5 Hours, 15 Buckets And How Much Gold? 

People ragging on him have obviously never done any good prospecting. That’s a hell of a good day anywhere

That's about $190 worth of gold for 1 day of playing around doing a hobby. Most people work 8 hours and don't even make that much. Kudos to you sir!

How to Get Rich Mining for GOLD... ignore the gold and sell tools and supplies to miners.

"Look at all this gold..." *sneezes* ...."...well.... let's start again"

guy: "see theres some gold" me: *squints* guy: "alllll that gold" me: *squints harder*

The real gold is in the views he's getting. Kudos Sir!

u guys stop laughing about how he made 180 $ in 5 hours ... look at the views .. and the fun he is having

Why do I always get hooked on gold videos in the winter?... Going camping and panning is so far away!

Hiding the gold from the wife this man is a legend lol 😆

More then the Hoffman crew after a whole season

Drinking game: Every time he says "all that gold," take a shot.

In my final clean up if I was getting a lot of fine gold like that, as you pointed out yourself some will float on the surface tension. I would put a drop or 2 of washing up detergent in the pan and that stopped any of it floating and possibly getting lost ...... again. Pretty good result for the amount of ground you put through, just a pain that it's so very fine.

18:54 when your dealer askes what you wnt

Most of you all don't factor in the most important thing about this whole video. That fact that this gentleman is able to spend five hours on a Washington beach is enough wealth for anyone. The fact he gets to take home $180-$200/day for doing so? Sir, you are my hero! 🇺🇸

Very nice work good sir. People don't realize that is a hell of a day for 15 buckets and it is super difficult to catch gold that fine. Thanks for the great video.

So many negative Nancy's..Dude is having fun and finding gold..why not just STFU and let him be happy with his gold! I thought it was a pretty Damn good vid

I wouldn't quit my job but any hobby that makes money is good.

Dredge the American river up near Placerville, CA. by the Alpha & Omega mine tailings piles. Right about the end of the inside bend of the river there. I regularly pulled a quarter ounce average per day from there. Black sand is little pay-off compared to having a river, a dredge and a sluice doing your work for you. Always got enough gold to get a hotel room, a steak dinner, a tank of gas, beer, ice, bullets, some entertainment time sitting at a slot machine up in Tahoe. Cool, Truckee...plenty of interesting towns through there. Gold fever is real, gold becomes your every thought. You don't expect to get rich at all. The wealth is in the being out in most beautiful nature, the fun of the hobby, the dreams, the excitement of finding a nugget. It pays *just* enough to keep your hopes up! ha ha! Even made up for time away from work. Bears and criminals are the only problems. I carried a lever action .44 Magnum rifle and a Dan Wesson .357 for the criminals and a can of spray for the curious bears that I love too dearly to shoot at. "Go on, big furry fella - I aint got no lunch for ya!" Ha ha! I smile even now, thinking about how them bears scurry off if you just wave your arms and shout at them! Bless their hearts.The equipment was paid for within 9 months, It probably paid for my new Chevy Blazer, too. I met many good, rough honest people. I would hand a local a hand-held CB radio, set the channel and have my emergency line...buy him or her a dinner and drink when I got back. I did hear-tell of a feller getting his hip waders filled up with that ice-cold river water, going numb, couldn't fight any more, drowned in two and a half feet of water. There was a very fancy four star restaurant right off of I-50 that I would coffee-up at. Waiter hand-roasted, hand ground and percolated a pot (fine silver) just for you, stood beside you the whole time there, towel draped over arm. Silk doily on the saucer. Bone porcelain china, fine silver tableware. I'd hand him my dirty rusty beat-up old Union Carbide thermos that grampa used fishin' salmon in Alaska back in the 40's. The Maitre D' asked how one holds their little pinky out while sipping from the tin cup thermos cap. Great times. THAT, my friend - is the wealth one gains from prospectin'.

It's not all about the Treasures, It is all about the Adventures and Everything that comes with it...

19:08 "this stuff is not hard to pan" 19:44 "some hard stuff to pan, I'll tell ya that" I SUBSCRIBED just cuz it made me laugh and you gave you're real opinion as it progressed! Awesomeness!

I love seeing gold, I need some land out west, thanks for the vide, fun to watch.

WOW, that is crazy cool my friend. Very impressive and makes me want to go to the Oregon Coast and try it out.

A little surfactant to break water tension will stop your gold from floating. Great video, thoroughly enjoyed it.

Some years ago my sister bought a property in Oregon, it had a creek running through, the bed of the creek was black sand. We bought some simple equipment and started to pan for gold, off and on for three days. On the third day, the neighbor told us that five years previously a dredger had been through and cleaned out the creek. Would have had to wait about 1000 years for more to be washed down from the hills!!! I did take a jar of sand home as a reminder of my three days as a prospector. But we had fun😬

Next time you get a bucket of concentrates put take black sand and heat red hot with torch and throw it in water. Sometimes alot of the gold is coated in an iron oxide. Heating red hot and quenching in water breaks outside oxide coating leaving visible gold. Heating also converts hematite sand in magnetite sands which can removed with magnet.

Another great gold vid. I like the GoldCube. Thanks CR

kudos to the man who has figured out how to mine/sluice/pan invisible gold !!!

Wonderful video; makes me miss Washington and Oregon. I hope all those people living in RVs out there, especially the women who are on tight fixed budgets, see this and realize they don't have to just go to a 'Rubber Road Rendevous' and sit around a campfire but could go to public parks and double or triple their income on a monthly basis with a little work, good warm clothes and an investment in equipment.

I made my clean up sluice out of a river sluice and put a valve on the intake to be able to control the water put into the sluice but love the gold footage keep it up!!!

Looks great!! Wish I can get a setup like that. Happy hunting.

For those who think that's not a lot of gold, they don't realize that when you're in an area that is historically known for having gold beneath the surface, there is the potential for finding quite a lot of gold. A 10' x 10' x 3' deep area can hold many thousands of dollars worth of fine gold that couldn't be seen until the dirt was processed. Gold folks call that kind "invisible gold" and it's the most abundant type in the world.

As long as you had fun and enjoyed yourself! That's all the really matters! Great job!

It blows my mind that everybody tries to justify the cost versus time like a job. They can't seem to understand this is something you love to do and is a hobby. Ask them how much they get paid to play golf or go swimming ? How much do you get paid to go camping or to ride a bike ? Why is everything always have to be pinned to money which is just a piece of paper. Very SAD

I'm a Goldsmith so the time vs cost thing to me doesn't matter if I'm gaining working material in the end

Those are exceptionally fine particles . Reminds me of some eye shadow that I have. It looks so pretty in the black sand.

I am so happy to have seen you I wish you the very best of. ***Brandl***

We did Prospecting and Limited us to 3 hrs a day, did reg. camping the rest iof the time.. We panned out enouh dust nuggest to pay fir our 3 wk vacatin and brougt home and extra $633

Hell of a lot more than my hobbies pay me:) :)

This reminds me of my teenage years hanging out with my grandpa and uncles. i'm from Montana and used to frequently visit places like Bannack and Virginia City and pan for gold near by. Had a few spots up in the high country we would frequent as well.

I’ve talked to many people beach mining it really inspired me to gold prospect and make RU-vid videos as well I just started up my channel again and I could use all the support I can! May everyone’s pans be golden.

Todd Hoffman didn’t get that much in 2 seasons on the gold rush 😂😂😂👍good job 👌

You should use an old wool blanket to get that small gold you said goes through your sluice Staple it to a 5/8" plywood after a nugget trap on a 24 degree angle . I have caught 3 grams on a blanket 6"longX12" wide . It works and I have pictures of it . The gold cube format is pretty close to what mine is designed like only I have the wool blanket on the bottom and the steeper angle . reason it works is it uses the angle of repose to get rid of the blondes and the black sands . The gold at this size is not round but flat which lends it self to being trapped in the wool blanket and the rounder blacks and blondes continue on down the sluice

You can always cook it in a pan to dry it. It'll only take a few minutes depending on how much you're drying.

respect to u miner. all these people got to say something and they not evening mining. your the one who having fun and making some money of it. :)

*Look at AAAAAALL that GOOUULD*

this is great i envy you folks out west i just started a channel about metal detecting on east coast for old coins

Reminds me of when I'd wash my trim to make hash ya always loose a little

It looks like fun. Do something with your kid like this, they will remember it forever

Wow..2.3 million views...Very impressive!!! Great Job!!!

If you add 99% isopropyl alcohol to your wet gold powder it will dry a lot faster. The water forms an azeotrope with the IPA and gets pulled by it, resulting in a much faster evaporation rate.

I like it when you say look at all that gold and you CAN'T see sh_t but after doing the cleaning you got a nice little haul it paid for the trip mate and a nice day out well done mate and i will see you next time.

Wow! Sand is easy digging Aswell! Wish I had ground like that to work!

Awesome haul bud! That's some good sand. Much love from California.

The thing is, you made $187 in today's value. The great thing is gold being the standard, your payday will never be less that it was on the day you earned it. That is a beautiful thing. My first job was minimum wage making $4.25/hr kinda crazy to think minimum wage has pretty much doubled in 25 years and you aren't any better off.

There be gold in that bucket! Very cool video, thanks for sharing.

Nice set up. Have never seen this before. Good on you.

Good for you! I ain't talkin but I know a better way! No chemicals, no damage to the environment! Great video!

Think I would dry gold dust by putting it in a small metal bowl and heating it up on the stove

What did you guys expect? big nuggets of gold? i think some of you here commenting dont understand how precious a metal gold IS. And especially when he is finding gold though this running water, you are much more likely to get specks of gold. But of course, all those specks of gold add up. The contraption he has for the running water was very very impressive. All the tiny specks of gold glistening in the settled dirt in the big plastic apparatus he has was wonderful to see. awesome video

Nice catch!!! I went out near my house (in the city) and decided to just test pan because im still learning and want practice. And i came upon a spot tjat is not known of, not for gold at least. And i pulled 13.3 grams out in 5 hours. No joke. I put a video up on my channel yesterday. Im scared to tell anyone where it's at to be honest. But it's definitely NOT where anyone would ever expect. I am still trying to figure out where it came from. The source. I wish i knew more people into this and wish i could trust showing someone because there is SO MUCH MORE to go and get. It's not a small spot by any means. And I didn't just get it from one spot I could have just stayed in one spot but I went from different spot to different spot until I just got tired and then I went home. And these are some big chunks to so I suspect I'm going to find some really big monkers

Wow! Amazing results! Looks very fine, similar to ours :) Keep on and best regards!

You should get one of those new iridium magnets that pick up gold and only gold. Put one in a plastic bag, tie a rope to it, then cast it into the surf. The waves roll it in the sand picking up all the gold. When it's covered you pull it out, carefully turn the bag inside out, and then go home with a bag of pure gold collected while you were sitting on your cooler drinking beer.

So funny how you said I’m taking my time slow ! I have the luxury of my fast forward button ! Love it

Awesome job and nice video! Happy hunting!

Wait, gold is worth $42 per gram, so since me got 5 grams in a day, that's about $210 per day which isn't bad.

make your self a tray similar to the gold cube but it has to be on a steeper angle 24 degrees . No matts or riffles just cover the bottom with an old wool blanket staple in place or glue. This works for fine gold very well . There is more gold and less black sand . black sand is a harder material and is more rounded ( spherical) and its angle of repose is less than the flatter softer heavier gold thus the steeper angle . I have collected similar sized gold on a tray only 12"x6" square in the order of 3 grams on one hot spot. The black sand to gold ratio was a lot closer then what you have here . the ancients were right about the golden fleece it does work

Nice,wish nova scotia had a place to wash gold like that. Right on man I'd do that all day 👍🇨🇦🇨🇦

At the current price of gold rounding off to $1200/oz x 0.2 ounces (4.8 grams) = $240 for 2 days work plus all the equipment cost, travel to get there, etc, ... Like the other 2 guys said some people spend their money on fishing, and you would make more $$ selling the equipment to the potential miners. :)

Do you ever use Finish ( for dishwasher ) or a drop of detergent to break the water tension so that the small finds drop to the bottom and not float? Also, in your pan, have you ever used a magnet to remove the iron black sand?

Forget the gold, the 3.4million views on this video are making this man rich.

Very interesting film , who would of thought you would get all that from what you did !!!! Be lucky

I think he meant to say ALL THAT GOLD....this guy has gold fever!

Chemist tip... if you do a final wash on isopropyl alcohol, ethanol, or acetone (anything that quickly evaporates at room temperature), you can cut down your complete drying time to 30ish minutes or less.

That's very nice. I wish I could find those quantities in my neck of the woods!

Bro all you need to do is take a thick hdpe test tube and fill it with water and a tiny bitnof soap, put the gold in the tube and in a somic cleaner and it would stratify very quickly.

You could dry it out in just a couple hours if you put it in a glass and sit it in a crockpot full of sand on low.

I don't think most of you guys get it. It's not about him making tons of money and becoming a millionaire, it's just a hobby that might make some money

Thank you ! I'm learning a lot from you !

My boys just watched your video and want to visit your beach spot~great video

Everytime you touch a piece of gold you should look up to the stars, and ask yourself "where did you come from?" Looking back at the piece, you could almost hear it's answer, it's legacy is now us, but it once was to be part of the reminder of a star, the remining hope that will last for almost forever until the day that we will no longer see glittering in our sky or horizon, that day we will know just how much more there is to life than trying to acomplish something, as you could know everything about yourself and still know that you have everything.

You did Great... For 5 hours...

Smelt the crude gold to make an anode and use electrolysis to plate from anode to cathode which is pure a thin sheet .The energy used is 112 watts per gramme so 5 grams so 660 watts at 21watts an hour 32 hours approx.

You gotta be kidding! All that hassle for $200?? Geesh. This guy makes can and bottle recycling look like Super Lotto.

Id love to try gold digging or anything to do with gold...it looks fun

Thanks for the video, it was so fun to watch.

👍 Hello, nice area for gold panning.Learned something. Nice Gold Greetings from Germany / Bavaria Goldjunge Tom

Some peoples are jelousy of your gold . God bless you bro ❤️❤️

This is a hobby. No different from fishing. Except you might pay for your equipment.

Hi, I saw your setup for cleaning up your sand from the gold and I asked myself, why you don't use a "Water Separation Table"? I used them a lot and with the right setup you get even the smallest parts cleanly separated on the first run through.

depending on how much electricity a water pump uses should try adding couple solar panels should pay it self off in no time.

Switch light at start at the top be cool,yes low profile mat works great,does work flour gold keep doing awesome man,Australia Mel.👏👏👏.

5 grams at todays price = ~$200

I wish I lived near a river imagine how much gold I would be able to find

Nice color my friend

If anything, it’s a really fun hobby that actually pays.

When you started the water, did you run your fingers or a brush over the mat to get rid of the bubbles? The bubbles let the fine gold skate out. I second the surfactant suggestion.

Keep it up bro!

Great job man. 😁🤙. That’s a damn good day.

Try using a button magnet to draw the iron pyrite "Black Sand" away from the gold. Gold as you know is not magnetic. So in theory you should be able to attract the iron without attracting the Gold in the mats. Worth a try at least anyway.

3.25g + 1.62g = 4.87g @ approximately $1200/ounce = $188 worth of gold. Over 5 hours = $37.60/hour. Not too bad. I just wouldn't be shopping for a new lambo yet :)