Finding Gold XVI - How & Where To Find Sunstones! Oregon State Gem

How to find sunstones! More: http://www.treasuresites.com/treasurebooks.htm for locations and more. How to find Oregon's official state gemstone, the sunstone, in the desert area of Plush. These gemstones are the same as seen on the Travel Channel's Cash and Treasures TV show, cut, and subsequently valued by Bonhams at $9000+ 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. How to find sunstones. Where to find sunstones.

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[6FaceDrak]

what spots in Oregon have sun stones?

[flagold]

@6FaceDrak : if there are any other than that at Plush, I'm not aware of them (though I'm sure there are as we've found them in New Mexico as well).

[bcdigit]

man thats sure some cool looking hobby .so u facet these sun stones?i have a faceting machine ,except it needs a motor.ive only ever faceted one stone before it sure is fun .thanks for the vids!

[flagold]

@bcdigit : Yes, both of us facet them (I taught my wife faceting). If anything, she's better at it than I am.

[kmdental36]

Do you have any good suggestions for Eastern Washington State BLM?

Kev

[flagold]

@kmdental36 : some of the biggest gold nuggets ever found (and I dredged there too) are in the Similkameen River, the gold on the Canadian side is even better. (NE Wa). For E and SE sites you might want to check some of the books in my website out at the library. Best of luck in your search!

[TheGrey2012LiamN]

Any places in Florida that I can prospect for gemstones?

[kmdental36]

Thanks! I swear your like a Grandpa I wish I had!

[kmdental36]

Very informative and helpful!! Like always!! Great Job!!

[lexusowner]

lmao. national debt. yeah right..