Meet Roger, A Full Time Nome Beach Miner
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Today Bryan Wilder And Gary meet up with Roger, a full time beach miner, and he shows us how he mines and lives homesteading on the beach of Nome, Alaska.
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Livin in a shack on a beach digging for gold is my kinda life❤
Living the dream!
I love meeting and chilling with people like this. You always learn so much. Faith in humanity restored when u run across good people
Thanks for watching, blech71!! Get that gold!!
What a good fella, could talk and listen to that man all day
Glad you enjoyed it!
In a city his home would be slum housing. On the beach, a gracious abode. It just depends on how one looks at things. I envy him and his wife. As a fellow Michigander I wish them health and good luck. 😁 👍
Thanks for watching!
Well said.
Nah its slum but hey ya don't need a mansion to be happy. Half they're luck
Reclusive people,They do not understand poverty,
Quality cannot be defined
There are so many different ways to live one's life. Happy are those who find a life that suits them.
Thanks for watching, @jiyushugi1085!! Get that gold!!
What a guy. Huge respect 🙌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks for watching, Glenda dale Jones!! Get that gold!!
Man this looked so cool. Living of what the world offers you. Food from the sea. Warmth from the wood. Gold from nature. Hard to beat! Im jelly
Thanks for watching, chris maak!! Get that gold!!
Just scribed to this channel. I loved this, Roger had this beach mining figured out. Especially solar powered water supply for his mini sluice. If I was Beach Mining this is the setup I would use. Also his water recycle system, So Simple Yet SO Effective.
You should make this a thing. Interview more. I really enjoyed this.
Thanks for watching!
Pretty neat, got everything they need to enjoy live and never leave!!! Thanks AGP for showing and sharing this
Thanks for watching, Vendetta Prospecting!! Get that gold!!
I really enjoy when you interview the miners on the beach, they seems like decent nice people, thanks for sharing 😀🍺👍
Glad you enjoyed it
G'day from Australia!
I've worked in the Mining Industry as a Dump Truck Operator/Driving Instructor at various open cut gold mines over the years, yet never really heard much about beach mining.
Roger and his wife are definitely living the dream while making money for Jam! 😎
I love the idea of doing something similar myself.
Peace be with you. 🙏💜💪🌏✅
Thanks for watching, Drew Roe!! Get that gold!!
I could watch these all day
Thanks for watching, ROB.T.!! Get that gold!!
Wish I'd seen this vid 30 years ago ! Done crap office jobs most of that time. (in Europe) The fresh air, hard work to keep in shape, would have loved it.
Thanks a million!
I'm gonna have to chat Roger up a bit. I'm from Michigan as well and he's living my dream right now.🤣✌️😎
Hi I'm Paula Roger's wife. It was him and I in the video.
@@paulabroadworth2504 Hello. How do you sell gold? 🙂
@@paulabroadworth2504 Hi Paula, I'm Will. Currently from Lansing MI. Where about are you and Roger located? I'm collecting my retirement now and told myself when I grow up I want to be a treasure hunter 🤣 I have 2 gold claims in Idaho but selling one, or give it away cause I can't work both and my son's not interested. He told me when I strike it rich, he'll be right out 😂
Thanks for watching, AU MetalMental!! Get that gold!!
Cool can he use the gold Paula to pay for the 18 years of child support he missed?
This really would make a good series interviewing different old-time and newschool beach miners
Thanks for watching, Scatter Man!! Get that gold!!
Seems like a awesome group of people up there, hopefully one day I can get there to see it.
Thanks for watching, Cariboo Cam!! Get that gold!!
These are tough people to be living this way and doing this work at their age...
He’s a spry 26 years old
Thanks for watching, svenp!! Get that gold!!
Another great day on the beaches of Nome! Thanks for taking us along with you and Gary! Wish you both great success!
Thank you! You too!
Amazing
Thank you! Cheers!
If it weren't for racing I'd be living that life! That's the real American dream right there!
Thanks for watching, NHRA gold!! Get that gold!!
this is on my retirement bucket list. i want to feel like a 49r with all the comforts of the modern world.
Thanks for watching, jose lopez!! Get that gold!!
This is proper modern day rush stuff Bryan, what a brilliant insight into the real Nome
Its a blast! Thanks for watching!
That was really cool. And you would be surprised on how much that probably meant to him you just stopping buy and chatting and showing an interest. Good on ya well done
Thanks for watching, A&T Adventures!! Get that gold!!
Great trip out fam. Keep on having fun getting that au and living the dream. Your doing great work fam. Always have a blast coming by. Gold Squad Out!!!
Thanks for watching!
I don’t even gold mine and this was a great video!
Thanks so much!
It's funny watching this before the shit storm. 💥💥💥🇨🇦. You can't kill Roger. Never!!!!!
He is a tough miner!
Great lil Documentary.. its really fun to watch and see these..
Thanks for watching!
Never shake these guys hands
HAHAHA
Miner very impressive, down to earth. Interesting video.
Thanks for watching, @roccocataldo5818!! Get that gold!!
Awesome footage Bryan! Amazing gold - WOW!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
Hi, Bryan. Hi, Gary. Good interview. What a way to spend your summer. The Beach Life w/benifits. Gold, salmon, and berries. Beach life is berry berry good.
*TYU*
Bears like berry's and an occasional beach miner
Hey Donald
Glad you enjoyed it
Not a Hilton but I could live through a summer or two there! Thanks for posting!
Glad you enjoyed it
awesome characters thanks for haring with us!
Thanks for watching!
What a great video! I really enjoyed watching this- what a nice dude.
Thanks for watching!
Bryan living the dream ! Hope to dredge with you next winter and have you back for the AMRA dinner
For sure! Can't wait!
I just tapped in and subscribed
I do like your Alaska content the most so keep it up in Nome
There's no place like Nome lol
Thanks so much!
Love over gold.
Thanks so much!
Seems like people are really friendly and willing to give advice and help out. I’m saving up my money and I wanna come up and try my luck. Been a dream of mine for last 10 years.
Your dream for the last 10 years?! 🤔 If you don't start this year, you'll never start. What can be done today should be done today or never. Do it! Good luck ✌🙂
Well said my man from New Zealand
Thanks for watching, PaNDaSNiP3R!! Get that gold!!
@@akgoldbear7669 I have a life a job so it’s not super easy to just pack up and go with zero plan. Also people live check to check. I don’t have a lot of money so ya it’s a dream. Someday I hope I can make it a reality
Living the dream
Thanks for watching, Robert!! Get that gold!!
Gold miners are a special breed! What an awesome dude,livin his dream. That looks like a tough life for not a huge amount of money, but he sounds like he loves it, and makes the most of it.
It's gold fever! Thanks for watching!
How many months can people do this realistically before weather chases them out? I watch the TV show I was always curious about the beach miners I’m glad I found your channel.
Considering that daylight lasts for 24 hrs during the peak summer months and it starts thawing out around late spring there's probably about 5 months of ideal weather however if you find a hot spot then you can make enough money to get you through the rest of the year when your down due to inclement weather conditions.
3 or 4
@@TheCapns If you know what your doing you can stay in tent's, Teepee's for ever, I used to live/camp rough with friends i the Scottish Highlands before returning to day jobs. If you can make a plywood hut whilst building a log cabin as long as your health holds, then until death or old age, mussels, crabs, lobsters off the beach, free wood, venison, every fooker growing potaoes, veg, roots....Made te wrong choice man.....Take care good luck.
@@julianmarsh7993 Where was that Julian? I know a few Teepee dwellers up here in the highlands..,🏴
3 to 5. Nome is brutal. Many die trying. Dont do it.
I always like fishing for Silvers in Unalkleet. Been to all the villages on Norton Sound many times.
Thanks for watching!
Love these videos!
Glad you like them!
Great video brother! Keep up the work always stay blessed
Thanks! You too!
My parents met and married in Nome in 1946. Their landlord once showed them a nice bag of gold dust.
Awesome!
This is the best...
The ole Roger. I haven't seen him since high school. I never did leave Caro. LOL
Thanks for watching, @keithcross9928!! Get that gold!!
Cool video guys! That dude living with his wife out there may not be correct in everything he says but he sure believes it! You boys treated him great! Thanks for showing what it's like up there. Really doesn't seem too bad if the gold is good. Good luck out there! Joe gold
Well said!
After a full on bearing sea binge, I still haven't seen the 'General store' with pricing.
Good to hear an honest curse word too!
I'll make a video of it sometime! Thanks for watching!
Living a dream.
Just having fun!
Yeah, I think I'll keep my job.
Good luck up there.
Thanks for watching, Eddie Adams!! Get that gold!!
It’s amazing, the 1,000’s ppl will spend to find 100’s ..... 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
For sure! Thanks for watching!
Dude's club fisting a meteor [16:10] and this gold prospector is like, "Oh, you found a meteor? It might be worth something. You should go to the college."
That would be like telling a gold prospector, "Oh, you found gold? It might be worth something. You should go to the college."
That meteor is probably worth 10X the best day you ever had gold prospecting.
For sure!
That ball joint sounds like it's ready to leave the chat.
Its really bad, lol
Brian, you are such a nice block and it is reflected in how others relate to you. You ask the most intersting questions and always complimenting others. If I am not mistaken your video in the last couple of weeks, a year on from this one, showed Roger's house gone, after that freak storm of Dec 2023. Yes, Roger was lucky to survive with his life. The house gone.. From memory. I wish you the very best mate, and thankyou for your efforts. I know it takes a lot of skill, love and peseverance to make vids presentable for TH-cam, let alone mine for gold in Nome, no matter which way you do it. Wish you the best and thank you. Mark from Australia
Thanks so much!
wow this is amazing i hope that someone will make a go fund me for the people of nome and make sure its made safer for people
Thanks for watching, _P-i-V_ *!! Get that gold!!
Thank You for your videos, I'm planning to go there next summer! Good to know kind of what to expect when you get there, I still have a lot of homework to do before I go there
Have fun!
awesome!
Thanks for watching, Rob Grubb!! Get that gold!!
You need to setup shop next to him haha, if he will let you!!
Nice vid Bryan!
Next time!
love the vids, keep em coming.. wish I was there.. its on my bucket list for sure..
Thanks for watching, @randy1ization!! Get that gold!!
Excellent channel. Content and subject is interesting
Much appreciated!
I hear roger broadworth jr is a living legend in nome.
Yes he is!
@@AmericanGoldProspectors he looks like he is living the life of a legend.
appreciate all these video's!
Thanks for watching, Flwr Gold!! Get that gold!!
Really great content and kind of cool that Im from maine and you went from maine to nome where I would love to be!
Thanks! Its been a blast!
I would love to do that with a small trommel and washer. It bums me out living on the shores of lake erie with similar crappy weather and tons of black sand but almost zero gold. We have tons of rivers and creeks but the glaciers passed over us and dumped their gold further south. If i mined the beach here for ten years i might get a gram. Lol there is a nearby river with a tiny amount of flour gold but its all protected area no sluicing or digging allowed 😢 maybe someday ill make the trek to Nome and seek my fortune. 😊
Really cool 😎 👌🏻
Thanks for watching, Pa. Patriot Prospecting & Treasures!! Get that gold!!
My two uncles help build that first crawler you guys passed
That's awesome! Thanks for watching!
This so awesome ! I want to do this. Love the beach life. How long can stay on beach before storms or ice kicks you out?Thanks for taking us on this little tour !
Most pepole leave Oct 1st. or so. Thanks for watching!
good interview
Thanks for watching, FEELING HEALING FREQUENCES!! Get that gold!!
Good gold video
Thanks 👍
I've tried smoked Salmon straight from the smokehouse, hot and very tasty 🙂
Thanks for watching, AK Gold Bear!! Get that gold!!
thats kool hes one bad dude
Thanks for watching!
@@AmericanGoldProspectors when they letting you come home ?
❤
Thanks for watching, @puddin94!! Get that gold!!
very cool
Thanks for watching, If It Flips It Ships 1!! Get that gold!!
Aw are these people on their arses or is it us that's really fcuked up.bless him, hope you make it Roger.
Thanks for watching, Julian Marsh!! Get that gold!!
These guys might break even if they weren't all drunk by 10 am.
Thanks for watching!
Broken shock ? Great video as always Bryan
Ball joints and shocks, it's a Nome car, lol. I borrowed it from Vernon. Thanks for watching!
That would be a nice home in Harlum.
Thanks for watching, Patrick!! Get that gold!!
Roger is a g
For sure!
Cool to see. Probably a 25w panel. Not 5w.
For sure!
That’s the life blueberries 🫐 smoked salmon 🍣 and gold. LoL 😂
Oh ya!
My friends and I really enjoyed the video. We did some searching online and made some calls, but are stumped by this question: How hard is it to get an all terrain vehicle for the summer, and how much will it cost?
That windshield crack has me thinking I dropped my phone…
Thanks for watching, ChaMMP Boi!! Get that gold!!
@@AmericanGoldProspectors I wish, no golf in Michigan! Good luck to you!
It's to cold up there for POC, that's why there is no thievery, lol
Thanks for watching, Jerry B123!! Get that gold!!
Guy spent two months building some blue tarp shanty’s?? No wonder he lives on the beach!
Thanks for watching!
Fascinating…
A burning question. I’m sure it’s been said but I forget.
Where does all this gold come from in nome,is it from inland,on the beach or under the waves?
I realise I ought to read up more.it’s just so fascinating.
All gold comes from the stars! It’s a byproduct of a star going supernova (nuclear explosion). Interesting tidbit, they have made gold in a nuclear reactor but it was not economically feasible.
I believe it came from the mountains and glaciers pushed it to the sea. Thanks for watching!
@@AmericanGoldProspectors oh wow,so interesting.ty Ty for your reply ☺️👍
Now That's Gold Fever🤨‼️(And Flour Gold Wizard thinks He's Hard Core)‼️😉🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for watching, Lester Lepore Sr!! Get that gold!!
OK GI Joe pick the blueberries and make some jelly some pie some pancakes some candy OH and ice Cream then there is coffeecake
and BRand them and become a Millionaire GOD showed me your blessing and it seems as if you don't see him or his love for you do you Sir
Thanks for watching, @thomasboston1887!! Get that gold!!
I wish at times like this I had a credit card.. I buy him a carton of smokes from Victoria BC 🇨🇦💥🥓 45 bucks
He would love that!
This group of miners would benefit from pooling resources and hiring someone with an excavator to come and make them some big piles. The less you have to labor digging you run more material and increase your total. Work together for everyone's sake.
For sure! Thanks for watching!
seems like a modified ice auger could be used to break up the dirt..
For sure!
Is the guy still living on the beach after the typhoon?
Where's Pioneer Pauly ??
He was only here for a week or so.
Beach mining is a fun activity and I've done it here on the Kenai Peninsula a few times on my buddies mining claims.
But as a long time Alaska resident I do have to say that I hope these squatters on the beach clean up after themselves.
Otherwise all those tents and tarps and all that junk will end up all over Alaska's beaches and in our oceans.
When people like this go broke they tend to just leave all their junk behind and find a way home to wherever they came from.
Leaving the locals to clean up and deal with their mess.
I sure hope that's not the case in Nome but, I'm not going to hold my breath.
I hear ya, But there are miners who have the means and ethics to clean up after those who abuse the land whether they are miners or natives.
Hi, would a? Dredge work for the beach?...
No, to much surf
Who else first heard of Nome Alaska from the alien abduction documentary movie The Fourth Kind?
Thanks for watching, Zachariah!! Get that gold!!
6:30 thats a lot more then 5 watts...maybe more like 20+
For sure!
Beach miner? Oh man, thats gotta be the hardest kind of gold mining.
Here in California we have several places where we have gold granules
on the beach. But MAN is it difficult to separate the gold from the sand.
Thats why no big outfits ever worked a beach. You have to move a
mountain of sand for a tiny bit of gold. Only an individual who does not
mind low returns will work a beach for gold.
!
I beach mine just for fun. Not much return for long term.
Can people make a living mining the sand on the beaches on the public use land? I heard the guy say the beaches were "bad this year". Do "bad years" happen often?
Not worth making a living. Thanks for watching!
I want to move up there. How can I fid the place to move to?
Check out Nope Post on Facebook. Thanks for watching!