Gold Rush - Long Version - Working Gold Mine - Western Montana, MT 

This right here was one of the first videos I watched when I starting looking into prospecting in Montana. Amazing set up.

I love this video. I watch it over and over. It'd be so cool to build your own washplant and set it up on some ground. There's good ground left, you just have to explore and find it. The airlift a small dozer and excavator in. It'd be so fucking cool. It's a shame folks with money get to have the fun adventures. We poor folk just get to sit back and watch the fun. I like this video because it's obvious this guy built everything and fixes his own equipment.

James, thanks for your comment and your question. The gold at the end of the video was probably from 4-6 dumps in the hopper. I shot video for an hour that morning while the two mine owners worked the front-end loaders. They say that some days are better than others, depending on the trench they are working on. I do not know what the average daily take is. Thanks again for watching and commenting. Dave.

Thats my dream right there. A small operation for me and my 2 sons to work. Moving to western Montana in May. Thanks for the video

Such a cool video, thanks for sharing with us all.

The Montana Metal Mine Reclamation Act requires mining companies to return mine impacted lands to a stable and usable landform. All materials (except gold) is returned back to the pits. Thanks for watching and asking! Dave.

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Best soundtrack ever. Just The rocks on metal.

Wow! Cool for two reasons. I live in western MT and do a little prospecting myself plus your editing is awesome! Never got bored once!

Great operation, must've taken a lot of time and work to put together this video! This is the way small mining should look, and having worked around an old Cedar Rapids crushing operation years ago I enjoyed seeing the little homemade touches that really work. Great job!

That's quite a setup there. Wish I had that at my gold mine for a couple of weeks. Everyting has pretty much just been setting there since 1939. I bought a super hog 13' highbanker and worked the tailings for a week by recirculating the water. My friend and I hardly processes enough to tell we had even been there - lol. He moved so I sold the high banker last week. Metal detecting is much easier for a single person.

Most intersting video I've seen all month!

Thats a hell of a one man set up for sure

Pretty cool vid...showing all the steps...the machinery involved...I really enjoyed it.

I find that amazing, you guye do in an hour what took us a week to do by hand. Far out!

That was very gratifying. Thanks!

Thanks and I enjoyed your presentation so much. I have been watching the Discovery Channel gold mineing shows and your presentation is just about as good as it gets. Thanks and may god bring you good fortune in your ventures! Jon

That's a lot of hard work you have done there. Well done!

Great video David, keep them coming.

A lot of color coming from there!!

This dude is SMART. He has a small operation, old equipment without electronics (so he can fix it), and has the absolute smartest cleanup system available to mankind. He doesn't even have to cleanup his gold. The Hoffmans need to take lessons from this dude. The Hoffmans (Gold Rush TV show) spend a million dollars just to profit a few hundred thousand. See, the old miners got the good ground, so all these claims which already have roads built to them have been picked clean of all the good ground. The old miners left the ounce per hundred yard ground alone because they got the 5 ounce per hundred ground and mined the hell out of it. The only claims worth mining are small untouched pockets on benches and such which have no roads going to them. To get a good claim, you're going to have to build a road. The way to go is seek out a SMALL claim which would require a small operation running 50 yards/hour. Trust me, this dude doesn't have to worry about going in the hole. The way to go is find a little claim that's a few acres and TEST TEST TEST. You have to get water permits, land use permits, mining permits, etc.. The way to do it is spend a season testing. Don't be in a hurry. Don't take on investor dollars. If you don't have a retirement with a million dollars in it, leave the mining alone. It's going to take 200 thousand at least just to get everything you need. Then you need fuel money until you sell some gold. Taking on investor money is dumb as fuck unless it's family or friends who have the money to blow.

Beautiful vid!

that has to be one of the best operations I have seen, what is your normal TPD.

thats one solid operation - good vid

Very nice vid thanks

Great video!

Wow, appreciate you showing us your work. :) Nice little excavater.

WoW Great setup. Happy Hunting

Thanks for noticing and informing me. I will follow through. Dave.

Good I like your set up good luck with the work

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Wow that is awsome I used to live on blue slide rd by Thompson falls. I would take my 4 wheeler to the vermillion bridge to go swimming after school.

Thanks for the really interesting video of your ops.

It's a great video to watch....

. I wish you very beautiful, abundant gold

I deal with hard rock and much finer gold. Have you ever tested your tailings for fine gold? The equipment you are using probably doesn't get much under 50 mesh. Keith

Nice Operation! PT

That guy was a one man team, loading scouping, classifying and off to the Big Banker.

So Awesome! I live in Missoula and prospect at least 3 times weekly.... it is my dream to do this!

It was entertaining to watch. Tiny gold pays for all that heavy machinery to operate.

Another awesome Video here :-) Cool separator & Sluice Box Thats awesome how they pond the water & hard minerals . Awesome Filming 5 thumbs up Video

that looks addicting! i like it.

Very good!!

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Very cool camera work.

I like your set-up

Just watched agin. Man I sure miss that place. My uncle is getting really old I might go see him soon and check out the old swimming hoke

Very interesting video . Do you know how long it took for that amount of gold to be found at the videos end ?

Has to be the best gold mine I've seen yet you go from digging it separating it getting the loose Rock putting in the tumbler in the sluice get it back and then driving it all the way out of gold only that's so fucking awesome there's no I'll get back to you and I slipped a little you know that's great good job

Hardest working attics you'll ever meet, good men work hard for what they earn and that's a fact!!!

Great Operation you have.... Do you fill in all the holes you dug up eventually? Thanks for the video!

Real neat and efficient setup. If you can, explain how the pay dirt is getting to the wheels? from the sluice box?

Thanks! I used some techniques that were new to me. Having more than one camera rolling sure helps during the edit process. I think I shot for 45 minutes to edit down to this 10 minute vid. Thanks for viewing and commenting! Dave.

Very cool setup, and looks like a lot of custom equipment work. Love the wheels on the end. Why spend 20K on a shaker gold table when three wheels in order can seperate without barely having to watch it? lol great idea!

Cool I'd like to make my living that way too.

very good resalt

David could I come for a weekend or week to learn or maybe work fulltime?

I want to visit a dry gold processing plant. Any leads please. ...which one can I see.

We would like to know what you do with the gold after the video. Where do you take it to be purchased?

very good

well everything is right there, there is really no cartage or ore for any real distance, and he is taking raw ore down to spiral wheels with minimal labor, can't do much better.

YES.GO THERE.GOLD.LOTS OF GOLD.

You are a had working man for sure, I do that work too but your seems to be interesting , nice work

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Great video guys. Gold today January 07,2020 $1570 per OZ.

The Treasure State - I like that

Excellent. ..that is my dream someday

This guy has his mine planned out a lot better than any of those jackholes on Gold Rush or Bering Sea Gold or Jungle Gold.

Ty

Great video, thx! Could you explain your yuba wheel setup at the end? I'm trying to figure it out.

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It looks to me like you could have made a shorter trip with your loader. Couldn't you bring the processor closer to the ore deposits. save some time on each trip?

no alcanzo a ver como es el proceso desde el lavado de arena hasta que ya sale listo para los espirales ??? no se si me explico

I'm no expert on gold mines, but they seem to have a pretty good setup there. How much gold was that at the end? A half ounce or so?

Should do that in Alaska, there's nothing but big pits everywhere.

Curious about all the 1 and 2 inch pipe I saw laying in there..

Very good. But is it worth all the hassle ?

I love that 3 spinning wheel refining system, but how can he be sure he's not losing any gold, especially in that red wheel where so much dirt gets rejected? Is there something in place to secondary screen that dirt?

I have a dessert fox wheel, but I've only seen one other video with a double wheel like yours. What's it called and where can I get one?

wheres all the flour gold?

I have a large green gold wheel and love it. I never saw anyone using 2 of them. Are you getting gold the first one lost? I use mine at the river I feed it liker a coal stove. Scoop and wait,red and black sand with gold fall into a small bucket on the back. I scoop 20 or times a min.

hola queria saber como hacen que desde el mismo lavado llegue automaticamente a los 3 spirales que terminan de lavar el oro? gracias

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What a great life style ...just the ducks nutts ..😁

I,d be curious to know how many grams / to the ton your head grade is THE DON WEST OZ

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I like there setup

Interesting. You folks are panning for gold Big Time. I just came from a video where a man was using a pick ax, shovel and pan, while sitting in a river stream. Major difference.

I wish I had your job Dave.

Great Video!! One of THEE BEST!! Dave may I stop by? I am in Montana right now heading north...

I live in missoula, I have an awesome spot down the bitterroot where I do some very small scale placer mining. Just out of curiosity, where is this site? I dont want to claim jump or anything just kinda curious :)

The dirty water in the sluice boxes at 6:50 will wash a lot of fine gold right through. Clean up the water and the gold recovery will be better. The gold in the pans is coarse with not much fine gold.

How many yard you move to get that poke?

how many month do you get to mine ,I'm in Alaska and mine also .

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Man, I would so love to be there helping. Imagine mining in the day and Squatchin' in the night...Pure delight. Hey, I can run and fix heavy equipment and even weld......What'da say???

Great video...I find quite a bit myself. Keep up the good work! Shoot me a line, I love to talk geology and minerals...

great video what are the spiral things at the end of the video called that extract the gold from the rest

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