Always honored that you look in on my videos. Great job on the Delamar video - I've not been underground there but was on the surface and did an article for the ICMJ a few years back. Not every epidermal sits on the ring fault of a collapsed caldera, but a surprising number do.
Ask Jeff Williams I thought so too! I appreciate all you guys for the teaching you all do although I see the screen play you have developed nice technique on how to push your talents. It’s like a never ending series don’t change that because that’s who you are.
Mr. Williams I stand corrected. You are correct. I learned something new, and was wrong in my assumption about Yellowstone. I really appreciate learning new things and you have very informative and enjoyable videos.
Just got your fists of gold book from Amazon. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Definitely an inspiration. An eye opener. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in gold and the geology associated with it !
Fantastic Chris, not the first time I've watched this video, but when I keep adding 1+2+3+4+5 it all begins to make perfect sense to someone who has only been prospecting for a few months.
Love your videos. I may not be a geologist, but I've been in 49/50 states. Grew up in northern Colorado, and last I checked Yellowstone National Park is still in Wyoming, not Montana.
Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back so hard! By the way, check out a map and you'll see a small part of Yellowstone actually is in MONTANA.
If I obtained a "special permit" to pan sample &,or metal detect in and around the creeks & rivers of Yellow Stone- would I find placer gold? Just curious, like that would ever happen! More to the point; I've started exploring with Lidar and I found a Cinder Cone in a forested area in Washington State and I am wondering if it is a definite prospect. I was thinking of a metal detector and grab bags for samples to pack out as the nearest water wouldn't be worth more than 1 walk, So, I ask, in your experience, is there anything else I should pack for sampling because of weight concerns especially on the return leg? Share your wisdom Chris, you always do! I've subscribed to and still do to the ICMJ for years and reading all of your articles over the years I felt I knew you well enough to call you on a first name basis; I will be getting your book in November when the Monsoon's hit and I have time to read and research, work the spoils and plan for the next season all of which you are familiar with. You're an awesome source of knowledge Chris, so don't ever quit, and thank you again.
Those basalt rocks, like the ones in Hawaii, dont produce any gold deposits. Too fast onto the surface and too fast to cool off. Its magma well below the surface that cools off slowly which has a chance to drive mineral systems for many thousands of years and create deposits. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Thanks for this video on epithermal gold Chris. Didn't that fire creek bonanza gold example come out of a quartz vein in a potassium and olivine rich basalt like those you see in Hawaii?
Basalt is a very common rock, found all over the earth. Only rarely are gold veins in basalt, but there are more than zero. Hawaii and thousands of other places with basalt have no gold deposits.
Thank you for the information. I have not tried gold panning yet but would like to. Unfortunately I live in the Columbia Basin Basalts area. Is there any gold those areas?
I liked your presentation, as I have all of your others. I'm trying to correlate the information that you present with the geologic conditions down here in north central Arizona. I'm sure that the geology is different down here compared to Nevada, but I would think that some would apply when it comes to "Indicators" of gold, which I am most interested in.
@@ChrisRalph I also hunt the Lynx creek area out of Prescott, which is up in the mountains in the pines, ---like some of your other videos I guess somewhere in northern California. Just hard to figure out the indicators for this area.
Hey Chris, always love your videos! So very informative. I really enjoyed looking at the "Types of Gold Deposits" illustration that you used at around 1:32 in the video. Where did you find that illustration, I would like to order or make a print of that for the office. Thanks!
You are a definite inspiration and role model. Much respect and platonic love. Book ordered, should be here in two days. You rock.... sorry for the bad pun.
VERY GOOD VIDEO CHRIS,,, I HAVE FOUND A VOLCANO ,IT HAS THE FOAMY TYPE ROCK THAT HAS SPEWED OUT ,ITS SOME BIG PEICES ABOUT AS BIG AS A SMALL HOUSE,,ITS LIKE IT NEVER ACTUALY EXPLODED,JUST THE I GUESS MAGMA THAT SEEPED OUT,MY QUESTION IS THERE ANY GOLD UNDER NEAT OR IN THE AREA,IS IT WORTH MINING THE AREA
Some - not all - scientists think gold atoms are formed in Super Novas. The dust of the exploded super nova eventually gets caught up in the formation of other stars and their surrounding planets. The small amount of gold in rocks comes to the planets as the dust forms into a planet. Its the processes I talked about in that video which take the natural traces of gold and form natural concentrations of gold worth mining.
Is it possible to have a gold nugget that is not shiny? I have a bunch of heavy gold colored nuggets that look similar to some of the stuff in this video. They look like reef gold yet they're only shiny when wet. If I crush a piece and pan it I get a bunch of fine gold and very small coarse gold. Might they be epidermal deposit nuggets? because there are hot springs around here and I dug these out of a dry creek bed.
Best of luck to you. However, there are lots of minerals that are heavy, lots that are yellow, and real gold looks metallic even when dry. I dont try to guess what minerals people might have, there are just too many possibilities. Also because I get a dozen or more folks every day who want me to look at their rocks and tell them what they have found, I cant offer a service to ID minerals and rocks.
Chris, don't know if you're still watching this, but if your are, a question. Assuming there are hydrothermal deposits associated with some of the calderas formed by the now Yellowstone hotspot when it was back in Idaho, and that those deposits are still deep underground, how do you prospect for them? I assume at some point drilling is involved. But that becomes something of a game of Battleship, randomly poking holes around the edges of old calderas until you hit something. Is there a way to track these deposits down from the surface, so you know where to drill? Would there by surface features left by the old hydrothermal systems that could be spotted now, that suggest where the deep lode deposits may be hiding?
If they are not yet lifted up to show something on the surface, its pretty hard to find them, but many show some outcrop. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph If you look at the Yellowstone model, there is surface activity, just not precious metals at the surface. Do the geysers, fumaroles, etc., leave traces at the surface after the magmatic heat that drove the hydrothermal activity has ceased. What's deposits are left between the gold that may be hundreds of meters down, and the surface?
Its not a matter of density, its a matter of chemistry. Deposits form from watery solutions that contain metal bearing chemicals, not actual particles of metal.
@@ChrisRalph i love it man thank you , so maybe the acid soup containing a lot of mixed metals , perculate up and precipirate the base metals first because they are more reactive and lastly the precious metals ? some like that right?
Cool video - cool tutorial indeed. I'm interested in your book. However, I am located in europe. I am asking myself wether your informations can be extended to European situation. For example, there are quite a few calderas in the Eifel mountains in the western part of Germany. However, there are little reports of gold findings there. I wonder why.
So would this explain the deposits off copper around Butte Mt, and some of the other mines that are North of Yellowstone. I know potosi and pony area in Montana had gold, silver, and tungsten mined there and there's a hot spring in potosi. Potosi is a camping, trail area west of Bozeman Mt. Besides the fact that its a National Park could you pan for gold in Yellowstone? I so wanted to when i lived in Bozeman. Very informative video, thank you. One more question what about the Black Hills of South Dakota, a small old volcano?
Thanks for the information Chris. Is it possible to get a copy of that diagram of the types of gold deposits that you show at the beginning of the video? I'd be happy to pay for one.
This was a very good video. Might you be aware of some early geothermal exploration in the imperial valley, think by a oil company. One of the wells drilled was allowed to blow off for 90 days to see if output remained steady or declined. The pipe was 36 inch dia and blew into maybe15 acre pond just the minerals deposited in the pipe, the geologic report iirc said held 15,000 worth of gold if one wanted to recover it
hey chris, you have to do something about that wind in your microphone .. I suggest a lapel microphone you wear on your person with a wind sock or a wind sock on your camera microphone .. it does not do justice to your excellent content when you have thundering wind in your audo out on the field ... especially through my hi fidelity audio speakers I use .. trust me, your viewers will be so happy to hear you out in the field, not that thunder wind that can pop speakers !! hahhaha .. love your knowledge chris .. it's gold !!! hahahah ..
Since this video was shot, I got a new camera and will be doing almost all the on screen video with the lapel mikes which should help a lot with the wind noise. With some of the stuff recently I have been out for a day here and there and got stuck with windy weather when I need to shoot. Sorry for the wind noise, if you have any questions about what I am saying, please ask.
Quick question. 8:22 Would the (v) area of zone (4) be aka a kimberlite pipe? Just trying to tie the two together since the pipe and vein happen from the same type of source. I'm not so sure their deposits happen in the same style though as this is more of a boiling hyrdro event and pipes are more of a magma that never get out of the earth and is in a slowly cooling event over an Extremely long time
No, just not the same. Kimberlite is a very specific, specialized type of volcano. They are one in a million or less and very, very rare. Regular volcanoes are comparatively common and not related to Kimberlite eruptions.
@@ChrisRalph Ty, I guess its back to the drawing board. Any chance you can point me in the direction of the that specific type of formation muchg like you laid out here?
There is lots to be learned about the geology of diamonds - I have a video on them. See: th-cam.com/video/pcNXLtzOi7I/w-d-xo.html Lots of other papers and research are out there on the internet if you are willing to study. The best place to look for diamonds is where diamonds have previously been found.
@@ChrisRalph yea I hear you on that only I live in a very monopolized are Chris for whatever reason they enjoy keeping the population here oppressed for some reason. I'm working as hard and fast as I possibly can to learn as much as I can in a way in which Its constant (every waking hour for 3 years now) and not having that special wealth of knowledge mentor to constantly learn the right information from adds a lot of drag to this process for sure. I have watched you video on diamonds and many other massive pools of information on them early on in this stage. I'lltake another peek at your diamond lecture and see if it helps me see more now that I have a lot of studies now preceding me. I guess I was under the elementary impression of a generalized theory that the magma that oozed its way out of these pipes was then lava that cooled & would then be what is todays bassalt flows and sulfide shales. Taking a look at the insnaley insulated pipe and the magma within it that never made it out is thes the world slowest path to to a controlled cooldown phase and being under immense pressure and the slow rate of cool down is what creates the kimberlite /which is 1 hosted conglomerate type deposit perfectly suitable for providing the right environment for the carbon atoms to pull themselves together into that very percise alignment we know to be the crytalline isometric octahedron or dodecahedron. I thought then well perhaps the explination in this video could also be tired together and perhaps just not talked about, but thats clearly not the case. I just dont know why yet. Thanks for the detailed help Chris.
Thank you so much Chris very enlightening ! If you haven't , I just haven't heard mention of it , will you think about putting your book out on audio ? your own narration ? Ralphs Prospectors College ,A hey upcoming Prospectors dream ! Ralph School of self video , become a Priceless gift to all !! Just a few thoughts that came to my head . It is truly lots of fun to share !!!
The problem with he audio is the same problem with the E-book - no pictures. I have hundreds of illustrations in my book to explain he points I am making. I cant include illustrations in an audio book. Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph you have your recording skills and TH-cam and your internet website . Which you can use patreon and PayPal and I'm sure there's a few more quality services out there to sell a book you put together and put out yourself there is no need for those other avenues you already have the two you need . I know it may be a bigger task than you want to endeavor , it would be a great first project for that self Recording School . you wouldn't have to truly do much of anything if you got the right teaching influence to pick up your book and turn it into a school . just ideas and suggestions life is best lived following your path !!! HHBpHhelps Henry
I said in the video that the gold is dissolved by water. The rocks do not have huge natural concentrations but the water dissolves it and then concentrates the gold in the veins. Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph a hot fluid has convection currents which stir the contents and the gold would be disseminated in the fluid until it starts to cool. when cooled enough that different elements or compounds can separate due to melting temperature changes; then crystals or masses can start to form. the higher specific gravity elements like gold should move towards the bottom and collect. in tight circumstances like skinny veins, gold seems to collect better than in large veins. why? some large veins are almost void of gold, whereas the small veins coming off the large veins have higher concentrations. at first glance you would think that the gold would concentrate at the bottom of large veins. at intersections of faults the minerals present changes and sometimes gold is concentrated. i can see this happening because of heat and pressure if it is high enough to melt but not enough heat and pressure are present in each fault by itself. subsequent fault cracking and filling might cause even higher concentrations of gold due to fresh input of gold bearing fluids and might even cause pockets to form. My main question is if the gold is disseminated in the fluid stage; then what brings each particle to bond with another?
I do look forward to a N. California and SW Oregon video. I find the Northern Sierras and Klamath Mountains (and the Blue Mountains in E. Oregon) especially fascinating. I likes me some ophiolites.
@@ChrisRalph - Cool. Not that it's of any commercial interest, but I'm fascinated by the -- anomalous I guess you could say -- macro-diamonds found in the Klamath and northern Sierra. As far as I can tell the host rock is still a bit mysterious. Weird subduction diamonds -- are they widely disseminated in the ophiolitic peridotite and weathering out of that, or are they hosted in some sort of ultramafic lamprophyre dikes, or maybe there are some lamprophyre diatremes that haven't been noticed? It would be neat to figure that out for sure. I'm guess they're just scattered in the obducted upper-mantle segments. Long story short for people who don't know what I'm yammering about: diamonds have been found in California and Oregon in gold placers, over the years.. Some good sized, and a _small_ percentage gem quality. The Old Timers probably tossed a lot of them out, thinking them an odd little piece of quartz. Interesting because they're not coming from your typical cratonic, commercial-type kimberlite or lamproite pipes, like you have in S. Africa and Siberia and up in Canada, etc.
Hey thanks for your recommendation on this subject, I love learning about how to search for gold and researching information about known deposits in my state. As a boy my father took me with him to work a claim he and his friends had, I wish I had been older then so I could have gained some of the knowledge I have been learning the last few years. I have also been watching the hard rock mining , a man from AZ. And should I be learning his technique of panning because of the fine gold which is found here? He cleans up his fines pretty well.
Yes Keith now has a bad motor and @ 63ish I think he could use some help to get his ride going.! I never was a fan of the 400 SB I think he need an LS swap for lasting dependable power source. Don’t get me wrong I run a SB 350 myself. But I have always been a fan of old school .
😃🤔 thanks for doing this video🎥🤔 it’s really helpful 😁🤔I have property near fire creek on the same mountain ⛰ ⛏👀🤔 I found three specs of gold in a small Quartz vein 😅🤔 that I think is formed from an epithermal 🤔 do you think your book will help me identify associated minerals with epithermal ?
If you are at Fire Creek in Nevada near the mine in Lander County, your quartz veins are epithermal. If its another fire creek, then I dont know. Glad you enjoyed the video.
If I recall correctly, most of the _epithermal_ gold deposition in Nevada and California is associated with Southern Ancestral Cascade Arc Magmatism (rather than a hot spot) -- generated by subduction of the old Farallon plate. Interestingly, there is little or none of that in the Northern Ancestral Cascade Arc, which I think has something to do with the intrusions in the South being in cratonic basement rock, as opposed to the accreted seamount-type terranes in the north (up through Oregon and Washington).
It true for Nevada and the tiny amount of epithermal mineralization in North eastern CA. The mother lode and bulk of northern CA gold is much older and of deeper orogenic types. There is a little epithermal in the northern Cascades but most is still too deep to be seen on the surface. A video on the gold deposits of northern CA is coming soon. Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph I wonder if there are epithermal deposits under the _High_ Cascades ? I forget how much longer the High Cascades have left before Cascadia subduction shuts down -- some day millions of years from now might be a decent place to look for gold. Especially if it gets some uplift to go along with all that basalt and andesite and tuff weathering down. Might be like a little poor man's Sierra Nevada 20 million years from now. :-)
@@ChrisRalph -- Won't its plumbing get messed up or magma chamber crystalize before the Juan de Fuca ridge subducts? I can't recall how long individual high Cascades volcanoes last -- like ~1 to 1.5 millions years, tops?
I'm thinking the source of gold in this video is from divergent plate activity (not convergent plate activity) creating the great basin, associated with the North American plate over running a mid Oceanic ridge in the Paleocene.
@@ChrisRalph Sir, what do you know about Monoatomic Gold to be able to call it not real?.. Monoatomic Gold it's a form of Silica/Gas oscillating that pulses between monatomic and diatomic particles through the (Coulomb Wave).. extracted from sea salts...Do you think all Gold just appears out of nowhere?..Monoatomic Gold is baby Gold/pree Gold.. I suggest you look into it a better homez
@@ChrisRalph I extract Monoatomic Gold through wet precipitate of a replicated sea using potassium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide...I use the minerals on my garden and you can literally see the difference.. so
If you want some help with sound quality and such, please hit me up! I'm willing to share some knowledge. I'd love to be able to more accurately understand what's being said in these videos, but sometimes the white noise makes it difficult to process.
Since this video was shot, I got a new camera and will be doing almost all the on screen video with the lapel mikes which should help a lot with the wind noise. With some of the stuff recently I have been out for a day here and there and got stuck with windy weather when I need to shoot. Sorry for the wind noise, if you have any questions about what I am saying, please ask.
Most of Yellowstone is in Wyoming, but a small part is in Montana. Check the Maps. The West Yellowstone entrance is in Montana. And the Greenstone belts of WY are no where near Yellowstone.
hey chris, I am a budding gold prospecror fossicking in bendigo victoria australia and need some advice in regards to iron bias and ignoring iron deposits in the soil that I have encountered during a gold hunt ... the soil was riddled with sprinkles of iron filings that I was digging and getting frustrated because the soil was infested with that stuff ... I have set my equinox 800 to iron bias 9 and want to ignore that material and focus on non-ferrous material like GOLD !!!... please make a video regarding this subject .... I am yet to try that setting and would love to report my results to you .. Regards from Jim down under gold newby !!!
I am 1/8th Ausie - my great grandfather was born there in the Golden Triangle, but he emigrated to the US after his father was murdered for the gold and silver he possessed.. It sounds like what you need is a pulse induction type detector. They are made for very bad ground. When the ground is very highly mineralized it is tough in VLF type detectors, which includes the Equinox. PI types have a much better ability to ignore the kind of ground you are talking about. I have a Minelab SDC 2300 which I use in those conditions. Glad you enjoyed the video.
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Look on the bright side, when all the easy gold has been mined new gold will be there for us in the future. Volcanoes do not stay in the same place, they move slowly each year so it will be possible to mine the areas in millions of years.
@@ChrisRalph Geology is amazing, I am interested in other planets geology too, it will be a while till we get deep in to the other planets. Those planets built with diamond will make a nice ring to impress a princess with.
Well the USSD..is in control if my phone ,so.here it's goes I am looking for your smelting video here for gold the one where you added lead in the processing of smelting down...I am in the perfect environment having a large natural lake volcanoes and on the fault line. I have a different types of platinum alloy cores one in their body Cores that have several different shapes and sizes of in mineral Rock core the other being the chemical cores of palladium Platinum Alloys in a grey whitish colored Rock mineral core the palladium cores look like the moon surface as well I have Green palladium gold that have the little green crystal s freckled all through their core!! The cores minerals are transparent and transitional that are quite heavy as well, as well I having palladium element cores some of them look a lot like old asphalt but are indeed the element of palladium as well as the black brownish red Platinum cores rock that look like volcano Rock but our deed Platinum alloy. As well I have Rh tetra rhodium core rocks one at 150 lb which is an orange yellowish,redish Rock core that has the exact c c gram weight at 12.3 c c gram for it's world definition weight to be rhodium as well having all the characteristics and specification for Rhodium .the entire core Rock is platinum alloys rhodium.all these cores of platinum'alloy are true threw there entire core as my tool.i call the wheel of Fortune disc Fuses the core rock displays shiny platinum'alloys metal . My orange goldfish reddish sirach core at 150 lbt as well has the right colors for being uranium the natural 235 at 3 to 4% it's volume...they pulled this same exact core of Rhodium I have . I have Off line off the world internet witch had it's. picture illustration images of this orange yellow Sea Rock witch back in the day they called a meteorite.as well. The Platinum alloy metal is beautiful in this orange yellow reddish Rhodium rock core as you polish it it has a gold glow but the metal is beautiful whitish chromie platinum.. very beautiful Platinum Rhodium ' that looks to be a little oily. core of rhodium still has the red sea salts cakes to its pieces I break off as well as the yellow crust I would assume to be gold caked to this broke off pieces.but the metal is beautiful white chrome platinum alloys,Rhodium core has all it's specifications colors .to be natural uranium 235 they took this rhodium core off line .off line when I got some Attention on the world web about my rhodium core at 150 lb being exactly the same core of rhodium that was displaying for the world definition on line !!!!as they pushed rhodium to $30,000 for a single ounce. Even my broken pieces I polished into shiny chrome nuggets look the same as the ones that were online.i have a tool that fuses the outside core of these Platinum alloy rocks minerals.that puts divots into the Platinum core rock ,that leave a shiny metal appearance behind showing beautiful platinum alloy metal in your face depending on the color of the core the Platinum shades will be different .These minerals inside these Platinum as well as gold minerails appear to be clear almost invisible to see with the color of the core Rock to be platinum alloys..as well proving the entire rock core of mineral are platinum alloys....all these platinum'alloy cores. set in the same ancient ocean salt sea Waters that were concentrated in Platinum alloy minerals these minerals came from our planet core through erupting volcanoes that erupted into the bottom of our ancient oceans sea floors making every creature on the bottom of our ancient sea floor a host for the Platinum alloy minerals that were zorb like a sponge they slowly cooked in the sun rays for millions of years during the great divide of our continents that lift these shallow pools of sea salt Waters concentrated and platinum alloys minerals.. so where would a guy take these cores of platinum'alloy that are nuggets showing proof that they are indeed Platinum Alloys metal. all the way through their mineral core .rock that are worth their weight in Platinum alloy metal.and who would I talk to about having my tool manufactured and patented I called The wheel of Fortune disc for identifying Platinum alloy core Rock nuggets..,..this is TDK..
I've not done a video on that. Not sure what video you are thinking of, I am guessing its a video done by someone else - and not one of my videos. I'm pretty sure its one by mbmmllc - take a look at his videos.
I will check it out:: thank you Chris ' your still the man " and one hick of a guy " with a awesome personality "with knowledge from beyond...take care and I will be checking out more of your videos with your prospecting adventures "..thanks again for the reply ..
no gold in the gossen (rust) I sampled today small specs I had to use my 30x loupe to see them that's the way it is forgot my book or I would have stayed there reading fists full of gold
@@ChrisRalph very interesting the progress of the tools used from what ever was made to prospect with to businesses like keene engineering or royal manufacturing that make the things needed for the modern prospector talk to on the next one I will be a few more pages along
I could go way deeper on the geochemistry of gold but for 98% of the viewers it would be over their head. There is plenty of info on geochemistry on the internet if you want to take a deep dive.
Alexander Coates your an idiot, im sorry. Video creators dont control the ads at all lol. I'll subscribe right now, your videos are great. Verry informative, thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us.
I appreciate your interest, but I do not offer any services for personal training, consulting or advisement. I get many such requests and simply do not have time to help all who ask. I do wish you the best of luck, but I am sorry that I cannot offer any help on that level.
good job my friend....love the meat and potatoes of the epithermal deposition model and how collapsed calderas play a role in their formation.
Always honored that you look in on my videos. Great job on the Delamar video - I've not been underground there but was on the surface and did an article for the ICMJ a few years back. Not every epidermal sits on the ring fault of a collapsed caldera, but a surprising number do.
Geology rocks. Lol. Get it
Ask Jeff Williams I thought so too! I appreciate all you guys for the teaching you all do although I see the screen play you have developed nice technique on how to push your talents. It’s like a never ending series don’t change that because that’s who you are.
Mr. Williams I stand corrected. You are correct. I learned something new, and was wrong in my assumption about Yellowstone.
I really appreciate learning new things and you have very informative and enjoyable videos.
A very good visual explination of how minerals are deposited.
Thanks!
Just got your fists of gold book from Amazon. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Definitely an inspiration. An eye opener. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in gold and the geology associated with it !
Thanks for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed the video.
You make excellent videos, thank you for your hard work.
I bought your book and find it most informative, a great reference
Thanks for the kinds words. Glad you enjoyed the video. My email is at the end of the book if you have any questions.
Fantastic Chris, not the first time I've watched this video, but when I keep adding 1+2+3+4+5 it all begins to make perfect sense to someone who has only been prospecting for a few months.
Thanks again! I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Some of your finest work Chris. I really enjoyed this video.
Glad you enjoyed the video.
Love your videos.
I may not be a geologist, but I've been in 49/50 states. Grew up in northern Colorado, and last I checked Yellowstone National Park is still in Wyoming, not Montana.
Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back so hard! By the way, check out a map and you'll see a small part of Yellowstone actually is in MONTANA.
If I obtained a "special permit" to pan sample &,or metal detect in and around the creeks & rivers of Yellow Stone- would I find placer gold? Just curious, like that would ever happen! More to the point; I've started exploring with Lidar and I found a Cinder Cone in a forested area in Washington State and I am wondering if it is a definite prospect. I was thinking of a metal detector and grab bags for samples to pack out as the nearest water wouldn't be worth more than 1 walk, So, I ask, in your experience, is there anything else I should pack for sampling because of weight concerns especially on the return leg? Share your wisdom Chris, you always do! I've subscribed to and still do to the ICMJ for years and reading all of your articles over the years I felt I knew you well enough to call you on a first name basis; I will be getting your book in November when the Monsoon's hit and I have time to read and research, work the spoils and plan for the next season all of which you are familiar with. You're an awesome source of knowledge Chris, so don't ever quit, and thank you again.
You wont get a permit like that in a National Park! I dont think you would find any placer. The gold is down a few hundred feet.
Chris, another interesting and informative video. Thanks for posting.
Glad you enjoyed the video.
How about basaltic lava flows like the ones in Idaho and Oregon? Are they producing any gold? If so where would one look for gold?
Those basalt rocks, like the ones in Hawaii, dont produce any gold deposits. Too fast onto the surface and too fast to cool off. Its magma well below the surface that cools off slowly which has a chance to drive mineral systems for many thousands of years and create deposits. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Thanks for this video on epithermal gold Chris. Didn't that fire creek bonanza gold example come out of a quartz vein in a potassium and olivine rich basalt like those you see in Hawaii?
Basalt is a very common rock, found all over the earth. Only rarely are gold veins in basalt, but there are more than zero. Hawaii and thousands of other places with basalt have no gold deposits.
Great video thank you for sharing your knowledge I was wondering if you can do a video on the geology of north carolina if you would please
Geology of North Carolina - I'll think about it. Already got a lot of projects on my list. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Real interesting video, learn something new with each video....thanks Chris...!
Glad you enjoyed the video
There is also cold water vents like Michigan...Awesome video! thank you for sharing
cold water exists.
Chris, can you explain Philippines gold they are finding on various islands?
Active volcanoes in the Philippines, magma near the surface, The gold deposits talked about in this video are the same type - epithermal.
Thank you for the information. I have not tried gold panning yet but would like to. Unfortunately I live in the Columbia Basin Basalts area. Is there any gold those areas?
The Columbia River has gold in places. Its very small in size but you can recover it. Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph Awesome. Thank you.
I liked your presentation, as I have all of your others. I'm trying to correlate the information that you present with the geologic conditions down here in north central Arizona. I'm sure that the geology is different down here compared to Nevada, but I would think that some would apply when it comes to "Indicators" of gold, which I am most interested in.
It applies to some part of Arizona, like Oatman. In time I will do a video on Gold in Arizona. Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph
I also hunt the Lynx creek area out of Prescott, which is up in the mountains in the pines, ---like some of your other videos I guess somewhere in northern California. Just hard to figure out the indicators for this area.
Great job with the video as always !!!
Thanks! Hope you are having a good fall. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Very interesting lesson.. Thank you
Sorry. I get many, many requests for personal help.
Thank you your video was very informative , God bless
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Chris. I'm enjoying your videos on good prospecting. I've already subscribed. Good information. No complaints.👍
Going to try to get the wind noise under control in the future. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Hey Chris, always love your videos! So very informative. I really enjoyed looking at the "Types of Gold Deposits" illustration that you used at around 1:32 in the video. Where did you find that illustration, I would like to order or make a print of that for the office. Thanks!
I only have a tiny copy of it. Sorry. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
You are a definite inspiration and role model. Much respect and platonic love.
Book ordered, should be here in two days. You rock.... sorry for the bad pun.
thank you!
they delivered it to the wrong address. stupid post office. :(
i raised cain and they found it four days later.
VERY GOOD VIDEO CHRIS,,, I HAVE FOUND A VOLCANO ,IT HAS THE FOAMY TYPE ROCK THAT HAS SPEWED OUT ,ITS SOME BIG PEICES ABOUT AS BIG AS A SMALL HOUSE,,ITS LIKE IT NEVER ACTUALY EXPLODED,JUST THE I GUESS MAGMA THAT SEEPED OUT,MY QUESTION IS THERE ANY GOLD UNDER NEAT OR IN THE AREA,IS IT WORTH MINING THE AREA
The kind that dont explode are not nearly as good. Like in Hawaii - it just ooozes the lava, no explosions, no gold.
Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph thanks for reply chris,all of your videos are very good,
Love this guy, learned so much i didnt know!
Ty im subscribing now. 😊
Awesome, thank you! Welcome aboard!
Cheers Chris👍
Thanks much!
Great educational video Chris!!!
Some - not all - scientists think gold atoms are formed in Super Novas. The dust of the exploded super nova eventually gets caught up in the formation of other stars and their surrounding planets. The small amount of gold in rocks comes to the planets as the dust forms into a planet. Its the processes I talked about in that video which take the natural traces of gold and form natural concentrations of gold worth mining.
Is it possible to have a gold nugget that is not shiny? I have a bunch of heavy gold colored nuggets that look similar to some of the stuff in this video. They look like reef gold yet they're only shiny when wet. If I crush a piece and pan it I get a bunch of fine gold and very small coarse gold. Might they be epidermal deposit nuggets? because there are hot springs around here and I dug these out of a dry creek bed.
Best of luck to you. However, there are lots of minerals that are heavy, lots that are yellow, and real gold looks metallic even when dry. I dont try to guess what minerals people might have, there are just too many possibilities. Also because I get a dozen or more folks every day who want me to look at their rocks and tell them what they have found, I cant offer a service to ID minerals and rocks.
Chris, don't know if you're still watching this, but if your are, a question.
Assuming there are hydrothermal deposits associated with some of the calderas formed by the now Yellowstone hotspot when it was back in Idaho, and that those deposits are still deep underground, how do you prospect for them? I assume at some point drilling is involved. But that becomes something of a game of Battleship, randomly poking holes around the edges of old calderas until you hit something. Is there a way to track these deposits down from the surface, so you know where to drill? Would there by surface features left by the old hydrothermal systems that could be spotted now, that suggest where the deep lode deposits may be hiding?
If they are not yet lifted up to show something on the surface, its pretty hard to find them, but many show some outcrop. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph If you look at the Yellowstone model, there is surface activity, just not precious metals at the surface. Do the geysers, fumaroles, etc., leave traces at the surface after the magmatic heat that drove the hydrothermal activity has ceased. What's deposits are left between the gold that may be hundreds of meters down, and the surface?
Very cool, why the lighter base metals are under the heavier gold?
Its not a matter of density, its a matter of chemistry. Deposits form from watery solutions that contain metal bearing chemicals, not actual particles of metal.
@@ChrisRalph i love it man thank you , so maybe the acid soup containing a lot of mixed metals , perculate up and precipirate the base metals first because they are more reactive and lastly the precious metals ? some like that right?
That is much, much closer to the actual situation.
Great info has anyone checked mount st Helen's after it blowed for any deposits
Too fresh to show minerals, they'd be down deep. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Hi Chris, What’s your take on the Steens mountain range just north of Nevada in Oregon?
Honestly not familiar with it.
Cool video - cool tutorial indeed. I'm interested in your book. However, I am located in europe. I am asking myself wether your informations can be extended to European situation. For example, there are quite a few calderas in the Eifel mountains in the western part of Germany. However, there are little reports of gold findings there. I wonder why.
Not all calderas produce gold deposits. Glad you enjoyed the video.
So would this explain the deposits off copper around Butte Mt, and some of the other mines that are North of Yellowstone. I know potosi and pony area in Montana had gold, silver, and tungsten mined there and there's a hot spring in potosi. Potosi is a camping, trail area west of Bozeman Mt.
Besides the fact that its a National Park could you pan for gold in Yellowstone? I so wanted to when i lived in Bozeman. Very informative video, thank you.
One more question what about the Black Hills of South Dakota, a small old volcano?
They are related types of deposits. The hot waters circulate but down deeper with those types. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Thanks for the information Chris. Is it possible to get a copy of that diagram of the types of gold deposits that you show at the beginning of the video? I'd be happy to pay for one.
The copy I have is small and not really any better than the video.
NIce stuff, Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed the video.
I just ordered your book. I live in Siskiyou County California and I look forward to getting it and trying my luck!
Glad you enjoyed the video.
That's a good place to live, if you're interested in gold (and platinum -- and even the _very_ occasional diamond :-).
This was a very good video. Might you be aware of some early geothermal exploration in the imperial valley, think by a oil company. One of the wells drilled was allowed to blow off for 90 days to see if output remained steady or declined. The pipe was 36 inch dia and blew into maybe15 acre pond just the minerals deposited in the pipe, the geologic report iirc said held 15,000 worth of gold if one wanted to recover it
Thanks for the info!
Great video again Chris. You are actually in Wyoming, not Montana...
You are correct. We were staying in Montana, hence my mix-up. Glad you enjoyed the video.
hey chris, you have to do something about that wind in your microphone .. I suggest a lapel microphone you wear on your person with a wind sock or a wind sock on your camera microphone .. it does not do justice to your excellent content when you have thundering wind in your audo out on the field ... especially through my hi fidelity audio speakers I use .. trust me, your viewers will be so happy to hear you out in the field, not that thunder wind that can pop speakers !! hahhaha .. love your knowledge chris .. it's gold !!! hahahah ..
Since this video was shot, I got a new camera and will be doing almost all the on screen video with the lapel mikes which should help a lot with the wind noise. With some of the stuff recently I have been out for a day here and there and got stuck with windy weather when I need to shoot. Sorry for the wind noise, if you have any questions about what I am saying, please ask.
Quick question. 8:22 Would the (v) area of zone (4) be aka a kimberlite pipe? Just trying to tie the two together since the pipe and vein happen from the same type of source. I'm not so sure their deposits happen in the same style though as this is more of a boiling hyrdro event and pipes are more of a magma that never get out of the earth and is in a slowly cooling event over an Extremely long time
No, just not the same. Kimberlite is a very specific, specialized type of volcano. They are one in a million or less and very, very rare. Regular volcanoes are comparatively common and not related to Kimberlite eruptions.
@@ChrisRalph Ty, I guess its back to the drawing board. Any chance you can point me in the direction of the that specific type of formation muchg like you laid out here?
There is lots to be learned about the geology of diamonds - I have a video on them. See: th-cam.com/video/pcNXLtzOi7I/w-d-xo.html
Lots of other papers and research are out there on the internet if you are willing to study. The best place to look for diamonds is where diamonds have previously been found.
@@ChrisRalph yea I hear you on that only I live in a very monopolized are Chris for whatever reason they enjoy keeping the population here oppressed for some reason. I'm working as hard and fast as I possibly can to learn as much as I can in a way in which Its constant (every waking hour for 3 years now) and not having that special wealth of knowledge mentor to constantly learn the right information from adds a lot of drag to this process for sure. I have watched you video on diamonds and many other massive pools of information on them early on in this stage. I'lltake another peek at your diamond lecture and see if it helps me see more now that I have a lot of studies now preceding me. I guess I was under the elementary impression of a generalized theory that the magma that oozed its way out of these pipes was then lava that cooled & would then be what is todays bassalt flows and sulfide shales. Taking a look at the insnaley insulated pipe and the magma within it that never made it out is thes the world slowest path to to a controlled cooldown phase and being under immense pressure and the slow rate of cool down is what creates the kimberlite /which is 1 hosted conglomerate type deposit perfectly suitable for providing the right environment for the carbon atoms to pull themselves together into that very percise alignment we know to be the crytalline isometric octahedron or dodecahedron. I thought then well perhaps the explination in this video could also be tired together and perhaps just not talked about, but thats clearly not the case. I just dont know why yet. Thanks for the detailed help Chris.
Thank you so much Chris very enlightening !
If you haven't , I just haven't heard mention of it , will you think about putting your book out on audio ? your own narration ?
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Just a few thoughts that came to my head .
It is truly lots of fun to share !!!
The problem with he audio is the same problem with the E-book - no pictures. I have hundreds of illustrations in my book to explain he points I am making. I cant include illustrations in an audio book. Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph you have your recording skills and TH-cam and your internet website .
Which you can use patreon and PayPal and I'm sure there's a few more quality services out there to sell a book you put together and put out yourself there is no need for those other avenues you already have the two you need .
I know it may be a bigger task than you want to endeavor , it would be a great first project for that self Recording School . you wouldn't have to truly do much of anything if you got the right teaching influence to pick up your book and turn it into a school .
just ideas and suggestions life is best lived following your path !!!
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Helpful video sir
You're welcome, and I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
in the caldera does gold tend to collect itself due to some property? or just in melting does it collect due to specific gravity? or what
I said in the video that the gold is dissolved by water. The rocks do not have huge natural concentrations but the water dissolves it and then concentrates the gold in the veins. Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph a hot fluid has convection currents which stir the contents and the gold would be disseminated in the fluid until it starts to cool. when cooled enough that different elements or compounds can separate due to melting temperature changes; then crystals or masses can start to form. the higher specific gravity elements like gold should move towards the bottom and collect. in tight circumstances like skinny veins, gold seems to collect better than in large veins. why? some large veins are almost void of gold, whereas the small veins coming off the large veins have higher concentrations. at first glance you would think that the gold would concentrate at the bottom of large veins. at intersections of faults the minerals present changes and sometimes gold is concentrated. i can see this happening because of heat and pressure
if it is high enough to melt but not enough heat and pressure are present in each fault by itself. subsequent fault cracking and filling might cause even higher concentrations of gold due to fresh input of gold bearing fluids and might even cause pockets to form. My main question is if the gold is disseminated in the fluid stage; then what brings each particle to bond with another?
I do look forward to a N. California and SW Oregon video. I find the Northern Sierras and Klamath Mountains (and the Blue Mountains in E. Oregon) especially fascinating. I likes me some ophiolites.
Northern California coming soon.
@@ChrisRalph - Cool.
Not that it's of any commercial interest, but I'm fascinated by the -- anomalous I guess you could say -- macro-diamonds found in the Klamath and northern Sierra.
As far as I can tell the host rock is still a bit mysterious. Weird subduction diamonds -- are they widely disseminated in the ophiolitic peridotite and weathering out of that, or are they hosted in some sort of ultramafic lamprophyre dikes, or maybe there are some lamprophyre diatremes that haven't been noticed?
It would be neat to figure that out for sure. I'm guess they're just scattered in the obducted upper-mantle segments.
Long story short for people who don't know what I'm yammering about: diamonds have been found in California and Oregon in gold placers, over the years.. Some good sized, and a _small_ percentage gem quality. The Old Timers probably tossed a lot of them out, thinking them an odd little piece of quartz. Interesting because they're not coming from your typical cratonic, commercial-type kimberlite or lamproite pipes, like you have in S. Africa and Siberia and up in Canada, etc.
Hey thanks for your recommendation on this subject, I love learning about how to search for gold and researching information about known deposits in my state. As a boy my father took me with him to work a claim he and his friends had, I wish I had been older then so I could have gained some of the knowledge I have been learning the last few years. I have also been watching the hard rock mining , a man from AZ. And should I be learning his technique of panning because of the fine gold which is found here? He cleans up his fines pretty well.
Kieth Bowen the Hard Rock University guy - I know Kieth. His panning techniques are good ones.
Yes Keith now has a bad motor and @ 63ish I think he could use some help to get his ride going.! I never was a fan of the 400 SB I think he need an LS swap for lasting dependable power source. Don’t get me wrong I run a SB 350 myself. But I have always been a fan of old school .
😃🤔 thanks for doing this video🎥🤔 it’s really helpful 😁🤔I have property near fire creek on the same mountain ⛰ ⛏👀🤔 I found three specs of gold in a small Quartz vein 😅🤔 that I think is formed from an epithermal 🤔 do you think your book will help me identify associated minerals with epithermal ?
If you are at Fire Creek in Nevada near the mine in Lander County, your quartz veins are epithermal. If its another fire creek, then I dont know. Glad you enjoyed the video.
If I recall correctly, most of the _epithermal_ gold deposition in Nevada and California is associated with Southern Ancestral Cascade Arc Magmatism (rather than a hot spot) -- generated by subduction of the old Farallon plate.
Interestingly, there is little or none of that in the Northern Ancestral Cascade Arc, which I think has something to do with the intrusions in the South being in cratonic basement rock, as opposed to the accreted seamount-type terranes in the north (up through Oregon and Washington).
It true for Nevada and the tiny amount of epithermal mineralization in North eastern CA. The mother lode and bulk of northern CA gold is much older and of deeper orogenic types. There is a little epithermal in the northern Cascades but most is still too deep to be seen on the surface. A video on the gold deposits of northern CA is coming soon. Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph I wonder if there are epithermal deposits under the _High_ Cascades ?
I forget how much longer the High Cascades have left before Cascadia subduction shuts down -- some day millions of years from now might be a decent place to look for gold. Especially if it gets some uplift to go along with all that basalt and andesite and tuff weathering down. Might be like a little poor man's Sierra Nevada 20 million years from now. :-)
probably a long while since Lassen is still active.....
@@ChrisRalph -- Won't its plumbing get messed up or magma chamber crystalize before the Juan de Fuca ridge subducts? I can't recall how long individual high Cascades volcanoes last -- like ~1 to 1.5 millions years, tops?
I'm thinking the source of gold in this video is from divergent plate activity (not convergent plate activity) creating the great basin, associated with the North American plate over running a mid Oceanic ridge in the Paleocene.
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Monoatomic gold = nothing unreal exists.
@@ChrisRalph Sir, what do you know about Monoatomic Gold to be able to call it not real?.. Monoatomic Gold it's a form of Silica/Gas oscillating that pulses between monatomic and diatomic particles through the (Coulomb Wave).. extracted from sea salts...Do you think all Gold just appears out of nowhere?..Monoatomic Gold is baby Gold/pree Gold.. I suggest you look into it a better homez
@@ChrisRalph I extract Monoatomic Gold through wet precipitate of a replicated sea using potassium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide...I use the minerals on my garden and you can literally see the difference.. so
If you want some help with sound quality and such, please hit me up! I'm willing to share some knowledge. I'd love to be able to more accurately understand what's being said in these videos, but sometimes the white noise makes it difficult to process.
Since this video was shot, I got a new camera and will be doing almost all the on screen video with the lapel mikes which should help a lot with the wind noise. With some of the stuff recently I have been out for a day here and there and got stuck with windy weather when I need to shoot. Sorry for the wind noise, if you have any questions about what I am saying, please ask.
Sorry but Yellowstone is not in Montana bro. It's in Wyoming.
And we also have several places where Greenstone Belt day lights as well.
Most of Yellowstone is in Wyoming, but a small part is in Montana. Check the Maps. The West Yellowstone entrance is in Montana. And the Greenstone belts of WY are no where near Yellowstone.
@@ChrisRalph yes 3%. And yes the Greenbelt runs east west through the center of the state.
We have lots of gold in Wyoming just waiting to be found.
hey chris, I am a budding gold prospecror fossicking in bendigo victoria australia and need some advice in regards to iron bias and ignoring iron deposits in the soil that I have encountered during a gold hunt ... the soil was riddled with sprinkles of iron filings that I was digging and getting frustrated because the soil was infested with that stuff ... I have set my equinox 800 to iron bias 9 and want to ignore that material and focus on non-ferrous material like GOLD !!!... please make a video regarding this subject .... I am yet to try that setting and would love to report my results to you .. Regards from Jim down under gold newby !!!
I am 1/8th Ausie - my great grandfather was born there in the Golden Triangle, but he emigrated to the US after his father was murdered for the gold and silver he possessed.. It sounds like what you need is a pulse induction type detector. They are made for very bad ground. When the ground is very highly mineralized it is tough in VLF type detectors, which includes the Equinox. PI types have a much better ability to ignore the kind of ground you are talking about. I have a Minelab SDC 2300 which I use in those conditions. Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph Just found your channel. ;0) There is an Australian Miner
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I'll be at the GPAA gold show in Los Angeles February 15-16th at the Pomona Fairgrounds.
Look on the bright side, when all the easy gold has been mined new gold will be there for us in the future. Volcanoes do not stay in the same place, they move slowly each year so it will be possible to mine the areas in millions of years.
Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph Geology is amazing, I am interested in other planets geology too, it will be a while till we get deep in to the other planets. Those planets built with diamond will make a nice ring to impress a princess with.
Well the USSD..is in control if my phone ,so.here it's goes I am looking for your smelting video here for gold the one where you added lead in the processing of smelting down...I am in the perfect environment having a large natural lake volcanoes and on the fault line. I have a different types of platinum alloy cores one in their body Cores that have several different shapes and sizes of in mineral Rock core the other being the chemical cores of palladium Platinum Alloys in a grey whitish colored Rock mineral core the palladium cores look like the moon surface as well I have Green palladium gold that have the little green crystal s freckled all through their core!! The cores minerals are transparent and transitional that are quite heavy as well, as well I having palladium element cores some of them look a lot like old asphalt but are indeed the element of palladium as well as the black brownish red Platinum cores rock that look like volcano Rock but our deed Platinum alloy. As well I have Rh tetra rhodium core rocks one at 150 lb which is an orange yellowish,redish Rock core that has the exact c c gram weight at 12.3 c c gram for it's world definition weight to be rhodium as well having all the characteristics and specification for Rhodium .the entire core Rock is platinum alloys rhodium.all these cores of platinum'alloy are true threw there entire core as my tool.i call the wheel of Fortune disc Fuses the core rock displays shiny platinum'alloys metal . My orange goldfish reddish sirach core at 150 lbt as well has the right colors for being uranium the natural 235 at 3 to 4% it's volume...they pulled this same exact core of Rhodium I have . I have Off line off the world internet witch had it's. picture illustration images of this orange yellow Sea Rock witch back in the day they called a meteorite.as well. The Platinum alloy metal is beautiful in this orange yellow reddish Rhodium rock core as you polish it it has a gold glow but the metal is beautiful whitish chromie platinum.. very beautiful Platinum Rhodium ' that looks to be a little oily. core of rhodium still has the red sea salts cakes to its pieces I break off as well as the yellow crust I would assume to be gold caked to this broke off pieces.but the metal is beautiful white chrome platinum alloys,Rhodium core has all it's specifications colors .to be natural uranium 235 they took this rhodium core off line .off line when I got some Attention on the world web about my rhodium core at 150 lb being exactly the same core of rhodium that was displaying for the world definition on line !!!!as they pushed rhodium to $30,000 for a single ounce. Even my broken pieces I polished into shiny chrome nuggets look the same as the ones that were online.i have a tool that fuses the outside core of these Platinum alloy rocks minerals.that puts divots into the Platinum core rock ,that leave a shiny metal appearance behind showing beautiful platinum alloy metal in your face depending on the color of the core the Platinum shades will be different .These minerals inside these Platinum as well as gold minerails appear to be clear almost invisible to see with the color of the core Rock to be platinum alloys..as well proving the entire rock core of mineral are platinum alloys....all these platinum'alloy cores. set in the same ancient ocean salt sea Waters that were concentrated in Platinum alloy minerals these minerals came from our planet core through erupting volcanoes that erupted into the bottom of our ancient oceans sea floors making every creature on the bottom of our ancient sea floor a host for the Platinum alloy minerals that were zorb like a sponge they slowly cooked in the sun rays for millions of years during the great divide of our continents that lift these shallow pools of sea salt Waters concentrated and platinum alloys minerals.. so where would a guy take these cores of platinum'alloy that are nuggets showing proof that they are indeed Platinum Alloys metal. all the way through their mineral core .rock that are worth their weight in Platinum alloy metal.and who would I talk to about having my tool manufactured and patented I called The wheel of Fortune disc for identifying Platinum alloy core Rock nuggets..,..this is TDK..
I've not done a video on that. Not sure what video you are thinking of, I am guessing its a video done by someone else - and not one of my videos. I'm pretty sure its one by mbmmllc - take a look at his videos.
I will check it out:: thank you Chris ' your still the man " and one hick of a guy " with a awesome personality "with knowledge from beyond...take care and I will be checking out more of your videos with your prospecting adventures "..thanks again for the reply ..
Then why isn’t gold found inside lava rocks? Why does zero lava rocks/boulders have no gold?
The geology and chemistry is wrong.
@@ChrisRalph No because if gold is being "brought up" by lava then this means gold is in lava. Otherwise the lava is not touching the gold at all.
no gold in the gossen (rust) I sampled today small specs I had to use my 30x loupe to see them that's the way it is forgot my book or I would have stayed there reading fists full of gold
Thanks for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed the video.
@@ChrisRalph very interesting the progress of the tools used from what ever was made to prospect with to businesses like keene engineering or royal manufacturing that make the things needed for the modern prospector talk to on the next one I will be a few more pages along
Get a wind noise cancelling mic.
OK.
God put it there. Why do you think the proportions are so.
God created the design in which it forms. The proportions are so because they follow the design. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Chemistry not enought
I could go way deeper on the geochemistry of gold but for 98% of the viewers it would be over their head. There is plenty of info on geochemistry on the internet if you want to take a deep dive.
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Ahhhh yeahhh the gold comes from Magma! LOL
Scientifically explained, no proof. Just guessing.
It comes from the water of the magma.
@@ChrisRalph sure
These videos have more commercials than cable TV. Unsubscribed now. Just not for me
You do know that it is Google who controls the ads?
Alexander Coates your an idiot, im sorry. Video creators dont control the ads at all lol.
I'll subscribe right now, your videos are great. Verry informative, thank you for sharing your knowledge with all of us.
Most of the native American people I know don't like it when you call them Indians. That is a bad thing to say.. So be careful what you call people.
I know native Americans who have no problems whatsoever with the term. Everything offends someone somewhere. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Ok his intention was legit, so. No capitol letter on native, ok maybe indigenous peoples, or original inhabitants
Ok Al. You be careful too. Most of them probably don't celebrate Thanksgiving like you do either. So be educated, show respect not careful
Can you give your email sir?
I appreciate your interest, but I do not offer any services for personal training, consulting or advisement. I get many such requests and simply do not have time to help all who ask. I do wish you the best of luck, but I am sorry that I cannot offer any help on that level.