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Hey ProspectorJess like to know more about your operation, always have been interested in these videos and now have time to learn more. Would love to hear from you.Thanks.
I'm pretty sure I saw one when u first showed the snake looking nugget it was sitting by itself it looked a little duller but still I'm pretty sure it was one
@burtonh1 : dredging was the common method until 2 years ago when Arnold signed Senate Bill 670 putting it on hold, and then Jerry Brown and the Democrat Greens pushed Senate Bill 87 & Assembly Bill 120 (this is going on now) to prevent you and the rest of the public from mining gold. I pray you guys in California will awaken the public that your minerals and metals are being stolen from you to mine. After the little guy is decimated, govt will just pick winners to mine it. Fight them!
@cenny123 : Yes, they will look like polished dark grey pebbles (can be in any shape) (but heavy). If watchful, you can see some of it coming from the gold wheel in Finding Gold II as i was dredging (in this video) about 3/4 mile below an 1800's platinum mine.
@poweredparagliding : People should protest to their representatives about that and kick them out if they don't reverse it. Video was shot in Oregon, which arguably has even more undiscovered gold, the rest of the states also are thankfully more enlightened than California.
This looks like a lot of fun. Although I lived in Cottage Grove, Or. for 12 years, I didn't take advantage of the opportunity of doing some prospecting near there. Looking at your video sure reminds me of the area there! Thanks for sharing!
can you do that in my country many gold in river and ocean in here philippines,,this ismy email oceanjasp@yahoo.com,,i need detector and i have a book of treasure and i need a good person to know and freindship in headen treasure in here so that i told you all help me i have a point now but i have body to get a treasure many sign's here,,who is the first help me?????? to get treasure here in my place,,,just email me......................
im just getting into this its awsume to think u can actually find gold only found dust so far but i just started here in lane county oregon have any location tips besides bohemia area?
@cootification : plug "Oregon placer gold locations" into your search engine and I think you'll be surprised how widespread it is in Oregon. Very best of luck to you!
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@batfly : it is wildly differing from state to state. In states where liberals are in control, they typically try to block dredging (and anything it seems that isn't tied to some type of strict government control).
@flagold They could probably care less... that is until you actually find something significant... then you will sure to be retroactively fined to death.
@raindrop108 not perth itself but within a couple of hours of the city, yes. there was a goldrush in an area called the goldfields, centred around kalgoorlie, leonora etc. gold mines still operate throughout western australia although obviously not to the extent they once did. there a plenty of people who prospect independently and/or several organised tours you can take to dig for gold (you keep what you find on the tours). with the gold price the way it is, why wouldnt you!?
Power jet vs suction dredge? What would happen if the Government were to enact another gold reclamation program as in 1933? Could we still find and sell gold? Dont even get me started about the Federal Reserve Act sellout that led to our economic problems.
@Cendrellcendrell : yes it is true. Brown and surrounding counties have glacial gold. Not much public land, but you might be able to obtain permission to prospect on private creek bottoms. Best of luck!
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question: i would think people by the thousands would now be out looking for gold at the current prices? Like crowds of people beating each other over the head. Looks like this dude found a nice secluded place
Admittedly I removed the heavy metals gold, platinum, mercury, and lead from that site, but only until mother nature put them back in the spring floods when she moves tons of material per second and rolls boulders the size of cars along the river bottom. The Umpqua is awesome in flood stage each year.
@LittleBigKRATOS He has altered. He has helped it immensly. Gold dredging is a good activity for rivers. The rivers where dredging occurs have fish populations that explode. The cobble piles provide places for eggs to mature. The small fish can hide in the cobble piles to survive to maturity. Dredgers remove harmful materials from the streams. And the first flood erases the few signs left behind.
like to know what the geology is there : and hey, I think that this river is on a decomposed serpentine plus or minus pyroxenite reef or vein in the Waldo district in Josephine County. See : Kellogg, A.E. Placer mining in Oregon. Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 108, pp. 90-91. 1919 ; Diller, J.S. Mineral resources of southwestern Oregon. U.S. Geol. Surv. Bull. 546, 1914. Rivers are the current day representation of the 'lines' etc of host rock to the platinum, That's what one sees in the video.
You are correct on the structure. It is serpentine host although we also find diamonds in the S. Umpqua and there is lamprolite intrusion upstream as the possible releasing source. Platinum is also present (in quantity below Myrtle Creek). Best of luck with your prospecting!
Diamonds here in Oregon? Please explain. I dont need your source location. But I live here. And have never heard of there being diamonds here. Especially in the S Umpqua.
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Look for books by N.L. barlee he has done some pretty good research on B.C. You wont find his books at Chapters you will have to look in used book store's. His books are hard to find. And the books are worth their wight in gold.
errr. that rig hes using is not ceap. neither is his gear.and its prob heavy and hard to transport. most places wont let you use that gear because of laws on protecting waterways etc i heared somewhere. a cheaper way would be a wetsuit and a waterproof metal detector maybe. hes still got nice gear and can get those hard to get places other cant.
is it hard to find gold or not and where exactly are you at anyways cause i am curious and can gold be found in a lake or stream or pond cause i would consider doing that for a living plus how much does your equipment cost anyway
That's right, I simply continued with FGII to show methods of separation on a few scoops of the concentrate and took the rest back to FL where I have time to concentrate on the concentrates.
@whitehugo95 I honestly don't think small scale Gold dredging is done for profit, we do it for fun! It's exciting to find rare and precious material. Even if it's less money than you'd make working in an office, it's allot more fun.
boy, i'd just love to go gold panning, prospecting and whatnot, but alas i doubt there is a suitable area near here, dont think i've ever even seen a shallow, flowing stream like is in some of your videos
So...in theory, if you went upstream you would get closer to the "main vein" and maybe find more? How worn are the flakes and nuggets? I know its an old vid but first I've watched. Never prospected tho. Always found facinating. Too many hobbies.
Yeah, done alot of reading. Did you go further up stream? Just currious. Obviously the gold u got had been setting awhile. So cool to go do that. Every time I see black sand on a beach I wonder...
this looks like fun, I know it's work but I like the kind of work you can go out and do on your own at your own pace in your own way. choppin wood and shovelling snow are fun too, but they don't give shiny treasure.
sir, these are great videos but how do you actually breathe underwater when you were doing the digging for gold ? I was asking because i didn't see a scuba tank.
You make this look easy! I tried to do this in little rivers when I was little.What did I get, NOTHING! PS those were puny little rivers with tons of pollution in the middle of the winter in New York.Not my best Idea
I hope I don't make it appear to easy to some -- it is difficult and often dangerous work to deep dredge for gold. The shallow stuff isn't a piece of cake either - it is physical work.
Matts right, prospecting en general is back breaking work, but, dredging can be especially dangerous. It takes a lot of knowledge and experience to be a safe underwater prospector and should never be done without knowing the ropes first. That being said, it can be very funand rewarding as well. :)
I have a theory about the loitering fish...Maybee they see you lifting stones and that would shake out any crawfish or larve that they eat...too bad yout hose eats it first..maybee before you leave the area you could throw out a handfull of worms...might bring good luck, who knows!
I'll usually attract a small school of chubs when I am sluicing on Rock Creek (no dredging allowed). You can see them dart in and out of the debris stream picking off little critters dislodged from the gravel going through the sluice. Heck, at times when I clean up there with be literally thousands of little black worms in my recovery media.
BTW, any of you Wyoming prospectors feel like teaming up for a weekend or two. I have my own equipment and a good pick n shovel.
Not anymore, I simply go to the public areas (which are far more than any claims I could ever have).
5", 2 4"'s, 3" are the sizes I use depending on the stream. I am modifying a 3" Proline at the moment to where it can also be used as a highbanker on floats (putting an aluminum header box on it with a side dump) to go after gemstones (and gold).
Gold? I think you can turn a metal to gold. Find the atoms inside the gold and find the atoms of the metal then try to find a combination that can mix with the metal to make the gold. Then bills will be easier to pay!! ^.^
Would using a large magnet help in your seperating of the sand?
Does the black sand have iron in it, if it's true, that would easily be picked up with a magnet and the gold flecks would stay behind since they're would not be attracted?
We frequently use magnets as aids to separation, as well as a quick check of sands on a beach, bar, or anywhere else, and yes the sands are iron. One of the reasons most don't use a magnet alone is the particles of iron will also pick up gold between them and thus lose a percentage of (especially small) gold.
There really is no set price, but they can be worth double the spot price per weight, to many times spot price if desirable for jewelry. Since each nugget is totally unique, there is simply no way to put set prices on them.
The spawning season of the fish is after dredge season -- designed that way so the loosened hardpack (like concrete) is fresh spawn material by the Fish & Game Departments (of many states). A win-win. Dredgers in Wa. were recently put into service to save a spawning bank that was eroding. I removed your comment as it contained profanity.
The only time I kept an accurate track was in this strike. I wanted to see what a person could do with gold, working the season (3 mos) in the Oregon belt (N. California included) of rivers (Klamath, Umpqua (where I am), Cow Creek drainage, Rogue, N Fork of the Feather). I worked 3 mos, tried to stay under 6 hours per day (most days was 4 hours). So the average is an ounce a day in the good rivers as long as you diligently learn how to pick spots and patiently work them out.
Great video !
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LUVMAGNUMGUNS2 1 week ago
Hey ProspectorJess like to know more about your operation, always have been interested in these videos and now have time to learn more. Would love to hear from you.Thanks.
jwhetsel 1 month ago
@jwhetsel : Prospector Jess is on another channel, click on his name below to get to his channel. Hope that helps!
flagold 1 month ago
Can u prospect gold on CT
CoSmIcSnIpEzZz 2 months ago
more interested in the small mouth bass swimming around.
grayhuze 2 months ago
nice farm hehehhehhehe
JaneMaroni 2 months ago
lalallalallalallalla
JaneMaroni 2 months ago
Would be nice to see the clean up (gold) that you recovered. Are you still working the Umpqa with a dredge?
ProspectorJess 2 months ago
@ProspectorJess : cleanup is the basis for Finding Gold II, we're not working the Umpqua presently.
flagold 2 months ago
California should be their own country.....and then flood.
jrstow86 2 months ago
I'm pretty sure I saw one when u first showed the snake looking nugget it was sitting by itself it looked a little duller but still I'm pretty sure it was one
jezdog93 4 months ago
Man here in California the would never allow you to use a dredge.
burtonh1 5 months ago
@burtonh1 : dredging was the common method until 2 years ago when Arnold signed Senate Bill 670 putting it on hold, and then Jerry Brown and the Democrat Greens pushed Senate Bill 87 & Assembly Bill 120 (this is going on now) to prevent you and the rest of the public from mining gold. I pray you guys in California will awaken the public that your minerals and metals are being stolen from you to mine. After the little guy is decimated, govt will just pick winners to mine it. Fight them!
flagold 5 months ago 4
I wonder if you could do that in mass
aristoteles311 6 months ago
what a tease.....mr matt never showed us the clean up.......cant really blame him tho
buddymacs 7 months ago
Hell man I would not mind helping you out just as a hobby to stay fit and moving and get away from playing pc games so often! FOR THE HORDE!!!!
inachu 8 months ago
Well I know what I'll be doing this summer...
hotmaletryforfree 8 months ago
awesome video.. i like the little fish swimming around as you're working underwater
0penh3art 9 months ago
Must be nice living in a state you can do this in. These CA enviroes have fucked us bad. Nice gold you got there.
honki3MAN 9 months ago
Flagold did you (ever) find any Platinum nugget when you were dredging?
cenny123 9 months ago
@cenny123 : Yes, they will look like polished dark grey pebbles (can be in any shape) (but heavy). If watchful, you can see some of it coming from the gold wheel in Finding Gold II as i was dredging (in this video) about 3/4 mile below an 1800's platinum mine.
flagold 9 months ago
Wow awesome video, thanks for sharing!
Now that Cali has banned dredging...what are you going to do?
poweredparagliding 11 months ago
@poweredparagliding : People should protest to their representatives about that and kick them out if they don't reverse it. Video was shot in Oregon, which arguably has even more undiscovered gold, the rest of the states also are thankfully more enlightened than California.
flagold 11 months ago
This reminds me of the time i went "treasure" hunting in the carabeans .
desiffer 11 months ago
This looks like a lot of fun. Although I lived in Cottage Grove, Or. for 12 years, I didn't take advantage of the opportunity of doing some prospecting near there. Looking at your video sure reminds me of the area there! Thanks for sharing!
guyralstin 1 year ago
In case you dont find gold, you should dedicade your selse in the selling of fish and other water animals.
cristianfreddie 1 year ago
Thank you for answering!
Jerbod2 1 year ago
Is it "possible" or usual to find gold in Europe, like germany? (No I live in holland)
Jerbod2 1 year ago
@Jerbod2 : quite possible, gold is found in practically every region of the world. The very best to you in finding it!
flagold 1 year ago
was it hard holding the camera and doing that?
ginge5ify 1 year ago
@ginge5ify : some of it was tricky, I used a Bulldawg housing and set it up on a cheapie tripod to do the initial shots.
flagold 1 year ago
@flagold cool
ginge5ify 1 year ago
GREAT VID. hOW MUCH DO YOU EARN PER SESSION LIKE THIS?
blackjet21 1 year ago
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jesikaadom 1 year ago
And to think its that easy, wonder if there is any in the UK?
Zeamus634 1 year ago
@Zeamus634 in parts of NI, yeah
Seano71 1 year ago
can you do that in my country many gold in river and ocean in here philippines,,this ismy email oceanjasp@yahoo.com,,i need detector and i have a book of treasure and i need a good person to know and freindship in headen treasure in here so that i told you all help me i have a point now but i have body to get a treasure many sign's here,,who is the first help me?????? to get treasure here in my place,,,just email me......................
deadenurbuddy 1 year ago
thank you kind sir
cootification 1 year ago
wow a goldfish^^
kaengumuuuh96 1 year ago
gold is such a useless element
YanTales 1 year ago
im just getting into this its awsume to think u can actually find gold only found dust so far but i just started here in lane county oregon have any location tips besides bohemia area?
cootification 1 year ago
@cootification : plug "Oregon placer gold locations" into your search engine and I think you'll be surprised how widespread it is in Oregon. Very best of luck to you!
flagold 1 year ago
Rouge river I found some good dust, Theres a public spot north of Gold Hill Oregon
guogd13 1 year ago
so, does this pay u well ? I mean is it worth of doing other just than as a hobby ?
justsomvids 1 year ago
@Ethantup486 those arnt small mouth I think there just little like bait fish not bass except a couple were baby smallmouth
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JulMasters88 1 year ago
Do the local cities or state officials give you grief for dredging for Gold... or do you have to pay out the wazoo for a permit?
batfly 1 year ago
@batfly : it is wildly differing from state to state. In states where liberals are in control, they typically try to block dredging (and anything it seems that isn't tied to some type of strict government control).
flagold 1 year ago
@flagold They could probably care less... that is until you actually find something significant... then you will sure to be retroactively fined to death.
batfly 1 year ago
could you use a dowser to help you pinpoint bigger target areas?
scotto9online 1 year ago
lol look at all the little smallmouth bass swimming around
ethantup456 1 year ago
This is the sort of equipment we need, We are new to this but it will be great to have.
SimonandColin 1 year ago
How many fish do you catch with that thing?
linuxrules04 1 year ago 12
@linuxrules04 None with it, but you can really catch them behind a dredge, there will be clouds of fish congregating there.
flagold 1 year ago
Is that 2 peices of gold at 6:02 ?
wowyman 1 year ago
is that a peice of gold in the upper left corner at 5:48 ?
iamastupidhead84 1 year ago
Thats the kind of job I'M looking for
silverjunky999 1 year ago
Awesome! Great vid man.
tubecat72 1 year ago
can i ask you a question?
I am doing this for S+E, Do they have gold in perth WA?
raindrop108 1 year ago
@raindrop108 : seems to have it, all I did was plug in Perth Washington placer gold into the search (Google). Good luck!
flagold 1 year ago
@raindrop108 not perth itself but within a couple of hours of the city, yes. there was a goldrush in an area called the goldfields, centred around kalgoorlie, leonora etc. gold mines still operate throughout western australia although obviously not to the extent they once did. there a plenty of people who prospect independently and/or several organised tours you can take to dig for gold (you keep what you find on the tours). with the gold price the way it is, why wouldnt you!?
aussiesurfer28 1 year ago
if i saw chunks like that i would just grab them and not worry about sucking them up.
Nukedeuce 1 year ago
taht's alot of gold
ommar460 1 year ago
Power jet vs suction dredge? What would happen if the Government were to enact another gold reclamation program as in 1933? Could we still find and sell gold? Dont even get me started about the Federal Reserve Act sellout that led to our economic problems.
journeyquest1 1 year ago
How much to invest if ever I wanted to hunt gold on your set up?
ThePrayerHotline 1 year ago
I love the fish! Just minding their business )
mateogalandesoto 1 year ago
which oregon river? i must know! i live there
thewhopperboy27 1 year ago
@thewhopperboy27 I believe they are on the Umpqua. the Rogue has good gold as well. good luck and heavy pans !
hunter69denys 1 year ago
@hunter69denys Thank you!
thewhopperboy27 1 year ago
where is this river? ima find me some GOLD!
Timgeo84 1 year ago
I live in North Central Indiana is it true there is Glacial Gold Placers here?
Cendrellcendrell 1 year ago
@Cendrellcendrell : yes it is true. Brown and surrounding counties have glacial gold. Not much public land, but you might be able to obtain permission to prospect on private creek bottoms. Best of luck!
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digitalmine1966 1 year ago
i seen some good like that once i thought it was not real i should have knew
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theseeker2k5 1 year ago
Dude you just altered our ecosystem!!
odee900 1 year ago
question: i would think people by the thousands would now be out looking for gold at the current prices? Like crowds of people beating each other over the head. Looks like this dude found a nice secluded place
inkey2 1 year ago
bueatful fish
andrewrosso 1 year ago
hhhdddd
baharudin2008 1 year ago
dude what if you sucked up a fish
jakobie51 1 year ago
@golfingrobert haha i saw that too!
MissQueenAshley 1 year ago
6:02
Aged10Years 1 year ago
looks like a great way to catch a few smallmouth bass also. Just suck em up the dredge and put a net on the end of the sluice!
jmw1980hys 1 year ago
Man this video is awesome!
erehwyrevekool 1 year ago
Flagold. Can you say how much you make avg in a day's dredging?
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KanzlerM 1 year ago
is there gold any stream and rivers?
skateboy159 1 year ago
How much did you sell for?
Or how much could you sell it for?
perker180 1 year ago
I really LOVE gold.
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Dude you just altered the ecosystem.
LittleBigKRATOS 1 year ago
Admittedly I removed the heavy metals gold, platinum, mercury, and lead from that site, but only until mother nature put them back in the spring floods when she moves tons of material per second and rolls boulders the size of cars along the river bottom. The Umpqua is awesome in flood stage each year.
flagold 1 year ago 8
Dude you just altered the eco system by being born LOL
spilsnthrils 1 year ago
@LittleBigKRATOS He has altered. He has helped it immensly. Gold dredging is a good activity for rivers. The rivers where dredging occurs have fish populations that explode. The cobble piles provide places for eggs to mature. The small fish can hide in the cobble piles to survive to maturity. Dredgers remove harmful materials from the streams. And the first flood erases the few signs left behind.
carolinatinpan 1 year ago
FIIIIIISHHHIEEEEZZZ Man you could open up your own long john silvers
vWBIRDWv 2 years ago
This was a great video! Insane way to get down and dirty to find gold!
GoldProspecter 2 years ago
Like your vids! You did a very good job on the editing. From the bottle hunters of Hawaii...
thirdphaseofmoon 2 years ago
did you keep it
riley676767 2 years ago
like to know what the geology is there : and hey, I think that this river is on a decomposed serpentine plus or minus pyroxenite reef or vein in the Waldo district in Josephine County. See : Kellogg, A.E. Placer mining in Oregon. Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 108, pp. 90-91. 1919 ; Diller, J.S. Mineral resources of southwestern Oregon. U.S. Geol. Surv. Bull. 546, 1914. Rivers are the current day representation of the 'lines' etc of host rock to the platinum, That's what one sees in the video.
3NUNS 2 years ago
You are correct on the structure. It is serpentine host although we also find diamonds in the S. Umpqua and there is lamprolite intrusion upstream as the possible releasing source. Platinum is also present (in quantity below Myrtle Creek). Best of luck with your prospecting!
flagold 2 years ago
@flagold what about canada is there gold there? What parts?
MrCoolguy6273 2 years ago
Yep, just plug: Canada placer gold locations into your search engine to find what is nearest you.
Good luck!
flagold 2 years ago
look up British Columbia. We have lots of gold up here.
gedwardkiley 1 year ago
@flagold
Diamonds here in Oregon? Please explain. I dont need your source location. But I live here. And have never heard of there being diamonds here. Especially in the S Umpqua.
ashtraytv 1 year ago
thats pretty kool.
I also saw a lot of fish
nice video!
Mcbane96 2 years ago
fish are very tame :) . hope youre better
banneradders 2 years ago
i like gooooolld !
muckstar23 2 years ago
Matt, you're a credit to humanity. Seriously.
5 stars.
JRCrowley 2 years ago
Matt Mattson you are one badass American, I tell you what!
grimster888 2 years ago
Matt, You make the best gold hunting videos. Your are the first subscription on my list when I signed up to Youtube in 2006. Keep the great entertainment coming!
Jack
Hallaran 2 years ago
Thanks for that, Jack. I'm a little slowed at the moment with some health issues but hope to be back soon.
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firedathan 2 years ago
Those fish are really funny. Very curious little creatures!
LumierexCosmic 2 years ago
Haha some of the fish looked like they were putting on a show. One of them even turned and looked into the camera while swimming by.
VacantMinded 2 years ago
I've been thinkin about British Columbia with my sluice for a summer. Somewhere remote. Any thoughts?
Slumhonkie 2 years ago
Look for books by N.L. barlee he has done some pretty good research on B.C. You wont find his books at Chapters you will have to look in used book store's. His books are hard to find. And the books are worth their wight in gold.
firedathan 2 years ago
errr. that rig hes using is not ceap. neither is his gear.and its prob heavy and hard to transport. most places wont let you use that gear because of laws on protecting waterways etc i heared somewhere. a cheaper way would be a wetsuit and a waterproof metal detector maybe. hes still got nice gear and can get those hard to get places other cant.
lukeslandspeeder 2 years ago
is it hard to find gold or not and where exactly are you at anyways cause i am curious and can gold be found in a lake or stream or pond cause i would consider doing that for a living plus how much does your equipment cost anyway
deadeye1945 2 years ago
I'm curious about what happened when the video finishes.
You pick up all the visible "nuggets" by hand and then what? You run the leftover concentrate through a spiral panning machine?
So confused. lol
lvngdead 2 years ago
That's right, I simply continued with FGII to show methods of separation on a few scoops of the concentrate and took the rest back to FL where I have time to concentrate on the concentrates.
flagold 2 years ago
FGII, Duuh. I didnt even think about that lol.
thank u sir, u do a great job with these videos.
lvngdead 2 years ago
seems like a lot of work for little reward. hope you strike it big one day though... Good luck...
150133 2 years ago
16,000 dollars a lb hardly a little reward in just a few hrs. 16,000 x 6 = 96,000 dollars
whitehugo95 2 years ago 6
@whitehugo95 I honestly don't think small scale Gold dredging is done for profit, we do it for fun! It's exciting to find rare and precious material. Even if it's less money than you'd make working in an office, it's allot more fun.
omegahunter9 1 year ago
ya, 96 grand. i think he is in the black dude. read descriptions next time plz
golfingrobert 2 years ago
boy, i'd just love to go gold panning, prospecting and whatnot, but alas i doubt there is a suitable area near here, dont think i've ever even seen a shallow, flowing stream like is in some of your videos
ussyless 2 years ago
So...in theory, if you went upstream you would get closer to the "main vein" and maybe find more? How worn are the flakes and nuggets? I know its an old vid but first I've watched. Never prospected tho. Always found facinating. Too many hobbies.
dnahoghunter 2 years ago
That is precisely how the oldtimers would attempt to find the source. The flakes and nuggets are smooth surfaced.
flagold 2 years ago
Yeah, done alot of reading. Did you go further up stream? Just currious. Obviously the gold u got had been setting awhile. So cool to go do that. Every time I see black sand on a beach I wonder...
dnahoghunter 2 years ago
Yes, but I (and everyone else looking for it) didn't find it. Just take a magnet with you for the black sand. Easiest way to check. Good luck!
flagold 2 years ago
if a goldfish swam by, would ya nab it? :P
this looks like fun, I know it's work but I like the kind of work you can go out and do on your own at your own pace in your own way. choppin wood and shovelling snow are fun too, but they don't give shiny treasure.
momentinpassing 2 years ago
look at dem largemouths! Hey can a whites beach hunter id do good in the desert?
whiteowlonfire 2 years ago
Wow, gold nuggets!
Makes me want to search the rivers near my house!
Synergistik 2 years ago
fishies!
fergus247 2 years ago
Great Vid Nice pay streak.
MiGrizz 2 years ago
sir, these are great videos but how do you actually breathe underwater when you were doing the digging for gold ? I was asking because i didn't see a scuba tank.
walkitoutvieticeman 3 years ago
There is an air hose coming off the engine air compressor.
flagold 3 years ago
You make this look easy! I tried to do this in little rivers when I was little.What did I get, NOTHING! PS those were puny little rivers with tons of pollution in the middle of the winter in New York.Not my best Idea
Pieishman 3 years ago
I hope I don't make it appear to easy to some -- it is difficult and often dangerous work to deep dredge for gold. The shallow stuff isn't a piece of cake either - it is physical work.
flagold 3 years ago
Matts right, prospecting en general is back breaking work, but, dredging can be especially dangerous. It takes a lot of knowledge and experience to be a safe underwater prospector and should never be done without knowing the ropes first. That being said, it can be very funand rewarding as well. :)
hondadrift 3 years ago
You remind me of Dirk Pitt for some reason. Thanks these vids are great.
chopppacalamari 3 years ago
Thank you very much for the videos and the response. They were all very informative, and I cant wait to get out there and try my luck.
BsProcter 3 years ago
I have a theory about the loitering fish...Maybee they see you lifting stones and that would shake out any crawfish or larve that they eat...too bad yout hose eats it first..maybee before you leave the area you could throw out a handfull of worms...might bring good luck, who knows!
MikeofWyoming 3 years ago
I'll usually attract a small school of chubs when I am sluicing on Rock Creek (no dredging allowed). You can see them dart in and out of the debris stream picking off little critters dislodged from the gravel going through the sluice. Heck, at times when I clean up there with be literally thousands of little black worms in my recovery media.
BTW, any of you Wyoming prospectors feel like teaming up for a weekend or two. I have my own equipment and a good pick n shovel.
tabwyo 3 years ago
Lets say MikeofWyoming found more than the usual five specks of gold one day. Where do you cash in the gold, platnum etc?
MikeofWyoming 3 years ago
Go get some gold!, Yeah, that's what i want to do.
radiactivo357 3 years ago
is this by the fish ladder in winchester?
secoxxx 3 years ago
1st bar S. of the I-5 bridge over the Umpqua River. All of the river is very good gold.
flagold 3 years ago
Do you have a claim? And what size dredge do you use?
BsProcter 3 years ago
Not anymore, I simply go to the public areas (which are far more than any claims I could ever have).
5", 2 4"'s, 3" are the sizes I use depending on the stream. I am modifying a 3" Proline at the moment to where it can also be used as a highbanker on floats (putting an aluminum header box on it with a side dump) to go after gemstones (and gold).
flagold 3 years ago
most excellent man
hurricanewinzz 3 years ago
is this deep in the water?
oh and thanks for showing. 5/5
DaAznUploaderZ 3 years ago
Depths ranged from just a few feet to 20+ feet and there was gold atop the bar itself I worked with a metal detector.
flagold 3 years ago
Gold? I think you can turn a metal to gold. Find the atoms inside the gold and find the atoms of the metal then try to find a combination that can mix with the metal to make the gold. Then bills will be easier to pay!! ^.^
DaAznUploaderZ 3 years ago
They have tried that. How do you think we invented brass?
nailclippers56 3 years ago
Hi Flagold, Great Videos!
Would using a large magnet help in your seperating of the sand?
Does the black sand have iron in it, if it's true, that would easily be picked up with a magnet and the gold flecks would stay behind since they're would not be attracted?
vraetorian 3 years ago
We frequently use magnets as aids to separation, as well as a quick check of sands on a beach, bar, or anywhere else, and yes the sands are iron. One of the reasons most don't use a magnet alone is the particles of iron will also pick up gold between them and thus lose a percentage of (especially small) gold.
Happy Hunting.
flagold 3 years ago
Good point.. It'll be an enjoyable process learning these tricks as I start the hunt.
vraetorian 3 years ago
I found some nuggets at Werribee here in Melbourne
pokedatwithastick070 3 years ago
weres this at?
JOLEVONONDRUMS 3 years ago
Umpqa River, Oregon.
flagold 3 years ago
Looks fun :)
ShakleBenjamin 3 years ago
How much are one of those little nuggets worth?
nopossi 3 years ago
There really is no set price, but they can be worth double the spot price per weight, to many times spot price if desirable for jewelry. Since each nugget is totally unique, there is simply no way to put set prices on them.
flagold 3 years ago
Gold can run about $900.00 per ounce.
NicholasSta 3 years ago
If u find Gold more tell me tooo:)
88a 3 years ago
Those fish are clowning for the camera.
andocrates 3 years ago
Wow! I saw all that glistening and just gasped! What a fun job! Is this a hobby or full-time job? (Both?) :)
jasonguyperson 3 years ago
A little of both, and yes, there is nothing like it. Very addictive.
flagold 3 years ago
Inspiring. I will try to pan some gold over here in Germany. Kind of the classic "back yard gold panning"
Your vids are amazing. I won't leave this trickle without a gold-flake ;-)
AnselmoFanZero 3 years ago
sweet
music4soul1 3 years ago
The spawning season of the fish is after dredge season -- designed that way so the loosened hardpack (like concrete) is fresh spawn material by the Fish & Game Departments (of many states). A win-win. Dredgers in Wa. were recently put into service to save a spawning bank that was eroding. I removed your comment as it contained profanity.
flagold 3 years ago
Love the video, What a great way to spend the day.
HapVicki 3 years ago 5
man i love all your videos, ive watched em all so many times, maybe like 100 times each, lol. You should make a gold VI, that would be awesome.
bonsaiboy123 3 years ago
nice video. i like it alot.
gothedistance989 3 years ago
look at those baby chiclids swimming by
straightfromdahood 3 years ago
chiclids are tropical, can not live in a mountain stream
beret1988 3 years ago
Look like bass to me..........
tabwyo 3 years ago
flagold,
how many ounces of gold have you gotten in all 20 years of your prospecting?
And how about just in this video?
Thanks,
good job
Jman9107 3 years ago
The only time I kept an accurate track was in this strike. I wanted to see what a person could do with gold, working the season (3 mos) in the Oregon belt (N. California included) of rivers (Klamath, Umpqua (where I am), Cow Creek drainage, Rogue, N Fork of the Feather). I worked 3 mos, tried to stay under 6 hours per day (most days was 4 hours). So the average is an ounce a day in the good rivers as long as you diligently learn how to pick spots and patiently work them out.
flagold 3 years ago