You are a wealth of knowledge Chris and thank you for sharing. I've sniped for nearly 50 years and only recently began metal detecting. It is so much fun to find gold in the scoop. I wish I had gotten into detecting much earlier!!
Good job. Another very good and edicational video. Glad you found an old pit to work that is not located within a fire zone. Glad you recommended metal detecting dry wash tailings and your dig hole. Had a buddy this past week show me photos of nuggets and a 5 gram nugget he located on private land not far from Sonora, CA. after getting permission from land owner. After getting permission to be there the land owner accompanied this detectorist to show him dry creek beds. While surveying/prospecting the creek bed area they came across a number of recent shallow and small dig holes each with gravel piles of discarded materials that a tresspasser had left. Metal detecting the piles of discarded gravels resulted in 3 nuggets ranging between 3 and 6 grams each. Whoever illegally dug and panned material on this private land had not bothered to check his tailings with a metal detector since these relatively large nuggets were each less than 3 inches deep in the piles.
Keeping away from the fire zone and forest closures is tough this summer. Good for your buddy who found that gold - metal detectors can be great tools!
One thing I like about your videos is the ability to present issues in a real, moderate yet encouraging manner. You don't let starters like me to be over ambitious and get discouraged soon. Thanks. Keep up.
Great information Chris. I learn more from you every time I watch your show. My wife bought me your book so I can use it as a field guide. Thanks again.
Chris, You are spot on... I made one mistake on the email I sent you. Ike was 89 years old at that time not 68. Very best wishes and a grand job you are doing. Take care., Dave M.
Great tips Chris ! Never thought about those.. Excellent !! Thank you !! That's a lot of gold for the few buckets you processed. 3.1 grams would make me smile. 😊👍👍👍
TRUE STORY: They say "Gold is where you find it"....Years ago I was poking around the "Diltz Mine" located in Mariposa Co. California with my metal detector. I happened to glance up and saw a rusted coffee can wedged in the fork of a tree branch. It was filled with almost 12 ounces of fine powdered gold. Almost the consistency and color of ground cinnamon. ( Strange but true!). So I guess another good tip: "KEEP your eyes Open!!!🤔🤔🤔!
@@ChrisRalph I found it useing an old U.S. Geological Survey Map. I live in Texas now and retired but I miss prospecting Northern California. Will look for your book on Amazon and looking forward to your next video!!!! 👍👍👍💰(Thank you for responding!!!).
Thanks Chris another great show. I am wondering what to look for to indicate a hydrolic pit as I have never been shown? Piles of bare gibbers or large gravel and steep banks seem to be a part of them? There wasn’t much hydrolicing done where I am in central Queensland, but I’ve been told a story of one fellow who spent a few years working an area with pump built from a model T chassis.
Thanks Chris for another great video and all the Fantastic information! I'm looking for a new hobby and this looks like it would be a good one, trying to learn a lot before I start, bought your book, it has a wealth of information, I was wondering if colorado would be a good place to start, is there any gold left there? Thanks 😊
That part of California is my home, fascinating history and a lot of it remains. Due to the environmental damage done by hydraulic mining, which lead to a court case and eventually a law in the 1850’s that turned California into a mainly agricultural based economy instead of a minerals and mining economy much like what Nevada is today.
@@ChrisRalph I did some checking trying to retrace my steps from last summer, sorry I was off on my date. It was “Woodruff v. The North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company” in 1882. This lead to ten more years of legal wrangling in which more fines were levied and ultimately these placer mining companies went to either Montana, Colorado or Alaska.
Thanks for all the great informative information! I have come really far, Your videos have helped Me tremendously! As far as My tailings, I know chipping away at the nuggets, but should I keep some mixed with tailings for top of the Hill spread? Or do I keep all that is visible to eye and the tailings left over, put at top of Hill? Either Way, I cant thank You enough for taking the time to do some many informative videos, You truly do care about helping people become Prospectors! God Bless!
Hello I am fairly new to prospecting but have always had a passion for it. Recently I have been able to do it frequently I have watched a lot of videos to help me with it and I have to say I really appreciate your videos they have helped me more then any of the others I viewed hopefully I can purchase your book soon it will assist me in my adventures thank you again for your knowledge thru videos
Excellent video, picked up a couple unspoken tips to. Like how to save the knees when metal detecting. Not quite 40 but I notice them more all the time lol.
Great video Chris very informative thanks hope to see you at our club meeting Tuesday I have a couple of metal detector questions i would like to ask you in person Have a blessed day
Its more like the side of a hill the miners cut into with their water sprays. The rocks are all the rocks in the gravels too large to go into their sluice boxes.
Hi Chris, My wife and I are traveling from Washington and visiting Nevada later this week and will bring our detector, even though our purpose is to visit the Peacock Opal Mine. Enjoyed your video and learned some 'nuggets' of information I didn't know before. Where we are located there is mostly flour gold and not ,much of it. Hopwever, I can't help butr to believe it has to come from a load somewhere in the Olympics. We do have fun looking though. Thanks for the vids. Thety are helpful to us newbees. \
Great Video Chris, thanks.... I always ask others What are you going to do with all your find locations, info, ect when you die. When I die, my info will be released to the public/ forums/ social media. I was able to get the location to the Mojave nugget from Jim Straight right before he passed. Wonder what happened to all his find locations, info when he passed ??? A lot of good history not gone I hope .... Dave...
Hi Chris very nice video thanks. Are you going to be a part of the GPAA gold show next year? I enjoyed our outing in Pomona until the virus shut us down. I'm in southern Arizona now and finding gold here and there and having fun. Will you be in Phoenix next year I'd sure enjoy visiting with you again. Take care swinging that metal detector you sure are blessed there :) Mike
Chris move the target with your foot first then pinpoint of course unless you have to use a pick! No matter what move the target before you try to pinpoint and pick it up.
Great stuff! Thanks for the info! It would be sweet if you ever did a video one day about colorado gold/silver prospecting ! Just curious how big is the biggest nugget you ever found?
@@ChrisRalph True, i feel ya your probably right on that one. Well it would be sweet if telluride minerals came up in a video. Lots of interest in those lately but maybe thats just my corner of the world haha! Thanks for the reply!
hello professor First of all, we thank you for your unlimited giving in the sciences of mineral exploration. We salute and appreciate you over and over again The question is: I want to buy a gold detector called Ajax Primero, which is an American manufacture, and this device has the ability to detect gold up to a depth of 50 meters and you can determine the type of metal and also this device has the ability to determine the depth, shape and type of metal you want and these statements I did not try myself, but According to the manufacturer's statements. I want you to explain to me how this device works if you have information about this device, and the other thing is that this device can determine the distance that you want to explore in front of you, only automatic or manual
You seem to get to work alot of areas, are they mostly active claims, abandoned claims, ect.... just wondering cause it seems difficult to travel to an are and Know that it's ok to search there.
Its a combination of things - private claims, Private property and unclaimed lands. I have friends whom I prospect with and knowing people is valuable. Its good to have friends!
You've not found much gold with a detector, especially small stuff like that. Pin pointers cannot see targets that small, so they are totally useless. This is why you can watch lots youtube videos of guys who detect for nuggets and not one uses a pin pointer. The pin pointers are great for coins, which are giant targets in the world of nuggets.
Generally speaking, would you say you tend to have better luck prospecting old mining sites, picking up what the OTs left behind? Or does it seem like you find more gold when you work semi-virgin ground at the peripheries? Cheers.
@@ChrisRalph I appreciate it. I’m originally from Sacramento California but moved to Washington Tacoma. I hear there is more in Eastern Washington. Thanks for the reply.
I would have brought the buckets home and use a water hose and slush box because dry washing you louse to much fine gold . A camel is good at recovering fine gold
the old timers didnt have the gold monster or they would all be like my channel name no matter what race they are like you. gold ? were. beeep. wa-hoo pop wa-hoo pop beeep beeep. gold !!!!!!! the gold monster us bad ass have a good day.
Hi my name is Fletcher I was diagnosed with brain cancer 6 years ago now I’m in a wheelchair and don’t have a lot of money so I was wondering if you are not struggling like myself can you possibly send me some gold nuggets Thank you Fletcher
You are a wealth of knowledge Chris and thank you for sharing. I've sniped for nearly 50 years and only recently began metal detecting. It is so much fun to find gold in the scoop. I wish I had gotten into detecting much earlier!!
Wow, thanks and best of luck to you in your detecting.
Good job. Another very good and edicational video. Glad you found an old pit to work that is not located within a fire zone. Glad you recommended metal detecting dry wash tailings and your dig hole. Had a buddy this past week show me photos of nuggets and a 5 gram nugget he located on private land not far from Sonora, CA. after getting permission from land owner. After getting permission to be there the land owner accompanied this detectorist to show him dry creek beds. While surveying/prospecting the creek bed area they came across a number of recent shallow and small dig holes each with gravel piles of discarded materials that a tresspasser had left. Metal detecting the piles of discarded gravels resulted in 3 nuggets ranging between 3 and 6 grams each. Whoever illegally dug and panned material on this private land had not bothered to check his tailings with a metal detector since these relatively large nuggets were each less than 3 inches deep in the piles.
Keeping away from the fire zone and forest closures is tough this summer. Good for your buddy who found that gold - metal detectors can be great tools!
One thing I like about your videos is the ability to present issues in a real, moderate yet encouraging manner. You don't let starters like me to be over ambitious and get discouraged soon. Thanks. Keep up.
I appreciate that! Thanks, glad you liked the video.
great video Chris, thanks for the time and effort to post
Glad you enjoyed it
Glad to see you back at it again. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it. More to come!
Thank you, Chris! That is a great gold spot you have found there! Hopefully many oz there to be found!
I'll keep working and hope to find a lot more.
Great information Chris. I learn more from you every time I watch your show. My wife bought me your book so I can use it as a field guide. Thanks again.
Sounds great! Thanks so much.
I have done extremely well on the edges of tailings piles. The ones that haven't been picked through are very profitable!
Very true!
Chris, You are spot on... I made one mistake on the email I sent you. Ike was 89 years old at that time not 68. Very best wishes and a grand job you are doing. Take care., Dave M.
Thanks for the email stories.
Great tips Chris ! Never thought about those.. Excellent !! Thank you !! That's a lot of gold for the few buckets you processed. 3.1 grams would make me smile. 😊👍👍👍
And there is a lot of place to dry wash there.
Thanks sir great content like always
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for this video ⛏‼️ In all the videos I've seen, never have seen this method. Very interesting.
No problem 👍
great info as always fam. great day out fam. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!
Glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you for sharing with us this valuable information.
Glad you enjoyed the video.
TRUE STORY: They say "Gold is where you find it"....Years ago I was poking around the "Diltz Mine" located in Mariposa Co. California with my metal detector. I happened to glance up and saw a rusted coffee can wedged in the fork of a tree branch. It was filled with almost 12 ounces of fine powdered gold. Almost the consistency and color of ground cinnamon. ( Strange but true!). So I guess another good tip: "KEEP your eyes Open!!!🤔🤔🤔!
The Diltz mine produced a lot of gold.
@@ChrisRalph I found it useing an old U.S. Geological Survey Map. I live in Texas now and retired but I miss prospecting Northern California. Will look for your book on Amazon and looking forward to your next video!!!! 👍👍👍💰(Thank you for responding!!!).
Thanks for taking the time out of hunting gold to pass on knowledge Chris 👏👏😊🥂🍾👏👏
You are welcome.
Thanks Chris another great show.
I am wondering what to look for to indicate a hydrolic pit as I have never been shown?
Piles of bare gibbers or large gravel and steep banks seem to be a part of them?
There wasn’t much hydrolicing done where I am in central Queensland, but I’ve been told a story of one fellow who spent a few years working an area with pump built from a model T chassis.
Probably not much of that type of mining there. Maybe read some historic books on mining in your region and see if any was done.
Thanks Chris for another great video and all the Fantastic information! I'm looking for a new hobby and this looks like it would be a good one, trying to learn a lot before I start, bought your book, it has a wealth of information, I was wondering if colorado would be a good place to start, is there any gold left there?
Thanks 😊
There is plenty of gold in Colorado, there is a Colorado map in the book.....
That part of California is my home, fascinating history and a lot of it remains. Due to the environmental damage done by hydraulic mining, which lead to a court case and eventually a law in the 1850’s that turned California into a mainly agricultural based economy instead of a minerals and mining economy much like what Nevada is today.
California still produced lots of gold for decades after the Hydraulic mining stopped. What stops mining there now is politics.
@@ChrisRalph
I did some checking trying to retrace my steps from last summer, sorry I was off on my date.
It was “Woodruff v. The North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company” in 1882. This lead to ten more years of legal wrangling in which more fines were levied and ultimately these placer mining companies went to either Montana, Colorado or Alaska.
Awesome video Chris, definitely some great ideas, lots of pits here in Victoria Australia too. Really enjoyed it ⛏️🇦🇺🤠
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent advice about the roots sir, thank you!
Glad you liked the video!
Thanks for all the great informative information! I have come really far, Your videos have helped Me tremendously! As far as My tailings, I know chipping away at the nuggets, but should I keep some mixed with tailings for top of the Hill spread? Or do I keep all that is visible to eye and the tailings left over, put at top of Hill? Either Way, I cant thank You enough for taking the time to do some many informative videos, You truly do care about helping people become Prospectors! God Bless!
You know with just a few words it is impossible for me to know what you should do.
Hello I am fairly new to prospecting but have always had a passion for it. Recently I have been able to do it frequently I have watched a lot of videos to help me with it and I have to say I really appreciate your videos they have helped me more then any of the others I viewed hopefully I can purchase your book soon it will assist me in my adventures thank you again for your knowledge thru videos
Glad you enjoyed the videos. Good luck!
''' TAHANKS ,,, SUPER............!
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it.
Excellent video, picked up a couple unspoken tips to. Like how to save the knees when metal detecting. Not quite 40 but I notice them more all the time lol.
We are all getting older.
Yes sir! Gold is where you find it! If somebody else found it there as well. ⛏️⛏️
Yep. No question about it.
Awesome video. Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
you have an older model with out the fast track feature ? up the gain to auto 1. (ground bslance) you know this then back it down 1
I think mine is indeed one of the older ones.
@@ChrisRalph whoops spelled balance wrong. have a good day boss
Great information and video to👍👍
Glad you liked it!
Thanks Chris, as always I appreciate your videos. 👍🏼👍🏼
glad you enjoyed the video.
Great Chris! He y leave a little for the rest of us! Don't need a gym membership for all the work your doing either.
I just need to get out more, and there is plenty there for every one.
back from the coast trying to catch up on video's !!!!!
It was good to see you the other day.
@@ChrisRalph yes it was now we just need to get out and find those nuggets!!!!!!
Great video Chris very informative thanks hope to see you at our club meeting Tuesday
I have a couple of metal detector questions i would like to ask you in person
Have a blessed day
It was good to see you. Finally catching up on comments.
I always check the scoop I took as well as the ground.
Yep. Absolutely.
Chris are the rocks behind you in the video removed by the miners to get to bed rock and are you in a ravine with slopes on both sides.?
Its more like the side of a hill the miners cut into with their water sprays. The rocks are all the rocks in the gravels too large to go into their sluice boxes.
Hi Chris, My wife and I are traveling from Washington and visiting Nevada later this week and will bring our detector, even though our purpose is to visit the Peacock Opal Mine. Enjoyed your video and learned some 'nuggets' of information I didn't know before. Where we are located there is mostly flour gold and not ,much of it. Hopwever, I can't help butr to believe it has to come from a load somewhere in the Olympics. We do have fun looking though. Thanks for the vids. Thety are helpful to us newbees. \
There is gold in a number of places in Washington.
Great video. Living in Michigan though finding gold is only something I can dream about .
There is gold in Michigan. And loads of native copper. Do some research.
Great video and book!
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Great job .is that dry washer use electric or petrol because I don't have any knowledge about it
electric and runs on a battery.
Great Video Chris, thanks.... I always ask others What are you going to do with all your find locations, info, ect when you die. When I die, my info will be released to the public/ forums/ social media. I was able to get the location to the Mojave nugget from Jim Straight right before he passed. Wonder what happened to all his find locations, info when he passed ??? A lot of good history not gone I hope .... Dave...
Hard to say. Not thinking about it now.
Any advice for South Florida other than Spanish shipwrecks?
Gold in south Florida is all stuff lost by other folks.
Hi Chris very nice video thanks. Are you going to be a part of the GPAA gold show next year? I enjoyed our outing in Pomona until the virus shut us down. I'm in southern Arizona now and finding gold here and there and having fun. Will you be in Phoenix next year I'd sure enjoy visiting with you again. Take care swinging that metal detector you sure are blessed there :) Mike
For sure I will be in Pomona for that show, not sure yet about Phoenix.
Thumbs up 👍 blesses
Much appreciated
Chris move the target with your foot first then pinpoint of course unless you have to use a pick!
No matter what move the target before you try to pinpoint and pick it up.
Yes.
Good stuff
Thanks!
Great stuff! Thanks for the info! It would be sweet if you ever did a video one day about colorado gold/silver prospecting ! Just curious how big is the biggest nugget you ever found?
The videos on specific areas dont get much interest - only the folks who live in that specific are care.
@@ChrisRalph
True, i feel ya your probably right on that one. Well it would be sweet if telluride minerals came up in a video. Lots of interest in those lately but maybe thats just my corner of the world haha! Thanks for the reply!
hello professor
First of all, we thank you for your unlimited giving in the sciences of mineral exploration. We salute and appreciate you over and over again
The question is: I want to buy a gold detector called Ajax Primero, which is an American manufacture, and this device has the ability to detect gold up to a depth of 50 meters and you can determine the type of metal and also this device has the ability to determine the depth, shape and type of metal you want and these statements I did not try myself, but According to the manufacturer's statements. I want you to explain to me how this device works if you have information about this device, and the other thing is that this device can determine the distance that you want to explore in front of you, only automatic or manual
I would recommend AGAINST this device. It does not work.
@@ChrisRalph thank you so much Prof
Oh come on man. We had water in California? Enough to mine for gold. Wow who would have thought that. LOL
So dry this summer - even this whole year....
You seem to get to work alot of areas, are they mostly active claims, abandoned claims, ect.... just wondering cause it seems difficult to travel to an are and Know that it's ok to search there.
Its a combination of things - private claims, Private property and unclaimed lands. I have friends whom I prospect with and knowing people is valuable. Its good to have friends!
You could use a good pinpointer 🤔.
You've not found much gold with a detector, especially small stuff like that. Pin pointers cannot see targets that small, so they are totally useless. This is why you can watch lots youtube videos of guys who detect for nuggets and not one uses a pin pointer. The pin pointers are great for coins, which are giant targets in the world of nuggets.
@@ChrisRalph Thank you....so now I know!👍
Generally speaking, would you say you tend to have better luck prospecting old mining sites, picking up what the OTs left behind? Or does it seem like you find more gold when you work semi-virgin ground at the peripheries? Cheers.
Depends on the place - there is not a general rule the applies most of the time.
@@ChrisRalph Thank you, sir! Loving your book by the way. Between your videos and your book I feel like I'm going to trade school for prospecting.
I'm thinking about buying my first detector. Is the Minelab Equinox 800 about as good of all around detector a you can get your hands on?
It is a good all around detector.
Grandfather I was looking for gold I end up Dh Davis rough diamonds, the area water area
OK.
I have a Garrett Metal detector. What type of setting should it be in for gold?
What size gold? What mineralization in the ground? What hot rocks? Many factors determine what settings are needed. Its not all the same everywhere.
@@ChrisRalph I appreciate it. I’m originally from Sacramento California but moved to Washington Tacoma. I hear there is more in Eastern Washington. Thanks for the reply.
Hello Chris, i got some of things look like you said on youtube. Are those correctly things what i saved like you said, please ?.
Friend I cannot see what you have, and I do not do photo evaluations.
I need to send a photo to you but i didn't get your Email Address, may i get from you please ?.
Next 35 mins and i 'll get at home now I'm on my ways. When i get at home so may i contact to you just a few minutes, please ?.
Huge gold deposit discovered AUMN golden minerals found another gold vein
glad you enjoyed the video.
Can you find gold in woods????
In some woods, not in all woods.
I would have brought the buckets home and use a water hose and slush box because dry washing you louse to much fine gold . A camel is good at recovering fine gold
Ok.
the old timers didnt have the gold monster or they would all be like my channel name no matter what race they are like you. gold ? were. beeep. wa-hoo pop wa-hoo pop beeep beeep. gold !!!!!!! the gold monster us bad ass have a good day.
I like the gold monster.
Hello again
Hi.
Dh Davis rough Diamonds TH-cam. We need (diamond energy)
There is small piece of Diamonds in the digging spot following the water gutters
Can I get the coordinates ? 😂🎉
Sure, the coordinates are 4,7
You got a sexy voice mate, according to my sister 😂 recently subbed like your videos
Welcome aboard.
6000 to get rid of them hot rocks right now!
But most of the really small gold is even too small for the 6000 to see.
in your video about what does gold look like, .......it looks likeyou have an ancient effigy artifact ?????? the nose is easiest to see
Its just a natural nugget, not an effigy.
Hi my name is Fletcher I was diagnosed with brain cancer 6 years ago now I’m in a wheelchair and don’t have a lot of money so I was wondering if you are not struggling like myself can you possibly send me some gold nuggets
Thank you Fletcher
Sorry, no.