Gold Dredging in North Carolina

Some of our good friends from the VA-Gold forum out for a weekend of dredging.

Video filmed and produced by: Tinpan
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Originally hosted by: VA Gold Forum http://www.va-gold.com

Filmed on location at Bearfoot Gold in Robbins, North Carolina
http://www.bearfootgold.com

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• North
• Carolina
• gold
• dredging
• prospecting
• camp

[texasgoldpanningman]

That flusher nozzle is knarly.

[nikcsdad1]

@Baileygeep7 and youre a prick, so what.

[wave6472]

i think its kev nc not kev nv

[nuggetnoggin]

Nice video, i'm a digger, but more of a Civil war relic and coin hunter, i use a Fisher f75 Metal detector. i do gold dig though, thats how i got my name, anyway i'm in the carolina gold belt , use to be lots of gold here 200 years ago.

[sluicit]

those are some awesome dredges you guy have

[bradmoore8]

Are you using miners carpet or miners moss? What kind of fine gold recovery are you getting with your dredge? Mine is a Keene 3in. dredge highbanker combo. How wide is your box and motor size if you don't mind? Thanks and a great video

[Famunic]

What is your 'scuba' set up? tank, hookah? all the info appreciated.

[BornPatriot]

Looks like your dog is down there where the gold is, why dont you teach him to smell out nuggets.

[jacksbark]

@gerardog15 .... Also, you have to look at the landscape as it is today and think about how it looked millenia ago. Where there used to be a river or stream, especially where there was a waterfall, rapids or a place where fast flow gave way to slow or no flow, or where some very high-flowing river met the sea, that's where the gold was dumped, deposited and concentrated. Some of that then got 'set' into newer rocks (shales, mudstone, sandstone and silty clays. Look there, too.

[jacksbark]

@gerardog15 .... thta's an easy one. You see, long ago, when the entire surface of the earth was covered with gold, in the billiuons of years that followed the elements carried off about 99.999% of that gold down into the oceans. That's the gold that was on or near the surface. The rest remained in the rocks. The rivers and streams, as well as the glaciers, did their job and besides taking the gold out to sea, they concentrated it in the rivers' beds. That's where to find it. Look there.