What does gold look like in rocks_ Gold bearing rock identification.
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- What does natural raw gold look like in rocks? What does gold ore really look like? In this video you will learn about gold bearing rock identification. You will see lots of high grade gold ore, but also some more moderate grades of ore. I will show ores that are both easy to see the gold and ones that are more difficult.
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Here are a few videos I have done about hard rock gold ores:
• Identifying gold ores:...
I worked as a haul truck driver for Cortez Gold Mines in Crescent Valley, Nevada. Our shovels,electric powered, scooped 76 tons in one scoop. The smallest haul trucks were 240 tons. We had 240 ton,300 ton and 400 ton trucks. That's the load they carried. Those trucks run 24 hours a day,7 days a week. That's a lot of material being moved. There is a LOT of overburden to remove to get to the gold ore. They produced,on average, 76,000 ounces of gold a month from a big deposit. The ore contained microscopic gold. When I was there,from 2003 til 2005, gold was around 400 dollars an ounce. We were awarded gold,from 10grams to 1/2 ounce to 1 ounce coins for safety bonuses. Don't know if they do that now. At any rate, Barrick Goldstrike Mines bought out Cortez. Just a little info from me. Sorry for dragging on.
Great info, thanks. I am in Northern Nevada and around a number of gold mines over the years. Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph I lived in Carlin. About half way between Elko and Battle Mountain. I did enjoy it. Thank you.
gosh dang 400 an ounce then. its 2000 now lol
I was at Cortez 87 I think contractor out of Elko 90 miles one way to work Long Day's
Pretty interesting to those of us who haven't been anywhere around that sort of stuff. I drove a truck loaded with newspapers, and 14 tons was my max load, so your input seems pretty exciting to me.
The story is told about a miner who struck gold and carried his bag of nuggets with him everywhere. One day he died and went to heaven, still carrying his precious nuggets. When he arrived, an angel asked him why he was carrying asphalt. “This isn’t asphalt,” he explained, “it’s gold.” To which the angel replied, “On earth it’s called gold, but here in heaven we use it to pave our streets.”
The Lord owns the cattle on a thousand hills. And the gold in a thousand creeks. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Hard to believe this joke made me laugh. Tried not to even . Good one thanks.
"GOOD ONE"👏
nice😃
Is it gold or diamond ?
I didn't expect to watch all 40 minutes continually but I could not stop watching. Thank you for the information. Very well done video.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
I too found myself unable to stop watching & learning about it.
"Dinner will be kate tonight!"😉
Another fine video Chris. Thanks for taking the time to teach the rest of us. Great book too.
That was great!! The bit where your missus came in was hilarious. Shows you are a decent bloke willing to share your life and knowledge. Thanks mate. 👍👍
An older video with an oops! Though I had taken care of it but Oh well.
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You are an excellent speaker, comparable to the best university lecturers I have had. Your voice is also familiar, are you on pbs? Antiques roadshow? Ask this old house?
Ok I should delete what's above because I figured it out, you kind of sound like Neil Degrasse Tyson.
Great Video thank you
I was very fortunate to be able to buy two small rocks with gold in them. Beautiful quartz rocks with gold vein running through them.
Sounds like two beautiful specimens. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Thank you for this video. I watch a lot of mine exploring videos, in fact I watched a tour of the 16-1 mine yesterday and always wondered about what it looked liked when the miners see it in the ground.
I have been in the 16 to 1 three times and found gold with a metal detector there. Thank you for your comments. I am glad you enjoyed the video.
Fantastic video - thank you very much for taking the effort. Also, I always keep the valuing simple, forget ounces, gold is $60/gram. Makes it so much easier. I have a kilogram of gold! $60,000 - and me move on :)
I’ve found four meteorites
Few year's ago I was gold hunting in the high desert of California by tehachapi and found a old solid gold tooth. Great video
I'm sure that was a surprising find. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Exactly, gold ore identification with a metal detector is the new way to mine. Thanks for the informative video. I was looking for some Black Hills green schist. - Doug
So many hundreds of mining districts in just the US alone - just cant include everything. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Hold on green mica is gold brearing? I just saved a green schist Boulder with yellow ore in it
That was nice of both of you to understand you was in a project ,and would give her full attention to her later. Then she understood. Now that's true gold. You both truly love eachother...
Glad you enjoyed the video.
I did enjoy this video extremely. Your presentation was awesome, lots of samples and you explain each one uniquely . Rock on!👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you so much for sharing maybe I have found here like that kind of rocks thank you and God bless
Thank you for this very informative video. I never knew that gold came in so many different forms. This video will be of tremendous help next time we are out prospecting. We love going out metal detecting or panning gold but we are total amateurs so any help is appreciated. Good hunting.
Stay tuned, lots to learn and lots more to come in the future. Best Wishes.
Hi I’m trying to tell if the orange color in rock under a black is gold
WOW. Best vid I've seen on this subject. I've lived in Tucson for 50yrs and have been an avid hunter and fisherman. I know Southern and central Az, as well if not better than most alive today. Its just been recently that I've started having an interest in gold because of you tube. After watching this vid I should have gotten interested in gold sooner as I'm certain I've chucked some quartz that had gold in it back down because it had pyrite as well and I thought gold and pyrite didnt come together like that. I saw pyrite for sure so I figured the other gold there was also pyrite and chucked back down. Thanks for this vid. I learned a lot!
Some pyrite contains tiny specks of gold. But not all. Some pyrite in quartz has little or no gold. It just depends on the deposit.
@@ChrisRalph I understand but what I was saying was I was under the impression that gold and pyrite were never together cuz thats what my dad had told me. I've found rocks, quartz, that had obvious pyrite in them but also gold substance that didnt have the crystalin shape of pyrite and I assumed it couldnt be gold because of what my dad had told me. After seeing the pyrite gold mixed samples you showed I'm certain I chucked gold back down on the ground. I will be more careful and educated in the future thanks to you. I know there is gold in areas I hunt in here in Az and now I've got a reason to get out in the desert when it isnt hunting season.
Sounds like you've got it, & there ain't no cure.
Thank you Chris for your insights into gold. I have come across a few of these samples that you talked about in my lifetime. Maybe I should revisit those areas. Cheers.
Glad you enjoyed the video!
@@ChrisRalph I live in Australia grew up in Mt Isa but live on the coast now. There are many places that can prospected for such deposits. Here is one link
raregoldnuggets.com/?p=529
Very enjoyable audio program , am buying this book , well explained thank you.
Glad to hear you liked it.
Beautiful pieces displayed and explained very well of type and origin
@@ChrisRalph hi
@@ChrisRalph i want a book who guide me mountian with gold and gemstone can i get it sire
Excellent video, this is exactly what i was looking for after getting hooked on watching old mining videos etc... very nice!
I am glad you enjoyed the video.
Good presentation on the southern gold fields. I'd like to see something like this covering the ores of the pacific northwest.
While ther is some variation, the quartz veins look similar.
That's what's up!!
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I love how you ask the question people don't know to ask and answer the questions with clarity great videos and information.
I have an idea of things people are interested in. Glad this video was helpful!
very informative! Answered many questions for me, Thank you so much. I found a heavy iron/copper ore in southern california about the size of my fist. I know now its probably Gossin gold ore With some visable gold/ pyrite or both along with copper as well. new to this so hoping im right.
sounds like interesting ore..... Glad you enjoyed the video.
Thank you, that was an education, I have never found gold before but after watching this I just might have but didn't recognise it. But I am going to revisit a stream where I found clumps of Iron pyrite that weighed more than a pound. It was embedded in the bank of a stream in a sandy placer type deposit. I will look much more closely to see what else I can pull out of it. The area is glacial deposits.
Sounds interesting.
Thank you sir Chris
I also find iron pyrite like a shape of ( .5 to 1 inch)quarts in a small cave in an igneous rock is there any chances of real gold.
Thank you! That was such an interesting video about identifying gold in ore. I sat here with my magnifying glass. Very nice, thanks again. 😀
Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed the video
Thanks for a great vid. From a part-time prospector in New Zealand.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'll be coming out with a similar video on raw Silver and silver ores soon. Probably not too long after that, I'll do one on platinum too.
Thank you for showing specimens in their raw state/ore. This is very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
I had a young fellow from England working for me at northern Alberta we burnt a big barn down that had big rocks for a foundation .one rock split up from the heat and you could see gold in it He got gold feaver and was trying to look for more rocks I had to pull him away when he was getting on the plane to go home his suitcases weigh a ton .he had put most of the big rock in them
That's the problem with carrying home rocks!
This was such a great video! Very pleased to discover it in my suggestions. Totally informative, easy to understand, thank-you for your time and for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for the kind words.
The specimen you showed at 17 minutes and 25 seconds I have thousands of tons of that material on my property and there's gold here too and copper and bismuth and tellurium ... Learning what the different or types look like is very helpful thank you
Hope it works out well for you.
I went up to Virginia City yesterday hoping to find one of those gold finds you showed. I checked the tailings off the lower-grade road (the one that doesn’t go through Gold Hill/Silver City). I found an old car jack and a half bucket of rocks that have traces of quartz. I’ll keep looking for the gold. Thanks for the tip.
Glad you liked the video. I've found some decent gold-silver specimens there. Check out my video on recognizing silver ores for some nice examples of Virginia City ores.
Chris Ralph, Professional Prospector I will. Thank you.
I'm gonna need that jack and bucket o' Rocks back bro
Bust up the rocks get down in cracks
Hey Chris. I would like to personally thank you for the knowledge you have shared. I’ve been able to use your videos to identify some beautiful gold, and If everything pans out… it may very well be a life changing discovery. Wish me luck and thank you again! 🎉
Best of luck to you and I wish you much success.
Hello dear do you deal in Gold?
Sir, you are a very talented teacher. Keep the videos coming! I'm definitely interested in the details you explain. Wish I could be right there!
Check out my other videos on the geology of gold deposits like these:
th-cam.com/video/IMywFEjw2fA/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/v136BEdR_yU/w-d-xo.html
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Chris, thank you for showing us all that high grade gold ore...it's a special treat because most of that material went thru the mill and was turned into gold bars.
Not all of it. Some was sold directly as specimens.
I shake my head thinking of all the gold I've walked over fishin Montana without this knowledge.
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Oh yeah
Gold ore breaking the surface in the area I live ranges from tellurides to quartz bearing rock to ironstone bearing rock. Where there's nuggets always look for a source either from a reef or ancient river bed ( deep lead). Some deep leads are easy to distinguish from surrounding bedrock, others are from pipe clay / calcrete. Western Australia where I live, work has many gold mines both surface and underground, geologically it's a very mixed bag of rock structure due to massive upheavals millions of years ago. Where you find gold, you'll also have silver, platinum, copper, zinc, nickel, arsenic in some metals and sulphide derivatives.
I spent 6 weeks digging gold in the outback of WA several years ago. You know they have deep leads in the gold country of California too.
I have always enjoyed rock and mineral collecting...even as a little kid many years ago. Thanks for posting this informative and interesting video. Your enjoyment of the subject is evident.
Glad you enjoyed the video.
I'm actually new to this channel and I am going to be subscribing and looking forward to more videos from this guy, because of the details contained within this video. Very nice video
Awesome, thank you! More videos to come.
Thanks for taking the time to put this up here.
My pleasure! glad you enjoyed the video.
Fantastic video!! Every minute was “golden” !! You are so knowledgeable, and speak so eloquently! I also loved how you thoroughly described each of the many specimen slides you showed - taking it beyond the general makeup to include how the specimen was formed, value, where and how it was found, etc. I even loved how nicely you handled the phone call **smiles** I’m in North Texas - we find lots of quartz and iron here when hunting for dinosaur and shark teeth, and I thought I saw tiny pieces of gold in the same gravel.. I decided to turn to TH-cam for information (because I came here knowing NOTHING about gold!!), and so happy that your video was at the top of search!! Have you done any prospecting for gold in North Texas? Thank you again for sharing, and I look forward to hearing back from you! Best wishes!
I've not prospected in Texas. Not much gold in Texas. There is some gold in the Llano river.
Love the conversation with your Wife. Perfect.
yep. Not really intended that way.
I really enjoyed the video. In particular I liked the fact that you are so knowledgeable, easy to understand, and easy to listen to. You should have been a broadcaster! Lol.
Thanks for putting this info out there. I've always had a passing interest in prospecting, but never took it up. Maybe now that I'm retired. It's a fascinating subject, and apparently one that takes years to get a true handle on. So, your video is a big help for anyone getting started. New subscriber. Peace!
Thanks for the kind words, Yep, prospecting is a great things for retired folks, because you get out and do a lot of walking. Glad you enjoyed the video!
@@ChrisRalph You're quite welcome. I like your presentation style. Good prospecting!
Thanks for this video ♥️. I was looking for this kind of video for a long time.
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Great video mate thanks for taking the time to make the video 👍. Have been doing a load of research on videos about geology so I sort of know on paper the sort of rock to look for but to see such an array of samples was excellent
Glad you enjoyed it.
@@ChrisRalph I did pal, hello from Ireland 👋
great information!
looking forward to your video on the silver ore!
thanks!
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i spent several years in northern california and was always fascinated with the geology of the place. thnx for the discussion.
Glad you enjoyed it! You should watch my video on where to find gold in Northern California
Really liked this video. I will be looking at rocks much more carefully now. Great video and very informational and easy to follow. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed the video.
What a beautifully presented video. Thank you for explaining so clearly the possibilities of quartz. I am finding some quite large pieces on my land with silver bits and possibly gold bits and iron and maybe copper. I have a lot of research to do but at least now I understand what might be present. Will be getting some pieces analyzed.
Get some pieces tested, but remember that quartz is very common and gold is very rare. There is loads of quartz that has no gold.
It is my dream to have land with gold deposits on it, even if it was flour gold in a creek to pan. Hard rock would be even cooler.
As a Driller that cores rock Everyday .... It's entrapped in the quartz and granite rock from what I have found ... . You can find a lot of it while Coring rock it's like reading a story book . Pretty cool .
I found so much gold just hiking and walking trails Backcountry with railing here in Tucson Arizona. I think I'm going to make a Channel with all the stuff I find. Metal detecting is absolutely fun and you're absolutely right it is very profitable and a great Hobby I'm learning so much daily
Have fun out there! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I would like to talk with you if possible. I live in Sahuarita, Az. How can I reach you?
What is backcountry with railing?
Thank you Mr Ralph, very informative. I look forward to getting your book in February! A little bird informed me it's going to be a birthday gift! 😎
Thanks for the kind words. Don't worry if there is a delay with the book. Amazon is going to run out of copies for about a week or two. I've sold more than expected and I wont be able to re-supply my distributor until mid-February. I am glad you enjoyed the video.
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We've been married 40 years.....
Fantastic video, wonderful to hear the history and story with each piece. Thank you #thefinders 😁
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Thanks very much for sharing this info with us!!!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Thanks I enjoyed listening to you talk and the way you are detail oriented and specific most TH-cam channels are often hard to follow or confusing ...leavening out pertinent information and talking too fast . Thanks keep em coming ...👍
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Thank you for the fine presentation. Makes me want to go up in the mountains with my metal detector!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I was just thinking the same thing!
Thank you so much! This video is awesome and perfectly done!! Love it!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I found a very quartz-rich area with a lot of quartz rocks (in Southern California) that look very similar to the ones in this video. Found a lot of other rocks nearby that have flaky goldish powder attached to them. My hunch is it's just mica and not actual gold powder. You'll find gold looking flakes on it but when you touch it - it crumbles into goldish powder..
Doesn't sound like it but just from your description, its hard to tell. Watch this video and learn how to identify minerals for yourself: th-cam.com/video/MpkW58ZeQlc/w-d-xo.html
Sample. Assay learn. If your really want to know.
Gold with a very small amount of Lead in it will sometime look and act like that. A jeweler friend demonstrated it to me way back in the 1980s.
What part of Southern cali?
@@stevenstevenson3 gee it's been a while. I want to say it was on the 2 (Angeles Crest) or near Wrightwood, CA.
Great show. Last time I was in Carson City, Nevada the nugget casino had a great display of different types of gold. The leaf gold reminded me of Canadian bacon. Yup!
You've not been in Carson city for a long time. The casino sold off that display a decade ago. Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph I think I found we gold
Such a wonderful video . Thank you for taking the time to make it.
Glad you enjoyed the video.
This is all so interesting to me, Thank you for producing this video, I am subscribing.
Glad you liked it, I will shortly be out with a similar video on raw silver and silver ores.
@@ChrisRalph 👍
I really like your videos! I have a large rock that I believe has gold veins throughout. I talked to a couple of people about it (non professional). I was discouraged and forgot about it until I saw this video. Now I'm excited again! I wonder if you can help me find other methods of extracting the gold as I don't have a crusher. Also alternate/home method of melting it down. I am a stained glass artist so I do have lots of various tools. I also used an xacto knife to gently remove the flakes of quartz and gold but i think i lost quite a bit of material that way. Its also quite tedious and would be a very lengthy job.
* I really believe this information is invaluable. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge
There are various ways to crush rock that I will show in an up coming video. I think you should watch my video on mineral identification as I am not sure what you have is gold.
@@ChrisRalph I absolutely will! I'm not sure its gold either but it passed the magnet test. Which isn't saying much, i know. But its definitely something interesting
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Thank you Chris that was a great video. Can't wait for the summer to get here so I can take my weekend trips to the mountains in eastern Pennsylvania and pan the streams and creeks that I usually hike along. And now I have an idea what some ore rocks look like.
Best of luck to you.
You are awesome at describing how the gold settles! Thank you Thank you Thank you!
Glad it was helpful.
This is a very informative video. Thank you. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on gold in Wyoming... not at South Pass, but in the Absaroka Volcanic Supergroup. I have a creek that I pan gold in, but the source of the gold has never been discovered because the Shoshone Nat'l Forest/Absaroka Wilderness has been off limits to commercial mining since the 1800s so thorough exploration has never been done. I suspect that the gold bearing material is less than recognizable, as you pointed out with several ores, because the old timers never found it and companies with the resources to drill and test are not allowed in. Despite the ban on commercial mining, recreational mining can be done and I've often thought of trying to locate the source(s) but I've yet to find a crush specimen with visible gold so I don't know quite what type of gold bearing rock to look for. The creek contains flour gold up to rather small pickers. Several of my videos are of panning in that stream. Thanks again.
I wish I could say I know that area, but its a long way from home and I am not familiar with it.
@@ChrisRalph Well, that's alright. I'm glad I found your channel because videos like this help with my amateur geology education. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing. Specimens were fun to look at. I can tell you where the gold is.
Go and dig that gold! I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
Thank you..Now I know what kind of rock is mine and it's great.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I was in Franklin N.C. at a garnet flume. I met a guy there complaining about what he was finding. ' Better ones on his gravel road' . A conversation ensued. Hey Travis!
Anyway, back to the story.... This nice lady came up and showed me a rock. " Is this worth anything?"
" Ooooh....", I said. " That's Leverite! " The whole flume went silent, everyone was looking at the us .
" Is it expensive?", she asked.
I threw the worthless stone into the flume. " Leverite. Right where you found it."
The whole flume roared with laughter! I then showed her a nice Almandine garnet i found. ( Only one ) She smiled and said thank you. She found more stones than I did that day. Beginners luck, I suppose.
Travis showed me a nice pink sapphire deposit the next day. It was a lot of fun. I had never looked for corundum before. That day, I was the green horn.
Always fun to get out and collect some pretty crystals.
I'm happy i watched this. I'm looking into ways to start looking for gold, i've panned a few pans in local area rivers, and found exactly 1 single flake about the size of a pin head. Utah isn't really known for its gold.
yes. Utah isn't really known for its gold.
Tip- try find a place where there was once upon a time a gold mine, go down stream and find the biggest bend in a meander that you can, walk 1m onto the inner bank (if you imagined it as a V shape of the river bend, it's the land inside that V), dig a whole 1-3m deep and pan through whatever you can, this is where a large amount of deposition takes place, Goodluck!
Chris, could you take these same samples and divide them into three basic groups, placer gold (south Africa conglomerate), orogenic gold (mesothermal), and porphyry gold which could be further broke down into epithermal ores which could further be divided into low sulfide gold, high sulfide gold, skarn gold. The higher temperature gold ores produce the larger nuggets in my opinion.
low sulfide gold, high sulfide gold, skarn gold and porphyry gold are ll different types of gold deposits. Only Porphyry and high sulfide epithermal are related. Higher temps do not produce larger nuggets - just not true.
me and wife were rolling along on the backside of el cajon in 1985,had to take a leak,pulled over and watered the lilies and looked down,saw some dirt with bull quartz in it grabbed a couple of samples,and went about another 5 miles,wife had to go,hard to find areas where a woman can whiz off the road,found one,took samples out of floorboard of car and crushed them with a hammer,the shine was amazing,took the samples to a pawn shop,guy bought all of it for 961.00 in 1985,paid for the whole trip went back a few years later,and they bulldozed the whole small area away to widen the road,moral of the story,is get it all,i've found it several times,mainly in the searchlight area between nev and cali,hell its everywhere if you look,usually pays for my trips,thanks for the look of other samples,i've never seen silver in lode or formation,any way you'd upload those ,be interesting,thanks
Silver video coming very soon, almost done, ready in the next week or two.
THANK YOU,i'll be watching and waiting intently,rocks and the study of this earth has been my lifelong indeavor,the metals were always of particular interest,esp the geo thermal process of melting of these materials and their flow while a liquid,fascinating isn't it,thanks
thanks for the video!
As a lifelong rock climber, it's nice to know more about what I'm climbing on and how it formed, even if I'm not interested in prospecting.
I know of a guy who found a chunk of quartz containing 28 ounces of gold while out hunting. You never know what you might find when you are out hiking.
@@ChrisRalph Is the search better above ground or below ground?
@@ChrisRalph I have a specimen to show you
Carlin Ore, it is my Experience after acquiring said Ore that the Gold is the Mustard Color on the Rock, and yes, there does appear to be a lot, but you need to remember that gold can be flattened down to an Atom Thick and One Troy Oz. can make a Sheet of Gold that is 300 Square Feet.
The Carlin type gold is almost never visible to the eye, but can be seen under magnification. It assays the same as other ores and the concentrations can be measured in the same way. The value of these deposits is that they can be gigantic in size and carry millions of ounces of gold.
how do you know that
As a dental lab tech, we were taught that gold is so malable that the Egyptians had a method to make a sheet of gold so thin, you could read a news paper through it. Also with just one ounce of gold, a wire could be made from it that would be so thin, that it could reach the moon. It is also the finest source of metal for springs. They never develop a memory. In fact the satelites and missiles have gold springs. Also gold does not tarnish. Unless mercury gets on it. But that has always confused me after reading about mercury being used in processing gold ore. Anyway, just a few interesting things about gold. At that time, when I was a lab tech,(Long ago) we were told that of all the gold ever mined, would make a 1ft. by 1ft strip that would would span the length of a ft ball field. (300 ft.) Anyway, that is what we were told and read in our books.
Thankyou Sir for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed the video.
The very best ever, I have LESSION to as well as have seenshown.The many selections "( types) of Gold" that many have passed over because feeling it's a nugget or diamond shaped cluster .(When their are many types of gold to be found. Best class ever. You should be a Professor . ( I still believe " fools gold " is gold" becoming" real gold).Thank you. Just wonderful !
Thanks for the kind words!
I've found gold in an area where it's rare. It was a vein through a Quartz rock about 3" and it had a melted type look/luster
Sounds great. Best of luck to you in your explorations.
I am in Virginia and I rock hound the railway and I have found gold and silver I think . It isn't often and normally when u find it it's a cluster in a small area
It's leaf like silver and gold
Well I appreciate the time you have taken to show all of the various examples. But I have to say that after a while, it started to seem like the examples began to look like common rocks. Which puts me back where I started. Unless the gold is pretty obvious, I would walk right by it.
That is why its a skill to tell the difference.
You mention in several places that miners did not recognize ore as gold bearing; or as in the case where they tossed the decayed pyrites to get at copper below, and always it was back in or before the 60's. But, gold was still held by the government at $35 per ounce and private bullion holdings were still illegal. At that artificially low price they might have recognized it as ore but at $35 was not economical to refine it out. If it cost $20 or more per ton of rock to get half an ounce of gold they just dumped it in the tailings. There must be some fabulous fortunes laying around already mined and just unprocessed.
You have a very good point. At $35 an ounce, the interest was low, and they were not looking as only really great ore would be economic. I'll add one more point - heap leaching, which is a very widely used method to process low grade ores at a profit was only just developed in the late 1960s and did not become popular until the mid 1970s.
I found a broken arrowhead or preform that had small flakes of gold embedded in the quartz veins in the chert
Seems unlikely.
Several years ago I read about a bacteria that would encapsulate itself with gold as a protective measure from other predator bacteria .Is it possible to use that as a prospecting tool ?Or has that been done,to your knowledge ?
Bacteria are pretty small. I dont know of any prospecting method that uses that. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Thank you!
Thank you have tried to find books with such information
Glad you enjoyed the video.
I have some stones of such kind, one may be weighing 40 kg, but it is yellowish quarts. But looks beautiful. I have collected many such nature's treasure...stone.
congratulations on your finds.
Hi Chris, I'm new to gold prospecting, but have always been into geology. I recently found/panned some gold and now I have the bug. I've been looking for your book "Fists full of gold" but I can't find it anywhere. Do you know where I could get a copy??
Most people get it on Amazon, but unfortunately, at the moment, it is out of stock at Amazon. It will be back in stock at Amazon soon. I am in the process of re-printing the book at the moment. They have all my files and my book is just waiting its turn in line for the printer's schedule. Amazon has a notification set up so that they will send you an email when it is back in stock. Sorry for this delay, but I am working on getting it back in stock as soon as possible.
Having a lot of people thank you for your video and helps a lot of people God bless you,!
Glad you enjoyed the video, and may The Lord bless you as well.
if you were looking for Sylvanite gold ore--what types of rocks are likely to hold this type of gold ore. Can it be detected with a metal detector?
Tellurides cannot be detected with a metal detector. They are found in a number of types of quartz vein deposits.
This video is good in that it shows the average person how "fool's gold" (pyrite) does not actually look like gold. Pyrite is normally more brassy yellow or greenish yellow and is usually pretty obviously not gold even when not in nice crystalline forms. On the other hand, all those beautiful specimens with spectacular gold occurrences might lead that same average person to think that gold is often found that way, and it really isn't. Just finding any visible gold at all is fairly unusual, and a good portion of that VG is really only viewable using a hand lens. Most of the gold ore I have seen has no actual visible gold in it except in some very isolated spots. Only need a few grams per tonne to make a mine profitable, after all, if the volume is large enough. In fact, a lot of gold deposits are found because of the associated base metals. The metal ores just happen to also have decent gold contents, but the interest in the rock was driven first by the obvious base metal enrichments, and gold was just a bonus, even if it eventually became the main reason to develop the mine.
Visible gold in ore is rare, but it does occur and the way to find it is with a metal detector.
If you can't tell the difference you are a very very stupid Person.
If I might ask, what country you're from? We find quite a bit of gold here visible (sulphide veins for instance) but then again South Africa is very blessed with vast deposits I suppose and I've been lucky enough to do quite abit of exploration geology (mostly iron) the technology is also more advanced than a metal detector 😅 there are gravity readings, polarity for instance which typically uncovers large deposits especially within our greenstone belt - just all random comments I suppose
@@rivaldoalves8841 Canada, mostly working on gold and base metal mineralization in the Abitibi of Quebec/Ontario, and I have been to loads of active mines and old mines and workings all across the continent. If you are finding VG as anything but a rarity, you are extremely lucky, in my experience.
Beautiful specimens, thanks for the video...!
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Thank you so much for this brilliant video. I will now go looking for gold in the Dominican Republic.
Good luck, and I hope you are successful.
@@ChrisRalph Thanks Chris. I use metal diviners and muscle testing to find things. I have three stones that muscle testing shows they contain gold. Now going to ask my friend with a metal detector to check out the land where i found the small stones which I need to break down. Ill let you know if we find a gold vein.
You have taught me so much and I've only known this Chanel for a couple days now thanks for making videos that people like me can understand
Happy to help and You are so welcome!
Very comprehensive and thoughtful. Thank you. :)
Glad you enjoyed the video.
I have often wondered about the affinity of quartz and gold .Do you have any ideas on why,perhaps an electrical phenomena or a fluid density cooling mechanism ?
Quartz is made of the two most common elements in the earth's crust and is the most common mineral on the planet. The common association of gold and quartz is due to the fact that quartz is so extremely common. It is not a necessary thing that they are together. There are gold deposits with little or no quartz. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I BELIEVE NOT KNO, that they have a frequency and electrovalence that is not discernable to all as it is on a different level a higher vibrational pattern I'm sure there's equipment but decibel meter won't catch it.
Lol bruh..
I wonder why Intrusive Granites have an affinity for quartz.
actually I've been wondering why you wouldn't think more about the chemical aspect.
Sulfides
Carbonates
Oxides et cetera
There is no easy way, please if it were easy it would have no worth, the value is more in the struggle, the challenge than it is about the actual gold itself.
You'll make more slaving for Rio Tinto than you will being a prospector.
This guy doing the video is actually the guy making the money!
wanna know the true occulted history which reveals your answer? One revelatory tool is language itself. Don't just trust the easy to find etymology resources. If knowledge is power then true power follows a curve from easiest accessible to most labyrinth obstacle ridden quests for small amounts of pure wisdom. I will gift you your quest your on (quest I on) with a peak to the answer which will seem ridiculous at first, but know that is one of the great barriers the mysterious uses to protect her jewels from the profane. The source of your answer is trees. quartz is petrified tree sap from the giant trees of old. Tress of both silica and carbon based varities. They are called quartz veins for this reason. Im sorry for not explaining more but 3 times everything I wrote was deleted so ive summarized to less detail each time :(
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I need to return to the golden triangle - place of my ancestors....
Shout out from Kirkland lake. Second highest grading mine (macassa) in the world. Im one of the lucky ones who get to break that rock, but very rarely see VG it's so fine. Good job on the video.
Glad you liked the video.
My old house I used to rent, there was a rock that held the porch door open, it was quartz rock, I remember one day when I was sitting on my porch drinking a few beers and smoking some cigarettes I loved and I thought and I saw gold in it, but I thought to myself that can't be gold because that rock would not be left here holding my porch door open. Rock was there when I moved in to the house, I thought maybe I can extract it it was spot response and small veins Meandering Through The Rock The Rock was used to hold my porch door open and it was there when I first moved in, I live in the house for 2 and 1/2 years, and now that I moved out 4 weeks ago I realized for my memory that someone probably replace That Rock with a similar Rock because none of the Rock I think it was replaced with is different and it's all white, anyway I should have took in that rock with me, either way nice video thank you for the information, I live in Missouri so who knows about gold around here in Missouri,
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Thank you, Chris, for sharing your knowledge. Do you have a video that shows, when we're out in the field, where the likely places are to find gold? I'm new to your channel, so perhaps you've already done this. When I'm surveying an area, what kind of rocks to look for in the terrain? Kind of a broader scope. ??
Thanks again.
I do for searching along rivers and streams. Take a look at: th-cam.com/video/iB6VEBJIPAc/w-d-xo.html
Shortly after moving to Utah, our family took a drive up one of the Wasatch Range canyons. The Roadside had recently been regraveled on it's shoulder with rocks about half the size of my fist. My wife wanted to take some scenic photos, so we pulled over and parked at the roadside. As she photographed, I just wandered about looking at the rock. In the half hour I looked, I found three quartz stone rocks with thin layers of gold color running through them. My wife said, "Oh, it's just pyrite," and I figured she was right. A couple weeks later I took the one with the thickest strip and I Pounded it with a sledge and found a few grain sized bits of metal so I put it on an anvil and took a regular hammer to it, expecting it to shatter. But holy crap! It flattened out instead. Eventually I pulverized all three, panned out the gold and melted it into a .7 gram button.
I've been back up the canyon, but never found more. However, I've had a bit of the gold bug ever since. (I come from Kansas, so wasn't used to gold being in my environment)
Sounds interesting....
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This was really interesting, Thank You. As gold in not something found in my area of the country, it was interesting to see the varying examples ...many I would not have expected at all to hold gold. Great Video, Thank You!
Thanks for commenting my brother Ralph. Glad you enjoyed the video.
I thought gold was something you'd never find in the midwest, but it IS here, you just have to know where to look!
I was in a beach house practicing metal detecting on the beach when my metal detector sounded, so we dig and dig and dig to the point that water was filling my hole then we found a boulder that was too heavy and big to lift for 2 women, half was black with white almost crystalized marbled look, the other half was white with yellowish brown colors, very beautiful, I wanted the boulder as ornament, but it was becomind dark and rainy, so we put back the sand and leave, we are planning to go back for that boulder better prepared to pull that stone, for 2 reasons, only on that rock the metal detector cried like crazy, other rocks: nothing, plus it was unique and beautiful even if not gold in it.
if gold is in it,you are rich baby
Were exactly were you digging just curious. Hahahaha jk
@@mightyfraserriver977 Ophelia City in Virginia, a private beach house where my brother was fixing the ramp and walkway to the water, It is a mix of river water and ocean water, I think, it have waves and the water keep rising in the afternoon, not too good for swimming, it become deep too soon and the water is dark
@@rositaalonzo6909 sounds lovely !!
I have a few sample of montbrayite the i have found in an old mine rockpile
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Interesting story I have.
While working in Vegas a few years back I found a piece of quartz with a gold vein in it in someone's landscaping rocks. It's small about the size of a quarter but still cool find.
Interesting.
The most beautiful gold bearing rock I have ever seen was a specimen in British Columbia. The native rock was a very dark charcoal and it contained gold, silver and platinum. It was breath taking stunning in beauty. I would never want that piece crushed. I would like to see it made into a high end pen holder/paperweight. The piece if held right would blind you in the sunlight.
Ok.
@@ChrisRalph This mineral is not being mined because it is a hard rock mine. Most companies will only give the prospector 5% of the profit and the family does not have the resources to get the operation going so nothing happens. Most prospectors are not very charitable to big corporations. It is a different story if you are a placer miner, you can grow your business and as you pull out more gold you can buy the heavy equipment. I have seen this repeated over and over again. There are a lot of prospectors that just will not share and I knew one guy the government blocked him because his claim was too rich and "they" did not want him to join the big boys club. "They" waited for him to die before the deposit was mined.
Always wondered how much gold might be in the Appalachian Mountains. The mountains are very old, worn down, and covered by vegetation. If there is or was gold, how much is now covered, or has been washed down streams.
Apalachians have quite a bit of gold.
It's where the north American gold rush started.
don't be lazy look it up online!