an adult and its very very fine, and Washington is super regulated.
Very true that Washington is super regulated. I've panned some Washington beach gold, and you are right that its super fine.
What area?
If you had a decent size boat or barge. With a few 4"-8" pumps , build a few nozzle bars , similar to pool vacuums That follows the floor of the ocean or river, like at the beach, in alaska. And use a sleuce similar to a giant gold cube. Or a spiral sleuce , i even saw someone attempting to buid a under water / submerged sleuce. Seems it would be possible, it may require the sluce to run up hill. Using a pump plenty large enough. And being sealed similar to a water pipe, so there is nearly a laminar flow inside. To prevent freezing, and to conseal, so not that much need!
Remember the average gravels are super low grade.....
Thank you for comments about access issues in NC and eastern US. Rivers, streams, and gravel beds in sharp bends are often worth prosessing the concentrates. Sluicing is very labor intensive but reveals the potential of an area .
There certainly is gold in the east.
Always great info Chris😊
Glad you think so!
Got a couple of questions for you Chris. First I want to thank you for passing on all your knowledge. Im new to this hobby. Now I have come to the conclusion that the western united states has most of the gold. When you talk about using a metal detector you say to go to old gold mines, check their tailings and the ground around the site. We dont have that here. So I have been panning some brooks and one river in my area. I go on the inside of curves dig some holes there, and behind big rocks.Sometimes I dig down as much as 3 feet. I haven't found any black sand. So ether there is no black sand. Or the bed rock is much deeper than I can reach. Or there is no clay bed taking the place of the of the bed rock. I see Garnets and garnet sand. Alot of mica and quarts. There are some people putting out video's telling people that there is gold in my sand and I need to get it out with chemicals. I did use a powerful lupe 60x and 90x, and I could see a few pieces of gold. Is it worth the time and money to extract this microscopic gold? Thanks Chris. I'm learning alot from you and others. Mark.
First, no its not worth it unless you see loads and loads of fine gold with your magnification. I don't know where you are searching so hard for me to suggest anything. As I said in the video, there is gold in many places, but its not really everywhere.
@@ChrisRalph Thanks Ralph. I'm searching in Maine. The glaciers came through new england too. Maybe they didn't leave as much as the midwest.
I've seen large multi-ounce nuggets from Maine, and not from glacier material.
Love your videos Chris your a man with extreme knowledge and I try and soak it up like a sponge!👍🏾🇺🇸⛏️
Thanks 👍 Glad you are enjoying the videos
I have some rocks in the front yard that came from the hill across the street, where there is an old abandoned mine and diggings. These rocks may be crushed soon and checked, as the more I watch your videos, the more I get exciting (and crazy) ideas :)
I wish you the best of luck. Is the old mine an old gold mine?
Not really sure, this is an old volcanic area with a lot of crystalline desposits, quartz, reds and blacks in the rocks, small and large veins, so I would hope so. Not a large mine near me but over the hill someone was mining down into the hill as of last year.
I put a lot of hours into panning and metal detecting around an old placer mine from the 50's in Colorado. I've only ever seen 6 specs in a pan. Any signal on my detector is always junk. I think it's mostly you have to move a lot of dirt through a big sluice to get a little bit. It doesn't work so well with a backpack considering they were using back hoes and dozens of guys with aqua ducts.
Digging in the wrong spots can be unproductive. Hard for me to say what the problems is.
Well, I lived in central Indiana for 37 years and never knew a thing that there was gold in Indiana. Now I live in Florida with gold fever!
For gold, you were better off in Indiana - but they do have beaches to metal detect in Florida.
I’m in a non gold producing area and found small flakes on streams and rivers. Northern Maine.
Yes, there is a little gold in Maine, but I have seen big nuggets from Maine.
Flour Gold Wizard has really good success pulling up gold from the beaches of the Great Lakes.
Like I said in the video, there is small amounts of gold, mostly very fine sized, spread throughout the Midwest, and that includes the Great Lakes Region.
I've never panned for gold. Your videos make me want to give it a try.
You should give it a try, you might enjoy it, and the excitement of the finds.
@@ChrisRalph 👍
I live on a creek up in washington. I have been in it, under every rock, every bar and bank and nothing. 4 miles away a creek has flour gold easily found. Id guess theres microscopic gold here but not a flash in the pan after years. Its all the same hill, same basltic bedrock. Across the valley another creek produces flour also just less.
What region? West, south north? East? Are you deep in channel. Flood gold strange animal. Lot of heavies, sulfides? Glacial till? Do you have exposed basalt in creek?
Somewhere in those streams with fine gold, there is some type of source.
@@ChrisRalph with your help I'll be working on that again this summer. You have a fine channel here Chris, I appreciate your pursuit of knowledge and willingness to share.
Good video. People shouldn't be encouraged that there's recoverable gold in any stream, it just fuels the yellow rock people that waste their own time and others.
Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video.
Thanks Chris, again very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Love this type of video. I would imagine 90% of the viewing audience of these types of videos live in regions considered non-gold bearing and would enjoy recreational time in a creek panning... if for only a single fly spec of gold. Good stuff Chris.
I agree.
"ONYA CHRIS" NOW THAT WAS A REALLY REALLY INTERESTING TOPIC & YOU COVERED IT VERY VERY WELL.SHANE AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺
Thanks, Shane.
Thanks Chris. Great information in this video and your book. 👍👍⛏️
Glad you enjoyed it!
I am interested in the Chinle Formation Gold since I grew up in Chinle, Arizona. Yes the Chiinle Formation is just about everywhere in Northern Arizona.
And wherever the clay layers are exposed, there is some gold.
Chris are the prospector clubs down here in Arizona good to check out?
roadrunners and several others are good.
Mohave Prospectors and Havasu gold seekers are good clubs as well.@@ChrisRalph
Imet some of the ynots afew yrs ago you might check out the weaver mining district
Out by Rich hill and the old Rock house
They had 750 available acres to prospect on
I dont know how much is available now...any way. Beautiful area.
I think the GPPA has rights to the Lucky Linda mine
Its out near its out by indecision corner
I live in the bituminous coal area of central PA, my family owned open pit mines up till the millennium and I’ve never heard of anyone saying gold is present. Very interesting information I want to see if there is any gold in the crick by my house
If your family worked in coal mines it’d be interesting to hear if they found anything cool. I listened to the archaix channel and I guess in the 1800s people burning lump charcoal sometimes found all sorts of weird things like hammers or jewelry or artifacts like as if coal seams contained unexplained artifacts. A more likely explanation is people threw things in the coal piles as trash, but seeing photos of hammers in rock sort of makes of ya wonder if there was human civilization millions of years ago.
The Canadian glacial area in Penn. touches the NE corner of the state and I don't think it extends into Central PA.
@@ChrisRalph I’ve heard this as well also in the south eastern part of the state there’s a rich vein still producing. My uncle is a geologist he works with his brothers land surviving company doing permitting work for mines. I have 2.5 yrs aT Penn State for Hydrology and have spent 20 years dredging working Army Corp projects I find your knowledge fascinating thank you for sharing!
Chris has declared war on Jeff Williams! So c'mon, LET'S GOOOO!!!
(I know you said this wasn't that. Hahaha Just couldn't resist!)
Jeff is popular with a lot of folks and I honestly have nothing against him.
Ya I think it’s great when people can critique or add additional info to their peers without all the unnecessary drama that this crazy world for some reason loves. Good to support each other and simply be constructive.
It’s like the other day I was on TH-cam and saw all the drama about Ben Shapiro firing candence. I just watched a few minutes cause it’s shocking but stopped watching cause of the drama.
@@ChrisRalph Yeah, I his stuff is great. Glad I've got both of you to learn from!
@@koltoncrane3099 Agreed.
And I do that at the beach. I am happy that I wondered onto you're channel.
Welcome aboard! Glad you liked the video.
well done !!!!
Thanks!
my friend in oklahoma was drilling a water well and hit gold vien ar about 1200 ft, no placer in thar area,
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks bro! But I'm in Evans pretty sure there's no gold here but ill check your videos for anything on rubys. I herd there here.
Pretty sure your question was not "are there gold deposits within the city limits of Evans?" - But I get like 200 comments a day so I don't' remember each and every one in detail.
detecting Northern California creek bedrock (in the water) for nuggets with my 5000 and Sadie coil is my favorite prospecting.
Sounds like fun.
Chris, where can I get some lidar maps of the East fork, San Gabriel River
Not sure. I plan to do a lidar video in the coming months.
Id like to hear you talk about eastern up state n.y and western Vermont.
I've never been to that part of the country.
@@ChrisRalph take a trip out this way some time
Tread lightly. Jeff Williams is the g.o.a.t. of gold prospecting content and has said nice things about you.
Did you watch the video? Did you hear my positive comments about Jeff?
He said nothing negative. Don’t be trying to start s**t!🙄
What about the Appalachian mountains and its foot hills? The mines i know of locally was 1790's -1840's
The Appalachian Mountains have gold in them in various places.
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here in nc we got a lot of grey blue slate with small golf flakes and maganese wads and black strings with quarts ,blue and rose red color and purple from the maganese. loop at 20x and some i found with 40x,just not enough for mining. some assay say 90% maganese and 10 % gold i was told. hoping to assay and see if the gold here is microscopic. any help would be helpful thanks chris.
I don't have in info on the type of gold you might have, so I don't have much to offer.
@@ChrisRalph finding sulfur and sliver grey and yellow sulfides with some color, i think most of golds and sliver here will be micro or flour size,more help and info on assaying, we have 4 geologic zones here behind my house. Maybe next time your this way to tn/nc line stop by. old timers would roast the ore over fire and sweat it out,one mine i know they done that to separate it from maganese.
So you’re saying I should check around Hot Springs and places that nature
Perhaps one in a thousand hot springs hVe an associated gold deposit.
great video
Lets go metal detecting soon. I'm friends with Miner John.
Sounds good, but I have no idea who Mr. actionmusic1172 is.
I'm glad you mentioned in Ohio we have an area with sand and gravel mines I've heard of guys panning some of it but not profitable to was pre wash the sand and gravel for gold but o have heard of a mine who does pre wash for gold because it's very profitable for them in not sure if the mine was in Ohio or Michigan
I'm not really sure about your case, but often the gold will accumulate in the sand screw in many aggregate plants.
@@ChrisRalph I have heard that also not sure if it's anything to write home about lol I'm an amateur prospector and just pan for the fun your videos are always informative thanks
I criticized that video about ‘finding gold everywhere’ as Clickbait. But maybe “not” economically viable gold is found in microscopic micron qualities like a small fraction of 1c penny ‘or’ 1c penny ‘or’ $1 dollar worth of gold “per cubic yard” is found everywhere if that’s what he meant.?
You are right that it is clickbait. Jeff did one 6 months ago about "How to find gold every time in any creek" - Its gotten more than half a million views. The more recent one "How to find gold every time in any creek and hillside" has also been really successful with like 150,00+ views in only a few weeks. That is why he did it even though he never really addresses if there really is gold in every creek or on every hillside. It gets clicks and views.
Chris, does the Truckee River have gold?
Many years ago some folks dredged in the Truckee River between Sierra and Virginia streets, and got a number of wedding rings. It used to be a tradition when Reno was the big divorce capital (1930s to early 50s) of the US to toss your wedding ring into the Truckee when the divorce was complete. I even once found a wedding ring at the west end of Wingfield park, likely tossed up on the park during flooding. But all that to say I don't think there is any gold in the Truckee.
@@ChrisRalph Thanks Chris. Too bad...it's such a beautiful river. I missed the last Comstock meeting. I messed up and didn't write it down on my calendar. I was going to ask about the hydraulic pit area high above Slate Creek on St Louis road near La Port. Was told it was heavily claimed and off limits. Anyway, I'm going to order your book right now. I've prospecting now for about 3-4 years and been lucky (~40 grams so far), but still trying to read the river. Last year sucked. Anyway, try to go to Tim's Nugget hunt...maybe see you there.
Hahaha @@ChrisRalph
great info, and I picked up the book
Thanks, glad you like the video, I think you will enjoy the book.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed the video, I'm sure you will like the book.
Actually Jeff has mentioned a condition that his statement is true only if you are looking in gold mining districts... however, he didn't said that repeatedly but has mentioned for sure... so, only in gold mining districts. Sample, sample, sample
As I said multiple times, I'm not trying to cut down Jeff. Even in gold districts, the gold is not everywhere.
@@ChrisRalph ... much appreciated, really thanks for your great content supporting down to earth perspectives, for sure more realistic 🙏 It's easy for Jeff to say something like that... but for myself, I am learning a lot about gold prospecting from everybody (from yourself, Jeff Williams, Two Toe Gary and prospector Jess ) and appreciate more realistic perspective. Now, I haven't seen much of content where gold prospectors using XRF analysers for prospecting, why is that... it seams like great assistance in the field. Even good for sampling and quick in the field assays... I wish somebody could cover topic about these XRF analysers and their diverse usage. Kind regards and thanks for all your perspectives and knowledge !
Thanks very much Cris
Cheers
Rob
Glad it was helpful!
The beautiful thing about the geology of the earths crust is the more we know... the more we discover how much we don't know.!
There is always more to learn.
One of our ICP assays run for platinum in East Texas rivaled our best platinum assays in a platinum bearing volcanic mountain range in Wyoming.
We have to see metal in a microscope before we will run an assay.
Finding very large commercially viable surface mineable precious metal deposits worthy of putting multi-million dollar investments at risk are challanging to both find and define.
I'd say if everybody had access to the extreemly accurate assay technology we have today... we would all find metal deposits in places where most would not expect them to be.
Interesting thought.
I'm watching your hand gestures and it remind me of the puppeteers on the Muppets like the swedish chef very similar I think old sesame Street also
Ok.
Another good video would be "Given gold is everywhere, can it be recovered using acids or other methods.".... the hazards especially. I would think a few that watched gold is everywhere, went on to find "how to recover gold using aqua-reg"... then got some stump removers, acids, ground up some heavy rocks.. and plopped them in acids to process via many other videos that are out there. Heck, I did. Even got a bit of gold along with a LOT of stuff I had no idea how to handle or identify in the form of salts. Eventually learned how to reduce it back to benign disposable elements, but was a long slow dangerous, expensive, and nasty journey. I am now at a point of once again using gravity to collect all heavies from my creek, and using Jason's smelt methods. Still collecting heavies.. probably be a year to two before I'm ready to smelt them. Very slow process... BUT, much fun getting into creek when time affords, which is where the real treasure exists (ie. - creek time).
If they recovered gold from ores by Aqua Regia, they were idiots. Recovery of scrap, like computer scrap by Aqua Regia is fine, but for ores it is almost always unsuccessful. In the coming months I will be doing videos on leaching gold with a non-toxic leach solution.
@@ChrisRalph Awesome ! I, along with 90% of your viewing audience in micro gold territory, will be eagerly awaiting that one. As a creator, remember this... ** The guy who sells big beautiful discus and angle fish for aquariums made thousands... but the guy who sold sea monkey's made MILLIONS ** Why, because sea monkey's "are" in EVERY CREEK ; ) Keep up the good work and videos & have fun !!
Not so complex ...you just need to know where the old volcanic activity was . Find magnetite lines and start searching in those areas. I love how you guys try to debunk each other.🤷🧐🤔
Did you watch the video? the glacier deposits of the Midwest - Glaciers are not volcanoes. The clay deposits of various parts of the west - sedimentary clay layers are not volcanoes. The beach deposits of various coasts - beach sands are not volcanoes. Sorry, but you really don't know what you are talking about.
I wish to take u around my dads farm in Ghana
Not heading to west Africa again anytime soon.
It takes almost 32 years to count to a billion. I wonder who counts the gold in parts to billion 🤔 Enjoyable video 👍
Thanks friend. Team Jesus for sure.
Does the 32 years include sleep, eating and Bio breaks? 😂😂😂
I found gold flakes in a stream in Northeast Nevada.
That's great . Congratulations.
In Wyoming north western with 660 ft of river
Are you getting some gold out of the river?
Jeff is being a little dishonest with the title, just for reasons of getting more views. Clickbait. It works. I watched it 😅
He does say in the video that you can only find gold in a creek if it’s a gold bearing district.
Some creeks even in gold districts have no gold. You can find gold in every creek that has gold in it.
My brother did a lot of placer mining in ND. He said he always found color but you'd have to pan until the middle of the next century to get enough gold to buy lunch.
Yep. The glacial gravels are very low grade.
In the future, I see the oceans as the source of robotic mining. It’s the place that man has not explored in deapth.
The operational costs are high and 10 million environmentalists will object.
Gold is where u find it
Yes, but that statement tell us nothing.
@@ChrisRalph It's a TH-cam channel of an amateur refining his skills. Pretty neat channel.
You look like one of the guys on Moonshiners.
It is not me. Never watched that show.
Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it.
@@ChrisRalph ordered a copy of your book as well!
Get Ralph's book!!!
Thanks for the recommendation.
I don't think id want to mine yellow stone! Haha, imagine doing a blast in a 200" deep mine, and setoff a super mega volcano Eruption!.. putting the earth into a volcanic winter!
Yah, it just doesn't work like that.
God bless, And god bless jeff williams
Thanks.
It’s called marketing. He is Alf employees. What do you do for a job? I will bet that Chris Ralph has gotten work from viewers of his program or from his writings for the mining journal.
Not sure what you mean by "He is Alf employees" There is a line between clickbait and good marketing of a title. Sometimes its hard to tell the difference.
@@ChrisRalph self employees, love spell check.
You had said - "I will bet that Chris Ralph has gotten work from viewers of his program or from his writings for the mining journal." and the answer is not really. I retired from the mining Journal almost 2 years ago and I don't do consulting or advisement work. I don't do patreon, offer guided trips or other things like that either. I am just as self employed as Jeff is. But I have no complaints about Jeff. Like I said in the video, I watch some of his content and he has made some really good videos over the years.
Best I've heard was gold is where you find it. I mean thats the rule. It does and doesn't have to follow the rules.
"gold is where you find it" is a meaningless statement. Its like saying gold is gold. The place where you find it is the place where you find it. It says nothing. We know more about gold than to imply its a total mystery as to where it occurs.
He says in a gold bearing districts
Yes, I says that.
Ironically, diamonds are quite abundant where I live.
....relatively speaking...
But I doubt I could find diamonds on my own land, even though they have been found within 15 miles of where I live...
Vulcanism at its finest.
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I don't know if I would describe that amount as "quite abundant".
Delicious
Do you live in Arkansas? I remember a video saying they got a state diamond park or something.
Probably on the Colorado / Wyoming border Kelsey Lake District…. lol 🤙🏼
I dare you to come to the Mississippi delta and find gold.
Did you even watch the video??? If you had, you would not have made that comment.
Thursday down
Thursday is done.
You could criticize Jeff Williams....it won't change my opinion of what he represents... _"so c'mon lets go"_ ... lol explain your opinion on the matter !
I explained about the topic of "can one find gold in every creek and on every hillside" in the video.
Respectful criticism is fine. But far too often I see content creators criticize someone else they knew in the same field. Now it generates more views and clicks but I think long term it’s not necessarily good. Constructive criticism is great but ya don’t wanna offend others unless if it’s like something special. If someone is blatantly lying or something and they keep lying about it like saying the annuanki we’re here 500,000 shars ago. Hancock and others assume everything Sumerian used the word shars to mean years so kings lived for 50,000 shars or years when in reality some sources say shars is turning of thr sun or day. It makes Sumerian stories way more believable if you hear a king ruled for 50,000 days and not 50,000 years. Thats like an extreme form of promoting falsehoods cause literally it’s so different or extreme between the two day or year.
It seems that even tho gold is nearly $3k an ounce, even the best skilled gold finders need you tube and tic toc to supplement their income. If gold was easy to find I'm sure you wouldn't be making videos at all.
No, I find commercial scale gold too, and sell that to mining companies. I cover this in a few videos, but its an advanced topic not for the average prospector. There are guys who make a living on just finds. I have enough other income that I dont really "need" TH-cam.
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Thanks.