Prospector Jess most all gold originates from fissures created as the Yellowstone caldera traveled from the Pacific Ocean across southern/central Oregon and central Idaho. This occurred before any of the current day volcanos developed. The reason there aren’t many mines in southern Washington is because the basalt flows from southern/central Oregon covered all the gold up. A couple of miles deep of basalt clear up to Grand coulee dam on the Columbia River.
@@gonefishing3849Not so fast fella. On the Eastern side of the state , it's also, alluvial. When the Hudson Shield glaciers melted back, that's when alot of that was dropped, in place. As to the rest? Gold is where you find it and the situation you describe is most commonly found in and around Blewit Pass , a.k.a. Liberty.
Looking to go sniping for gold in some of the local creeks in Washington State. I was thinking about going more towards the Wenatchee area? Any other spots that you could recommend?
I live in a town called Gold Bar not far from the mine you spoke of...on a small river...why am I not panning gold instead watching freakin TH-cam all the damn time lol
There is Olney creek it has flour gold. A little further east is Sunset falls and east fork lewis creek. Snap the locks on the gravel road gate and youre in like Flynn
Google a GPAA Club in your area. They usually have meetings every month and an "outing" shortly there after. Join a club and go on an outing to a claim and somebody will teach you to pan. Fastest and cheapest way. Do that a couple times before you start buying equipment beyond a pan, shovel and 5g bucket.
I live near the Similkameen River, Eastern Wa. Next Sunday I am going to check if I can get to one of my favorite panning spots yet. I still have several inches of snow in the mts. where I live. I have been watching you for a few days now. I think you are a very good teacher.
When the Condit dam (White Salmon river, Washington) was taken away, there was a centuries long buildup of sediment behind the dam. When is was first blown open, all that sediment went down stream in a huge torrent, and probably deposited gold for miles below the dam and 3.3 miles to the Columbia river, and around that horn of confluence; on both sides of the Columbia/Salmon river meeting. Good time to give it a try, aye? Highway 141 off of Highway 14 ... and the sediment from upriver of the dam since 1913 that is still deposited there ....
i'm starting to explore the glacial gravels around the Puget sound. these gravels were deposited during the last glacial advance, both down from the Fraser river and the Cascade Range
@@BuddyDanger I've sampled along the western side of Camano island, while I've found a lot of black magnetic sand, I've yet to find any large gold flakes, i suspect that any gold has been ground into micro dust by the glaciers transporting the gravels. I'll continue sampling as time allows.
Monte Cristo was a town located on mountain loop hwy outside granite falls. Was all hardrock Mines with gold, but lots of arsenic. Robe canyon was where they put the railroad and flooded several times, washing out the railway. Best Mines in monte was justice mine, mystery Mines, and new discovery. Golden cord was also good.
Yakima river had lots of gold taken out of it back in the early days still some there I live close to Carson and yes the same county st Hellen’s in there a old gold mine on wind river it’s been there for years they try to get a permit to process it but no they don’t let them if you had big money you could haul the Ore off and process it near Portland or Vancouver in a safe spot and resell the rock and get the gold also, I think it would be affordable to do because gravel is so valuable in the Portland area
@ up wind River there’s a really rich or deposit there. There’s actually a Goldmine up on wind River towards Saint Helens behind Carson. They won’t let them process it. There was people that actually mind it for a long time. It just cost too much to go through all the hoops and jump, it’s nothing like the Yakima River though those back then they had a big dredge they put right in the river. There was one woman that did it. She was super rich when I was a kid. I’m like 70 years old now my dad used to tell us about it. We’d go by her house once in a while. It was like a big mansion back then it’s nothing to today’s standards, but then it was, it’s just fun to do
There’s a specific reason for that...it has to do with the abnormality of the geology that formed that rich deposit. If you’re curious to know how different it is (but don’t know the whole story), Nick Zentner of Central Washington University has a great series of WA state & PNW geology lectures; including one about Liberty, including its unique geology, history and current workings. Cheers!! (edit: never mind, I have no idea why he didn’t cover Liberty; I just hadn’t watched the whole video)
You were so close. I live in Lake Stevens. SR92 to Mountain Loop Hwy. The trail head is where it turns into dirt road that is closed during the winter...although talks of paving may happen soon. Easy hile and most of that area is claimed. But joining local clubs like in Gold Bar, will get you rights to many claims around the state. Good gold north west of Winthrop too. You actually touched on Mount Baker. You just hit of the peaks on it...lol. Anywhere along why 2 west side is good. Sultan basin off hwy 2. Hwy 97 blewit pass is great...potato fields. Called that for the potato sized nuggets found their.
@jimjones-lr7ob just get there from the otherside of Spada Lake. Hell why doesnt anybody talk about the devils horns above Copper Lake behind the big four ice caves?? Quit fkin around
Adding geo thermo maps to your presentation would be great. Mylandmatters has a easy layout for these maps. Looking over the geo thermo deposit maps really helped me understand why there isn't gold in some areas like Portland and it's surrounding areas as well as not much in southern Washington while there is in abundance in north east Washington
1:30 Here you can see a picture of Mt. St Helens just after eruption. 1:38 you can see it's still venting... May 18, 1980. I had just turned one, but still have the memory of my mother not letting me go out to play in the "snow" falling in Spokane... Top image is 2 years after the eruption, Bottom image 25 years later... both showing steam venting. The mountain continues to "erupt" today, so you're talking about the venting as if it is one continuous event, but it's more a case of many events chained together. Oh, and for what it's worth, standing on the south ridge in 1994 when an eruption kicked off wound up being "entertaining". Hence you're not allowed to climb it anymore.
Just ran across this video and not boring, and considering you cover such a broad spectrum of area it is an interesting overview. The one thing about Mt. Rainer is, that it almost sticks up like a sore thumb without a lot of geological rift close around it. And then right after you mentioned how rugged it is around the Monte Cristo. That's also much like the Mount Baker Mining District, a lot of rugged terrain in a relatively localized area where there is numerous old mines. And some barely accessible. Just suggesting that might be part of the reason not a lot of mines around Rainer, Not a lot of surrounding or peripheral upheaval?
I believe the lost Spaniards mine was located in a part of st Helens that no longer exists . I think his gold came out of the big wash above the lake it was naturally processing a F ton of material. Thanks again for this vid 👍 and I can say as a WA resident 2018 was a bad year to invest in a bigger dredge 🤣 but it looks cool hanging from the rafters in the shop 👍
I met the man who discovered the lost spainiards gold mine it was discovered sometimes in the 1990s,he told me his clues he found, then it led him to the open mine in the hillside
Geez, if I close my eyes I could swear that it’s Alan Alda giving a presentation! Even crazier, Jess; you kinda look like him! (I apologize ahead of time if you’re related and I’m just a doofus). Cheers! 🖖😎👍
I live in in the desert, in Tri Cities (Richland) WA, I got inspired to start panning, went to the Yakima river and Columbia, both are by my house, and I get 20 to 50 specks and small flakes per pan. Now I’m obsessed. And I know the gold here isn’t even good compared to other spots. I’ve Definitely never had an empty pan though. I can’t wait to hit up northern WA and Idaho, Oregon, etc.
Jess Great video I live in prineville, or It is a proven yellow stone hot spot caldera. All around here are cinnabar mines Howard mining district. There are a few gold ocurances in the are but maybe 3 areas . My question is how often is gold found in veins with cinnabar? This is a curiosity question. What happens in the oxidized zone. Such as what happens when it hits the water table? I'm aware of the mercury scare I won't be messing with it. I'm looking at gold and vein knowledge. And why no gold around new berry caldera? By bend Oregon
MT. ADAMS IS ON THE YAKIMA RESERVATION, AND THERE IS AN ACTIVE "PORTAL" ABOUT HALF WAY UP THE WEST SIDE...ACCESS TO ADAMS IS RESTRICTED, AND I AND MANY OTHERS HAVE WATCH SHIPS DESCENDING INTO IT...WASHINGTON HAS MUCH GOING-ON...
Just wondering about sluicing some of the rivers here in Washington is there any like rules and regulations for sluicing? I actually lived up in Washougal wa for along time and I lived like 10-15 from mabea mine road and if I recall right there’s like a river/ creak that runs around there that I would love to sluice I just am not sure about permits if I need any.
Most of the placer gold locations are already claimed or are not worth mining. Everything around Mt. St. Helens is off limits to any mining activities and every one of the mines that are on the north side of the mountain is a no mining area. Also, a lot of National Forrest has been designated as wilderness area and also off limits to ANY prospecting and the Monty Crisco area is one of those wilderness areas.
Hey mount saint Helens erupted in 1980. The image is 1982 and NOT right after it erupted. It often had small burps of ash but the real growth inside the crater occurred after 2000
St Helens is an odd volcano because it's west of the normal line of the High Cascades -- because there's a large cluster of crystallized magma chambers, a 'batholith', to the east of it, which has forced magma back to the west, where it comes up through some more permeable metasedimentary rock. Look how it's almost straight to the west of Mt Adams. That ain't normal. -- -- That batholith is from much older, _Ancestral Cascades_ volcanism. You've got the Ancestral Cascades (called "Western Cascades" in Oregon), and you've got the much, much younger High Cascades, with all the more-or-less active stratovolcanoes. So St Helens intruded (and then extruded :) up through much older mountains -- so the geology is different than it is right around Mt Hood, for example (there's no gold of note in the immediate vicinity of Mt Hood -- just a lot of tuff and barren basalt and andesite and such). -- -- In Oregon this is all quite clear-cut -- the Ancestral Cascades are to the west of the High Cascades. The High Cascades are fresh and rounded on a topo map (with volcanoes poking up here and there), and the Ancestral Cascades are deeply cut by rivers and weathered. The situation is more complex in Washington, where the Ancestral Cascades are actually to the east of the High Cascades up in the north (because the old range was rotated clockwise before the High Cascades started forming along the new volcanic arc line). -- -- But anyhow, any sort of gold associated with High Cascades volcanism is mostly going to be buried _way_ underground. Gold is accessible in the older Cascades range that started forming like, oh, 40 million years ago, some millions of years after the Siletzia terrane (a giant-arse pile of basalt called a 'large igneous province') jammed up the old subduction zone that was much farther to the east than it is presently -- maybe more like along I5, or roughly thereabouts. The subduction that formed to the west is where it is currently located, and that's what initiated the Cascades arc. -- -- Gold in the Ancestral Cascades (the "Northern Segment" -- there's a Southern Segment also, that goes down through California and western Nevada, and it has *A LOT* more gold) is generally associated with granitoid intrusions -- so you have some sparse gold epithermal and copper porphyry deposits. None of them were too impressive, with maybe the exception of the Bohemia district near Cottage Grove, Oregon. -- -- That one mine that was noted, the Maybee mine, is associated with the Silver Star pluton (granodiorite, IIRC) -- and so there's some copper and a _little_ gold mineralization in the area. -- -- The High Cascades got started when the angle of subduction changed like 7 million years ago? Don't quote me on that -- it's definitely much more recent. And you have all sorts of _young_ basalt and andesite dumped everywhere, and tuff, and scoria, and whatnot. Not gold country -- at least from Shasta to Mt Rainier. The Northern Cascades of Washington are way more complex; the Ancestral Cascades and High Cascades are more jumbled up, and there's gold from different processes/sources. -- -- (sorry for the weird formatting -- TH-cam seems to have disabled line breaks, and I don't want people to have to read a wall of text)
@prospectorJess I’m trying to use this map. How can I find it?! I tried to pay on your website for access but it’s very confusing and not very user-friendly. Please help!
@@raeavacado : For sure, as I'm just starting out I gotta figure out how to pan first but I just might start local at Salmon creek as practice until I get the basics down. I don't expect to find anything. My friends say there's flakes of Gold, but little that they would find in the creek. I just don't wanna travel far and not know what I'm doing. I hope you have best of luck as well on your search Ray! If I ever find anything worth it I'll report back!
Hey guys I am new to panning myself I am in Seattle....I drove to Bremerton and found a gold mining store and one old prospector in there told me a friend of his said "there's gold in all the rivers streams etc in Washington state" this old man in the store told me he is tryin to prove his friend wrong.....which means this guy been going to random rivers and streams and keeps finding some type of gold. Hmmm I'm gonna go to liberty and check out a open claim and grab a few buckets of dirt from there and see what I can find myself
I want to try gold panning so bad. I live in edmonds Washington. About 30 minutes north of Seattle on the Puget sound. Im juat scared of breaking the law or claim jumping without knowing. I would love to pan for gold but dont want to step on any toes or take gold from peoples claims
I can make more money collecting pop bottles than I can panning for gold in Washington. It costs me 10 times as much to get "there and back" than the value of any gold I've found.
It’s Sad you look at it that way. In my eyes, I can just walk there, with nothing but a pan, and shovel, and hard work. And I come out ahead. If your spending a ton of money and time prospecting something’s wrong.
So are you saying the mining company was invading the rights of the reservation? Another attempt to break treaties. A lot of land grabbing being exposed.
Sorry but Amethyst is too soft to have made it though the surf. If you did find Amethyst it is because someone dropped it there. My wife and I have spent hundreds of hours on the beaches here in Washington. We have found lots Agate, Jade, etc..
What’s a young man to do these days? Anywhere there is good gold is off limits or claimed. Government regulation. People that won’t show you or tell you anything of value. All the good jobs gone. Inflated value on all products. I can hardly even afford healthy food… land values astronomical? Anyone
Work hard, like are fathers/ancestors did. The odds were against them too. Also there’s gold everywhere in WA. Yo to any creek or river in WA and you’ll find gold.
Youve never been to washington dont lie...you skipped half the state. Ever heard of the olympic mountains? Or the coast line with shipwrecks of bullion? Thx for nothing
Watch this to get you started looking for gold in Washington state. Let me know in the comments how this helps you find more gold. Enjoy!
Prospector Jess most all gold originates from fissures created as the Yellowstone caldera traveled from the Pacific Ocean across southern/central Oregon and central Idaho. This occurred before any of the current day volcanos developed. The reason there aren’t many mines in southern Washington is because the basalt flows from southern/central Oregon covered all the gold up. A couple of miles deep of basalt clear up to Grand coulee dam on the Columbia River.
@@gonefishing3849Not so fast fella. On the Eastern side of the state , it's also, alluvial. When the Hudson Shield glaciers melted back, that's when alot of that was dropped, in place. As to the rest? Gold is where you find it and the situation you describe is most commonly found in and around Blewit Pass , a.k.a. Liberty.
Looking to go sniping for gold in some of the local creeks in Washington State. I was thinking about going more towards the Wenatchee area? Any other spots that you could recommend?
Prospector Jess colville wa Found some going out to look for more today
Made the purchase (GGM) and all I got was an invoice....???....
Mt.St.Helens, day in my life I shall never forget.I am so glad to hear it. I tired panning for gold did not get none,but it was fun.
I live in a town called Gold Bar not far from the mine you spoke of...on a small river...why am I not panning gold instead watching freakin TH-cam all the damn time lol
There is Olney creek it has flour gold. A little further east is Sunset falls and east fork lewis creek. Snap the locks on the gravel road gate and youre in like Flynn
Vancouver, WA here; I've been thinking about learning how to Gold pan. I think it would be a fantastic hobby to learn. Great video!!
Me too. I try but never know what i have for sure!
Me too
Get a highbanker spray bar, after couple of hours take the bottom matts out in a bucket and pan that material
Google a GPAA Club in your area. They usually have meetings every month and an "outing" shortly there after. Join a club and go on an outing to a claim and somebody will teach you to pan. Fastest and cheapest way. Do that a couple times before you start buying equipment beyond a pan, shovel and 5g bucket.
I live near the Similkameen River, Eastern Wa. Next Sunday I am going to check if I can get to one of my favorite panning spots yet. I still have several inches of snow in the mts. where I live. I have been watching you for a few days now. I think you are a very good teacher.
Great plan, post pictures of what gold you find.
When the Condit dam (White Salmon river, Washington) was taken away, there was a centuries long buildup of sediment behind the dam. When is was first blown open, all that sediment went down stream in a huge torrent, and probably deposited gold for miles below the dam and 3.3 miles to the Columbia river, and around that horn of confluence; on both sides of the Columbia/Salmon river meeting.
Good time to give it a try, aye? Highway 141 off of Highway 14 ... and the sediment from upriver of the dam since 1913 that is still deposited there ....
Its recommendations like these that are the most helpful thank you
i'm starting to explore the glacial gravels around the Puget sound. these gravels were deposited during the last glacial advance, both down from the Fraser river and the Cascade Range
Hey I just saw your post, have you explored panning around Puget Sound?
@@BuddyDanger I've sampled along the western side of Camano island, while I've found a lot of black magnetic sand, I've yet to find any large gold flakes, i suspect that any gold has been ground into micro dust by the glaciers transporting the gravels. I'll continue sampling as time allows.
Dan Hurd has several claims on the Frase river
One very significant mine in the area not mentioned is the liberty mine. They pulled out some insane nuggets out of their drift mine!
How does a commoner get in on the liberty area action? Blewitt pass? Go for the wire gold or potatoes?
Monte Cristo was a town located on mountain loop hwy outside granite falls. Was all hardrock Mines with gold, but lots of arsenic. Robe canyon was where they put the railroad and flooded several times, washing out the railway. Best Mines in monte was justice mine, mystery Mines, and new discovery. Golden cord was also good.
Yakima river had lots of gold taken out of it back in the early days still some there I live close to Carson and yes the same county st Hellen’s in there a old gold mine on wind river it’s been there for years they try to get a permit to process it but no they don’t let them if you had big money you could haul the Ore off and process it near Portland or Vancouver in a safe spot and resell the rock and get the gold also, I think it would be affordable to do because gravel is so valuable in the Portland area
Yeah I’m getting great gold on the Yakima. Nothing yet on the Columbia though.
@ up wind River there’s a really rich or deposit there. There’s actually a Goldmine up on wind River towards Saint Helens behind Carson. They won’t let them process it. There was people that actually mind it for a long time. It just cost too much to go through all the hoops and jump, it’s nothing like the Yakima River though those back then they had a big dredge they put right in the river. There was one woman that did it. She was super rich when I was a kid. I’m like 70 years old now my dad used to tell us about it. We’d go by her house once in a while. It was like a big mansion back then it’s nothing to today’s standards, but then it was, it’s just fun to do
Monte Cristo up by Arlington Wa way North of Seattle. Still a prospecting town there. Ghost town, but a popular trail.
Yup
Check out the Liberty gold mine, in Washington potato patch gold nuggets made of wire gold.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Liberty area the best place for gold in Wa. st.
There’s a specific reason for that...it has to do with the abnormality of the geology that formed that rich deposit. If you’re curious to know how different it is (but don’t know the whole story), Nick Zentner of Central Washington University has a great series of WA state & PNW geology lectures; including one about Liberty, including its unique geology, history and current workings.
Cheers!!
(edit: never mind, I have no idea why he didn’t cover Liberty; I just hadn’t watched the whole video)
You were so close. I live in Lake Stevens. SR92 to Mountain Loop Hwy. The trail head is where it turns into dirt road that is closed during the winter...although talks of paving may happen soon. Easy hile and most of that area is claimed. But joining local clubs like in Gold Bar, will get you rights to many claims around the state. Good gold north west of Winthrop too. You actually touched on Mount Baker. You just hit of the peaks on it...lol. Anywhere along why 2 west side is good. Sultan basin off hwy 2. Hwy 97 blewit pass is great...potato fields. Called that for the potato sized nuggets found their.
Ok ok
No way, I live in lake Stevens too. I haven’t heard about them wanting to pave monte cristo. Where did you learn that?
@jimjones-lr7ob just get there from the otherside of Spada Lake. Hell why doesnt anybody talk about the devils horns above Copper Lake behind the big four ice caves?? Quit fkin around
Adding geo thermo maps to your presentation would be great. Mylandmatters has a easy layout for these maps. Looking over the geo thermo deposit maps really helped me understand why there isn't gold in some areas like Portland and it's surrounding areas as well as not much in southern Washington while there is in abundance in north east Washington
1:30 Here you can see a picture of Mt. St Helens just after eruption.
1:38 you can see it's still venting...
May 18, 1980. I had just turned one, but still have the memory of my mother not letting me go out to play in the "snow" falling in Spokane...
Top image is 2 years after the eruption, Bottom image 25 years later... both showing steam venting. The mountain continues to "erupt" today, so you're talking about the venting as if it is one continuous event, but it's more a case of many events chained together.
Oh, and for what it's worth, standing on the south ridge in 1994 when an eruption kicked off wound up being "entertaining". Hence you're not allowed to climb it anymore.
Interesting vidio,thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Just ran across this video and not boring, and considering you cover such a broad spectrum of area it is an interesting overview. The one thing about Mt. Rainer is, that it almost sticks up like a sore thumb without a lot of geological rift close around it. And then right after you mentioned how rugged it is around the Monte Cristo. That's also much like the Mount Baker Mining District, a lot of rugged terrain in a relatively localized area where there is numerous old mines. And some barely accessible. Just suggesting that might be part of the reason not a lot of mines around Rainer, Not a lot of surrounding or peripheral upheaval?
My great granpda and his brother had a tunnel gold mine south side of rainer.
Cannon mine in Wenatchee WA 1.25 million oz. Of gold. One of the biggest gold producers in the us.
Republic WA had a lot of gold pulled out also. Im going up to Colville but panning the Columbia is probably my best chance up there.
anyone know where I can sell gold, also how much would a potato sized nugget get me?
@@josecuervo6217 tater-sized nugget, eh? I’ll give ya $400 fer it...😁😄😅
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Tell us more about Cannon Miner in Wenatchee. Can citizens access them paypiles
I love the video. But wished you would have gone further west past Seattle
I was hoping you would mention Republic!!! We have a Grabin
Republic mentions itself. What is a Grabin
Have you had any luck there!?
I'm going to try my luck finding crevice gold in Ingles creek on Blewitt pass. Wish me luck and thanks for the video
How did you do..? I have a couple claims on Copper Creek and do pretty fair...
@@scottlong3026 i will let you know going in 2 weeks
I believe the lost Spaniards mine was located in a part of st Helens that no longer exists . I think his gold came out of the big wash above the lake it was naturally processing a F ton of material. Thanks again for this vid 👍 and I can say as a WA resident 2018 was a bad year to invest in a bigger dredge 🤣 but it looks cool hanging from the rafters in the shop 👍
What lost spaniards mine??
@@StevenHanoverl
I met the man who discovered the lost
spainiards gold mine it was discovered
sometimes in the 1990s,he told me his clues he found, then it led him to the
open mine in the hillside
what about Coastal gold. Heard about "salt and pepper", blue hue blackish sand.
Check out Washington beach mining on YT , cape disappointment is where you wanna go
Yup, cape disappointment, check regulations about how much black sand and how it is to me mined.
Just found my first flakes on the shores of lake Roosevelt
that's dope. My grandmas got property in the mountains about a mile from the river.
Lake Roosevelt!?
I always enjoy your thumbs up videos. Thank you for sharing.
Great to hear it! Let me know what gold you find or what prospecting questions you have!
Have you found any gold around Wenatchee river on the map?
Try Wynooche. Wenatche is Chiwawa flats
Geez, if I close my eyes I could swear that it’s Alan Alda giving a presentation! Even crazier, Jess; you kinda look like him! (I apologize ahead of time if you’re related and I’m just a doofus).
Cheers!
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I live in in the desert, in Tri Cities (Richland) WA, I got inspired to start panning, went to the Yakima river and Columbia, both are by my house, and I get 20 to 50 specks and small flakes per pan. Now I’m obsessed. And I know the gold here isn’t even good compared to other spots. I’ve Definitely never had an empty pan though. I can’t wait to hit up northern WA and Idaho, Oregon, etc.
Jess
Great video
I live in prineville, or
It is a proven yellow stone hot spot caldera.
All around here are cinnabar mines Howard mining district.
There are a few gold ocurances in the are but maybe 3 areas .
My question is how often is gold found in veins with cinnabar?
This is a curiosity question.
What happens in the oxidized zone. Such as what happens when it hits the water table?
I'm aware of the mercury scare I won't be messing with it. I'm looking at gold and vein knowledge.
And why no gold around new berry caldera? By bend Oregon
Cinnebar is murcury. You have lots to learn young skywalker
Also the gold in the river leading out from crater lake I hear
Mt. Adams has few mines because on the east side its all reservation and the west side is wilderness protected land.
I live in auburn valley and am running into ancient creeks on my property and finding a lot of veins of gold with quartz and fools gold
Montecito active clames and mines . Lots of placer aroind serounding aireas
MT. ADAMS IS ON THE YAKIMA RESERVATION, AND THERE IS AN ACTIVE "PORTAL" ABOUT HALF WAY UP THE WEST SIDE...ACCESS TO ADAMS IS RESTRICTED, AND I AND MANY OTHERS HAVE WATCH SHIPS DESCENDING INTO IT...WASHINGTON HAS MUCH GOING-ON...
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Just wondering about sluicing some of the rivers here in Washington is there any like rules and regulations for sluicing? I actually lived up in Washougal wa for along time and I lived like 10-15 from mabea mine road and if I recall right there’s like a river/ creak that runs around there that I would love to sluice I just am not sure about permits if I need any.
Yes its highly regulated dont dig in the water only dry gravel bars. Must have your own hole so runoff doesnt go in the creek. Good luck
Most of the placer gold locations are already claimed or are not worth mining. Everything around Mt. St. Helens is off limits to any mining activities and every one of the mines that are on the north side of the mountain is a no mining area. Also, a lot of National Forrest has been designated as wilderness area and also off limits to ANY prospecting and the Monty Crisco area is one of those wilderness areas.
How do you do the thing on Google earth were you can show all the mine and prospect sites like you were doing for this video
Its a $10 purchase per state
I get Gold at my place in Monroe, All up and down the River Bank
Hey mount saint Helens erupted in 1980. The image is 1982 and NOT right after it erupted. It often had small burps of ash but the real growth inside the crater occurred after 2000
I had to get rescued off st. Helens. Went for a hike after fishing and got lost
Youre lucky the 90ft drop in hidden lava tubes didnt snatch your punk ***
@@StevenHanover I made multiple attempts to get down off the mountain. It's very much ass you say. 90ft waterfalls of lava all over
Great video in going to try clear creek can u look and tell me if i might have luck there. Fist year prospecting
St Helens is an odd volcano because it's west of the normal line of the High Cascades -- because there's a large cluster of crystallized magma chambers, a 'batholith', to the east of it, which has forced magma back to the west, where it comes up through some more permeable metasedimentary rock. Look how it's almost straight to the west of Mt Adams. That ain't normal.
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That batholith is from much older, _Ancestral Cascades_ volcanism. You've got the Ancestral Cascades (called "Western Cascades" in Oregon), and you've got the much, much younger High Cascades, with all the more-or-less active stratovolcanoes. So St Helens intruded (and then extruded :) up through much older mountains -- so the geology is different than it is right around Mt Hood, for example (there's no gold of note in the immediate vicinity of Mt Hood -- just a lot of tuff and barren basalt and andesite and such).
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In Oregon this is all quite clear-cut -- the Ancestral Cascades are to the west of the High Cascades. The High Cascades are fresh and rounded on a topo map (with volcanoes poking up here and there), and the Ancestral Cascades are deeply cut by rivers and weathered. The situation is more complex in Washington, where the Ancestral Cascades are actually to the east of the High Cascades up in the north (because the old range was rotated clockwise before the High Cascades started forming along the new volcanic arc line).
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But anyhow, any sort of gold associated with High Cascades volcanism is mostly going to be buried _way_ underground. Gold is accessible in the older Cascades range that started forming like, oh, 40 million years ago, some millions of years after the Siletzia terrane (a giant-arse pile of basalt called a 'large igneous province') jammed up the old subduction zone that was much farther to the east than it is presently -- maybe more like along I5, or roughly thereabouts. The subduction that formed to the west is where it is currently located, and that's what initiated the Cascades arc.
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Gold in the Ancestral Cascades (the "Northern Segment" -- there's a Southern Segment also, that goes down through California and western Nevada, and it has *A LOT* more gold) is generally associated with granitoid intrusions -- so you have some sparse gold epithermal and copper porphyry deposits. None of them were too impressive, with maybe the exception of the Bohemia district near Cottage Grove, Oregon.
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That one mine that was noted, the Maybee mine, is associated with the Silver Star pluton (granodiorite, IIRC) -- and so there's some copper and a _little_ gold mineralization in the area.
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The High Cascades got started when the angle of subduction changed like 7 million years ago? Don't quote me on that -- it's definitely much more recent. And you have all sorts of _young_ basalt and andesite dumped everywhere, and tuff, and scoria, and whatnot. Not gold country -- at least from Shasta to Mt Rainier. The Northern Cascades of Washington are way more complex; the Ancestral Cascades and High Cascades are more jumbled up, and there's gold from different processes/sources.
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Can you explain the area around Grisdale below olympic mountains
14:44
me: _Looks slowly out window at Mt. Baker_
Thanks for the info. Would small creeks in the mountains be a good spot for panning. Or would a gold deteccter be better?
Im in NE WA, im going to take a metal detector up the sides of some small creeks. Also thinking about checking out the Columbia up by Kettle.
Has anyone found any by walla walla area
They tightened the rules in Washington state to prospect for gold in 2022. You need to download a new rules, it is not friendly
Yep....can't touch a river or creek.
This is a LibTard state. What do you expect?
Pan it. It’s our land.
Yakama Tribe!
thaanks for the video. Where do i find the map you are using in this video? ive been looking on the usgs site and have had no luck. Thanks
To make these maps, Check this training out: sourdoughminer.com/GGM/
@@ProspectorJessdoes it work for android phones
That was mount Baker you clicked on, but your map gave it a different name, lol.
You definitely would make a good mentor I wish I could have Then around someone like you
The volcano range he is talking about goes into British Columbia Also
Nice 👍 ty Jess
Hello from Colorado brother. !!
@prospectorJess I’m trying to use this map. How can I find it?! I tried to pay on your website for access but it’s very confusing and not very user-friendly. Please help!
Me tooooo
St. Helens is gonna blow again soon?
Republic has gold and of course Liberty mine.
Where exacrly would you put a shovel at
Are talking about Robe canyon
Yes have you tried Robe?
Live in Vancouver wa, recommend any good spots within a 50 mile radius to check out ? Appreciate it !
That's why I am here for too. Wondering myself if there's anything close by to pan.
Yogi Demis let me know if you find anything !
@@raeavacado : For sure, as I'm just starting out I gotta figure out how to pan first but I just might start local at Salmon creek as practice until I get the basics down. I don't expect to find anything. My friends say there's flakes of Gold, but little that they would find in the creek. I just don't wanna travel far and not know what I'm doing. I hope you have best of luck as well on your search Ray! If I ever find anything worth it I'll report back!
Hey guys I am new to panning myself I am in Seattle....I drove to Bremerton and found a gold mining store and one old prospector in there told me a friend of his said "there's gold in all the rivers streams etc in Washington state" this old man in the store told me he is tryin to prove his friend wrong.....which means this guy been going to random rivers and streams and keeps finding some type of gold. Hmmm I'm gonna go to liberty and check out a open claim and grab a few buckets of dirt from there and see what I can find myself
@@demottjeffits been 3 years what happend
Any good spots in yelm ??
Nope!
"Where do you find gold in Washington" In Olimpia inside the capital State building..
I'm in wa. Let me know if you need another hand. Need to learn and don't want to go myself yet. If you plan on going. Let me know. Thanks much
I want to try gold panning so bad. I live in edmonds Washington. About 30 minutes north of Seattle on the Puget sound.
Im juat scared of breaking the law or claim jumping without knowing. I would love to pan for gold but dont want to step on any toes or take gold from peoples claims
You can pan anywhere even someones claim. The trouble is when you decide to bring in motorized equipment or dredges
He said the gold is just in California, Oregon , and Washington State what does the border stop Gold from being in British Columbia ?
Its another $10 map
I can make more money collecting pop bottles than I can panning for gold in Washington. It costs me 10 times as much to get "there and back" than the value of any gold I've found.
It’s Sad you look at it that way. In my eyes, I can just walk there, with nothing but a pan, and shovel, and hard work. And I come out ahead. If your spending a ton of money and time prospecting something’s wrong.
I look at panning as a hobby, like fishing. Hobbies are for the fun of it, not to make alot of money.
Everything on the east side of Mt Adam's is on the Yakima Nation Reservation, that's why there are no claims on it. You can't prospect there.
You can prospect there with proper permissions.
YakAma nation
So are you saying the mining company was invading the rights of the reservation? Another attempt to break treaties. A lot of land grabbing being exposed.
We do though, locals. Didn’t known it was illegal.
Where is gold in Wyoming?
Sorry but Amethyst is too soft to have made it though the surf. If you did find Amethyst it is because someone dropped it there. My wife and I have spent hundreds of hours on the beaches here in Washington. We have found lots Agate, Jade, etc..
LOOK INTO THE CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAY 20 IN WASHINGTON, THE MOST EXPENSIVE ROAD IN LIVES LOST AND YEARS TO COMPLETE...HELLUVA STORY.
thats squatches gold by st hellens no thanks
My thoughts exactly!!
It blew up on may 18th not the 19th cool video but check your facts before making a post . Western wa native that watched it go off.
What’s a young man to do these days? Anywhere there is good gold is off limits or claimed. Government regulation. People that won’t show you or tell you anything of value. All the good jobs gone. Inflated value on all products. I can hardly even afford healthy food… land values astronomical? Anyone
@user-tj4en6pm5g well, you have me feeling poetic
What could ya say. What can I say that isn’t gay
Work hard, like are fathers/ancestors did. The odds were against them too. Also there’s gold everywhere in WA. Yo to any creek or river in WA and you’ll find gold.
Youve never been to washington dont lie...you skipped half the state. Ever heard of the olympic mountains? Or the coast line with shipwrecks of bullion? Thx for nothing
Anyone ever find anything in/around Walla Walla?