Where to find Gold

[firework25]

@dogbone222

The boulders at the top are from were the creek/river used to be thousands of years ago

[dogbone222]

how do those big boulders get from down there to up there? i are confused by your statement in the video

[1234556789alexable]

where are you

[number40Fan]

They are backwards in this video. No doubt about it.

[Helicamman]

@number40Fan

You are wrong, Look closer. I guess you need to see it in person like many others have, not to mention seeing them in the stores and others sluices as well,

whatever the video isnt about my sluice.

[MARYJOE5918]

fghb

[29Essan]

is this legal?

[DonP6682]

your sluice is correct. dont let n e one say different

[guyNbluejeans]

I would be concerned about bears and other people with guns coming along....

[Whiteboy7thst5th]

Minecraft in real life?????

[novicemilk]

Hope you don't cause too much environmental damage. A couple buckets should be alright. Not cool to cause the trees to come crashing down.

[RandyJostion]

@novicemilk why who gives anymore?

[YankeeGoldProspect]

You are right on as far as where the old river & flood gold has settled. My question is, what state are you in? Is it private, public, claim or open? The reason I ask is because in New England where I prospect you are not allowed to dig above the average high watermark for gold. Which means we have to stay in the creeks or gravel bars. What you are doing would be considered mining out here. Not recreational gold prospecting. I know of a ton of flood gravels I would like to dig.

[HMDickson]

I would love to go with you. That way I could put my sluice at the end of yours and get all my gold plus 90% of yours :) That looks more like dredge tailings instead of natural stream bed. Hard to say without actually seeing it but it just don't have a virgin streambed look. Work on redoing your box and the setup and you will get lots more gold. Better hurry, it's gonna hit $2500 soon!

[HMDickson]

Dude, Not only are your riffles the wrong way, they are too high for your spacing and they are packed up because your water flow is wrong. You are doing a bunch of work while your box is loosing over 90% of the gold you put through it. It would work better to remove every other riffle or widen the spacing, put the flare on the other side of the box, and go about an inch or two deeper until you see a nice "V" in the water at the top of the box and get a bit more drop.

[josephlathus]

where is this place located ?

[Firekid144]

question: If I dedicate 8 hours a day to do this (imagine I found a place like this) how much gold I can get..? enough to live and support my 3 kids..?

Anyway thanks for this educative video and for sharing your knowledge.

[Baldman3899]

Yep dude, you are mining backwards with your box...........does that mean you put the gold back. Typical cheese head, they drive all messed up too

[Helicamman]

@Baldman3899

Its too bad you cant really see the box right, Ive seen plenty of them and it only looks like it in the video, the leading edge of the riffles are flush on the bottom then they flare up at 45 degrees with the low pressure area after each riffle, it only looks funny because of the way I recorded the video, I will make another of the box close up to show you, you are mistaken and only commenting because of what you think you see, not what actually is.

[MrUntwizted]

I’m just a beginner at this however, your home made sluice box looks backwards. Shouldn’t the carpet or miners moss be at the top with the ripples running with the water and not towards the flow?

[Helicamman]

@MrUntwizted

I need to take a close up of the box they only look like they are the wrong way, look closer at it, the ripples do run with the water.

[mikesmegabits]

@Helicamman The black rubber mat should be at the top to give an indication of gold material, and then the expanded metal riffles run to the bottom.

[Puli67]

did u ever find gold

[Helicamman]

@Puli67

I got a few grams in a day

and one small pea sized nugget

youtube wont let me post a url to the picture of the gold

[Helicamman]

@Puli67

see my video response

[Worldatwarwhore]

Was this video made in 1849?

[caessarion]

@Worldatwarwhore back then they picked up nuggets off the ground

[TheMojo757]

That was very educational,Thank you for sharing your expertise. I'm 53 and I just cought gold fevor this last year once I bought a metal detector. Bummer I'm in Wisconsin and I don't think that's possible here. I think the glacier disturbed all the land and the gold is deep, like the gold mine up in Rinelander ,WI which they want to reopen but the DNR is making it tough. I dream of going to a place for a gold prospecting vacation. And never having to work again.lol.

[mrliampep5i]

does this count for minecraft...

[JAYLOPEZ02]

what stream were you sampling from?

[Helicamman]

@JAYLOPEZ02

Hixon creek in BC Canada, but you can find places like this on most any stream.

Walk the stream and look at the terrain

[MrAWAKENED1]

0:40 UHHHH! YOUR SMOKING! what a perfect thing to do while trying to find gold! nothing better then panning and running gold and smoking a cig. multitaskin like a mofo hahaa

[MrAWAKENED1]

so the gold in this instance is sitting inbetween the large boulders and the sand and clay bellow it right? right in between the two?

[Helicamman]

@MrAWAKENED1

yes I threw everything in my five gallon pail that was below the big boulders on top of the clay, I had a wire brush that worked well for cleaning off the clay nice.

[MrAWAKENED1]

@Helicamman thank you. and one more question. so the gold sticks on the clay. i have an area that looks just like where you showed your digging i go to. im a beginner, and wondering if there will always be clay below those boulders for the gold to sit on or if thats just your region. i see the side cliff just like that with gravel and dirt then boulders but im just wondering if there IS clay below it for gold to stick or if it could be just dirt where gold washed away. is this clay a constant???

[Helicamman]

@MrAWAKENED1

NO not always, the boulders usually sit on the bedrock,, the clay is not a constant, I would advise running a few buckets of the gravel from under the boulders through your sluice, or pan a few pans to see if you get any color!, the clay is an indication of a false creek bed, you can see by the water below the "cliff" that the bedrock is the true bottom, the cliff is where the water used to flow decades ago or even longer.

[MrAWAKENED1]

@Helicamman well thanks so much. my first bit of gold will be found cause of your knowledge. THANKS!

[DANTHEMAN567ify]

How did I get from some one playing QWOP to finding gold?

[mandtan]

How do u know if a stream is bearing gold??? ... I live in Denmark have no idea where to go to find just a tiny amount of gold :D??

[Helicamman]

They are correct, you just need to look at the video closer, the hollow is facing the right way .

[foronh]

looks like he got his Hungarian Riffles backwards in that sluice he made

[ProspectorJess]

Interesting case of suspended false bedrock. If that's not the case you'd be back in the creek on the inside curve. It would be nice to know how much and what type of gold you got out of the material...

[Helicamman]

@ProspectorJess

I should have shown my booty from this spot, I got a few grams in two days but Im a rookie as well some have panned and sluiced a half ounce in a few days at the same spot, The point of the video is that most every stream has places like this if you look, whether man made or natural, I know this creek was mined heavy by the chinese way back when and hydraulic mined as well so I assume man changed the coarse of this stream,

[Helicamman]

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go to tinypic and input the above after the tinypic url, its crunchy nice gold

[ropedin09]

wonderful info for 1 st year prospecter!  thanx

[mogges1]

AH come on let see!!.you didnt show any gold MAN.

[mogges1]

don't ya have those rippes back words.I thought they neede to be turn the other way

[Baneio]

Where can you find a river like this?

[NowLifeStarts]

Would a metal detector work good in an area like this or is it better just to run the dirt through a sluice?

[NowLifeStarts]

Thanks for the video!

[312fishing]

Cool I will try it this summer