I have lived through all the Gold Rush, Deadliest Catch, Alaska gold and soooo many more channels just to be made to wait another week just to find out if a stupid pump or some bit of a excavator will work ??? That is why i gave up watching main TV channels and now i stick with watching and looking forward to channels like Dan Hurd. (my favorite You Tube channel by far) With every upload, Dan lays out what and where and works hard to show us any result, be it small flour gold or Pickerton maddness, smelting or teaching. With channels like Dan Hurd it cuts out all the crap and gives you closure and makes you want the next adventure to begin. Thank you to the Hurd family for all your hard work making this all possible for your devoted fans and youtube family. I would like to extend my love to the Hurd family, to all the subs and anybody reading this. PLEASE share Dan Hurd on line. xxx
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Seemed like was still some pretty good sized chunks coming out of the machine, to me it just seems like if it doesn't break it all down to fine stuff then it's only like half yielding or something. I'm hooked on your ch! Discovered it about a month ago, great vids, great knowledge, great times!!!
I like the fact that you have the jaw crusher set for the larger particle size. The impact mill crushes the rock far faster than the jaw crusher so you minimize the time at the slow point. It looks like there was a lot more gold than you initially thought. Good luck.
My gosh one of the few times I have seen the legendary Mr. Dan Hurd get skunked. ( well almost ). Needless to say there is always a thumbs up for your efforts on this channel Dan. Gold mining seems to be about 98 percent hard work effort and 2 percent picking your nose. Lol love this channel Dan keep up the 98 percent.👍
I wouldn't call that skunked, and I'm rather an expert at _skunked._ :-) Like as in a couple recent trips of mine to a local river where, having poured over a quarter bucket of mostly magnetite sands with a jewelers loupe, I discovered _not a single minute spec_ of gold. **Sad trombones**
We watched the whole thing! And I know you're not doing anything for watching the whole thing but I just wanted to let you know that we always watch your videos from start to finish
@@goldbunny1973 the gold jewelry video and the Nugget bucket video yes I know but I wanted to let him know that I don't just watch all of the videos in order to get something I wanted to let him know that I actually like this content enough to watch the whole thing
The quartz rocks were so pretty, part of me wished that you had a cost-effective way to flatten and polish it up for use as a good looking backsplash in a kitchen or bathroom. You'd need more, of course, but wow that was good looking stone! But I know that's not what you retrieved it for. Thanks, Dan. As a non-miner of any kind, I sure enjoy your channel. The scenery is always very nice, to boot.
Thanks to you and your panning videos inspiring to dig my pans out of the garage which I havent used in years and take my 8 yr old brother and girlfriend out to our local creek called miners ravine creek in Roseville California for a afternoon of panning and enjoying the nature. We were able to find only about 15 peices of fine gold but nevertheless it was a great memory for the 3 of us all thanks to you Dan 😁 I love all of your content, keep up the awesome work. I hope you can forever stay on the gold.
Hello Dan and Dan’s Dad! So cool you get to hang out with your Dad doing something you both love😀. Another awesome video with great camera work, love the microscopic views.
Would like to see that seem revisited and just crush the material and use a acid wash to disolve the rock out. I expect it would be a much better show of gold. I suspect there is good gold but requires a different process than this to recover it. The icon is a great machine for free mill gold but micro gold in sulfides is a different animal.
Hiya Dan! Hey great video, I just wanted to say that I crushed some quartz that had some gold very small like that, man that's some rough panning. But I don't have all the nice tools for cleaning it as you do but gold is gold. I hope you have a great day.
I’m impressed with how fine your crushers break down the material. I was rather amazed when you showed the pan full of crushed material. Looking forward to watching you process the samples you took in the mine! Keep it up! Pretty soon the snow will slow things down. We are getting our first snowfall of the season here in Anchorage.
Keep the videos coming. I love the variety that you have, and sometimes that you think outside the box as far as presenting stuff to us, your subscribers. Thank you for all you do for us!
It was a beautiful quartz seam. I thought there would be more gold than that. I think I might have to look at my cons under a microscope. Probably some gold I can't see. Thanks Dan and Dad.
Yet another fascinating video Dan! Sucks there wasn't a lot more gold in there but it's something I guess. Keep up the great work and happy prospecting!
Great video Dan. Do you think microscopic gold recovery is the future as the bigger nuggets are harder to find? It looks like it is costly to extract the microscopic gold.
Hi Dan. Nice video as usual. Nice to see your dad out with you. I see he's wearing a Knox Mtn t-shirt. Reminds me when I went to the hill climb years ago, back when dirt was invented. Fell asleep on the hill wearing my bikini and got the worst sunburn of my life. 😴😪 Was a great hill climb though. Looking forward to the next "crush".
So cool you and your dad do this stuff together. Hope you're both doing well! When I've run out of new content to watch I know where to go, your channel has so many videos I haven't seen yet!
Hi Dan micro gold could be encapsulated in pyrites. a lot of the pyrites captured by a Nelson concentrator will often have encapsulated gold in it as it is a lot denser when compared with barren pyrites. But to recover gold from pyrites you would need fine grinding, preferably below 50 microns and an oxidized acid leach. Anyway, great videos and keep them coming
Dan, I must say between watching You, Paulie, and Klesh... I decided I would try my hand at some of this gold searching adventure... recently ordered two pans and a snuffer... And a box of ore... Although I shouldn't have I needed to try my hand at something new.... Thanks Dan your the man!!! :D
A truly iconic video! I'm interested in seeing what you do with the cons. I've got about 100 lbs of black sands which when seen through a 250x scope is loaded with micron gold....I want it out but how???
The very first video I saw of yours Dan was the smoldering iron pyrite from a fresh dig you found. I've been a fan every since. Thankfully, I've never released any of my depleted concentrates back into the river, so I'm planning on roasting my concentrates or chemically treating them since I can better contain the fumes.--I live in a apartment / town-home community.
Dan, don't get discouraged. Hard Rock mining is where the real money is. Pickers and nuggets look great but there just isn't enough of them. Sulfides need treatment as you know. Might be low in free mill gold but I bet cyanide heap leach would help you recover lots of gold.
Hey Dan, It's awesome to see you enjoying the great outdoors with your Dad! Even though there wasn't much gold to be found, it looks like you both had fun. Thanks for the microscope video of the fines. AMAZING. What kind of microscope/video system do you, or your school, have?
The trip is worth everything, the destination is not- ie. the learning experience is the fun part, you should be satisfied with this Dan ;) As always nice and entertaining videos from you
Nice to see you are getting Aussie likes for hard rock sampling. Love how the icon works, not too keen on the noise coming from the TV, so it must be hellish on GZ! Tip top Dan 👏👏👏
Dan, I have to wonder , considering how much micron gold was in the pan, whether it would be worth checking the safety sluice with the microscope. That Icon does an amazing job of keeping the super-fine stuff, but does it miss any of that? Kind of a moot point, since it's getting ready to leave, but a good selling point for 911.
Dan with the gold being so small would it be fair to say you would of lost a load panning it and could it be smelted down. It would be very interesting to see the total per ton.
@Dan Hurd Hey Dan, have you made any videos smelting out the fine gold from crush like this? It would be great to see the micro gold processed and a comparison of yield from just panning vs. total yield with smelting!
Hi Dan. I like the microscope idea. I have been wanting to get one to view my gold as well. It’s pretty small here. I just don’t know what to get without spending a fortune. I was thinking about a stereoscope, but again, I don’t know what would fit my needs. It would be nice to get pics through the scope as well. Great video!
in regards to the sulphides and gold extraction, I've read that you can release any locked up gold by heating the sulphides. Do you intend to try anything like that?
Same gold I’m getting 😳 Incredibly fine micron gold is tough to deal with.. but like you I am a lookin for The Good Stuff! You earned my subscription long ago pal! Peace baby! PT
I like every mechanical extracting of gold-if there is the use of Quecksilber or other chemical acids-i think nature will not donate this! I see gold eberywhere-thats the difference between reality and PC .... Dan go on be nice to nature keep her save and she will handle you lovely ;-9
I guess if every effort was rewarded with a big "nug," or two, you'd get a bit bored... It's the quest for gold that offers satisfaction, not just the gold itself! Look at those beautiful locations you go to to pan for gold... It'd take all the fun and adventure out of it, if you just found gold laying on the ground all by itself!
We were singing the "disappointment tune" at the same time. Hilarious. 😅 Don't think there is much good left after cleaning it with mercury, although it looked loaded under the microscope. Well, it was another nice day in the outdoors and one of the last times you could "play" with the Icon. Is it already sold?
The centrifugal concentrator should be able to recover it still (as it did in the video). Once its concentrated you'd just smelt it as is instead of trying to concentrate it to pure rough gold.
Well I would have expected a bit more gold out of the Quartz it's self then the Sulfides. That seam would be payable if you Amalgamated enough of it. .
I have lived through all the Gold Rush, Deadliest Catch, Alaska gold and soooo many more channels just to be made to wait another week just to find out if a stupid pump or some bit of a excavator will work ???
That is why i gave up watching main TV channels and now i stick with watching and looking forward to channels like Dan Hurd. (my favorite You Tube channel by far)
With every upload, Dan lays out what and where and works hard to show us any result, be it small flour gold or Pickerton maddness, smelting or teaching.
With channels like Dan Hurd it cuts out all the crap and gives you closure and makes you want the next adventure to begin.
Thank you to the Hurd family for all your hard work making this all possible for your devoted fans and youtube family.
I would like to extend my love to the Hurd family, to all the subs and anybody reading this.
PLEASE share Dan Hurd on line. xxx
The gold was right there in front of you ~you Dad! Enjoy the time spent together and working together towards the great gold quest!
Enjoyed the hard rock mining video. Crushing rock is always a fun thing to do and there was gold at the bottom of your pan. Get that Gold!
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Love the close up camera work . Another great video Dan.
Dan, please keep posting. Truly enjoy the way you present yourself and family. Enjoy doing what you do. You have been a nugget for me.
Seemed like was still some pretty good sized chunks coming out of the machine, to me it just seems like if it doesn't break it all down to fine stuff then it's only like half yielding or something. I'm hooked on your ch! Discovered it about a month ago, great vids, great knowledge, great times!!!
nice video Dan, can't wait to see the results from the rocks you collected from inside addit 3 cheers
I like the fact that you have the jaw crusher set for the larger particle size. The impact mill crushes the rock far faster than the jaw crusher so you minimize the time at the slow point. It looks like there was a lot more gold than you initially thought. Good luck.
I've been watching for years and never regret subscribing to your channel one bit. thanks Dan.
My gosh one of the few times I have seen the legendary Mr. Dan Hurd get skunked. ( well almost ). Needless to say there is always a thumbs up for your efforts on this channel Dan. Gold mining seems to be about 98 percent hard work effort and 2 percent picking your nose. Lol love this channel Dan keep up the 98 percent.👍
I wouldn't call that skunked, and I'm rather an expert at _skunked._ :-)
Like as in a couple recent trips of mine to a local river where, having poured over a quarter bucket of mostly magnetite sands with a jewelers loupe, I discovered _not a single minute spec_ of gold. **Sad trombones**
Thanks Dan , loved to see those rocks get crushed !! Greetings from the Netherlands 🇱🇺
We watched the whole thing! And I know you're not doing anything for watching the whole thing but I just wanted to let you know that we always watch your videos from start to finish
...or you're not sure which video you were supposed to post that comment on to enter the competition? : ) It was the jewellery-making one.
@@goldbunny1973 Actually I watched the entirity of both videos, and I dont often do that with many TH-cam videos at all. 🙂👍
@@goldbunny1973 the gold jewelry video and the Nugget bucket video yes I know but I wanted to let him know that I don't just watch all of the videos in order to get something I wanted to let him know that I actually like this content enough to watch the whole thing
I, too, enjoy all this content, Dan.
The quartz rocks were so pretty, part of me wished that you had a cost-effective way to flatten and polish it up for use as a good looking backsplash in a kitchen or bathroom. You'd need more, of course, but wow that was good looking stone! But I know that's not what you retrieved it for. Thanks, Dan. As a non-miner of any kind, I sure enjoy your channel. The scenery is always very nice, to boot.
Thanks to you and your panning videos inspiring to dig my pans out of the garage which I havent used in years and take my 8 yr old brother and girlfriend out to our local creek called miners ravine creek in Roseville California for a afternoon of panning and enjoying the nature. We were able to find only about 15 peices of fine gold but nevertheless it was a great memory for the 3 of us all thanks to you Dan 😁 I love all of your content, keep up the awesome work. I hope you can forever stay on the gold.
I loved watching the jaw mill crush those big chunks of quartz. Big rocks then CRUNCH pure white powder.
Hello Dan and Dan’s Dad! So cool you get to hang out with your Dad doing something you both love😀. Another awesome video with great camera work, love the microscopic views.
My gosh one of the few times I have seen the legendary Mr. Dan Hurd get skunked. ( well almost ). Needless to say there is always a thumbs up
love the video and really love seeing dad in there with take every chance you get to be with him you guys rock lol
Good video, Dan and Doug. Really appreciate the time you took to take the microscope footage. Thank you both for sharing.
Darn! The samples looked really promising! Looking forward to the next ones.
Would like to see that seem revisited and just crush the material and use a acid wash to disolve the rock out. I expect it would be a much better show of gold. I suspect there is good gold but requires a different process than this to recover it. The icon is a great machine for free mill gold but micro gold in sulfides is a different animal.
You’ll find the good stuff Dan! Keep going for it mate. 👍🏻🇦🇺
Hiya Dan! Hey great video, I just wanted to say that I crushed some quartz that had some gold very small like that, man that's some rough panning. But I don't have all the nice tools for cleaning it as you do but gold is gold.
I hope you have a great day.
I’m impressed with how fine your crushers break down the material. I was rather amazed when you showed the pan full of crushed material. Looking forward to watching you process the samples you took in the mine! Keep it up! Pretty soon the snow will slow things down. We are getting our first snowfall of the season here in Anchorage.
Keep the videos coming. I love the variety that you have, and sometimes that you think outside the box as far as presenting stuff to us, your subscribers. Thank you for all you do for us!
Loved the video Dan! I find your icon videos to be some of the most interesting!
It was a beautiful quartz seam. I thought there would be more gold than that. I think I might have to look at my cons under a microscope. Probably some gold I can't see. Thanks Dan and Dad.
Yet another fascinating video Dan! Sucks there wasn't a lot more gold in there but it's something I guess. Keep up the great work and happy prospecting!
Love it dan just goes to show what teal prospecting is about and that u dont always find the mother load🙏🏻
oh yes , a new Video :-))) , thanks Dan
The pictures are the perfect example of why old timers used mercury to get their gold. Awesome video no one else does the microscope views.
i ve seen an AEG sign on the machine! its a very old german firm-it means "Aus Erfahrung gut! " Out of experience good!
Blast!, Crush!, Concentrate!, GOLD! Got my attention, especially BLAST! I like watching you use the mini blaster and getting gold.
It sounds like Congo drums when you drop the ore I the grinder! 🥁🥁 🤣😂
If nothing else, it indicates how easy it can be to miss fine gold. Thanks to the teacher for the unintentional lesson.
I love your videos Dan, I wish I had a good person like you to tag along with me so I don't have to prospect alone
11:33 pm in Queensland Australia.
I have a massive headache . watching and loving this video. .so noisy..
Thankyou Dan 👍❣️
Love the video, not convinced about the gold. Now the next steps cooking and melting
That little nug with the 2 metals looked cool but I like these it shows u different tipes of tecneks to find GOLD
Great video Dan. Do you think microscopic gold recovery is the future as the bigger nuggets are harder to find? It looks like it is costly to extract the microscopic gold.
Hi Dan. Nice video as usual. Nice to see your dad out with you. I see he's wearing a Knox Mtn t-shirt. Reminds me when I went to the hill climb years ago, back when dirt was invented. Fell asleep on the hill wearing my bikini and got the worst sunburn of my life. 😴😪 Was a great hill climb though. Looking forward to the next "crush".
So cool you and your dad do this stuff together. Hope you're both doing well! When I've run out of new content to watch I know where to go, your channel has so many videos I haven't seen yet!
Talk about some super fine gold, wow!! Time for the next samples ya took from inside the blue chip. As always be safe out there
Thank you for your videos. I appreciate this one because prospectors don't get discouraged. They except the not so good with the exceptional.
Hi Dan
micro gold could be encapsulated in pyrites. a lot of the pyrites captured by a Nelson concentrator will often have encapsulated gold in it as it is a lot denser when compared with barren pyrites. But to recover gold from pyrites you would need fine grinding, preferably below 50 microns and an oxidized acid leach.
Anyway, great videos and keep them coming
same here watch till' the end. I was hoping to see something too. At least, i got an idea again, thanks.
Congratulations on the 90k Subs!! Thanks for sharing another great mining trip!
Dan, I must say between watching You, Paulie, and Klesh... I decided I would try my hand at some of this gold searching adventure... recently ordered two pans and a snuffer... And a box of ore... Although I shouldn't have I needed to try my hand at something new.... Thanks Dan your the man!!! :D
one thing i have come to enjoy with yiur chanel is that you involve friends and the whole family. good job
Sweet the mini blaster was one of my first videos and was my favorite until the picker earrings, necklace? Thanks for sharing so much!
A truly iconic video! I'm interested in seeing what you do with the cons. I've got about 100 lbs of black sands which when seen through a 250x scope is loaded with micron gold....I want it out but how???
The very first video I saw of yours Dan was the smoldering iron pyrite from a fresh dig you found. I've been a fan every since. Thankfully, I've never released any of my depleted concentrates back into the river, so I'm planning on roasting my concentrates or chemically treating them since I can better contain the fumes.--I live in a apartment / town-home community.
You've earned my subscription months ago and I can't stop watching your videos!!! I'm obsessed!
Dad, Doug, potato, potatoe 😂 Thanks for letting us peak at your adventures! 👍
Love the videos Dan! Your videos have got me so excited about prospecting! Absolutely beautiful part of the world your in! Keep up the great videos
That was interesting to see all the micro pieces ...... Cool!! Thank you for sharing.
The way dad turned around made me laugh so hard 🤣
You definitely earned my subscription today! Awakening enthusiasts sent me
Yep , you earned my subscription Dan - about 2 yrs ago actually . Enjoyed the video .
Old video? Or did the buyer back out?
Dan, don't get discouraged. Hard Rock mining is where the real money is. Pickers and nuggets look great but there just isn't enough of them. Sulfides need treatment as you know. Might be low in free mill gold but I bet cyanide heap leach would help you recover lots of gold.
Love the videos Dan. Keep em coming. Educational and entertaining too.
Nice noisy operation lol. Last video with the Icon I presume. Cool microscope shots. Thanks.
Hey Dan, It's awesome to see you enjoying the great outdoors with your Dad! Even though there wasn't much gold to be found, it looks like you both had fun.
Thanks for the microscope video of the fines. AMAZING. What kind of microscope/video system do you, or your school, have?
Nice to see gold coming out of hard rock. Would’ve nice to have a MICROSCOPE to look at the raw ore up close! 😊
Alway like seeing your dad out there with you. Take that guy back to pickerton!👍🐍
The trip is worth everything, the destination is not- ie. the learning experience is the fun part, you should be satisfied with this Dan ;) As always nice and entertaining videos from you
Nice to see you are getting Aussie likes for hard rock sampling. Love how the icon works, not too keen on the noise coming from the TV, so it must be hellish on GZ!
Tip top Dan 👏👏👏
Dan, I have to wonder , considering how much micron gold was in the pan, whether it would be worth checking the safety sluice with the microscope. That Icon does an amazing job of keeping the super-fine stuff, but does it miss any of that? Kind of a moot point, since it's getting ready to leave, but a good selling point for 911.
Almost 100k Dan! Keep the videos coming. Great stuff
I enjoyed this process. Looks like a dream machine to me 😅
Love the videos with your dad!
Dan with the gold being so small would it be fair to say you would of lost a load panning it and could it be smelted down. It would be very interesting to see the total per ton.
I just realized you still have the Icon ! Cool
Apparently you were looking for coarser gold than was there, but we sure hope that you can collect loads of it in time!
How would you go about recovering the 1000 mesh gold? Gold wheel? Blue Bowl?
@Dan Hurd Hey Dan, have you made any videos smelting out the fine gold from crush like this? It would be great to see the micro gold processed and a comparison of yield from just panning vs. total yield with smelting!
I have several grams I f very fine alaska gold. Even with jet dry it floats.
Hi Dan. I like the microscope idea. I have been wanting to get one to view my gold as well. It’s pretty small here. I just don’t know what to get without spending a fortune. I was thinking about a stereoscope, but again, I don’t know what would fit my needs. It would be nice to get pics through the scope as well. Great video!
in regards to the sulphides and gold extraction, I've read that you can release any locked up gold by heating the sulphides. Do you intend to try anything like that?
I've been trying to watch all your videos. Everyone is awesome!!!
Same gold I’m getting 😳
Incredibly fine micron gold is tough to deal with.. but like you I am a lookin for The Good Stuff!
You earned my subscription long ago pal!
Peace baby!
PT
Drown it in quicksilver. xD
One of the addits on a future video? Can not wait ! Well done dan,excellent video! 😬😬
I like every mechanical extracting of gold-if there is the use of Quecksilber or other chemical acids-i think nature will not donate this! I see gold eberywhere-thats the difference between reality and PC .... Dan go on be nice to nature keep her save and she will handle you lovely ;-9
Great to see you and Doug Dad
here in Brazil there is a lot of gold I'm trying to learn from your videos, I find more with my metal detector gold rings in Brazil beaches
Try taking your metal detector on the rivers out in Brazil you should find some gold nuggets
Thank you
I LOVE WATCHING THOSE ROCKS BEING CRUSHED
I guess if every effort was rewarded with a big "nug," or two, you'd get a bit bored...
It's the quest for gold that offers satisfaction, not just the gold itself!
Look at those beautiful locations you go to to pan for gold...
It'd take all the fun and adventure out of it, if you just found gold laying on the ground all by itself!
We were singing the "disappointment tune" at the same time. Hilarious. 😅
Don't think there is much good left after cleaning it with mercury, although it looked loaded under the microscope.
Well, it was another nice day in the outdoors and one of the last times you could "play" with the Icon.
Is it already sold?
'Happy Birthday Dad'. (guessing as you said he needed a shower) 🤣Oh, and as dammed normal, nice gold 😎
Thanks for the great video Dan.
Another great video, Thanks Dan and dad Doug.
Would love to come and learn about the rock types
Well, another nice vid Dan. It's some purdy little stuff!
I alwase love your videos because ur honest when it comes to prospecting
Thanks Dan..................
Yes I remember, good show😉
Looks like the only way to separate the gold out if that sample is with some mercury.
The centrifugal concentrator should be able to recover it still (as it did in the video). Once its concentrated you'd just smelt it as is instead of trying to concentrate it to pure rough gold.
Well I would have expected a bit more gold out of the Quartz it's self then the Sulfides. That seam would be payable if you Amalgamated enough of it. .