Gold ALWAYS sits on Bedrock? Watch or you may be wasting your time! - Uncover the Truth About Gold. 

Congrats. Sounds very good.

Well, best of luck to your in your efforts.

EJ: You need a model of the gold size distribution on your work area. Once you have that you can classify down to just above a respected size that you want to target. Then check your discard pile for larger prices with a pi or vlf gold detector with a moderate to large coil. ( Divide and conquer). The garrett goldmaster 24K and its predecessor (whites goldmaster gmt e series can find tiny peices of gold and at the same time scan the subsurface for black sand accumulations. The other standout must have detector for finding small gold is the MD 20 (E BAY)... which can really help you pinpoint and find gold of any size. If there is no metal trash a pulse induction dector can really see deeper larger targets that are harder to dig. Now what we want to do is spend our limited in the field time building a concentrate bucket for final processing at home. I have a square wooden box that is exactly 1/2 cubic foot inside and I can test pan it down to get an idea of how hot my ground is. There is an expansion factor that we also consider like 10%. You knowing you have x gm/Cy and knowing your gold size distribution... now your in business. Now you need a bigger sluice box and some screens and some concentrate buckets. XP and Minelab have the best 1/2" plastic pan screens and SE for 1/4 and 1/8 and smaller. The bigger the size the faster the processing speed. Faster not always being better. Must have gold pans... Garrett Supersluice, XP standard pans and the XP Batea for speed panning. Proline 14 and 17 and the Gold Claw... for building a concentrate bucket to take home. 14 inch pans are the best size for Creek panning. Larger pans for safety pans and classifying, ect. I use my Estwing metal pan like a scoop shovel and a #1 mini shovel with a v shaped handle works great. Some kind of gem microscope will also be helpfull on fine gold. My 360x gem microscope works great for fine and ultra fine gold. So 99 percent of what we do is going to depend on our gold size distribution, our grams per cubic yard and our overall deposit size ( hopefully in millions of ounces) and finally the rate at which we can extract our gold. Once you get your concentrate home you can run it thru a mini plastic gutter concentrator to clean up or reformat your river sluice box using rubber mats and recirculation for final clean up. Finally take a look at your area using Google earth in the off-season. Cheers!

Prospectors have to be aware of potential false bedrock if they want to get the most gold!

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My pleasure! Lots more fun videos coming out soon.

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best of luck to you to as well.

Yes, the old timers got a lot of it.

Glad to know it was helpful.

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Glad you liked it, and happy to help!

@@ChrisRalph oh it will. Almost all the way through it and have learned so much. I needed this. Thanks Chris!

Thanks for the kind words. I've got loads of videos and many more are on the way in coming weeks.

You are welcome!

Thanks for those kind words.

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Interesting. Sounds like the ones above bedrock were on their way down but had not made it yet.

@@ChrisRalph There was 3 foot of gravel/clay between them and the bedrock nuggets. I think it came down at a later time in a big flood and spilled over the rim of the main channel. The previous material acted as a false bedrock. It was wierd they were in that 8 inch layer of very loose pea gravel. The only reason we found that deposit is because of that layer. A machine had pushed up a furrow and my brother found a beutiful 1/2 oz on top of it. Then 5 gallon bucket samples kept yielding little pickers. Then we dug.

I'm so glad it helped!

Do you try hand fed sluice boxes in that area? Also, its possible (with difficulty) to build your own dredge. Thanks for the information. Another possibility is metal detecting nuggets.

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Best of luck to you in your prospecting efforts.

@@ChrisRalph Thanks!!!

Thank you very much!

Glad it was helpful!

Getting very tired of the snow. We always get some but we have had snow in the backyard since before Thanksgiving. I want to go prospecting!

I hear the same concerns from other prospectors in northern parts. We're getting snow and rain down here too. Should be good spring flowers and runoff this year !

Glad you liked it - I am hoping to do a big update in the coming months.

Happy to help!

@@ChrisRalph thank you for your generosity and enthusiasm!

Also noticed some flour gold in some field "hard pan" on the farm, another form of false bedrock.

Be careful as telluride fumes can be toxic.

@@ChrisRalph thanks for the heads up, might have to melt it outdoors on a breezy day with a respirator.

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Thank you! Cheers!

Many different minerals have the same colors so its hard to tell by color. Please watch my videos on how to Identify minerals for yourself. Part 1 can be found here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MpkW58ZeQlc.html and Part 2 can be found here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zOWo49X90gA.html and Part 3 can be found here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_ab5NngRlVw.html

I've found gold on false bedrock a number of times, but if you mean the time while I was dredging, the bedrock was such that you just could not tell.

@@ChrisRalph I was refering to the time when you were dredging and you found nothing on the bedrock, but gold on the false bedrock. I was curious if earlier miners had picked clean the finds before you got there.

Hello my friend. What part of the lucky country are you located in?

I make a good living from my prospecting ventures - but I do a whole lot more than just pan and metal detect for nuggets. If you want to see more about that, check out my video on it at: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kBm8mnbMYsc.html

Thanks

There is some gold in Maine, but not a lot, DO some research on Google for gold deposits of Maine.

Let me know how you do.

It can look like different things, but most often looks like a layer of clay.

@@ChrisRalph Ok thanks so much Chris!!

Ok.

In time I will do that.

The video you commented on - listen to it again. I say that gold can be found in caliche and I explain what Caliche is.

Yes, once in a while they don't cut down to the full bedrock of the older channel. In those cases the gold of the temporary channel is on a false bedrock.

@@ChrisRalph , thank you for the knowledge

I did a whole video on Midwest gold. You can check it out here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lJoRt5Un9SE.html

The video talks about false bedrock layers.

Not all gold is coarse and large enough to be seen with a metal detector. I have some rock with no visible gold that yields about 1 gram per 30 pounds of rock. The gold is all too tiny to be seen on any metal detector, but large enough to capture with a pan.

@@ChrisRalph thank you, I knew you'd be the one to ask . And thank you so much for reading and answering your comments . I really appreciate you and all you do.

Best of luck to you in your efforts.

@@ChrisRalph thank you pal, I’ll let you know if we get anything decent.

Best of luck to you in your prospecting.

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Well, that was on purpose. Destroyed placers are like ex-wives - they aren't placers anymore. And terminal moraines can give rise to good placers, but only after they are eroded and washed by streams.

@@ChrisRalph Not necessarily. Glacial terminations can offer lag deposits where there has been no stream reconentration. The lighter material erodes away on a gentle slope leaving large boulders and other heavy material. This results in a near surface deposit but has not been cut by a stream. Destroyed placers are not always utterly destroyed. If you can recognize them, sometimes there is a remnant of a remnant, as I describe it, and in that remnant is the coarse nuggets. There was once a great placer deposit but now it's like the trail end of when you dump a bucket of concentrates. Just the heavies.

Well, maybe in some very rare circumstances. All the moraines I have ever messed with are super low grade to the point of being worthless - until they are re-concentrated by the force of flowing water. What you are talking about seems more like a hillside placer, though not from a nearby hard rock deposit, but from re-concentrating the moraine gravels on the hillside.

@@ChrisRalph They are pretty rare. In Montana when a moraine terminates it leaves something like a toe if you will. Gold was taken from Soap gulch and moose creek near Melrose. Some might argue they are lake shore deposits as both exist. I know a few others there too but land owners wouldn't appreciate me telling where. Remnant placers? I don't know how rare they are but I know they're danm hard to find as they leave very little in the line of tell tale signs and I suspect would only be found where bedrock is exposed over large areas such as in AZ. Lag deposits are also mentioned from Kennedy gulch in Mt and on the east slope of the contenital divide out of Denver.

Let me know the results in a future comment.

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I dont see anything, but the comments you made after this.

Watching my morning u tube routine I see a few content creators also experiencing electronic issues. Thanks for getting back to me.

Yes, not all area's have gold

I have a new mike and am transitioning to a new computer and other new equipment.

@@ChrisRalph Heck yeah! Have fun tinkering with it all. Tell Mike I say hello 😉 Thank you so much for the valuable knowledge🤙

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Depends on where you prospect. If all you ever prospect in is creeks and rivers, then yes. But in the places I prospect - like residual placers, its not more than 50% of the time at most.

My pleasure! Glad it was helpful.