I Just Found My BIGGEST Placer GOLD Nugget
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ม.ค. 2025
- After working underground in our Gold mine, I decide to try metal detecting for Gold nuggets using our Minelab Gold Monster 1000. What I found was my biggest Gold Nugget ever for the New Year . Talk about Record Breaking. These will make a perfect gift for a Premium Patron .
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Would you come down and work an entire day in the Drift mine and keep all the Gold you can carry out. Let us know...( wink wink ) Watch our 7 year project video " Exploring Nevada's Ghost Towns and Mining Camps " starring my Pop's th-cam.com/video/5GSMOMXsPUM/w-d-xo.html and smash that like button ...SMASH it HARD !!!!
20 years ago maybe, but at this point I'm so old I'm farting dust and pissin rust 😎
Yes I would I'm a little taller than you but for the opportunity to meet you and check out your operation would be worth my weight in gold. Which at today's price would be about a billion dollars LoL
Just let me know the day and I will be on the way for that giant pay day :)
I’ll bring the beans! You’re makin me wanna start a drift on a secret spot of mine that is said to have values at bedrock, wherever that is. Never been explored by humans but multiple reports make good mention that it should be investigated. Lemme know if you get bored over your way, you can come help me. 🤪
Sounds like a mr.beast challenge I wouldn't mind.
Drift mine videos are always my absolute favorite thank you so much Jeff and family
you betcha my brother
Agreed
Unfortunately I couldn't go in the mine or go down and clean that for ya I would freeze up and probably croak😂😆🤣
Jeff, don't change a thing, love the shouts, cowboy coffee, beans and eggs with eggshells, and big nuggets. Thank you! Keep digging!
Yes!
Yes, this
Back in the MINE finding BIG CHUNKS OF GOLD! And prehistoric washers.
Thank you, Jeff, & Lila!
Always keeping the enthusiasm high.....
Nice to see how you and wife work together on these projects.
Happy spouse, happy house.
Happy drift mine, happy Valentine.
I always enjoy watching you down in the drift mine.
Been watching from the beginning.
Great stuff Jeff
I didnt think it was boring at all. I appreciate you sharing.
I miss this stuff. Even the 'boring' parts.
Thanks for the photos of a few years back... It was good to see the shots of when you were a "wee" one and seeing your Dad's photos was awesome !!! Best Wishes And Thanks Again !!!!
The 6 million dollar man is my favorite part of the show! Other than your fine wife pulling out those hunker nuggets!! Love you guys...
NEVER tire of the 6 Million Dollar Man segments! Always the highlight of my week, totally energizes me to get moving when I feel lazy!
So, you’re just going to ignore the fact that you found a washer below the level you expect to find dinosaur bones? No big deal, a T-Rex probably dropped it and couldn’t pick it up with its short arms.
65 mil years old washer, nothing to see here 😏
And right next to an oz nugget ...how is it possible?
Soooooooo stoked for the VHS footage!!!!
As a child of the 80's I came for the gold but stayed for the music!!! Go Jeff...better...stronger...faster!!!
I own an old tungsten mine in AZ near Bagdad with 9 other guys that’s 300 acres. It was founded in 1941 and closed down in 1962. Some of us have metal detectors and we find small gold nuggets in the washes after it rains hard. It’s a lot of work to dig out though. If we had nuggets like that I’d be there more. Jeff was the washer a joke? How did it get imbedded in rock?
Awesome dig Jeff..! Also shows good depth from the gold monster… well done…!
I ENJOYED IT JUST WELL,SO DONT CHANGE..HANGING OUT IN A WORKING MINE,I DIG IT..HAPPY NEW YEAR YOU 2,BEST WISHES.
Jeff I think you could build a box the same dimension as the bottom of your sump that has tie ins at all 4 corners and just leave it at the bottom. Then when you need to clean the bottom, you just pull the box up.
or a heavy duty tarp
Material handling bags that are durable and can handle rock sand gravel etc. Most have load rated lifting straps.
@@Askjeffwilliams Kevlar bags do the trick, they are tough and don't shred.
Woooo! The drift!!!!
I appreciate the OLD SCHOOL music! Old school is better than new school!😂❤😎🤠Great video!
I wish i had time to go pillage and plunder my local goldfields, thanks for keeping the bug alive through your vids, excelent and emotional episode. BS y FP
What an awesome find. Congratulations, listening to the wife is paying off!
As an amateur carpenter, I'm impressed. As an amateur gold miner, IM IMPRESSED.
But how did that washer get there?!
Last comment: getting that nugget with a Jeff Williams mining scar would make it x10 more valubale in my opinion!
Neat all the sashimono techniques in mine infrastructure, eh? :-)
Wow! Jeff you sure do honor your Father with your work.
You ROCK!🪨✨
thank you ...he was and always will be the very Best Pops a son could ever hope to have
The long hair with bangs was a rad picture!!! Heavy Metal all day!!
you know it brother
DON'T change a thing!!! Great videos as always 🤟
Watching you work so hard on a Sunday is always a pleasure! 💪🏻😉 YELL MORE!!! Maybe I’ll retain the lessons. Thanks Jeff!
Those of us that actually wanna do that love seeing the details like that. Ive been watching you since about 2014. My biggest problem is i live in Central Arkansas and not a lot of gold found here. I have panned in the black hills of SD, Sanda Fe NM, and W Texas but I was already in those places for work. Gonna have to plan some trips for fun soon as i finish my dredge and trommel. Thanks a bunch for all you share!!
you betcha Bobby
Jeff and your wife you're doing a great job, keep up all the hard work . Thank you very much.
I just ran an underground electrical conduit 28 feet through equally hard caliche. One entire 9 hour day to dig a 12 inch deep trench. Top 6 inches was soft, desert soft and fluffy. The bottom 6 inches,,,, it would have been easier to dig through a concrete sidewalk. Pick and heavy steel spud bar, I feel for you ,Jeff. 63.7 million year old washer.
Hey Jeff, I always watch your new video each week and as I was watching this one my daughter was sitting at the kitchen table. It seems you have discovered a new entertainment genre. As you were using the pick and making the metal detector go crazy, my daughter said, it sounds like Jeff is playing Gold Miner Techno! So congratulations on your new music career!
thats great and me and Slim will have to work on a tune ...tell your daughter thank you for us and rock on .....
Jeff you love using your little scooper so much, all the back and forth to the detector. You should create the first pin pointer metal detector scooper??? Great find!
great idea
Always a pleasure watching your videos. Entertaining and educational, love it. Thanks Jeff, been watching you since 2015.
Jeff, I'm in Western Colorado. I bought some books and they say they used to find placer gold in the San Miguel River. But I'm still recovering from surgeries. Couldn't walk at all for a while but now I'm back on my feet, barely. I sure wish I was young again. I'm gonna have to do it vicariously through you and Lila! Rock on!
I'm down in the San Luis Valley and I'll post some videos if and when I find something
thanks and heal up quick my brother ....there is Gold waiting to be found
Morning my guy. Have a blessed day!
Never before did I do the nugget dance right along with you! Love,love,love the drift boss! Dig baby dig. And don't be such a baby about that red thing. Someday they might name it after you!
....NEVER EVER boring jeff...thanks for sharing your knowlege.
Thank you Jeff for all the videos! I lived in Prescott Arizona for 14 years and fell in love with panning. Never found much but some dust and a lot of fun times♥️
Jeff, This is one of your best show and tell you have done of late, not meaning that the past haven't been great info, but thanks again for the interesting video and the story telling...Later
Thank you Jeff for all your adventures and enthusiasm. You make my day!
I would leave the cold PA weather . It is to be 9F on Tuesday here. Don't know if I could do it again but sure it would be an experience I would never forget.
Jeff is going to pull out that $6,000,000 nugget one of these days.
Heck with that pick. That hammer drill is the way to go!
Congrats on that nugget Jeff!!!
Love the old pics! Thanks for sharing parts of you and your Pop's journey! It's so amazing and educational at the same time.
you betcha Michael
I wasn't More than 20 seconds in to this video and it brought me back to the video of your father, which you Produced and Directed of him Riding in on a horse , perfect, Dressed to a T , talking about the Pioneer saloon , GALENA..."Lead for you tinhorns" etc... UNFORGETTABLE Jeff , you know the video .....I think you should link that to this post on your channel for all to see.Just my opinion🎉 I loved it and I miss that dude . Your Buddy Rick , a subscriber for over a decade!
Always interesting, educational, and inspiring. Big thanks, Jeff 💥
Always suspenfull of what you two will find. Thanks for sharing. Keep us engaged with your work 😊
I love your videos of the daily upkeep that shows the reality of mining , and ya I would get down there and work and learn so much.
Entire video is great. More about mine construction - particular to physics like those that a highschooler would need to know. Your videos on geology are educationally amazing
thanks ....we can do that
Not boring at all, Jeff. Appreciate the reality of it all. Keep er up.
We are all about the realism of your videos, whether you're mining, taking a walk showing us stuff. We were hoping for a video about what you do when you get your hands dirty in the mine... Keep them coming Jeff, we are getting into doing it so we need your stuff. Lol
Wow, you are lucky to have all those memories of your dad and lots of VHS videos to watch and relive the past!!! ❤
Sheesh. You are the OG. Original Gangsta, and Original Gold (Magnet).
Idea;
Decorate your entrance with some creative looking gold paint. Basically paint what a thick horizontal gold vain would look like.
Maybe not a river but at least a creek of gold…
Yes mining is 99% tedius maintenance, a bit like war 99% boredom, 1% action
Yes, but there is nothing more dangerous than a bored Marine.
Hey brother,,,, I love the fact your showing the real behind the scenes work of working underground mine.
I make my kid watch your channel to show her what her father does to put food on the table and pay for her education & life needs .
My ideas would be an electric walk behind skid loader and a mini electric excavator with a hammer attachment. No need for a track system and less back breaking work. Although your tunnels would need to be made slightly larger for the machines to fit and turn around. I would also recommend putting a jumbo sand and sample bag lining the sump to catch anything that misses the skip bucket. When it needs cleaned out, just remove the bucket and hoist the bag up to the surface
😂😂😂 dedication to your channel! Carrying a VHS tape down into your mine to visually describe your mining background 😂😂😂 that is the definition of "fully invested"
Love it 👌
I liked the old videos. It was nice to see that you weren't always crazy!
Educational and entertaining. That's what I love about your videos.
Mad respect brother 🤘
Your dad has a killer stash
Great work on the mine history, I hope you get em all digitized!❤
Congrats Jeff. Keep on digging
Excellent Video Jeff and Crew, Love your impersonation of Capt Kirk and Kahn.... CLASSIC. NICE NUGGET BROTHER!! You bring "The Fever" every Video, Keep Drifting BROTHER!!!! TNT
WOW AMAZING FIND CONGRATULATIONS JEFF
Thankyou for posting more than just the "good" stuff. Lots of little tricks to learn!
I enjoy the energy you have, It is awesome. Keep it up
I can't thank you enough for mentioning Lawrence Welk!
Mr. Jeff Williams... you're the most entertaining dude ever and now knowing your background... can't wait to watch your early adventures with your father... and you are going to find that river of gold soon... lol... absolutely love your videos!!
thanks
It's why I like panning for gold. You have to dig to find Colorado gold. I always wanted to actually help out in a gold mine.
We have over a foot of snow on the ground here in Indiana. So I really enjoy watching your videos on a day like this.
Your videos are fine! Don’t let the haters get to you we can’t lose another prospecting channel!
VHS good idea. I won’t be surprised you’ll become a real icon, I know you are. IM PROUD OF YOU SLIMI JIM !
Morning Jeff. Howdy from Georgia.
good morning
Noooice! You get a new cam? looks all good man. Btw, how does a metal washer end up in that hardpack..... dinosaurs building stuff? 😅
It's official. Jeff Williams had the coolest ROCKer hair of the mining industry back in the day. Pun intended and also not intended ..I think.
Thanks for the awesome videos and look forward to the VHS!
These are my favorite types of videos .....drift mining!!! Excellent find. Keep up the great work and stay loud😂😂😂
Awesome video Jeff! Just what I needed this morning. Nuggets are getting bigger....what did the Macho Man say?? " I'm gonna say it loud"...the rest was hard to hear...Oh YEAH! Looking forward to your digitized VHS series. Keep mining ⛏️!
Hey, Jeff I wanted to give you a Little help on the clean up on the muck. Use a flat trowel and a margin trowel to help scrape up the fine muck then use your shovel. ( I’m only mentioning it as i seen you using your hands.)
A muck sheet would be awfully handy too!
@@ElementofKindness we have a muck sheet ( wood )
Looking forward to the digital archive Jeff, you're a legend bud.
thanks ....we know you guys will love it
I'm glad you went to school because this is your passion you are a true gold minor I like the knowledge that I've learned from you
That old guy with beautiful white hair was your dad . How precious.
Looks like a great mine you got there!Would love to come out and help you.Me and my dad use to dig open old gold mines in California when I was a teenager and go into them to see what was left behind.Love watching your videos.Keep mining ⛏
What an Awesome Nugget Jeff, that is what Dreams are made of for sure. !
I know...right
Would love to see those VHS tapes, even still have a working VCR
Jeff - Try an experiment to see how fast you can pick up material with a Shop Vac.
Put the Shop Vac in the Ore Cart and this should save your back from shovelling.
The idea sounds stupid however I encourage you to try it out. Good for Miners with mini-muscles as well.
Nice of you to help Colin Furze out with his tunnel.
Outstanding video, snow on the ground here but melting in the sunshine, I’m going out to see the country and enjoy the world.
Aaayyyy youuuuuu, that's a huge nugget!......Another great drift mine video....TY Jeff....
Smart man, always listen because IF lose the Au then you can always say "I told you"!
Jeff Williams aka Sonny Jim: Gold Prospector, Miner, Geologist, Historian, Archivist, Educator, Comedian and Fart Smeller ... uhm, I mean Smart Feller.
Thank you for showing your history. I love to hear this. You certainly have some history on VHS that is worth something. Have you ever heard of an old-timer building a home on top of a mine? To be inconspicuous
yes we have ...many times
Let's get those vcr into digital!
you know it brother
Your dad had great forsight. He took care of you in countless ways. In facj he still is in my opinion. Jeff i know you miss him. I still miss my dad and its been 40 years.
@@johnramirez5032 yes he did and yes he is ..... we will see them again
I love the working of the mine. Don’t change a thing. The gold is the payoff, but there is a 💩load of work beforehand. This is the reality of basically hard rock mining. Been watching you for years. Your drift mine is one of my favorites.
Looking hugely excited to see those digitize tapes. We have a way to help facilitate that if that’s something you wanted to collaborate on.
Jeff look out for those 'Dune' type worms down there!
Why is he so creeped out by a red worm?
@@aaronsellers8311 not one but millions of them
@@Askjeffwilliamsahh yeah that would be creepy.
Yes I'm seeing 👀 it . That gold puppy is barking all the time . Wow . 😅 😂congratulations genius
Jeff, I thought you were over the top back when I first found you! But I gave you a chance anyway 😊
Over the years watching, I have found that you are are very smart nut!!!
Thanks for sharing your adventures, you are a trip 😂
❤
I took an old little kid Barbie Jeep, removed all the plastic and seats off...now just a 12 volt powered flatbed cart. Lengthened the gas pedal wires and steering. It'll haul me no problem at 200#😊
Another Classic video Jeff...Thanks SUNNY Gem!!!!...Hahahahaha.....
Lila was right buddy you owe her a Steak Dinner now....That's SO COOL you and your Pops made all those Videos back then what an Absolute WEALTH of Knowledge man..Those are gonna be SO COOL to watch man I can't WAIT.....Me and My Cuz have been Gold Mine junkies since we were little kids and explored ALL THE MINES HERE IN Plumas County North California Sierra Nevada Mountains where I live...And I have something WAY COOL...Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin had a Gold Mine in my home town here and Clint made a movie here....I got to work there as a kid and I got to take one of the Ore Carts from there Mine...Super Cool man......I still have it.......Keep all the awesome videos coming Bro...I wished I lived closer to wherever you live I would love to come help you at your Drift Mine....Have a great weekend Brother.....
yes I do ....and she will get the best too ..... now thats a fun story ...thanks for sharing that and you to my brother
Great show Jeff as always. Ill come clean that out for ya. I remember those videos recorders big and heavy.
yes they were
Happy to see a fresh video man !! Nice find !! People would have to be just silly not to join Patreon !
that's what we are thinking ....a chance at all that Gold for $10 bucks .