Like many other comments, I'm impressed by your mixture of history and practical geology. I've read about both, but nothing beats being able to see real-life examples and your clear, straight forward explanations complete the picture. Your appreciation of history, the human ties to the landscape, and the natural beauty of the subject matter add to the experience. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
New to channel, not a subscriber... but holy heck what an incredible video. I learned more in this video than I have about this history in my entire life span. Thank you for putting it together and explaining it in such detail. Thumbs up brother! 30 min well spent. Cheeers
Hi Adams, it was lot's of fun and thank you. I got hammered by the rain on the hike back to the Jeep, if I would have had some soap and shampoo, I could have taken a second daily shower. 😆
Great timing! Good way to start the weekend. I just shared your channel with a community post on my channel. Only 1k subs but I haven’t shared many channels. Maybe you and two others.
Thanks Sandra. I find the history more interesting than the actual minerals. I often wish I had a time machine, so I could go back and watch all this stuff unfold.
Well, you sound like ya certainly know ya stuff, and got my subscription to boot. I hope to remember and use it here in Australia. Thanks. Cheers Paul.
Thanks Paul and welcome to the channel. I just finished watching a documentary about, "Lasseter's Reef" in Australia that a guy who watches my videos told me about and recommended. Very cool story.
thanks for another great video brother! you are my favorite channel on this platform. keep up the great, informative, fascinating, and beautifully shot work!
Great history lesson here thanks. This morning I spent hours snorkeling a creek where I live here in the Ozarks saw many tiny tiny flakes hung in rock ledges. Also found an I phone and some keys not even using any equipment just mask and Chucks and a Bond Arms Rowdy lots of damn cottonmouths.
Thank you! I hate the cottonmouths. I used to live in the South and had some close encounters. Be careful my friend and hope you continue to find cool stuff.
Thank you Lloyd and welcome to the channel my friend. I also appreciate you sharing the video. I don't really do any social media outside this channel, so thank you for sharing the video with others.
Great introduction on ore deposits for the layman. I just found your channel and subscribed I will be looking at your other videos. Keep up the good work!
Great story and I'm glad I watched. You gave really good perspective from the old miners and what it was they endured and the knowledge they honed to find the gold. If you think about it, they taught themselves quite a bit in the first 10 yrs in California. I'm certain most of the old timers weren't educated in geology and minerals at least not from an academic side. So, having to learn how to read a break in a shelf with a fault line and then re-establishing where and what direction it went I'm sure took some time. I know if would've taken me a great deal of time back then without some knowledge from someone who knew it lol. I would've starved for sure but, your explanation and knowledge you shared today really shed light on the experience. Also, the knowledge of the rocks and different minerals, how they read them, what to actually look for and the test panning. I've recently dabbled into gold prospecting myself off and on for a few yrs and this video helped me understand and answered a few questions I had been pondering, Thanks for the video and ty for taking the time to create it. Well done!!!
Many thanks for the compliment and thoughtful comment. Those old timers were most deffinately a tough breed and I'm sure many of them went hungry from time to time. I wish you the best of luck with your prospecting endeavors.
Thanks WetFootWes. I don't consider myself an expert or anything like that. I just like sharing some stuff I've picked up over the years. I enjoy history and geology, so this sort of stuff interest me.
Man thank you so much for the videos you make i enjoy every single one of them and they are all very informational and I love how you give the information by using stories from back in the day I really reslly love and enjoy and appreciate your videos please continue to make more and I'll like them all as share them thank you
Many thanks Sapper and I appreciate the compliment, means a lot to me. I also wanted to thank you for sharing the videos. Outside of this channel, I am very private and don't use any other social media, so I don't have any way to share them. Thanks again.
Well done man. Start to finish. I put pieces together of everything you covered over the course of like a year after becoming enthralled and diving in to try to understand/make sense of everything. But that was an excellent presentation of some awesome bits of information
All the way from Finland, that is awesome. I have a video called, "The Ancient Ones-Postdiluvian King, Giant and Headhunters". I think you would really enjoy this video.
Most people don't really ever grasp the meaning of the gold rush . I mean the real phenomena that occurred. It is something that every one of us deep somewhere within us can connect with . It was something very special . It wasn't just about the gold . Although gold was the catalyst. It was people of all nationalities and walks of life .in the gold fields the judges and bankers and well to do were equal with the poor dirt farmers and the cowboys. Young and old. They all had the same square foot claims. It was the people I just spoke of that just walked away from their life and families in a lot of cases . It was a freedom it was just a complete abandonment of their responsibilities .they lived one day at a time and breathed pure freedom for the first time in there lives . It was something similar to the hippy movement at hate and ashberry in San Francisco in the 1960's and that is what the real gold rush was all about.
Great closing words! I sometimes come across promising looking quartz veins when hiking here in Europe. But then, looking around me and I think to myself, that this untouched piece of landscape looks way too good to be ruined by mining gold out of it.
I grew up in Boulder, and.most of the family lived in The San Luis Valley, with some living in Gardner, and Red Wing, ny fathers home growing up. Your right. There is still quite a bit of gold to be found all over Colorado. Hell the entirety of Arizona and New Mexico alone could refill American Gold Reserves to overflowing in just ten months! With Alaska and Nevada, and Montana powering up, in two years there would be enough money to ensure every retiree, veteran, and homeless person be provided a way forward towards their American Dream. Anyway, great video, and I'll subscribe!
I Was Wondering If You Had encounters with Rattlesnakes ? Before you Said it !!! I Used to Live Just Outside Of Colorado Springs And There Were always At Least Two or 3 Dozen Of Them I Would encounter while enjoying my Hikes of Exploration , You Really Have To Be On Guard because they Blend into the Surroundings so Closely , if GOD Had Not of Granted Them Warning Rattles , I Surely Could Have Been Struck Many Times !!!
I hate them. My problem is I am always looking up towards the rock formations looking for minerals, or looking for wildlife. It's very hard for me to constantly watch the trail for them and like you said they blend in so well. Nasty little critters.
Good question and yes they did! Earlier this year, I was reading a book on mining history in Colorado. The book mentioned a couple of mines in Southern Colorado near areas like La Veta, which began as old Spanish mines/workings and were discovered and claimed by prospectors. There was one mine somewhere down in that area where the old prospector literally built his cabin over the entrance of the mine. I guess the cabin and mine are still there today, but the mine is played out. I wanted to go film it, but it is now on some private ranch and everything is gated off.
There is so much gold nobody will find it all… but I guarantee the places that has the most are probably off limits. Follow the 👽🛸they’ll take you to the spot.. watch out for👣👣👣. Sweet informative video… I would love to go hounding.👍🏼
@@LowBudgetExploration Really liking your videos btw. I think I would have set up a distillery and metal refining shop if the mafia didn’t control it already. Wait for the right prospector to invest in.
We just call creek or river gold Alluvial gold, we didn't have Spanish speakers owning the bland before us. Gold still working its way down to the creek was called colluvial gold.
there is a new piece of equipment coming out that makes gold prospecting beach sand a breeze way faster than a sluice or gold cube, hint the name of it will be called "Inside Out"
It's actually not gravity that pulls its down it's the density of the gold that caused it to fall gravity is only a theory but great information thank you
Try a Head Dive off a 2 story House !!! I have and You Will Get Great Knowledge of Gravity Very Very Quickly , So Fast That The Medical Bills Beat You To Your Home !!!!
@@johnstanley8091 Well a Pebble and a Boulder Fall at The Same Speed in Gravity , Now If The Pebble was Less Dense that The Boulder it Would Shatter , either Way My Body Bag of Bones and Water Didn’t Like it Much !!!
That's the area, really nice country. Years ago, I was parked on that road (phantom canyon) near one of the old bridges the train ran across, just messing around. A small rock came bouncing down the cliffs from high above and hit my truck. Put a nasty dent in the truck, but I was glad it didn't hit me in the head. LOL. As you probably already know, the gold belt pretty much runs from the mountains West of Denver (Little Brush Creek Area), all the way down to the New Mexico Border (Spanish Peaks, La Veta and etc).
Because they want us all setting at home fat, dumb and lazy, not out exploring our public lands and enjoying nature. Just kidding. They do it under the guise of "Public Safety". They don't want people going into old mines and getting hurt or killed.
Like many other comments, I'm impressed by your mixture of history and practical geology. I've read about both, but nothing beats being able to see real-life examples and your clear, straight forward explanations complete the picture.
Your appreciation of history, the human ties to the landscape, and the natural beauty of the subject matter add to the experience.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Many thanks GarrisonFall.
Very informative. Mixing geology with history. You earned my sub! Well done!
Thank you and welcome aboard my friend.
An amazing presentation hello from Australia opal miner here.
New to channel, not a subscriber... but holy heck what an incredible video. I learned more in this video than I have about this history in my entire life span. Thank you for putting it together and explaining it in such detail. Thumbs up brother! 30 min well spent. Cheeers
Awesome!! I love feedback like that, let's me know this is all worth my time and people find value in it. Thank you.
This is one of the best videos I’ve seen, which provides the historical and geological backdrop to mining practices in the 19th Century. Well done!
Many thanks.
Thank you so much for the geology discussion. So appreciated!
Thanks Man.
What a gem of a video.
Cool, glad you liked it.
I so appreciate your videos as my interest in geology and adventure exceeds my ability to enjoy these activities.
Great geology lesson and it looks like it was a beautiful day.
Hi Adams, it was lot's of fun and thank you. I got hammered by the rain on the hike back to the Jeep, if I would have had some soap and shampoo, I could have taken a second daily shower. 😆
keep'em coming thank you for sharing your knowledge
Thanks Rico.
Great video. Thank you.
Thanks BWowed.
Such beautiful land ,great filming.
Thanks Robert.
Great timing! Good way to start the weekend. I just shared your channel with a community post on my channel. Only 1k subs but I haven’t shared many channels. Maybe you and two others.
I just subscribed to your channel and look forward to watching your videos. Thank you for posting this vid, that is really cool!!
@@LowBudgetExploration yes sir!
Another Great Video !!!
Thanks Darrell, appreciate the comment and glad you enjoyed it.
Great information thank you. Blessings
Interesting stuff!! Thank you!!
Thanks Sandra. I find the history more interesting than the actual minerals. I often wish I had a time machine, so I could go back and watch all this stuff unfold.
You are Very Good at explaining things
Thank you you have answered some questions ihave had for along time,thanks again god bless you and your family
Thanks Richard, appreciate it and glad you found value in the video.
Well, you sound like ya certainly know ya stuff, and got my subscription to boot. I hope to remember and use it here in Australia. Thanks. Cheers Paul.
Thanks Paul and welcome to the channel. I just finished watching a documentary about, "Lasseter's Reef" in Australia that a guy who watches my videos told me about and recommended. Very cool story.
thanks for another great video brother! you are my favorite channel on this platform. keep up the great, informative, fascinating, and beautifully shot work!
Thanks Adam! The rain sucked, but it gave the rocks that wet look which turned out nice. I very much appreciate the comment.
That was a great video I hope you make more like it!
Thanks Royce for watching and appreciate the comment.
Great history lesson here thanks. This morning I spent hours snorkeling a creek where I live here in the Ozarks saw many tiny tiny flakes hung in rock ledges. Also found an I phone and some keys not even using any equipment just mask and Chucks and a Bond Arms Rowdy lots of damn cottonmouths.
Thank you! I hate the cottonmouths. I used to live in the South and had some close encounters. Be careful my friend and hope you continue to find cool stuff.
Subscribed and shared. Well done.
Thank you Lloyd and welcome to the channel my friend. I also appreciate you sharing the video. I don't really do any social media outside this channel, so thank you for sharing the video with others.
That was very interesting thank you for sharing 😊
thank you for sharing your knowledge. what beautiful adventures💚
Thanks Melanie.
Very informative 👍🏻
Thank you and glad you enjoyed it.
Let’s go, let’s go treasure and adventure🌺💕👵✌️
I like your spirt Grandma.
Great introduction on ore deposits for the layman. I just found your channel and subscribed I will be looking at your other videos. Keep up the good work!
Thank You! And welcome to the channel. 👍
great video thanks for sharing
Great story and I'm glad I watched. You gave really good perspective from the old miners and what it was they endured and the knowledge they honed to find the gold. If you think about it, they taught themselves quite a bit in the first 10 yrs in California. I'm certain most of the old timers weren't educated in geology and minerals at least not from an academic side. So, having to learn how to read a break in a shelf with a fault line and then re-establishing where and what direction it went I'm sure took some time. I know if would've taken me a great deal of time back then without some knowledge from someone who knew it lol. I would've starved for sure but, your explanation and knowledge you shared today really shed light on the experience. Also, the knowledge of the rocks and different minerals, how they read them, what to actually look for and the test panning. I've recently dabbled into gold prospecting myself off and on for a few yrs and this video helped me understand and answered a few questions I had been pondering, Thanks for the video and ty for taking the time to create it. Well done!!!
Many thanks for the compliment and thoughtful comment. Those old timers were most deffinately a tough breed and I'm sure many of them went hungry from time to time.
I wish you the best of luck with your prospecting endeavors.
Right
Badger loves your classroom.
You got me. I have a basic knowledge of geology, but your examples are definitive. Keep up the good work and best of health.
Thanks WetFootWes. I don't consider myself an expert or anything like that. I just like sharing some stuff I've picked up over the years. I enjoy history and geology, so this sort of stuff interest me.
Very informative and fun
Solid video! I see a lot of the same geological structures here in southern Utah! It’d be fun to see ya down here looking for fun stuff!
Southern Utah is most definitely beautiful. Maybe someday our paths will cross.
Man thank you so much for the videos you make i enjoy every single one of them and they are all very informational and I love how you give the information by using stories from back in the day I really reslly love and enjoy and appreciate your videos please continue to make more and I'll like them all as share them thank you
Many thanks Sapper and I appreciate the compliment, means a lot to me. I also wanted to thank you for sharing the videos. Outside of this channel, I am very private and don't use any other social media, so I don't have any way to share them. Thanks again.
Nice primer! Cheers from an oregon / washington prospector.
Awesome!! I wish you the best of luck out there in Oregon and Washington country my friend. Hope you find the mother load!
Well done man. Start to finish. I put pieces together of everything you covered over the course of like a year after becoming enthralled and diving in to try to understand/make sense of everything. But that was an excellent presentation of some awesome bits of information
Your welcome and my pleasure!!
Phantom canyon is a beautiful place. Never got out and hiked around like you. Thanks for sharing your intro geological lesson. It was excellent.
Yes it is, lots of mineralization everywhere!
Another good one. Lots of great info I didn’t know before
Thanks brother!
Great video! Thank you sir 👋 from Finland
All the way from Finland, that is awesome. I have a video called, "The Ancient Ones-Postdiluvian King, Giant and Headhunters". I think you would really enjoy this video.
😮 oh my !
What an excellent video !
Very entertaining , very good content ❤😊
Thank you so much!
What a great informative video ! Subscribed !! Keep em comin'
Thanks hippiecowgirl and welcome to the channel.
Great video all around Pikes Peaks are various Rockhounding gems,
Yes it is, beautiful rocks and scenery.
Great video and info sir!
Hi Dirt47. I'm glad you found the information interesting and I appreciate the comment.
Thank you greatly for sharing. Both my grandfathers were miners,so it’s definitely in my blood to want to explore and to learn.😊
You're welcome Rebecca. I try to give these old time prospectors/miners the honor and respect they deserve.
I love your videos, thanks!
Thank you very much Noob.
Very well done!!!
Thanks Bob.
Great info! New sub
Thank you sir and welcome to the channel.
Most people don't really ever grasp the meaning of the gold rush . I mean the real phenomena that occurred. It is something that every one of us deep somewhere within us can connect with . It was something very special . It wasn't just about the gold . Although gold was the catalyst. It was people of all nationalities and walks of life .in the gold fields the judges and bankers and well to do were equal with the poor dirt farmers and the cowboys. Young and old. They all had the same square foot claims. It was the people I just spoke of that just walked away from their life and families in a lot of cases . It was a freedom it was just a complete abandonment of their responsibilities .they lived one day at a time and breathed pure freedom for the first time in there lives . It was something similar to the hippy movement at hate and ashberry in San Francisco in the 1960's and that is what the real gold rush was all about.
Very true. Sometimes I believe I was born in the wrong century.
@@LowBudgetExploration
You're not kidding. Sometimes I feel as if I woke up on the wrong planet.
Really awesome- thank you
Glad you liked it and thanks for watching.
Informative!
Thanks James. Glad you enjoyed it.
Great closing words! I sometimes come across promising looking quartz veins when hiking here in Europe. But then, looking around me and I think to myself, that this untouched piece of landscape looks way too good to be ruined by mining gold out of it.
Thank you, I feel the same way. The wild places are the true treasure.
Love your video
Thanks Chris.
Thank you !
You're welcome Jim and thanks for watching.
I grew up in Boulder, and.most of the family lived in The San Luis Valley, with some living in Gardner, and Red Wing, ny fathers home growing up.
Your right. There is still quite a bit of gold to be found all over Colorado.
Hell the entirety of Arizona and New Mexico alone could refill American Gold Reserves to overflowing in just ten months!
With Alaska and Nevada, and Montana powering up, in two years there would be enough money to ensure every retiree, veteran, and homeless person be provided a way forward towards their American Dream.
Anyway, great video, and I'll subscribe!
Thanks David and welcome aboard. I used to live next to Gardner, in the Wet Mountain Valley. Absolutely beautiful!
Nice video.
Thanks Timothy.
I Was Wondering If You Had encounters with Rattlesnakes ? Before you Said it !!! I Used to Live Just Outside Of Colorado Springs And There Were always At Least Two or 3 Dozen Of Them I Would encounter while enjoying my Hikes of Exploration , You Really Have To Be On Guard because they Blend into the Surroundings so Closely , if GOD Had Not of Granted Them Warning Rattles , I Surely Could Have Been Struck Many Times !!!
I hate them. My problem is I am always looking up towards the rock formations looking for minerals, or looking for wildlife. It's very hard for me to constantly watch the trail for them and like you said they blend in so well. Nasty little critters.
Great history. I'm a romantic of that period. And I love gold. I can only imagine the gold fever driving these men to become vagabonds
hi, do you think the prospectors found many? some? of the spanish mines?
Good question and yes they did! Earlier this year, I was reading a book on mining history in Colorado. The book mentioned a couple of mines in Southern Colorado near areas like La Veta, which began as old Spanish mines/workings and were discovered and claimed by prospectors.
There was one mine somewhere down in that area where the old prospector literally built his cabin over the entrance of the mine. I guess the cabin and mine are still there today, but the mine is played out. I wanted to go film it, but it is now on some private ranch and everything is gated off.
"To paint their t-pee with"
Brilliant 😅
That pink granite is called adamalite That is the granite that carries tin ores.
There is so much gold nobody will find it all… but I guarantee the places that has the most are probably off limits. Follow the 👽🛸they’ll take you to the spot.. watch out for👣👣👣.
Sweet informative video… I would love to go hounding.👍🏼
LOL, you never know my friend. I always keep my eyes peeled for both.
Fisher crack's can they be checked for electrical discharge? @ 26:51. Or capistance.
Not that I'm aware of.
❤😊❤ Awesome!
Thank you Speaklife and appreciate the comment.
Quartz is petrified tree sap from giant ancient trees. Change my mind.
I’m sure the old timers would hunt and fish also.
They did. I think I talked about that in another video, where I talked about the food they ate (or killed).
@@LowBudgetExploration Really liking your videos btw. I think I would have set up a distillery and metal refining shop if the mafia didn’t control it already. Wait for the right prospector to invest in.
We just call creek or river gold Alluvial gold, we didn't have Spanish speakers owning the bland before us. Gold still working its way down to the creek was called colluvial gold.
Hook up with TVR exploring!
Dude, those guys are bad ass. I watch some of there stuff and they explore some really cool places.
there is a new piece of equipment coming out that makes gold prospecting beach sand a breeze way faster than a sluice or gold cube, hint the name of it will be called "Inside Out"
Cool
It's actually not gravity that pulls its down it's the density of the gold that caused it to fall gravity is only a theory but great information thank you
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.
Try a Head Dive off a 2 story House !!! I have and You Will Get Great Knowledge of Gravity Very Very Quickly , So Fast That The Medical Bills Beat You To Your Home !!!!
@@John-wm6fg Ouch. I think I will pass. LOL.
@@John-wm6fg yes because you probably weigh a hundred and some-odd pounds that's not gravity that's mass and density
@@johnstanley8091 Well a Pebble and a Boulder Fall at The Same Speed in Gravity , Now If The Pebble was Less Dense that The Boulder it Would Shatter , either Way My Body Bag of Bones and Water Didn’t Like it Much !!!
I'm all ears
Better check your history. Pikes 1:30 peak is not where gold was originally found in Colorado
The history is explained, but you need to watch beyond the first two minutes of the video, LOL.
This is 2023 where's your metal detectors, ?
I'm "Old School", LOL.
U any kin to Clint from c&c equitment?? Lol
No, I've never heard of him.
What blm land is this? I know there’s a phantom canyon by canon city
That's the area, really nice country. Years ago, I was parked on that road (phantom canyon) near one of the old bridges the train ran across, just messing around. A small rock came bouncing down the cliffs from high above and hit my truck. Put a nasty dent in the truck, but I was glad it didn't hit me in the head. LOL.
As you probably already know, the gold belt pretty much runs from the mountains West of Denver (Little Brush Creek Area), all the way down to the New Mexico Border (Spanish Peaks, La Veta and etc).
Why did blm cover the mine?
Because they want us all setting at home fat, dumb and lazy, not out exploring our public lands and enjoying nature. Just kidding.
They do it under the guise of "Public Safety". They don't want people going into old mines and getting hurt or killed.
Creek not crick.
English butchered.
Greed