Gold Rush - Long Version - Working Gold Mine - Western Montana, MT
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- Gold Rush - Long Version - Working Gold Mine - Western Montana, MT
There's Gold in Them Thar Hills! Montana is nicknamed the "Treasure State" and our state motto, Oro y Plata means "gold and silver" in Spanish.
Follow the gold mining process as we pre-sort through tons of rock and wash the remaining gravel to extract the heaviest material, GOLD!
This sequence was shot in August 2012 using a GoPro Hero2 camera and a Canon Vixia HFX-100. Edited with Adobe Premier Pro 5.0.
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This right here was one of the first videos I watched when I starting looking into prospecting in Montana. Amazing set up.
Welcome back! This was my friends' claim and he let me film his operation years ago. The area has all been reclaimed and you wouldn't know it was a gold mining operation driving past. Thanks for checking in. Dave.
I love this video. I watch it over and over. It'd be so cool to build your own washplant and set it up on some ground. There's good ground left, you just have to explore and find it. The airlift a small dozer and excavator in. It'd be so fucking cool. It's a shame folks with money get to have the fun adventures. We poor folk just get to sit back and watch the fun. I like this video because it's obvious this guy built everything and fixes his own equipment.
Thats my dream right there.
A small operation for me and my 2 sons to work.
Moving to western Montana in May. Thanks for the video
Best of luck! Thanks for watching and commenting. Dave.
Приятно смотреть на хорошую работу. Размеренно, без суеты. Очень хорошо!
Such a cool video, thanks for sharing with us all.
Glad you enjoyed it! Dave.
Best soundtrack ever. Just The rocks on metal.
And the sound of heavy equipment! Thanks for the comment! Dave.
Most intersting video I've seen all month!
James, thanks for your comment and your question. The gold at the end of the video was probably from 4-6 dumps in the hopper. I shot video for an hour that morning while the two mine owners worked the front-end loaders. They say that some days are better than others, depending on the trench they are working on. I do not know what the average daily take is. Thanks again for watching and commenting. Dave.
That's quite a setup there. Wish I had that at my gold mine for a couple of weeks. Everyting has pretty much just been setting there since 1939. I bought a super hog 13' highbanker and worked the tailings for a week by recirculating the water. My friend and I hardly processes enough to tell we had even been there - lol. He moved so I sold the high banker last week. Metal detecting is much easier for a single person.
An operation like this certainly takes a lot of dedication. A lot of moving parts that need constant maintenance. Like your operation, this is not a one-man show. You are right, metal detecting is much easier. Besides, it allows you to move between sites a lot easier!
A lot of color coming from there!!
Thats a hell of a one man set up for sure
I find that amazing, you guye do in an hour what took us a week to do by hand. Far out!
The Montana Metal Mine Reclamation Act requires mining companies to return mine impacted lands to a stable and usable landform. All materials (except gold) is returned back to the pits. Thanks for watching and asking! Dave.
Thanks and I enjoyed your presentation so much. I have been watching the Discovery Channel gold mineing shows and your presentation is just about as good as it gets. Thanks and may god bring you good fortune in your ventures! Jon
Great operation, must've taken a lot of time and work to put together this video! This is the way small mining should look, and having worked around an old Cedar Rapids crushing operation years ago I enjoyed seeing the little homemade touches that really work. Great job!
WoW Great setup. Happy Hunting
Thanks for viewing and commenting. Dave.
Wow! Cool for two reasons. I live in western MT and do a little prospecting myself plus your editing is awesome! Never got bored once!
Todd, thanks for the kind words. I used two cameras and needed to be a little creative with the edits! Since I shot this video of my friend, the site has been totally reclaimed as per contract. You wouldn't know it was a gold mining operation close to Trout Creek if you did not see this video. Thanks again for commenting. Dave in Missoula.
Great video David, keep them coming.
Wow, appreciate you showing us your work. :) Nice little excavater.
That's a lot of hard work you have done there. Well done!
Pretty cool vid...showing all the steps...the machinery involved...I really enjoyed it.
Sammy, thanks for watching my video and taking time to comment. It was a fun shoot and it took a lot of time editing the video. I had to put all the pieces together in a logical sequence in order to tell a story without narration! I am pleased you enjoyed the video. Comments like yours make it worthwhile! Dave.
Great video!
Thanks for the really interesting video of your ops.
I like your set-up
This dude is SMART. He has a small operation, old equipment without electronics (so he can fix it), and has the absolute smartest cleanup system available to mankind. He doesn't even have to cleanup his gold. The Hoffmans need to take lessons from this dude. The Hoffmans (Gold Rush TV show) spend a million dollars just to profit a few hundred thousand. See, the old miners got the good ground, so all these claims which already have roads built to them have been picked clean of all the good ground. The old miners left the ounce per hundred yard ground alone because they got the 5 ounce per hundred ground and mined the hell out of it. The only claims worth mining are small untouched pockets on benches and such which have no roads going to them. To get a good claim, you're going to have to build a road. The way to go is seek out a SMALL claim which would require a small operation running 50 yards/hour. Trust me, this dude doesn't have to worry about going in the hole. The way to go is find a little claim that's a few acres and TEST TEST TEST. You have to get water permits, land use permits, mining permits, etc.. The way to do it is spend a season testing. Don't be in a hurry. Don't take on investor dollars. If you don't have a retirement with a million dollars in it, leave the mining alone. It's going to take 200 thousand at least just to get everything you need. Then you need fuel money until you sell some gold. Taking on investor money is dumb as fuck unless it's family or friends who have the money to blow.
Well said and right on the money!
That was very gratifying. Thanks!
that has to be one of the best operations I have seen, what is your normal TPD.
. I wish you very beautiful, abundant gold
Very cool camera work.
Thanks for noticing and informing me. I will follow through. Dave.
Another awesome Video here :-)
Cool separator & Sluice Box
Thats awesome how they pond the water & hard minerals .
Awesome Filming 5 thumbs up Video
+1BlueStarRising Many thanks! This video is of my friends claim. Since then, the area has been reclaimed and you can not see where the original claim is. They did a terrific job turning the area back to Mother Nature. Remarkable! Dave.
Beautiful vid!
thats one solid operation - good vid
Very nice vid thanks
Very good!!
Good I like your set up good luck with the work
Nice Operation!
PT
So Awesome! I live in Missoula and prospect at least 3 times weekly.... it is my dream to do this!
Very cool setup, and looks like a lot of custom equipment work. Love the wheels on the end. Why spend 20K on a shaker gold table when three wheels in order can seperate without barely having to watch it? lol great idea!
It was entertaining to watch. Tiny gold pays for all that heavy machinery to operate.
Thanks for watching. It helps if you own all the machinery and can build the specialty equipment required to extract the gold.
Real neat and efficient setup. If you can, explain how the pay dirt is getting to the wheels? from the sluice box?
Great Operation you have.... Do you fill in all the holes you dug up eventually? Thanks for the video!
Very interesting video . Do you know how long it took for that amount of gold to be found at the videos end ?
I have a dessert fox wheel, but I've only seen one other video with a double wheel like yours. What's it called and where can I get one?
It's a great video to watch....
I want to visit a dry gold processing plant. Any leads please. ...which one can I see.
Great video, thx! Could you explain your yuba wheel setup at the end? I'm trying to figure it out.
Sorry, but my friend is the actual gold miner, I just shot the video. I do know that the three wheels really separates the gold flakes efficiently. The gold nuggets are captured in the vibrating tray upstream. Thanks for asking. Dave.
Wow that is awsome I used to live on blue slide rd by Thompson falls. I would take my 4 wheeler to the vermillion bridge to go swimming after school.
What a small world! We have a cabin on Blue Slide Road out of Trout Creek and have been shuttling there since 1981. Beautiful country for sure! I am still capturing the Huckleberry Festival parade and posting on TH-cam each year. I love small towns, USA! Thanks for sharing your memories! Dave.
David could I come for a weekend or week to learn or maybe work fulltime?
That guy was a one man team, loading scouping, classifying and off to the Big Banker.
Hardest working attics you'll ever meet, good men work hard for what they earn and that's a fact!!!
Stupid smart phone auto spell...lol... much respect fellas!!!
We would like to know what you do with the gold after the video. Where do you take it to be purchased?
that looks addicting! i like it.
no alcanzo a ver como es el proceso desde el lavado de arena hasta que ya sale listo para los espirales ??? no se si me explico
I deal with hard rock and much finer gold. Have you ever tested your tailings for fine gold? The equipment you are using probably doesn't get much under 50 mesh.
Keith
I'm no expert on gold mines, but they seem to have a pretty good setup there. How much gold was that at the end? A half ounce or so?
You are a had working man for sure, I do that work too but your seems to be interesting , nice work
I live in missoula, I have an awesome spot down the bitterroot where I do some very small scale placer mining. Just out of curiosity, where is this site? I dont want to claim jump or anything just kinda curious :)
Great Video!! One of THEE BEST!! Dave may I stop by? I am in Montana right now heading north...
Roger, many thanks for watching and commenting. I really appreciate it. This was a friends claim before he reclaimed the land and sold the claim to a Canadian company. Sorry. I trust you will have great travels through Montana and points up north. Thanks again for commenting. Dave.
hola queria saber como hacen que desde el mismo lavado llegue automaticamente a los 3 spirales que terminan de lavar el oro? gracias
I love that 3 spinning wheel refining system, but how can he be sure he's not losing any gold, especially in that red wheel where so much dirt gets rejected? Is there something in place to secondary screen that dirt?
How many yard you move to get that poke?
Did you sell it
Olá vcs compram diamante e pedras preciosas?
Great video guys. Gold today January 07,2020 $1570 per OZ.
Thanks for watching!
Very good. But is it worth all the hassle ?
Just watched agin. Man I sure miss that place. My uncle is getting really old I might go see him soon and check out the old swimming hoke
I have a large green gold wheel and love it. I never saw anyone using 2 of them. Are you getting gold the first one lost? I use mine at the river I feed it liker a coal stove. Scoop and wait,red and black sand with gold fall into a small bucket on the back. I scoop 20 or times a min.
اروع جهاز لتنقية الذهب رأيتة حتى هذه اللحظة 😍😘
great video what are the spiral things at the end of the video called that extract the gold from the rest
+warren pamment Warren, sorry for the lateness in my reply. I must have been "out of town" or too lazy to read my emails! Any way, the wheels at the end of the video are spiral wheels, each colored wheel has different ridges to sort-out even the finest gold dust. Thanks for asking and sorry for the delay. Dave in Montana.
YES.GO THERE.GOLD.LOTS OF GOLD.
is that it?
how many month do you get to mine ,I'm in Alaska and mine also .
Curious about all the 1 and 2 inch pipe I saw laying in there..
very good resalt
I,d be curious to know how many grams / to the ton your head grade is THE DON WEST OZ
It looks to me like you could have made a shorter trip with your loader. Couldn't you bring the processor closer to the ore deposits. save some time on each trip?
This guy has his mine planned out a lot better than any of those jackholes on Gold Rush or Bering Sea Gold or Jungle Gold.
jungle gold was a fake shit show but watching these folks working like this was pure joy indeed. no bs drama. only hard working guys that knew their job well.
He's smart. He has old equipment with no electronics, which allows him to fix it himself. He has a small operation which yields several grams/yard. This dude probably gets at LEAST 10 ounces/hundred yards. He probably runs 100 yards on a good day and watches the money roll in. Small claims and small operations are the way to go. The dumbass Hoffmans mined a huge claim which had a million dollars worth of drilling. The first thing the owner is looking for is to get his million back he spent on drilling. So the dumbasses had to come up with a million off the bat to pay for the drilling. Second, Todd's dumbass has his crew of 10 or 12 he brings with him. He has to look for claims large enough to run 12 guys. Wrong way to do it. You sample the ground, and setup an operation in accordance with the ground. If you only need 2 people, there ya go. Todd tries to shove 12 guys into the mix. Dumbass, that's what Todd is. He's probably spent 10 million to make 500 grand. He's a lucky fuck that Discovery probably gave him money. They made a show, they didn't mine.
You are right
J4
Is this on vermilion ?!?
how come u cant scoop up and ur loading up with a mini digger?
Do you sell this gold to individuals? I pay more than melt which I am sure with this much gold you probably sell under melt. I could use a kilo
very good
Need any help?
Interesting. You folks are panning for gold Big Time. I just came from a video where a man was using a pick ax, shovel and pan, while sitting in a river stream. Major difference.
wheres all the flour gold?
Like gold
No fines? Do fines go somewhere else he didn't show?
The Treasure State - I like that
where at in western montana? I grew up in Bonners Ferry ID
Ty
@davidegg22 do you watch jungle gold tv show ...how is it possible to spend $150,000.00 only get 5 onces of gold ?
what do you think of these shows ?
well everything is right there, there is really no cartage or ore for any real distance, and he is taking raw ore down to spiral wheels with minimal labor, can't do much better.
Has to be the best gold mine I've seen yet you go from digging it separating it getting the loose Rock putting in the tumbler in the sluice get it back and then driving it all the way out of gold only that's so fucking awesome there's no I'll get back to you and I slipped a little you know that's great good job
What a great life style ...just the ducks nutts ..😁
Cool
I'd like to make my living that way too.
Lol that gold wheel is flying but its getting gold too awsome
Yes, my friend had quite the setup, ingenious implementation.
Absolutely.the trommel and Hopper was great.just a nice low cost set up.are you guys still getting back at it this spring id love to see more videos.thats some of the nicest gold ive seen at that level of mining
Thanks! I used some techniques that were new to me. Having more than one camera rolling sure helps during the edit process. I think I shot for 45 minutes to edit down to this 10 minute vid. Thanks for viewing and commenting! Dave.
Dave do you need any help I'm off for the winter I can run a loader I'll work for damn near free just for the experience.
Excellent. ..that is my dream someday
Any tips for someone that lives in Libby. I would love to prospect something worth wild rather than Libby creek
Keep working the gulches is all I can say! I am no expert (I shot the video for my friend) but color should still be found. Good luck! Dave.
The dirty water in the sluice boxes at 6:50 will wash a lot of fine gold right through. Clean up the water and the gold recovery will be better. The gold in the pans is coarse with not much fine gold.