Geology is always the key to finding untapped Gold deposits ( Placer and Lode ) and this video will tackle some of the best keep secrets in the Geology world. If you liked the video then smash the like button and make sure you're Subbed. If you want to take your prospecting game to the next level then join our community of like mined people by becoming a Premium Patron www.patreon.com/askJeffWilliams Trust me you will be glad you did. Thanks for watching and we will see you out in the Gold Fields
Just so fascinating. I love learning and understanding,for me geology knowledge at least minimally educated would be a huge advantage to any prospective prospector.. If a miracle should happen to my back,this would be too of my to do list. I would love to to find that spot again that I found as a kid- a. Puddle of golden looking sand that when I asked and showed my father,he said fools gold. Well,maybe but maybe there is gold in them thar hillls ☺️🙌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
By far one of the best geology lesson videos yet. Absolutely appreciate the fact that you actually go out in the field to demonstrate and give examples, and include history instead of just sitting behind a camera trying to explain with silly little drawings. Truely one of a kind, we're very fortunate. Thank you for all your work, teachings and bringing like minded people together. Awesome video!
They only thing missing is please let me be a fly on a rock in a tag along session for the next one lol. I'll keep my eyes and ears open and my mouth shut.
Living in the UK and nearly 54 years old, I don't think I'll get to find me some shiny. BUT, that most certainly hasn't stopped me watching and learning a heck of a lot on geology from you Jeff. I could watch you open an envelope and find it interesting! Thank you so very, very much for sharing your fantastic knowledge with us all. We don't always show appreciation where it's due, so today I'm sending you & Lila massive amounts of appreciative thanks. Take care & stay safe.
Many times your geology teaching videos either don't capture my attention, or are over my head and I give up. This one really seemed to make sense, you did a great job with the visuals, editing, etc. Very nice work Professor.
I've been following Jeff for a long time. He is as entertaining as he is knowledgeable. You can tell he really enjoys what he does and is so good about sharing his experience and knowledge in the field with his fans.
Started prospecting last year here in AZ, and have managed to pull about a half ounce of nuggets out of the ground in two seasons, working one day a week when it's cool enough. Big thanks to you for the info that has led me in the right directions and taught me how to follow the signs to the yellow shiny stuff! You rock, Jeff. Thanks for the info and for being who you is Sonny Jim!!!
Great video. I have lived in this area for 38 years and learned a lot from this video and the others you have done around here. Keep up the good work and keep coming back. FYI the GeologyHub RU-vid channel just did a video on the Silver Creek Caldera. Your video added more context. Thanks
Intelligent content, Jeff. As a retired mine geologist to another in the tribe, thanks. I can't even find fault with ANY of your discussion and demo. Where did you get your degree, and where did you work? I was employed in the Nevada goldfields for 40 years. Good hunting.
Thanks Kevin....you betcha my brother .....got my degree from Mackay school of mines in Reno , Nevada. Worked for a number of small mines in Nevada and Az , was schooled by two of the very best. Walker Lane Trend
I'm surprised I don't know you, it's such a small community, but I didn't always circulate that much. My kid graduated from UNR (not a geologist), but I worked with lots of other Mackey geologists and engineers. It's a well-trained practical bunch that never needs to be shy in any crowd. We even named our kid John William. I'll look forward to chasing down more of your videos. Funny thing, I retired from Rawhide. Well met, Friend.
will always watch a commercial for you, and share. You have inspired me to buy a metal detector I haven’t figured out yet… you also taught me how to find gold. Found my first nugget on a hike because of you. Wife’s mad I can find gold and not use my detector she bought me.. thanks Jeff
Gotta say I really enjoy the geology information you present in your videos. Probably my favorite subject, but it all ties together, so it's all important to our knowledge base. Keep up the good work Jeff and Lila
Yes, sir. Excelent geology lesson! I'll be watching again and taking notes as I've got a 2 day geology tour coming up of the Rodalquilar caldera gold deposits in SE Spain. The terrain looks very similar... in fact, that's where they filmed many of the spaghetti westerns! YEEHAAAAAAAAW
Im right behing you . Thank you for your service . Im sorry you paid a price. War is hell. There are no winners. Just those left to pick uo the pieces and start again. Im not a vet. Im a bit beat up from 30 years in construction. I also hope to go on a trip and meat Jeff Williams. He is a hard worker and teaches well
@@johnramirez5032 thank you it is my honor to serve this country of ours. Like yourself I hope someday to be out there on a weekend looking for that au, oh yea YOUR GOING TO GET WET, 🤣 he does put hid hours in that mine, wish I knew a part of what that man knows about geology. 👍🇺🇲
Fantastic advice Jeff it’s good you’re sharing your knowledge amongst the fans of the channel and you can tell it’s genuine right from the kindness of your heart ❤I hope you and Lila are well and enjoying life to the fullest All the best Jeff from your brother from another mother here in Glasgow Scotland 🏴
@@Askjeffwilliams rocks being used to conduct electricity like the obelisk. Something about the courts in the stones. I seen you on there and thought hey I follow that guy.
I think you may be referring to the piezoelectric properties of quartz crystals. Yes, if you strike or squeeze them hard enough they generate an electrical spark. I have heard about certain kinds of stones being used in specific places in the pyramids depending of the desired effects. Types of stones that can amplify or obsorbed electrical currents and those that insulate. I think it was also in reference to an ancient river by or under the Giza Plateau. Water must have Something to do with it also. Tesla researcher the pyramids A LOT and that's why he built his electrical generating devise where he did. I think it was upstate New York. Because the ground composition, an underground stream, and I think the lat./Long. Played a roll in it also. There's tons of vids about this stuff and it all comes together to prove something but there's no vids that put it all together and conclude whatever it is that they are trying to say. Always vague references leaving you to make that leap into that abyss. Careful though.ntge rabbit hole is deep and there's many twists and turns along with fake and false pathways that lead to nowhere or bottomless pits.....but hey there might be some shinny at the bottom.... Who knows (other then Jeff I mean).
Wow didn’t know about that hand mill! Local to me and the perfect size for field sampling! Thanks for the info! (I’ll also have to double check a caldera nearby, I know it has intrusive bodies, it’s 32mya old, gotta find those faults)
I actually looked into this super volcano about 3 weeks ago but your video was much easier to understand as far as the geology is concerned so very cool thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼
That is very interesting Jeff. I happen to know where there is an unmapped caldera, found it using spectral imaging data. Am I looking for radial fractures? Only thing recorded in the area is nickle and mercury and silver. Gold is on the other side of the mountains from the caldera.
As much as I like watching you running around having fun in character with slim teaching what you know I really appreciate the videos like this where you drop serious knowledge. After a month of watching I'm starting to recognize the types of rock in my area. Thank you Jeff
Love the geology videos! I think that I heard you say that heat from magma chamber drives hydrothermal activity. If so, would the same dynamic produce rich gold deposits around the margins of large plutons?
exactly ....now you are thinking ...remember magma chambers are great because the create a heat source to drive meteoric waters that move through the basement rock collecting minerals and they create magmatic fluids which are the minerals in steam from the magma chamber itself.
I learned something new today. Never heard of a caldera before. Michigan was mostly changed by the glaciers and a lot of the placer gold we have was deposited by the retreating ice. Sitting here freezing in the dead of winter, all covered under snow, I am considering a trip out that way. lol
Thanks Jeff for the video. When I went to national training center (NTC) for desert warfare training in 05. I saw what looked like lava along 10 into Barstow, crazy. I learned something new! Love the videos 🤙🍻
Thank you for such amazingly informative videos, with gold season approaching where I live, I'm excited for the success you will have helped me achieve.
Jeff i have been watching your videos for a few years thanks man for all the great tips. I hope to get out there one of these days. Stay safe man and i hope you have a great new year. 👍
Hi Jeff, another Disabled Veteran saying hello and proud to be a premium member. I just read that you are a Veteran. Thank you for your service! This video really had a lot of great information that I'm going to try and apply here in Fairbanks Alaska. I enjoy your videos Jeff very much appreciated and hope you are feeling better! Take care.
Hey my brother , great to have you aboard ....thanks for joining our community ..... let us know if you have any questions and get in on getting all that Gold and Silver bars we are giving away , thanks
Jeff, I’ve been following your videos for over 6-7 years… How can we go back to the beginning or close to it when you built that shelter into the side of that hill? Love all your content…
I support your efforts with CASH every month as I do not expect any giveaways with just enjoying all of the information as well as the way you present it!
Jeff !! Wow, you da man !! Learned a lot from this video, especially collapsed calderas. This gives me a whole new perspective how I view Google Earth ! We smashed that LIKE button real hard. Proud to be in the circle of like-minded people too ! Best to you, Slim, and Lila !
Wonderful content as always ✨️ the patterns lead me to the great blue hills in Milton Massachusetts years back after finding the mine behind my house that started all of this for me.
@@Askjeffwilliams big ol chunk of free mill ore in the trailside museum at blue hills mined in the early 1900s after miners returned from the California Gold Rush . Originally it was mined back in the 1700s "tres montaine" it was named then and gold sent back to the king and queen. As most of the original mines in New England were, the area is closed to prospecting but just outside the state land there be ways to mine 🤠, my hometown mine sits on a outer ring structure the sheldonville mine which produces gold and silver last mined by me and previous in the 1970s by a Canadian outfit , my personal property lays in line with the trend and I've found part of the mineralized vein complex in a outcrop in my backyard ...... my garage back wall sits on the basement rock 🪨...... I've tossed around the idea of a nice fox hole drive 😅
@@Askjeffwilliams 😉🤠 my garage has already the beginnings ✨️ as soon as spring hits the back wall is already exposed bedrock 4 feet and behind my garage it slopes up so it's the perfect spot it's already the gold room and man town 👌 what better than to have a adit in a miners man town. ( true story ) when I first found out about the mine in town and got permission to work it , along the way I met a lady at the bottom of the hill at the deli , she saw all the buckets of ore in my truck she asked me if I had been out at the mine, I replied yes how did you know have you been there? She said no but see that house across the street on the hill that's my house and in the 50s my husband and I tunneled into the ground in our basement to hit that quartz vein , she said her husband was mining the gold and silver and paying for the house and the bank caught wind of where the money was coming from. The town came in and made them shut down the mine and sealed it off they had un knowing been high grading off of the 5 star mining company. But that's not the case for me I own the land behind me enough to get what I need done 🤠 eventually I will be at the sharing stage 💯
Hey Jeff, that was an absolutely outstanding video!!!! No where on RU-vid can this video ever be matched!! That was a geological video with no equal in my opinion. Be safe out there. Our best always!
I've seen setups in the desert that used fanned air to separate the heavies from lighter material. If you have a video on that or could make one I would be interested in seeing it. The most memorable I saw used a Model T motor and a series of reducing gears to drive a fan. Crushed material, which IIRC came from an arrastra also powered by that same Model-T motor was dropped in front of the fan. Basically the same idea as winnowing grain.
Hi Jeff! Thank you very much for your geology and prospecting lessons, I have learned so much from them! Actually your videos helped me find some really good gold in Japan. I found an old mine in the area which was reported to produce 1000g of gold and 3000g of silver per ton. Most of gold mines in Japan were closed in 1943 due to WW2 and were never operated since then. In the old mine that I found, the old timers seemed to be chasing the blue clay/blue rock areas, they did some really crazy vertical diggings to mine out all of that blue clay/blue rock material. There are no typical quartz veins in the area, no limonite, just a little bit of calcite, and everywhere is that blue rock, partially decomposed to blue clay. I sampled that blue clay and the blue rock, it contains very fine free mill gold and tons of pyrite, which also contains very good gold. Actually, there is much more gold in the pyrite than the free mill gold itself. Every pan of the blue clay material is almost 50% pyrite containing good gold. There are 3 colors of the same clay in the mine - blue, white and rusty red. Blue and white clays are very greasy and contain pyrite, red clay is not greasy and contains oxides. After a while the blue clay turns white (oxidation?). I am trying to figure out the geology of such deposits. There is a tiny hot spring inside of the mine which seems to speed up the decomposing of the blue rock. Maybe it's more kind of a whitish rock, but looks blue because it's really loaded with sulfides. I tried to search RU-vid and other Internet sources for "gold deposits in clay" but I didn't find much. Meanwhile it seems to be a good source of gold, not covered by most of the modern gold prospectors. I did find some mentioning in the old Japanese geology reports saying that "clays including kaolinite and sericite can be very rich in gold", or "some mines have extremely rich gold deposits in white or black clay", but there was no geological explanation of the origin of such deposits. If you have ever encountered such gold-bearing clay deposits, could you please explain their geology? It would help to understand where to dig in particular, and I am sure it would be an interesting topic for many of your subscribers. Thank you for reading!!!
you are correct and there are two areas to do research about that have models like that ....one is Virginia City ...Gold and Silver found in blue clay ....same scenario and Goldfield with Kaolinite from High sulfidation epithermal
Great video. I'm new to gold hunting. I'm in Central New Mexico. We have several calderas in Central New Mexico. The jemez caldera is huge ! Found the channel today. Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom
You make a geology highly interesting and understandable. You take the time to explain the terms and type of rocks in easy and understandable ways, for the masses of us that are eager to learn. Your classroom is outdoors or in a mine. while other awesome sites that talk on gold or geology are in a room in a house or garage with a white board. Your classroom keeps a person attention on the subject matter. Keep the videos coming and Yeah I smashed that like button hard, real hard!
Excellent video and information, Jeff. I believe the original cabin and headframe are still standing at the Moss, even with all the open mining going on around them. Glad that you found some gold in your pans. We have been to that area many times, but the underground exploring is a bit tough, as many of the workings are flooded. The rats like to bring in the cholla thorns to guard their nests, which is a real pain. I have a nice cross section of the mineral vein at Gold Road that a geologist friend gave me. Thanks for the fun video!👍👍
thanks you two...... thats great ....we didn't see it .... yes we did ....there is still a lot of Gold around that area ..... locals Drywash it all the time .... would love to see that cross section of Gold road
Jeff do you like to use the 3DEP maps, specifically the multi directional Hillsdale and slopemap, to look for old roads and diggings? I absolutely love using them to find old trails, only problem is the trails are often so old they're completely overgrown. There's all types of mysterious over grown roads in the mountains here that don't have the pattern that old logging roads have and I'm going to explore them one day but they are deep in mountains just West of 5brooks in west marin.
I believe the placer nuggets are from the erosion of gold deposits in the surrounding deposits . I hope Jeff Williams will explain it better than me . Millions of years of erosion.
Hi Eric , Most Gold Nuggets are the result of erosion of a rich High Grade Gold vein deposits which eventually weather out and because of the specific gravity of Native Gold it will eventually be subjected to gravity and finds its way to a low point in a watercourse which will over time begin to wear it into a smooth a nugget.
@@Askjeffwilliams i wonder how many eons it took? I guess we could date it roughly if we knew the age of surrounding geology. There are so many factors . But one thing for sure is it took millions of years. Unless there was glaciers grinding down things. Its facinating! Things like continent drifting, flolding mountains.. creeks and such in the hills and wonder how did they get way up there. The desert has lots of stuff to tell us if know the geology. Your placer mine is from which time. Period? I dont recall you mentioning that. Hope all my jabbering is not an annoyance. To you.
@@johnramirez5032 yes you could do a rough estimate of time ....Paleo placer from Mesozoic because of the ammonites we are finding ....you can jabber all day long , we love to hear it
Absolutely love it!!! You’ve inspired me to look into the geology of my area, tones of Spanish stories out here, now I now what to look for. Thanks happy learning everyone 😁
Best vid I have seen from you in the last few years Jeff. Awesome. Thanks so much for the tips and views of what you are talking about when you say the geology stuff. I actually wish I had become a geologist instead of a Chem E. One of the things I love thinking about as I drive through the west deserts of Utah and other places is the time frame it took to create what I am seeing around me. Gold prospecting, is a great way to try to understand time frames that for us are so hard to understand truly. A million years.... A billion years... Huge difference and yet for most of us, they feel equally infinite.
Hey, Jeff! I'm having a hard time with putting a lot of these tips into practice. I live in Southern Idaho, and here we have the Trans-Challis fault running from Salmon to Idaho City. Central Idaho is where all the gold seems to be. My question is, how do I decide where to look? How do I decide where exactly I should start, even to a specific river or stream? I know that's a lot, so do you have or know of a complete start to finish guide on deciding where to prospect? Thank you!
@@Askjeffwilliams ALRIGHT!!! That's awesome! I'm super excited to see what you have to say, Jeff! I just graduated with my BA in psychology, and am taking a year off to study for the entrance exam for grad school, and I really want to spend as much time prospecting as I can this year! I look forward to seeing more videos and learn more. Thank you for your unending generosity, enthusiasm, and kindness, Jeff! Take care!
Saludos desde Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, estamos empezando esta aventura de la búsqueda de Oro, agradecido por tu conocimiento el cual nos lo brindas con sabiduría, que sigan tus exitos, estaremos atentos a tus enseñanzas.-
Jeff thats an ausome video. Geology and usgr are not always.acailable for all areas. The caldera and hydro thermal deposits make sense. Also the dust buster is a great idea. That looked like wire gold woul you say the source is fairly close by?
Great to see you are still in good spirits Jeff and out in the Bush still doing it. Given the insanity that the world is in your videos are much appreciated. Thanks for another highly educational geology lesson. All the best.......
I started panning for gold when I was at least 12 or 13 and now I’m 17 I don’t prospect there’s no gold around my area I buy the bags off line and I’m pretty good at it
Nice, great info. Long Valley Caldera near Mammoth Lakes CA sounds like a good place to start. There are mines on the wnw rim area, and more mines a few miles east of the eastern edge, somewhat removed from the caldera.
Collapsed caldera? Guess I need to go to crater lake in Oregon lol. It was nice meeting you in Laughlin the other day! I took a few quartz samples near silver creek before I left
Hi Taylor , great meeting you at our not so secret restaurant ...... that is a great area ...still a lot of Placer Gold up there ....be safe and keep us posted
Absolutely saved in a to rewatch and take more notes, awesome education, patreon coin well spent!! Just got my Mighty Mill, so far, great peice of equipment!
@Askjeffwilliams I will, still a moment of snow on the ground, but healing up from my neck fusion and looking forward to a great year with alot of dedication and focus.
I sooo pray for wisdom and understanding like you have!! I have a hard time remembering things!! Your language is like foreign to me!! I’ll need to watch this again and definitely take notes!! Thank you
