FINDING GOLD III (Gold & Sapphires) How To Find Gold!

How to find gold & sapphires. http://www.treasuresites.com/treasurebooks.htm Location guides & tools. Do not discount the "pretty" rocks found along with gold. The sapphires you see are worth many times more than gold. Sapphire (& Ruby, (corundum), is like garnet, a relatively high specific gravity that will catch in a sluice readily. These gems act as gold, they will drop behind a boulder, in bedrock cracks, and set up in the stratiform layers of a bar on the inside bend of a stream. In a perfect (laboratory world) a river bar sets up from front to back: Gold, Platinum, Lead, Iron Ore (black sand), Gems, Sand. and in a stratiform layer (top to bottom) Sand, Gems, Iron Ore, Lead, Platinum, Gold. In the real world big gold drops out at the head of the bar and as the bar is formed, it forms an airfoil shape which sucks light gold flakes (and gems) to the back of the bar. What you want to look for is concentrations of black sands at the back of the bar to know there is gold (and gems) likely. At the front of the bar will be the heaviest gold (nuggets) and gems, but they may be too deep or covered by massive layers of boulders to get to. Just remember to follow the black sands and move slightly ahead of them for the richest concentrations of fine & flake gold (and gems). More info at my website on the Gold and Gems info page.

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[eklawok]

Thanks for producing these great videos Matt. I am just getting into propecting and I think I have gained more "book knowledge" from your videos that from anywhere else. I hope you do a "Finding Gold XII". What is the best advice that you could give somebody just getting into propecting? Keep up the the good work!

[flagold]

Start slow, learn to research on the net and in the library before setting foot in the field. Try to find the gold locations before you ever get there and save much time and money from historical accounts and reading the gps server maps (topo maps from google, teraserver and elsewhere). Most important, be patient, and realize there's more gold in the adventure than in the gold itself. Best of luck and thank you for the kind comments.

[ussyless]

so, simply the color can determine a ruby or a sapphire?

also thanks for your videos, alot of the places you went were very beautifull, wish there were some nice gold panning/whatnot sites near me =P

[flagold]

That is the determinate factor between the two. Lush red = ruby, all other colors (including colorless) = sapphire.

[ussyless]

arent sapphires blue?

[flagold]

Sapphires are any color but red (ruby), and both are corundum (scientific name). Corundum is naturally colorless but the impurities of chromium or aluminum will make colored stones (a ruby, or sapphire). The one grey area is a pink (pinkish) sapphire - one person's pink sapphire is another's ruby . . . Rubies glow brilliant red under ultraviolet light, the same for pink sapphires (so the same impurity is present (but not the amount).

[mrcool2414]

@flagold i went mining for gold and sapphire and i found alot i dont tell anyone where i find them

[DrSluice]

I like to think of the pink ones as not quite "ripe" Rubies. Great video series, Keep up the awesome work.

[brandonsauvageau]

@PeaceChannel711

I will be starting to pan in a river in Windham county very soon i will post a vid if there are any findings

[miningx]

Simply wonderful and informative videos.

Each and every one of them...

Thank you.