That special rock is a various layers of semi-breccia. Semi- because there ARE some stones/pebbles in this mud matrix (which means breccia - broken stones, conglomerated stones). You have various levels of sedimentation and metamorphic clay, mud, and silt. The blueish mud turns into a mudstone. Other sands turn into sandstone. Clay turns into shale into slate into schist into higher forms of compressed material. Silt turns into siltstone into shale into slate into schist. These small pebbles are found in a hydrological event (flash flood?) of rolling smooth and small pebbles into this clay, mud, and silt matrix. This sedimentation was covered with overburden, pressed and turned into this blue claystone and siltstone (not even up to shale or slate) matrix. So in some vast ancient past this was some muddy, slimy, outwash of an estuary, small creek, stream, or river lowlands. A flash flood of small material was washed down stream toward the Great Lakes, and embedded in this muck. Further overburden compressed this into this pebble and schmuck matrix of a muddy breccia. Question is .. with the retreat of the glacier age of 10,000s BCE, this isn't necessarily a moraine deposit (melting glaciers dropping boulders, stone, rocks, pebbles, gravel, sand, grit, clay, mud, silts ... but this was an outwash of some event over a very finely ground (sand), clay, mud, and silt deposition of a shallow waterway, pond, lake, maybe even an ocean shoreline. Just did a breccia rock of a UK mudlark wondering of here breccia and it had to be a volcanic and tectonic event of pebbles and igneous and plutonic (basalt and granite) matrix. Broken off somewhere inland, and pushed down the UK and dropped into the sea, wearing away the softer matrix, while the harder pebbles remained as a bumpy, knobby, brainy-like rounded stone between golf ball and hard ball size. The size of your semi-breccia claystone/mudstone/siltstone and its rounded shape says that it has been rounded (not cracked or broken off from a deposit) in modern paleontological times, and that it has been pushed up and rolled onto your Lake Superior shoreline. One could easily say that this was from the time of the dinosaurs (Mezoic age 60 million years ago) and is a process of sedimentation, external events of embedded pebbles, and then metaphorphism into this more-solid rock formation.
Other events of the turning and churning of this claystone/mudstone/siltstone with its convultions etc shows that the metamorphic process happened with additional hurky-jerky movements instead of a clear and uniformitarian equal-layered sedimentation. Other external events were also happening with this schmucky schmuck in ancient times. If you see the rock formations outside of Reno, NV at mile 22 and see the ribbon networks of metamorphic rock looking like those "S" christmas candy shapes that was sedimentation and compression and foldings. Something that you technically don't have in your rock (!) - you have different tectonic and geological processes happening in your Great Lakes region. It might even be that the 15,000 - 10,000 BCE period of the massive glacial ice sheets were the actual active agent doing the compressions of this overburden and this mud flat region.
If that whitish-brown matrix is not mudstone or siltstone, but the formations of sand, sandstone, and pre-Quartzite into Quartz, then this would be some flows of alumino-silicates of feldspar or K-spar (plutonic underground granite composites overflowing and embedding into this softer clay/mud/siltstones. One needs to have accurate rock ID on these individual components for geological interpretation of this rock's history.
That was fairly easy to understand and I really appreciate it!!!! I’m slowly turning into a part time rock hound and that really helps !!! Thank you!!!! 👍🏻✅
I don't even gold mine, but I find your personality, Rigby interactions and the gold mining very interesting and entertaining. You basically got my subscription from watching one of these beach mining vids. Therefore, I continue to watch and enjoy your content each week. Thank you for sharing your mining adventures with TH-cam!
I really enjoy your videos. The different spots you do. I really enjoy this video. One of my favorite pics is after a long day your dog has his wore out face up on the glove box between the seats of your truck...catching a rest...Love it.
As a lifetime member of the GPAA I must say that you sure do run a down to earth gold prospecting adventure every time . Very simple and easy to follow and understand !
Nice, Jason, looks like you and Paul, had a good day on the beach, someday I would like to make it up that way and try my luck up there on Lake Superior. Thanks for stopping by the live stream last night, brother.
Nothing better than Jason and rigbone on the beach. I went over and subscribed to Paul. Thanks guys. That vdr was loaded like a bucking horse. And even with the wind. Your camera mic sounded great. And I love the fridge of wonder. Happy birthday to Mrs wizard. She is a doll
Super fun video! Wishing Mrs. Wizard a Happy Birthday, she is really special to let you go beach mining on "Her" birthday. I had such a fun day werking the beach with you and Rigbomob. You always put together a fun and informative video, this is one is right up there too. I really appreciate the sluice, I am so taken back by such a awesome gift. I will be ready for beach mining next year. You are a class act and I am so glad to get to know you a little better. Take care my friend, glad you made it home safe, and I will see you in the next one.
hat's really cool that you were in a town called "Skookum" (excuse the spelling) because that word is also another name for a Sasquatch... I've heard it used a couple of times (on either a TV or a TH-cam video) when someone was listing some of the Native names for a Bigfoot and it's always stood out to me for some reason... And funny enough I've never actually heard it used before outside of those shows before. That's pretty cool. did you heard any notable Sasquatch stories while you were up there, or did you have any encounters yourself? I think prospecting in the deep wild go hand-in-hand with encounters so I would expect you to have heard a heck of a lot of stories (well, if anyone wasn't to afraid to bring it up and possibly jinx the camp LOL) - Glad you made it back ok and hopefully with lot of gold :D
Another great day on the beach, with more nice gold. That rope looked like it was still good. I wonder how much more cool stuff was exposed after the storm.. Happy Birthday, Mrs. Wizard!
Tow scoops of concentrate on the clean up sluice and one sip of beer seems like a reasonable rhythm of work for a Hard Working Miner such as yourself Jason ! Its when there are no scoops and just sips is when you need to call it a day, or more night !!
Very interesting video. I live about 35 miles from South Padre Island in South Texas. As a kid I remember laying on the shore by the waterline and watching little sparkles of gold. I always wondered if it could be gold.
Glad you guys hooked up. I moved to Michigan from the middle of Wisconsin and told Paul about you while working with him in St Clair. Before he retired from the plant he left some things in writing that referred to your TH-cam channel. He respects you a lot bud.
If u ever make it up that way there a geological survey I read that was 27 pages that really helped me pin point some great gold, it's called marine gold placers along the gulf of alaska margin I walked away with 47 ozs in a 5 month period. Mainly flower gold, some very nice nugs from up the copper, that area is amazing, if u don't mind a grizzly incounter or 2.
Hey Jason, wanted to share how your bringing the blacksand over to the garnet/blond sand for a comparative look-see. Sometimes what we see and experience gets lost in translation. So you done good! Rigby would approve too!
Great Video glad to see Paul made it back from Alaska safe…awesome amount of beach gold…you really should have brought a nugget and dropped into Paul’s sluice when he wasn’t looking 😂
Jason, I have followed your channel for some time, now....I know(almost) nothing about mining gold - other than what I have seen here on your channel and other gold mining channels. I always love to see you and Rigby out there having a blast......god bless you all.
Awesome video as always Jason. Love the new camera & congrats on your new sponsor! We have just returned from our annual BC prospecting trip & the weather was so beautiful that it limited our work process! 1st time it has ever been too hot to work at this time of year. It did give us time to enjoy the beautiful scenery & kick back & enjoy nature which is a huge part of this hobby. Take care & we will continue to watch your quest for loads of flour gold & that elusive nugget (Prospector Greg is still searching fot that one too BTW). Janet. Infinity Prospecting
Happy Birthday Mrs Wizard and congratulations Jason on such a big pan of lovely gold. It was lovely seeing Prospector Paul keeping you company, and his bucket of special classified Alaskan sand looked promising. Wishing you all the best, Wendi 🌻
Awesome video here Jason. Looks like y'all had some fun Beach mining and you also had some fun rock finding. And that is definitely a very interesting rock that you found out there. Very interesting cause I haven't seen anything like it before in my area.
@@FlourgoldWizards very nice find especially for it being ancient coral and sedimentary clay. Wondering if it could be carbon dated to the exact time period? And what other kinds of finds that can be found as well, such as other ancient corals samples, and possibly any shark teeth. Lol
Hey Jason, yeah I saw this on Paul’s channel You two fellas knocked her out of the park. And what you gave him later on, let me tell you, I got a lot of respect for you brother. That was pretty darn cool.
*Let this absolutely outstanding video be a defining video for your channel and go Viral 🔥🔥🔥🙌👏🏻👏🏻* *This is the first post storm gold mining video I have seen,and it’s so good* Belated birthday wishes for miss wizard.
I love this guy. I live in eagle river wi, and I have to say. Guys like this is what makes Wisconsin great. Positive, happy, out going…. In every video, older beer drinking mason talking to a camera in the woods digging shiny!!!! Thanks wizard.
@@FlourgoldWizards check out “Garlic Creek” just northwest or Marquette. Pretty much anywhere back there I have had great results. It’s a trek but we’ll worth it and the waterfalls are breathtaking. RigBomb would love it.
That sure looks like a fossil to me. I watch Mamlambo fossils, and he finds rocks that look very similar to what you found that are ancient sedimentary crabs, penguins and other creatures. Looks like what you found has opalized maybe; regardless, that rock is way cool! Great gold for sure and thanks for all the great advice you always give!⛏👊
I was thinking the same thing when I found out ! Ive since created something called the Smoothwater sluice head, it makes water delivery perfect on nearly all sluices !
years ago when I was about 14 years old I was on a beach area in Maine and found what looked like a brain. I took it into my science teacher to see what he thought. He said he sent it off to a lab for testing. About a month later he quit teaching and moved to Hawaii. I also found out the so called brain was from a whale and was worth its weight in gold. The teacher sold the piece for a great amount and left me cold. (The a$$hole). This hurt me deeply.
I hear you! Let me tell you a similar thing happened to me! I took a friend of mine with me to my secret cave in Oklahoma. I had been going to this cave for many years! Inside there were crystal formations that were incredible. Not volcanic but formed over thousands of years and very valuable. My favorite formation grew in a perfect x! We lost touch of each other for a few years and the next time I visited about ten years later this friend of mine had gone back to my cave and harvested the x crystal. It was on his coffee table! I found later that since it was grown in a perfect x..........it was worth half a million bucks or so. I still would not have taken it from the cave. A few tears later this x friend of mine passed away and the crystal is nowhere to be found! Things like this happen in life! Your teacher was a crook much like my friend!
Rock collectors are much like other collectors. The least valuable rock is the one that’s not in their collection. Until they get it, then it’s value goes up…
Heyyy whats going on here , again no drill sound from the fridge of wonders, last episode you said the mrs had it , who has the dewalt now ? The mexicans ? 🧐
Thanks for the opportunity to check out the rock! Can’t wait to give it a cut! I’ll film it and post it on my channel. Amazing how that beach changes! Great gold! Great episode! Tell Val I said happy birthday! 🍻
No gold panning here in UK, but we do collect sea glass on our shores here in North East. Always a pleasure to watch and share in rigbies adventures (and yours too). Open that fridge of wonder and have one for me Jason.
Paul is awesome. I met him for the first time in Arizona last April at the detector event. I'll be back out there in April to see him again. Hopefully he will have time to take me to the gold fields out there and show me how to do some dry washing for gold. Good gold!!! Merry Christmas my friend.
Hey Jason, love your channel, I have learned alot, THANKS the Michigan law about power sluicing is vague, Like they dont' want Us to do it,I'll keep digging! Thanks again
I know this sounds weird but I absolutely love to shovel. I'm a true believer of the more material you process the more gold you find. I'd love to come shovel for you you could keep the gold. I really enjoy the whole process of it all gold is just a bonus
As a native of Alaska. We do a lot of beach mining. I've got a small claim in Nome. After a big storm comes thru. It's a good time to get out and work the low tide areas. Anyone working beaches, always follow the black or dark red areas. Sometimes your streaks run deep and hardly ever run straight.
Every time I watch one of your videos, I get more convinced that the 36 hour drive would be worth taking a vacation out your way. Keep up the good work!
Happy Birthday to Val! Wow 2 Rocks of the week! Woo! and neither one got pitched! lol I am so glad you are taking an interest in rocks and are collecting some of them. That 2nd one wow, it would "almost" be worth cutting it in half if you have a tile saw. I didn't see any bands, but the spot in the middle almost looks like an agate. Super generous of Paul too. Awesome gold. Great video!
You collect fossils, Chris? Go look at a mammoth tooth and see if those colors don’t match up. It’s tumbled to heck, but maybe if he does cut it he can get a pattern to verify or rule out. Especially if it was a molar. Direction of cut will be important. I guessed that it some kids art project ashtray gone wrong and dumped. 😂🤣
@@mineralmammalprospecting I will always look for them when I'm out looking for rocks. It's a really interesting rock he found for sure, so I'm just hoping it's worth cutting. I'm personally hoping it's a lake superior agate.
Happy Birthday Miss wizard ! My wife’s was Friday mine was Sunday! It was chilly in the wind with them waves! I saw you guys heading out Friday afternoon !Wish I would have known it was you while we were out ! We did good as well ! Thank you for your reviews on the vdr mats and clean out sluices I love my new set up I’m sure I could still use some fine tuning but love it so far.
I was on the west Superior shores last Sat and can attest to the waves being constant and large, I'm from the NW not the Northwoods, it's so odd to hear a wave pattern every two seconds as opposed to the tidal pattern on the Pacific Coast. Yes that wind was cold, had to keep the second layer on all day. Sunday morn nery a ripple. What a great channel, where else are you going to get all these hints, suggestions and some drive to get your butt out there yourself. TH-camrs helping each other, even passing along the secret spots, then the day's bounty, knowing there is gold in there. Of course Jason is the Flour Gold Wizard if it's there Rigby will find it and he'll capture it. Then he'll pass it along to his subscribers, Pateron members and commenters just cuz. I got my first order of paydirt and was as impatient as Jason today when he tried to hold out for the three bucket clean out - 2 and a half - close enough, eh? I opened the bag just to look in and shake up the contents, pulled a nice agate out, have to save the rest for later - Thanks Jason. Mr Lord Great explanation. In the rock talk, you mentioned a "schmuck matrix" I think I spent time in one in the seventies, but I can't remember. Off to check out Prospector Paul and some Skookum Gold. BTW the word means just what you think "monstrously significant" from wiki. The kind of gold we all dream of.
Always have a blast coming by fam. Keep on having fun getting that au and living the dream fam. Great time out fam. Nice au indeed fam. Gold Squad Out!!!
Paul and you are about the only ones I watch anymore. Prospecting at it's best! Love how Rig-bone always puts you on the gold. Mighty fine mining Supervisor you got there. Maybe someday he'll find a spot closer to your vehicle🙂 Can't wait to see the clean-up from Alaska, i believe Paul gave away as much gold as he could, really great guy. Till next time....................Peace.
Here in Michigan I find the garnet sands always gives up some gold. But the black sands are kinda hit and miss. I think there is something else black out there. Like aluminum oxide, or graphite, or something.
Halfway through the video, Rigbone hasn't gotten his snack - HE'S A HARD WORKING MINER! That's looking so good, I don't know if I could bring myself to leave until I saw no more color. Kinda like when you're at a card game and you're on a heater.
First up , Happy Birthday Mrs Wizard , many happy return of the day . A great adventure today you guys . Amazing the damage Hurricane Ian did down south of you , they are never a pleasant thing to witness the heart ache and the destruction . That being said , the nasty weather has brought you loads of beach gold , it's always a pleasure to hear your running commentary as you go along Jason , it makes your videos all that more interesting , great fun , and entertaining mate , well done . cheers from down under 👍✌🌏🦘✅
Those folks down south have a huge uphill battle ahead !!!! I’m always amazed how much the beach changes every trip but this one was eye opening!!!!! We really appreciate your kind words Nev 😃🐺✅✅👍🏻🍻
Hey Jason the Mason, have you ever thought about bringing a concrete rake with to scrape the black sands into a pile? It wouldnt add to much weight to your pack, and could even chop the handle to make it shorter.
Get your mining equipment here !👇🏻
highplainsprospectors.com/?ref=FGW2023
I thought that these was illegal in the us guess im going to have to look into that more
That special rock is a various layers of semi-breccia. Semi- because there ARE some stones/pebbles in this mud matrix (which means breccia - broken stones, conglomerated stones). You have various levels of sedimentation and metamorphic clay, mud, and silt. The blueish mud turns into a mudstone. Other sands turn into sandstone. Clay turns into shale into slate into schist into higher forms of compressed material. Silt turns into siltstone into shale into slate into schist. These small pebbles are found in a hydrological event (flash flood?) of rolling smooth and small pebbles into this clay, mud, and silt matrix. This sedimentation was covered with overburden, pressed and turned into this blue claystone and siltstone (not even up to shale or slate) matrix.
So in some vast ancient past this was some muddy, slimy, outwash of an estuary, small creek, stream, or river lowlands. A flash flood of small material was washed down stream toward the Great Lakes, and embedded in this muck. Further overburden compressed this into this pebble and schmuck matrix of a muddy breccia.
Question is .. with the retreat of the glacier age of 10,000s BCE, this isn't necessarily a moraine deposit (melting glaciers dropping boulders, stone, rocks, pebbles, gravel, sand, grit, clay, mud, silts ... but this was an outwash of some event over a very finely ground (sand), clay, mud, and silt deposition of a shallow waterway, pond, lake, maybe even an ocean shoreline.
Just did a breccia rock of a UK mudlark wondering of here breccia and it had to be a volcanic and tectonic event of pebbles and igneous and plutonic (basalt and granite) matrix. Broken off somewhere inland, and pushed down the UK and dropped into the sea, wearing away the softer matrix, while the harder pebbles remained as a bumpy, knobby, brainy-like rounded stone between golf ball and hard ball size.
The size of your semi-breccia claystone/mudstone/siltstone and its rounded shape says that it has been rounded (not cracked or broken off from a deposit) in modern paleontological times, and that it has been pushed up and rolled onto your Lake Superior shoreline.
One could easily say that this was from the time of the dinosaurs (Mezoic age 60 million years ago) and is a process of sedimentation, external events of embedded pebbles, and then metaphorphism into this more-solid rock formation.
Other events of the turning and churning of this claystone/mudstone/siltstone with its convultions etc shows that the metamorphic process happened with additional hurky-jerky movements instead of a clear and uniformitarian equal-layered sedimentation. Other external events were also happening with this schmucky schmuck in ancient times. If you see the rock formations outside of Reno, NV at mile 22 and see the ribbon networks of metamorphic rock looking like those "S" christmas candy shapes that was sedimentation and compression and foldings. Something that you technically don't have in your rock (!) - you have different tectonic and geological processes happening in your Great Lakes region. It might even be that the 15,000 - 10,000 BCE period of the massive glacial ice sheets were the actual active agent doing the compressions of this overburden and this mud flat region.
If that whitish-brown matrix is not mudstone or siltstone, but the formations of sand, sandstone, and pre-Quartzite into Quartz, then this would be some flows of alumino-silicates of feldspar or K-spar (plutonic underground granite composites overflowing and embedding into this softer clay/mud/siltstones. One needs to have accurate rock ID on these individual components for geological interpretation of this rock's history.
That was fairly easy to understand and I really appreciate it!!!! I’m slowly turning into a part time rock hound and that really helps !!! Thank you!!!! 👍🏻✅
Wow awsum answer ive got a similar rock now i know what it is
actually this is from inside a whale or shark's stomach. its used in perfumes. HEX coin $0.03 PZEN coin $0.007
Love the interaction with the viewers too. Don’t care what they say, you’re content is yours speak all you want; it brings in the people like you!
I agree! I just do me mostly because I’m better at it than “ being “ someone else….😃✌️✌️
I don't even gold mine, but I find your personality, Rigby interactions and the gold mining very interesting and entertaining. You basically got my subscription from watching one of these beach mining vids. Therefore, I continue to watch and enjoy your content each week. Thank you for sharing your mining adventures with TH-cam!
Thank you very much !!! 🐺🍻😃
I don't gold mine either, but I watch all of his vids. Love his humor and the scenery!
Send this salamander a bucket of black beach sand a small pan and a 6 pack of pbr. We might have new miner!
@evergreen prospectors the gold laws suck buck icicle creek has gold
Lpll
I really enjoy your videos. The different spots you do. I really enjoy this video. One of my favorite pics is after a long day your dog has his wore out face up on the glove box between the seats of your truck...catching a rest...Love it.
He’s a hard working miner ! 😃🐺✅
As a lifetime member of the GPAA I must say that you sure do run a down to earth gold prospecting adventure every time . Very simple and easy to follow and understand !
It’s a lot of fun too !!! 👍🏻✌️✅
Nice, Jason, looks like you and Paul, had a good day on the beach, someday I would like to make it up that way and try my luck up there on Lake Superior.
Thanks for stopping by the live stream last night, brother.
You’re more than welcome!!!
That was enough to make a guy dream about being out there collecting gold. Thank you for sharing that beautiful adventure.
It’s our pleasure!!!
Good Morning Jason and Rigby. Can't wait to see you pan out Paul's gift. Cheers!
Good morning!!!!☀️
Nothing better than Jason and rigbone on the beach. I went over and subscribed to Paul. Thanks guys. That vdr was loaded like a bucking horse. And even with the wind. Your camera mic sounded great. And I love the fridge of wonder. Happy birthday to Mrs wizard. She is a doll
Paul is definitely putting out great content!!!!! Thanks Kris ⭐️🐺⭐️
It is a yooperlites rock! Shine a black light on it!
When i get it back from the rock cutting pro i will !!!!
Super fun video! Wishing Mrs. Wizard a Happy Birthday, she is really special to let you go beach mining on "Her" birthday. I had such a fun day werking the beach with you and Rigbomob. You always put together a fun and informative video, this is one is right up there too. I really appreciate the sluice, I am so taken back by such a awesome gift. I will be ready for beach mining next year. You are a class act and I am so glad to get to know you a little better. Take care my friend, glad you made it home safe, and I will see you in the next one.
Prospector Paul everyone!!!!! 😃✅
@@FlourgoldWizards Thank you again my friend. It was a great day.
hat's really cool that you were in a town called "Skookum" (excuse the spelling) because that word is also another name for a Sasquatch... I've heard it used a couple of times (on either a TV or a TH-cam video) when someone was listing some of the Native names for a Bigfoot and it's always stood out to me for some reason... And funny enough I've never actually heard it used before outside of those shows before. That's pretty cool. did you heard any notable Sasquatch stories while you were up there, or did you have any encounters yourself? I think prospecting in the deep wild go hand-in-hand with encounters so I would expect you to have heard a heck of a lot of stories (well, if anyone wasn't to afraid to bring it up and possibly jinx the camp LOL) - Glad you made it back ok and hopefully with lot of gold :D
Fantastic video. Thanks. Love the vibrant personality you have. And the beer too. Wishing you, Paul and Rigby well.
I admire Prospector Paul's lifestyle. I would do the same thing in a minute if I were off parole. Happy hunting guys!!!
I think it's really cool you two old timers are cleaning up all that nasty black dirt of the beach so others may enjoy it more.😁
Lol… its the least we could do 🤣😃🐺
Another great day on the beach, with more nice gold. That rope looked like it was still good. I wonder how much more cool stuff was exposed after the storm.. Happy Birthday, Mrs. Wizard!
I should’ve taken a walk down further to find stuff !
I swear I just watched Paul driving through Alaska yesterday. Man he drives fast! Great day! Happy birthday, Mrs.Wizard !
Rode his drone !!!!
Have you tried using a square point shovel for the scraping? or does it even make a difference?
I think it could prove effective!
Tow scoops of concentrate on the clean up sluice and one sip of beer seems like a reasonable rhythm of work for a Hard Working Miner such as yourself Jason ! Its when there are no scoops and just sips is when you need to call it a day, or more night !!
Words of wisdom ✅🍻
These are my favorite videos! Such a great location! Great job buddy!
We love the beach too!!!!!!
Beautiful Lake Superior. Happy belated birthday to Mrs. Wizard. Love it all! Good boy Rigby and thanks for sharing. Che king it Paul's site.
Thank you Rick 👍🏻✅
Very interesting video. I live about 35 miles from South Padre Island in South Texas. As a kid I remember laying on the shore by the waterline and watching little sparkles of gold. I always wondered if it could be gold.
One never knows!!!!!
Glad you guys hooked up. I moved to Michigan from the middle of Wisconsin and told Paul about you while working with him in St Clair. Before he retired from the plant he left some things in writing that referred to your TH-cam channel. He respects you a lot bud.
And I respect him as well!!! One cool Kat and smart too . Thank you Chris!!! 👍🏻✅🍻
As always, it feels like a privilege to see what you're up to.
Now im blushing…🤣✅🍻👍🏻🐺
If u ever make it up that way there a geological survey I read that was 27 pages that really helped me pin point some great gold, it's called marine gold placers along the gulf of alaska margin I walked away with 47 ozs in a 5 month period. Mainly flower gold, some very nice nugs from up the copper, that area is amazing, if u don't mind a grizzly incounter or 2.
Alaska is definitely a bucket lister!!!! The kids are nearly grown now so it’s about time to start filling it !!!
Hey Jason, wanted to share how your bringing the blacksand over to the garnet/blond sand for a comparative look-see. Sometimes what we see and experience gets lost in translation. So you done good! Rigby would approve too!
It was clear as day side by side aye ?!!!
Thanks
Wow !! Thank you 🙏 😃✌️🐺🦮
Great Video glad to see Paul made it back from Alaska safe…awesome amount of beach gold…you really should have brought a nugget and dropped into Paul’s sluice when he wasn’t looking 😂
Now you tell me…. That would’ve been hilarious!!!🤣🤣🤣✅
Jason, I have followed your channel for some time, now....I know(almost) nothing about mining gold - other than what I have seen here on your channel and other gold mining channels.
I always love to see you and Rigby out there having a blast......god bless you all.
We appreciate you saying so!!!
Awesome video as always Jason. Love the new camera & congrats on your new sponsor! We have just returned from our annual BC prospecting trip & the weather was so beautiful that it limited our work process! 1st time it has ever been too hot to work at this time of year. It did give us time to enjoy the beautiful scenery & kick back & enjoy nature which is a huge part of this hobby. Take care & we will continue to watch your quest for loads of flour gold & that elusive nugget (Prospector Greg is still searching fot that one too BTW).
Janet.
Infinity Prospecting
Too hot ? Im soooo over the heat 🥵
Cooling down around here tho 👍🏻
Sounds like you enjoyed your trip tho 😃✌️✅👍🏻
Another great video! Thanks Jason and Rigby.
Thank you!!
It’s crazy to think that the gold you got was pushed there from Canada by a glacier millions of years ago! ❤
Funny thing is it is all the way down into the midwest
And right!!!
Even crazier was that it was delivered from meteorites that came from a supernova. You are looking at congealed stardust
Them glaciers happened about 10,000 years ago I was told . But who really knows , none of us were alive then I think .
@@oldpolak5203
Two toes maybe… 🤣
Happy Birthday Mrs Wizard and congratulations Jason on such a big pan of lovely gold. It was lovely seeing Prospector Paul keeping you company, and his bucket of special classified Alaskan sand looked promising. Wishing you all the best, Wendi 🌻
I confess i did pan a spoonful and its loaded !!!!! 😃😃😃
Thank you Wendi !!!!
Some days are better than others.....then there are those spectacular ones! Congrats on the gold and the fun you had doing it!
Hopefully we can get back there before winter!!!!
So glad I found this channel. 😂 so many quality laughs and excitement.
Well we appreciate that!!!!
Awesome video here Jason. Looks like y'all had some fun Beach mining and you also had some fun rock finding. And that is definitely a very interesting rock that you found out there. Very interesting cause I haven't seen anything like it before in my area.
I’ve since been told it’s ancient coral and sedimentary clay !!!!
I wonder if it's a geode, looked a little quartz to me too. And some banding on it. Shake it, is it hollow? Not all make a noise though. Nice find!
@@FlourgoldWizards very nice find especially for it being ancient coral and sedimentary clay. Wondering if it could be carbon dated to the exact time period? And what other kinds of finds that can be found as well, such as other ancient corals samples, and possibly any shark teeth. Lol
Nice cleanup...
Happy Birthday Mrs.Wizard.
Thanks Ed !!
Great job as always, your content is the only reason I joined Patreon so that I could support your awesome work
Thank you so much Steve !! ✅FGWTEAM ✅
Hey Jason, yeah I saw this on Paul’s channel You two fellas knocked her out of the park. And what you gave him later on, let me tell you, I got a lot of respect for you brother. That was pretty darn cool.
He’s a cool cat !!!✅
*Let this absolutely outstanding video be a defining video for your channel and go Viral 🔥🔥🔥🙌👏🏻👏🏻*
*This is the first post storm gold mining video I have seen,and it’s so good*
Belated birthday wishes for miss wizard.
You always make us blush…😃🐺👍🏻✌️
@@FlourgoldWizards praise where it’s deserved ☺️☺️🙌👍
@@FlourgoldWizards hey 👋
I’m actually waiting for the Florida metal detectors to upload metal detecting on the infamous beach 🤞🏻🤞🏻
I love this guy. I live in eagle river wi, and I have to say. Guys like this is what makes Wisconsin great. Positive, happy, out going…. In every video, older beer drinking mason talking to a camera in the woods digging shiny!!!! Thanks wizard.
Copy that David 🇺🇸🍻✅
@@FlourgoldWizards check out “Garlic Creek” just northwest or Marquette. Pretty much anywhere back there I have had great results. It’s a trek but we’ll worth it and the waterfalls are breathtaking. RigBomb would love it.
That sure looks like a fossil to me. I watch Mamlambo fossils, and he finds rocks that look very similar to what you found that are ancient sedimentary crabs, penguins and other creatures. Looks like what you found has opalized maybe; regardless, that rock is way cool! Great gold for sure and thanks for all the great advice you always give!⛏👊
Very interesting!!!!
Interesting
I never would have thought beach gold on the Great Lakes. Cool adventure! Try a moss diffuser over your drop area on your devon sluice.
I was thinking the same thing when I found out ! Ive since created something called the
Smoothwater sluice head, it makes water delivery perfect on nearly all sluices !
years ago when I was about 14 years old I was on a beach area in Maine and found what looked like a brain. I took it into my science teacher to see what he thought. He said he sent it off to a lab for testing. About a month later he quit teaching and moved to Hawaii. I also found out the so called brain was from a whale and was worth its weight in gold. The teacher sold the piece for a great amount and left me cold. (The a$$hole). This hurt me deeply.
Dang !!!!!! I bet karma doesn’t forget him….,
His lack of character will be his undoing
I hear you! Let me tell you a similar thing happened to me! I took a friend of mine with me to my secret cave in Oklahoma. I had been going to this cave for many years! Inside there were crystal formations that were incredible. Not volcanic but formed over thousands of years and very valuable. My favorite formation grew in a perfect x! We lost touch of each other for a few years and the next time I visited about ten years later this friend of mine had gone back to my cave and harvested the x crystal. It was on his coffee table! I found later that since it was grown in a perfect x..........it was worth half a million bucks or so. I still would not have taken it from the cave. A few tears later this x friend of mine passed away and the crystal is nowhere to be found! Things like this happen in life! Your teacher was a crook much like my friend!
Rock collectors are much like other collectors. The least valuable rock is the one that’s not in their collection. Until they get it, then it’s value goes up…
Happy belated birthday to Mrs Wizard, that beach spot looked absolutely amazing. Thanks for the great video Jason and Rigby!
It was interesting to see all the erosion!!!!
Heyyy whats going on here , again no drill sound from the fridge of wonders, last episode you said the mrs had it , who has the dewalt now ? The mexicans ? 🧐
Its a Milwaukee and its STILL in the house 🤣🤣🤣✅🍻
Thanks for the opportunity to check out the rock! Can’t wait to give it a cut! I’ll film it and post it on my channel. Amazing how that beach changes! Great gold! Great episode! Tell Val I said happy birthday! 🍻
I cant wait to see!!!! Thank you Andy !!!
Hello from England - can you please do more panning and less talking. You don't show enough doing!
🥲
heh I doubt we'd want him doing a the talking in a different language though would we hehe I like it
we haven't cared about your opinions from england since 1776
Bloody hell you donut stop giving the English a bad name there already dumb enough on there own give the man a bot hull of what ter
No gold panning here in UK, but we do collect sea glass on our shores here in North East. Always a pleasure to watch and share in rigbies adventures (and yours too). Open that fridge of wonder and have one for me Jason.
Will do!!! 🍻👍🏻✅⭐️🐺⭐️
Paul is awesome. I met him for the first time in Arizona last April at the detector event. I'll be back out there in April to see him again. Hopefully he will have time to take me to the gold fields out there and show me how to do some dry washing for gold. Good gold!!! Merry Christmas my friend.
Package enroute 🎄
@@FlourgoldWizards it arrived!! Will shout you out. Thanks again. Merry Christmas.
Another awesome video! I know I'm late but I wanted to say Happy birthday to Mrs. Wizard! Thanks for taking us along with you👍😎⛏️
Thank you Justin!!!
Nice collab. Prospector Paul is one of my favorite channels
Mine too !!!!!
Love how passionate you are with this hobby. I hunt for antique bottles and it's a great getaway. Love the dog to.
Sounds fun !!
That was enjoyable. Thanks for sharing. Take care.
Much appreciated!!!
All Video are Good and Informative. Thank you for everything*!* May you continue to Make All Your Choices Wisely. Clean water.
So nice of you😃✅✌️
Good job Rigby! What a hard working miner!
He always nails it !!!!
11:45 11:50 looks like front of a boat? Rope buried? Bow Section ? Under sand from storm? Can you see a boat?
I didn’t notice anything that day ✅
Happy birthday to Mrs Wizard 🎂🎉. 🐎🌻✌️
Thank you Murl 😃✌️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Nice clean up .
Wishing Mrs. Wizard a "Happy Birthday!
Thank you!!!’
your videos are the most entertaining gold videos I've seen yet!!! can't wait to watch more :)
Well thank you!!! Plenty more to come!!!
The best part about scraping the top is you have no holes to fill!! Great video!!👍😁
Indeed!!! 👍🏻😃
Thanks Wizard. Good video. Lots of gold.
Glad you enjoyed
Hey Jason, love your channel, I have learned alot, THANKS the Michigan law about power sluicing is vague, Like they dont' want Us to do it,I'll keep digging! Thanks again
Right on😃👍🏻👍🏻
Dream Mat is so much more forgiving regarding flow so you’d never have to re-run tailings.
You could be right….
Happy Birthday Val!!!! Miss you.
😃
I know this sounds weird but I absolutely love to shovel.
I'm a true believer of the more material you process the more gold you find.
I'd love to come shovel for you you could keep the gold.
I really enjoy the whole process of it all gold is just a bonus
Sounds like you need a sluice !!!!
@@FlourgoldWizards I have several sluices and a dredge.
A solid 45 years prospecting.
I'm in New England you ever want to dig a hole you find me.
Happy birthday Mrs Wizard great video as usual and did I see a Sasquach sticker on the fridge of wonder...
Thanks for shareing Jason Regards Sleepy
You sure did !!!! ✅✅✅✅🍻
Brilliant video again Jason 👍 thanks
The soothing sound of Lake Superior had me dozing off💤😂
Just had to rewind 🤣
Makes me drowsy too ✅🤣🤣🤣
Nice haul Jason. Glad to see Paul made it back also. I had the same luck a few weekends back. Wish I lived up there.
Fresh beach is always nice !!!!!
Nice take. Working hard here to get what I can done before the snow shuts us down. Tired, but Eva is a trooper.
Its definitely coming!!🥶
@@FlourgoldWizards Where is that global warming when you need it?!
Happy Birthday Ms. Wizard!
😃👍🏻
As a native of Alaska. We do a lot of beach mining. I've got a small claim in Nome.
After a big storm comes thru. It's a good time to get out and work the low tide areas.
Anyone working beaches, always follow the black or dark red areas.
Sometimes your streaks run deep and hardly ever run straight.
Excellent advice!
Q: why is the gold on the top ? Why would you not dig deeper to get gold from previous storms?
Every time I watch one of your videos, I get more convinced that the 36 hour drive would be worth taking a vacation out your way. Keep up the good work!
That beach will melt all that 36 hr road rage away in no time …..🤣✅👍🏻
Happy Birthday to Val! Wow 2 Rocks of the week! Woo! and neither one got pitched! lol I am so glad you are taking an interest in rocks and are collecting some of them. That 2nd one wow, it would "almost" be worth cutting it in half if you have a tile saw. I didn't see any bands, but the spot in the middle almost looks like an agate. Super generous of Paul too. Awesome gold. Great video!
You collect fossils, Chris?
Go look at a mammoth tooth and see if those colors don’t match up. It’s tumbled to heck, but maybe if he does cut it he can get a pattern to verify or rule out. Especially if it was a molar. Direction of cut will be important.
I guessed that it some kids art project ashtray gone wrong and dumped. 😂🤣
Im sending it off to Paparockzee for further “ attention “ you get half 🤣🤣🤣✅
@@mineralmammalprospecting I will always look for them when I'm out looking for rocks. It's a really interesting rock he found for sure, so I'm just hoping it's worth cutting. I'm personally hoping it's a lake superior agate.
@@FlourgoldWizards I hope he does a video.
I’ve seen a lot of rocks from this region and this one is pretty unique! I will film the cut for sure! Stay tuned!
Thank you, enjoyed seeing the shifted sands.
Crazy aye ?!!!!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Happy Birthday Miss wizard ! My wife’s was Friday mine was Sunday! It was chilly in the wind with them waves! I saw you guys heading out Friday afternoon !Wish I would have known it was you while we were out ! We did good as well ! Thank you for your reviews on the vdr mats and clean out sluices I love my new set up I’m sure I could still use some fine tuning but love it so far.
I only mined Saturday but sure had a blast !!!! Thank you Kasey ✅👍🏻🐺
@@FlourgoldWizards lol probably was Saturday then , the weekends a little fuzzy 🍻🍻
Thank you that was awesome video one day I'll come visit your Great Lakes thank you again
You’ll definitely enjoy it !!
Happy Birthday Mrs Wizard, terrific gold guys. Amazing what you got out of one pail👋👍
Thank you!!!
Well, Happy Birthday to Mrs. Wizard!
👍🏻✅
Dang Flour Gold Wizard! True Legend finding that micro-gold! WOW!!!!
Its definitely fun locating it too !!!
Very nice looking gold. Thank you for your time.
Thank you Joseph!!!!!
I was on the west Superior shores last Sat and can attest to the waves being constant and large, I'm from the NW not the Northwoods, it's so odd to hear a wave pattern every two seconds as opposed to the tidal pattern on the Pacific Coast. Yes that wind was cold, had to keep the second layer on all day. Sunday morn nery a ripple.
What a great channel, where else are you going to get all these hints, suggestions and some drive to get your butt out there yourself.
TH-camrs helping each other, even passing along the secret spots, then the day's bounty, knowing there is gold in there. Of course Jason is the Flour Gold Wizard if it's there Rigby will find it and he'll capture it. Then he'll pass it along to his subscribers, Pateron members and commenters just cuz.
I got my first order of paydirt and was as impatient as Jason today when he tried to hold out for the three bucket clean out - 2 and a half - close enough, eh? I opened the bag just to look in and shake up the contents, pulled a nice agate out, have to save the rest for later - Thanks Jason.
Mr Lord Great explanation. In the rock talk, you mentioned a "schmuck matrix" I think I spent time in one in the seventies, but I can't remember.
Off to check out Prospector Paul and some Skookum Gold. BTW the word means just what you think "monstrously significant" from wiki. The kind of gold we all dream of.
You’re too kind 😃😃😃🐺🐺🐺
Love watching your channel and Rigby is so cute 🥰
He’s the ⭐️of the show !! 🐺😃✅
Always have a blast coming by fam. Keep on having fun getting that au and living the dream fam. Great time out fam. Nice au indeed fam. Gold Squad Out!!!
Thanks Jason!!
@@FlourgoldWizards no thank you for all the support fam. Gold Squad Out!!!
Awesome spot you’ve got! Have fun getting that gold! Very nice shiny brother! Thanks for the great video👍😊
Thank you Doug 👍🏻✌️
Thanks ,you put on a good show, informative and fun
Thank you Steven!
Paul and you are about the only ones I watch anymore. Prospecting at it's best! Love how Rig-bone always puts you on the gold. Mighty fine mining Supervisor you got there. Maybe someday he'll find a spot closer to your vehicle🙂 Can't wait to see the clean-up from Alaska, i believe Paul gave away as much gold as he could, really great guy. Till next time....................Peace.
We sure have fun and appreciate your kind words!!!!! ✅😃
Great video and nice gold. Thanks for sharing Jason⚒⚒👍👍
Thank you Tedcharp!
Awesome jason looked like a fun day rigby did a good job as always. Happy Bday Mrs. Wizard Cool rock see you next time
Thanks Creed !!! ✅FGWTEAM ✅
Liked, shared and commenting. Merry Birthday Mrs. Wizards.🎂🍻
🤣🤣🤣✅👍🏻
I enjoy what you do...I watch your gold catching all the time ! Great stuff Rigby is a cool dood ! Lots of luck !
Thank you!!
Can u do video on equipment you need to get started?
Possibly!
Love to give that a go. Gold is all over Arizona
Its fun for sure!
Here in Michigan I find the garnet sands always gives up some gold. But the black sands are kinda hit and miss. I think there is something else black out there. Like aluminum oxide, or graphite, or something.
Its hit or miss everywhere!🤣🤣✅
Nearly 90,000 in 5 months. Thailand was fun
Dang !!!! 😃
When you said the rock was hard as a rock I thought to myself absolute genius. Nice show
🤣🤣🤣✅ Thanks!!!!
Halfway through the video, Rigbone hasn't gotten his snack - HE'S A HARD WORKING MINER! That's looking so good, I don't know if I could bring myself to leave until I saw no more color. Kinda like when you're at a card game and you're on a heater.
Its definitely tough to peel away but there’s ALWAYS something or someone pulling !!!!!!!
First up , Happy Birthday Mrs Wizard , many happy return of the day . A great adventure today you guys . Amazing the damage Hurricane Ian did down south of you , they are never a pleasant thing to witness the heart ache and the destruction . That being said , the nasty weather has brought you loads of beach gold , it's always a pleasure to hear your running commentary as you go along Jason , it makes your videos all that more interesting , great fun , and entertaining mate , well done . cheers from down under 👍✌🌏🦘✅
Those folks down south have a huge uphill battle ahead !!!! I’m always amazed how much the beach changes every trip but this one was eye opening!!!!!
We really appreciate your kind words Nev 😃🐺✅✅👍🏻🍻
Maybe try a flat shovel instead of that shovel.
👍🏻
Hey Jason the Mason, have you ever thought about bringing a concrete rake with to scrape the black sands into a pile? It wouldnt add to much weight to your pack, and could even chop the handle to make it shorter.
It probably would work pretty well!!!
To bad the season is pretty much over, but there's always next year!
Great time Jason Happy belated birthday Mrs. Wizard
😃😃😃👍🏻