How To Find Opals - Finding Gold VI - Mountains of Opals

How to find opals More: http://www.treasuresites.com Location guides & tools. Finding fire opal in Oregon. Gold and platinum are 15-19 times heavier than other streambed materials and concentrate in low pressure areas and cracks that run across rivers and streams. You look for a crack on the bank, and follow it out until you meet the "gold line" and there you suck it out with your dredge. Gold will be on the outside edge of a river gravel bar, at the head of the bar (large gold but usually beneath big boulders), and at the tail end of a bar (vast concentrations due to river bars forming in the shape of an airfoil and sucking fine gold to the tail end) but be small to microscopic at the tail end. Gold will travel down a river or stream in a line, usually off center of the high pressure water. Gold will settle behind a boulder. A good place to fish, can also be an excellent place to find gold. "Black sand" is iron ore that can be readilly identified in gravel bars and is a ready indicator that gold is probably present. The most effective and economical way for the average person to find paying concentrations of gold in a river or stream is with a simple ($80) sluice that you shovel into and the riffles retain gold, platinum, gems and anything heavy for you. Gold can be found up high on the old river channels and recovered with metal detectors, a gold wheel, a highbanker, or simply by identifying the material, shoveling it in your truck and working it out later in a wheel, or your simple stream sluice. The states which have gold in vast quantities are: Maine, Vermont, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, California, Idaho, Washington, Montana, and Oregon. The rest have gold as well, some in very good concentrations. All have gems of some kind that a sluice will seperate and hold. Good luck finding the gold of your dreams! Find gold by viewing the other films in this series for all the methods (from simple hand tools to metal detectors) plus even more valuable gems.

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[sfholton]

i was thinking of looking 140 nw of lake kalama heading nw your thoughts

[flagold]

@sfholton : if you see basalt (black lava rock), that is about all you need to start looking for opals. The ground was heated enough to form them, and that could be about anywhere in Eastern Oregon/NW Nevada.

[g2integz]

Only problem with this location (correct me if I'm wrong) is that none of these opals have fire in them. Oregon opal holds very little value when compared to Australian or Ethiopian. Nice thought though. I have heard this location is now claimed as well.

[flagold]

@g2integz : "fire" is what makes an opal precious, this is the color change streaks seen in precious opal (black or very dark usually). Oregon (and Mexican) opal are gem quality fire opal (red like fire - clear enough to cut without milk streaks). Other than the same type of birth, the precious and the fire opals might as well be in different classifications entirely. They'll never claim all the opal fields, just to extensive on both sides of 140 for miles. Good luck in your prospecting!

[oeaohoe]

Thank you for the videos! I have been searching youtube for quite some time, and I am glad to have run acrossed your videos. Two years ago I lost my job and have been trying to make ends meet with just my wife pay cheack. We got a suprise 10 mounts ago, and now we have a son. My wife works in Black hawk Colorado. I have been thinking of gold hunting in the area and would like to know if you have any advice for that area of the country. Regards-Brian

[flagold]

@oeaohoe :Just downstream from Blackhawk at the hiway 6 and 119 junction to almost Golden is Jefferson county open space and is open to certain forms of prospecting. I'd advise contacting them on the boundaries and regulations. For more info google goddredger forum. and email the admin, Leonard Leeper (he's here visiting and answered your question since he happened to know that area well). The very best of luck to you and that baby boy!

[joe18370]

any thing good in pa mnts ne

[Expectation247]

thanks that was a great video, interesting explanation of where to find opals near basalt formations! only thing i missed was a close up of that stack of opals you said was like stuff dreams are made of! it looked like rocks from a distance.

[SharkKid42]

i do the same with fossils people would be falling over if they knew what i have found realy nice shells

[Donatillo1961]

so, where are you right now? I been watching your work and hope to see you someday ! I am in Marysville Ca

[ptelesco2011]

Serious question = how do you find someone trustworthy to value RAW opal?

[poisonousrabbit1]

@777dingo

probably not as much as gold is.

or else this guy would have been goin crazy digging the out.