GOLD MINING GEOLOGY !!! What To Look For . ask Jeff Williams 

I remember driving in from Gold Canyon to Apache Junction and 25' off the the hwy60 there was the Crocodile Hunter and his entire crew lifting up and filming under some boulders . You could hear him telling a rattlesnake that he was a "naughty boy " that memory is now priceless. So come on, let's go !

This mans knowledge is impressive. Wish I could bring him with me to point me in the right direction. I am learning lots from his geology video series

Reading geology books is one thing. Field experience is something else, and can be damned hard to come by. This kind of education is golden. Thank you, Mr. Williams. Please keep up the excellent work...

I'd like to add that in porphyry deposits you have two systems of veins. The first is as you mentioned, linear/parallel systems where the density of the quartz veins drops the further you get from the central hydrothermal enrichment zone. The second is radial/concentric such as the San Juan system in Arizona. There are both radiating veins that tend to be more or less equally distributed around the uplift, and then there are concentric veins as well. Imagine them like this...take a piece of wax paper and cover it with wet sand. If you slide the handle of a wooden spoon under the wax paper, lift only the spoon so that cracks appear, and then set it down again, you'll see the formation of the linear parallel systems. Consequently you'll get the side shoots showing the 45 and 90 degree variation on those main cracks/fault/veins. Now do the same thing, but instead of a handle of a wood spoon, try and put a tennis ball under there. As the ball pushes up on the underneath surface of the wax paper, it will cause the cracks to form around this central zone of pressure in concentric and radial fashion. In both systems, as you get further from the central pressure that caused the deposition of the quartz and mineralization, you lose the frequency of the veins. BUT if you can map the trends of those veins you may be able to find more that haven't yet been discovered.

Jeff's a great teacher. Just liston and his knowledge is fantastic..

Thank you Professor. Your enthusiasm for the energies that formed our planet is remarkable. It's one thing to understand. It's a gift to be able to teach.

Jeff & Slim as always another informative video seams I always learn something from you daily and even the third and tenth time I watch your videos .

I still have 3 feet of snow and 4+ inches of ice but I'm still making the effort to melt it and get the GOLD!

This is very help and informative, you have really helped me to identify some formation in the mine we just claimed

Awesome Jeff ! Lot of info in there, that was cool ! Thanks !

Thanks for this geology lesson. It will take a few years to learn all of this but with a great teacher like you it might not take as long. Thanks again Jeff, Keep these great videos coming.

Great video covering lots of information about geology, which I have always enjoyed exploring. Make one just thirst for more.

I took freshman Geology in college and I understood about 85% of what you said! "That's some good schist." You can talk plainer than that.....lol Love the vids. Keep it up.

wish I had you as a teacher 40 ago Jeff...always lovin the vids! thank you

That's amazing! thank you. I'm really considering taking a geology class. I've always wanted to read the terrain like this. Pretty cool if you ask me.

Jeff, Great video...As always...very informative and good info...I sure do appreciate you sharing some of your knowledge...

Great Video as always Jeff.. keep them coming.

Thank you sir. I rewatched this and took notes this time 🤓

Thanks for the geology lesson love it!

Thanks again Jeff! You are amazing. I learned a lot!

excellent information and enthusiasm love how you show passion for this field..Keep it coming

Thanks for the knowledge! Good stuff!

Damn thanks Partner for the great videos you and Slim make. Wow you know a lot. Bout rocks. I have learned a lot

I am really learning alot from your videos thanks Jeff!

please make more videos like this, love all the juicy geology!

Thanks for the geology lessons Jeff and Slim! I’ve learned a lot from your videos and keep coming back for more!

You mentioned Olivine I know where there is a small tunnel that's made of the stuff it seemed to be hand dug and went back about 20' located in central NV. I was out hiking when I found it back in 2002 never knew what the green rock was but thanks to you I do now.

Always good ! Always Informative ! Thanks Jeff !

This guy is nuts!! Outta here! Forget Jeff Williams videos😫😫😫😫

Thank you Jeff you are amazing. Keep up the great content I learned so much from you I don’t need to look further

I got the Jeff Williams fever 🤒. I love these videos. All the way from Australia 🇦🇺

good information,,you know your stuff,,got a claim i am working on here in idaho,,your videos help a lot of us,,

Great video Jeff :-) I haven't been on in a while but I am moving back to Arizona and I'm going to be getting back into prospecting :-) keep up the awesome videos!

thanks Jeff love all your videos they are a big help keep up the great work!

This guy cracks me up ,I love him 👍👍

Thank you so much for passing on this knowledge and wisdom.

nice materials Jeff you rock with the rocks I'm writing this with a broken ring finger I'm in keeping my hands away from fire doors for now yawwee that hurt a little VA k from work cool green desert sure is pretty thank Jeff and Slim not to forget that Navada Jack!!! : )

Thanks for the geology lesson jeff it's always good to learn the real names of the minerals we dig instead of me calling them paprika layer and stuff lol take care folks

I wish I saw this video sooner! Was just at the Virginia Dale and Supply Mines a few weeks ago learning to use my new Goldmaster 24K .. No gold, but did find an Old Dale saloon token from 1910 - so I got that going for me..

Spot on... Good Video Jeff! Keep it up...

educational and entertaining. You'd make a great teacher, even if would pay attention in your class 😜

Best yet Jeff!!!!! Great vital info.

your commentary is hilarious. .. and your very knowledgeable about the descriptions of rock and what to look for

Awesome!! I found 2 spots that have a BOATLOAD of Quartz that has Granite and Swarm Quartz, and the Other spot has more sulfides and Iron and "ZIP ZIP" GB2!! This summer I am making plans for a Private property Mining trip in Douglas City,Ca plus stop at "Even Steven" claim.... Thank you Jeff Williams for the great video and Geology lesson!

He' getting into it deep in explaining this. Where I'm from, I would follow the slate/quartz/granite veins to find gold in the old mines. The Haile mine that was in Kershaw,SC was the first mine I had ever visited. I done research on this mine when it was first opened. They used the Thies Chlorination Process. And after that, I would visit other old mines thru the Carolinas. The gold was located in the piedmont plateau.

After binge watching you're video's for days some over and over and studying all the maps and USGS data. Now I understand why I bumbled into the gold I found. Gold where's a iron hat. It is in the middle of iron ranges and has gold mines on both sides. Good thing it is months until ice out I will need that much time to study where I want to go pan. So much fun. Thanks again C'mon lets goooo! I am thinking june

One of your best instructionals yet.... Better than collage

" AND I BET YA DIDN'T FIND NOTHIN DID YA!" (12:03) Comedy gold my dude keep shredding dawg!

Jeff , thanx for the field experience. You're more fun than Yosemite Sam.

The coast of California has plugs left over from the erosion of the volcanoes. My friends daughter gave my son a rock when we were at the beach. When we got back home I looked at it, I was like is this quarts? It is smoothed out and there looks to be a few small pieces of gold embedded into it.

Great tips you are teaching me so much more about finding gold thank you

OK fine ! I've been watching your videos for a while , I've decided to subscribe Jeff .

I would encourage you to build a lighting booth, and b-roll pictures of those pretty samples. I know it's a lot more work, but you don't seem to be afraid of a little work. Certain those samples look better live. A lighting booth will get as close to live as you can. Thank you for all the entertaining and informative videos.

Very educational, thank brother.

Another great and informative vid... Thanks Jeff!!

Your videos always wake me up.

Excellent video. I learned thru field experience that veins are usually formed in families. Some outcrop, many don't.

Jeff, I just wish I had 1/2 the knowledge you have. Seems like you will always be successful.

The geology teacher I never had

You have a great channel from beginning to the end. I'm definitely a newbie & joining my local mineral society/club near Mojave desert asap. Well shit I can't think of anything else to say other than "You Rock Brother" 👍😎👍

Thanks Jeff, priceless info!!!

Excellent video, this is the type that I enjoy watching. Maybe someday I can find some nice gold too.

Jeff Williams I was never into Gold panning and All that but When I stumbled upon your channel You made it look So fun ! I was Ready to find gold like you so I Bought my self a garret 14inch pan and Some patient to practice and ever since I Go around In the rocky mountains, Colorado prospecting just because of you Jeff thank You very much !!! C'mon Lets go!!! Love Your viedos your my idol !

the dale mining district is one of my favorite places.

Learned alot. Thanks Jeff

As a geology student, can verify, this is great info

You are wonderful thankyou so much for sharing your knowledge and fun .im hooked .

Jeff is the best. Great teachings.

Informative thanks Jeff .

Ive always loved mining. I live close to nevada. I might go exploring and looking for an old gold mine. Please post more videos on your private mine. If you can make a video on how to dig a vertical shaft.

Thats one heck of a intro.. lol Thats great

Love the opening!

I cant wait till this crappy snowy cold weather goes away, here in Indiana. I got my pack filled with new tools and pans and even made me a sluth out of a gutter drain pipe. I got THE FEVER !!!!!! did a LOT of panning just around the sand road here at my place and Im sitting on .08 grams of Gold already. goin to hit the creeks and rivers this spring and summer. So Come On .... Lets Go !!!!!!!! Love ur vids Jeff. I've learned a lot. Thanks.

Fantastic video! You don't hear this stuff anywhere else.

around here almost every well stinks like sulfur and the water has a lot of iron too. on the beach there's a lot of spots where there are streaks of black sand too, but the rock seems to be about 90% limestone.

I gotta say i love how informative this is without the overbearing goofy-ness

Impressive! Your book and real world knowledge is super cool.

Great vid lesson Jeff. Thanks

I know exactly where you’re at, the chuckwalla lizard and the holding tanks gave away the location. I love to camp at the stone cabin down the way one of my favorite spots.

Do some old mines not have claims? love you vids. I learn alot from your content every time I watch. Thanx pard

Dude knows his rocks/metals/elements wow. Great video

I agree thanks jeff...luv lookn for nuggets

I dont understand most of this, but I hope to absorb some. :)

You have never been bit until you have been bit by a chuckawala. We use to find them all over the place (Amboy crater desert area), they don't have much of a sense of humor about them. Still watching all the videos Jeff, they are as good as ever, give slim a hug for me (but not too tight, LOL) Ray Lowery Henderson NV.

this is informative like none other

Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us Jeff, I wish I spoke geology its the language of the planet

Man I love Jeff's geology videos

Thank you, Jeff...

As a reptile guy I love seeing your reptile shots👍🏼🐉

Great vid I learned a few things..

So good in fact that I might have to watch another video! lol...

Thanks Jeff!

jeff and slim and nevada jack you guys sure know lots of stuff about rocks and gold.

I love your geology lessons. You're a great teacher.

I feel like he gave me 20+ years of being his side kick I have learned so much from him ++LEARN the ROCK find the GOLD!!++

Jeff! Thanks! I get excited watching tpur videos. Gold fever! Got a question. You ever find gold in volcanic magma? The porus stuff?

This video is pretty much the type of info my almost 8 year old son and I have been looking for. Thank you so much Jeff Williams for putting this together for us all and sharing your passion for the hunt and geology! I'd love to know if there are other videos that go into more detail some of the process (different environmental) conditions that you mentioned like hydro thermal, etc. Any book resources on this sort of thing, especially one that a smart 7 year old might be able to learn from? I hope you don't mind me saying, as these videos are a gift (or should I say, a "treasure") to be very grateful for. There is just a small adjustment I'd like to suggest to help us potentially get more out of your videos. The issue is, the camera moves and shakes too much. There aren't enough points where they will hold the camera still. Even as one pans, or zooms in or zooms out, there needs to be more time for the camera to be still, so we can better analyze and see the rocks. As long as the camera is moving towards or away, it is too difficult to really "observe" (at least for me). This is probably why TV networks have multiple cameras already focused and positioned on their "perspective point" - the viewer just sees the picture "jump" to a different scene, but it is a still camera from the beginning of that angel. Perhaps Jeff could put the samples down on something that is stable, to be filmed for 5 seconds or so, and the camera man hold STILL;) Maybe I am being too picky (I am an ex engineer from high tech semiconductor whos focus was on identification of process and tool related defects via analysis of signatures on the silicon wafers and the look of the defect itself zoomed in...and yes, different elements and compositions would have completly different looks to them even as just solid particulate...a lot like rocks!). Anyway, if the pictures could me stabalized (my iphone 6 plus does this, as does certain apps/software for cheap after the fact), this would be so helpful! IT probably seems like a no braininer to you guys who already have a good amount of experience IDing rocks and knowing what they look like. We are only learning, but always apreciated the beauty and variations. Now we wish to get more serious...maybe even find some valuables to the market! My son is a little entrepreneur! ;) We are interested in exploring our own area in Southwest Washington and Oregon - I guess we may have gold just 10 miles from us! W e also like to camp a lot, and recently took a camp trip to the Shasta CA area during Spring break, with the primary intention to do our first real hunt for gold! I prefer looking in rocks vs rivers. But, there is just SO much yellow and browns everywhere there . We collected a bunch, but we really can't tell IF it is gold, or something else. Just yesterday I finally looked at one under a magnifying glass I thought might be sparkling quartz or platinum glittered lightly on one of the rocks, but upon zooming in, to me it looks like tiny diamonds! I looked up "finding diamonds in rocks" and sure enough, their yellow, brown, and cream colored rocks looked like ours! But yeah, to us newbies it is just so confusing - especially knowing that things will oxidize and or dusting coated or lightly plastered on the rocks. I brought back some quartz with yellow stains in crevices, black iron (probably) type rocks with shiny silvers, copper colors, maybe gold....? It would be great to see some examples of what IS probably gold and silver (and copper), and what is NOT but may be confused by new people like us. I also worry a little bit about lead and mercury, and really don't know how to distinguish those with silver, platinum etc. I also did buy a few books before our trip on the kindle, but they really don't have many helpful pictures which was disappointing to us as we were looking through all the rock piles in CA wondering if they were gold or not - we still could not tell with the books. They always seem to like to take pictures of gold nuggets. But per my understanding, it isn't likely we would find just a gold nugget on the hillsides unless it was in a river or creek first and the majority of all the other rock was broke away or reacted with, setting the gold "nugget" piece free.

Cool field trip. Jeff. Thanks.

Hey! Big Something man sweet I saw them in concert at floyd fest 2018

If I could retain half of the information, I would be almost as smart as Slim. Miss my time in the desert but I will return soon enough. Thanks for all the education.