I really like seeing you perspective with this chest mount one. It's easier for me to understand what you're doing by being able to see the motions and having the meter in frame.
Never let me down chris. I always learn something from u. Thanks for learning us a few things and showing us some beautiful scenery and gold along the way
We have a area of Greenstone belt in Wyoming up at South Pass. One of our richest gold field in the state. Thank you Chris this is just what I needed to see. I was not sure about what coil and what setting to use. Now I understand much better.
"ONYA CHRIS" I'VE HEARD ABOUT GREEN STONE BELTS BEFORE BUT DIDNT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THEM.NOW I DO & ITS ALL THANKS TO YOU PROFESSOR CHRIS.SO YEAH THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR INFO.CHEERS CHRIS.SHANE FROM BATHURST AUSTRALIA
Great video. Its my first time. I have been detecting off and on for 40 years. Have found much gold but i love to detect. Just bought a 24k Garrett/whites gold detector. Ive been practicing in gravel getting to know the way it responds . Its a really good detector and can detect a half a grain. I caught the gold bug again and your video was ausome. I live in California and just may buy your book and subscribe to the magazine. Thanks again.
@@michaelarmannsson5559 its a poor craftsman that blame his tools. There is gold to be found with any detector. Its one of the rarest thing there is. It not a minelab detector but its not a toy either . One can buy a 5 to 8k detector and never pay it off monetarily either. It not just about the gold either. Its about getting into nature and off the couch. Its about rediscovering that childlike self that was buried years ago. No amount of money or detector can make that happen. Im mostly a rm chair adventurist anyway. Finding gold to become rich is a fools errand any how. Most miners in the old days seldom got rich. Most miners barely made wages and today most wont even find that. Life is a dream we live. Have you bought a expensive detector and had it pay for its self ?
@@michaelarmannsson5559 i think thats wonderful ! I glad to hear that your minelab detector has paid for itself many times over.! That means you have done your homework and payed your dues. Ive used different hammers in construction. My favorite hammer was light weight titanium hammer. But any hammer would work. The 24k whites / Garrett works well in finding small targets in difficult ground. I have yet to get out and proove it but im confident it will do what it was designed for. Plus it tells me the ground mineral saturation which can help me find hot spots.
that was great love the camera chest mount and the live hunting i think people would enjoy alot also would like to watch the recovery great work chris keep up the great work good to see ya again
New to all this. The nugget you found at 00:20:32:00 weighed how much approx, what would the value be on a nugget like that ? Is using a detector vs. panning, not as fruitful ? Looking at getting the minelab equinox 800 …. Will that work well enough detecting gold ? Or if you’re going for gold, would you want a detector more specifically intended for detecting gold ? Chest mount, yes. At times when talking, camera pointed down, not moving, doing nothing, pan camera up. I felt like I had my chin tucked, head down for too long/intermingle some sky. Maybe shoulder mount, …. Try side mount. I think it would show both the detector coil movement as well as also simultaneously showcasing the detectors display. There were various spots in which I could barely see the detectors display come into frame. From a beginners/learning perspective, I would prefer to see both the coil movement, location of hit, and visual of detectors readings/the display, in conjunction with the detectors audible sounds… more immersive. If we can’t see the display, we’re only getting the coil visual and sound. Try a right shoulder mount. Closer close up, when you first showed nugget… I felt like I couldn’t see it clearly enough. In my mind I’m wondering, how much does that weigh, what’s it’s value. I’m left feeling like I wish I knew. Maybe just briefly guess approx weight and value. Great video, very informative. Narrative isn’t obnoxiously loud, easy to listen to…. Can agates be detected ? I love sound effects … maybe add one here or there …. Don’t over do it… less is more. Looking forward to watching more of your content. Saw the book you wrote … going to go look at that …. Liked and subscribed.
The nugget is worth about $20. Watch my video on selecting a detector for info on that. These videos do not make nearly enough to hire a filming crew, video editors, top flight cameras, multiple camera mounts, special effects, etc. This is what I can do with a few hundred dollars in equipment. I'm trying to teach prospecting, not trying to win an Academy Award Oscar.
I have an Akaso camera and an app in my phone that allows me to see in real time what the camera sees, the Only issue there is if your watching your phone, your not watching where your going.
Over in our northeast we have alot of glacial til from the abitibi gold belt and greenstone boulders in alot of areas . I was actually just doing some research for my summer prospects and actually caught some native greenstone also.
@@ChrisRalph mite be time to revisit the area , over the last 5 years the gold thats coming out is almost as impressive as what I get into out in California. And the range of open land and ease of access to spots creates much more time for mining. I'm hosting an event in bridgewater vt in July if you can make it over I'll make sure your stay is pleasant
Hi Chris. Glad to see your back making videos. I’ve been detecting an area that has either schist or greenstone, I can’t tell the difference, there is also quartz float all around. There’s been some gold and quartz specimens found but most of the nuggets are a different color and are heavy for there size. I think the nuggets came from richer smaller quartz veins that were associated with the schist or greenstone and not the quartz reef that the mine is in.
Chest mount, shaft mount, I would think "helmet mount" might be most effective because where you're looking is where you're filming. However the graphics are seriously secondary. The information is priceless. You've given me a whole new perspective on greenstone formations. And a good reason to have another go at it. Three detectors hanging on the wall is a bummer...
I have a hat mount but my head is always looking here and there and I think the rapidly changing viewpoint would be a poor experience. Glad to hear the info is helpful.
The Arizona greenstone sample in the picture is from a place you took me and I detected a nugget a few feet away. I need to come down for the Tucson show next year.....
I was always told to go slow with my swing...I have a Gold Bug Pro...after seeking your video on that detector. Have not found any gold yet but still having a good time.
That would be great becuase i found a really interesting silver vein that i want to try and get metal out of. Step one was finding it , thanks for passing down prospecting knowledge.
Thanks for the greenstone geo lesson Chris. Much appreciated ! Occasionally, I find pieces of greenstone on my claim as contact float. Usually attached with quartz, and appears somewhat altered. I'm going to pay more attention to it, because some areas where I've encountered, nobody has dug there. Chest camera is a great idea, and seems to be quite smooth while in action. I might try something like it ? Take care, and looking forward to more videos ! 👍👍👍⚒⛏🤠
One of my greenstone examples was from Arizona, but it was from way southern Arizona. Going to start covering my detecting work with the chest mount, a long selfie stick and a tripod. I should be able to get a reasonable point of view from that.
The chest mounted camera worked out well. Combining the video from this chest mounted camera set up with images or video that shows a larger area view (that would allow the viewer with a better frame of reference of the area you are working) would be a plus. An example would be: in this posted video you indicate the area being detected has been previously worked by miners. An image of the area showing surface indications (if present) of how you know this has occurred would be helpfull to new detectorists. Keep up the good work. Your explanations of greenstone belt gold occurrance is great.
Hi Steve! I hope you and Calvin are doing well. This video was an experiment with the chest mount. In the future, I plan to have tripod video that has a wider view and some explanation with it interspersed with chest mount video. This place was kind of different - the signs of the old timers were subtle in most places because they were very shallow and now overgrown with the same grasses that cover the undisturbed areas. In some other places their work is much more obvious. I'll be doing more video there in the future, and I'll take some time to show these shallow surface workings.
That greenstone episode was great. I prospect in greenstone and I’m always hungry for more info on Ca greenstone belts. This episode did the trick. The new chest mounted cam worked well. I love that Chris uses a relatively affordable machine. I have the same one and I was eying his settings and listening intently on the tones. My question would be how he handles hot rocks when in the greenstone belt? Does he dial his machine down or just give the ol’ foot scrape to see if it’s a hot rock? Any hints would be appreciated. Have a good one!
Sorry about your tent, Chris. Hopefully, I'll see you around Arizona sometime if you are ever south of Tucson. Hopefully, I can get you to sign your book.
The chest mount offers some good footage. But have you considered a head mounted camera? May give you more opportunity to show digging up the target. Good content either way. Have to wait a few more months before getting back out myself.
Thanks Chris. Never heard about green stone before. Now I wish I could identify as a mole. LOL I guess a badger would be better. Less chance to be messed with.
Crazy question, I was prospecting high on a ridge above Carson City and all of a sudden about half of the rock was extremely well rounded and polished (it was also greenstone) as if it had traveled 25 miles down a river. Being so high up (around 300 feet) relative to all the terrain around me, the typical river rock explanation doesn't seem to make sense. Can there be other geological reasons that rock gets well rounded? And does the fact that it's greenstone have any relevance? Thanks for all that you do.
Hi Chris. Another good video. But I must ask where you were detecting in the video. I don't mean the geographical location, I mean the terrain. It looks like a grassy meadow but the nuggets were close to surface. I'm thinking you were in a area of bedrock with maybe an inch of soil on top, just enough to allow grass to grow but no trees. Otherwise the nuggets would never just be that close to the surface. What's the scoop?
There are trees in the general area, but I am not sure why they are not present on specific hillsides. The soil is a few inches deep to maybe a foot and cattle are grazed on the land. That might affect where the trees are.
Hey Chris I’ve been watching your videos awhile, I appreciate the “Greenstone” info. I’m out in Jamestown Ca. I just bought a GM1000. I feel like this would be a great area to use it? Edit: I Ordered a fistful of gold should be here this week.
@@ChrisRalph I’ve been over to the west coast four times and by following tips from your videos I’ve found 6.8 grams so I’m hooked now and I plan on going every Saturday it’s two and a half hours away but so worth it thanks again
I have a mine field, which contains gold, we didn't start to production, but we will start soon, if you want you can come here and we all make a trip on mountains to find gold.
Chris, thanks for this video on orogenic gold deposits (greenstone type). You use the terms greenstone, greenstone rocks, and greenstone belts, orogenic gold deposits interchangeably. Do they mean the same thing and how do they relate to the gold if gold comes in from deep below along regional faults. Could gold just be sweated out from the enclosing rocks and concentrated along folds, faults, and carbonecous rocks by the mountain building event and metamorphism? Also, what specifically should you look for to metal detect on since a greenstone belt is a huge area to detect. Thank You! Newmexbuzz
I know that greenstone as a rock name is no longer used by geologists, but hundreds of old books still use it that way. Greenstone belts are a category of orogenic deposit, so not interchangeable, but greenstone belts are part of the Orogenic group.
So when prospecting for gems, gold, etc. Where do you end up selling your finds? Is it online, rock and gem shows, local businesses, refineries, etc. I see a lot of prospectors and rockhounds/gem hunters find nice pieces but never go onto tell how they sell them to or if they just hoard them
Hello my English is not very good but i would like to ask. which machine according to your experience can detect up to 30 or 40 meters below the surface. I m from Africa we use local way to find gold but if we could gate good metal detector hope will help. most of metal detector only can see to the surface only.
was out pounding benson canyon with my buddy (out by randsburg) wish i got some gold. you use the head phones on the gm 1000. trying different things have a good day
Chris We really like your videos. I would be interested in describing the geology more. For example, what is the name of the rock that you are showing. How it comes into play. What kind of dike, etc. Thanks, Lee
hello, would it be better to dig on the outside of rivers? and would you prefer i use a gold sluice or a blue bowl? pretty new to the gold stuff, the only gold i found was from a packet of dirt online. in a pan, if there isnt much gold in it, should i use the flake from the packet to see if other materials act similar to it in the pan?
Watch a bunch of my videos and buy my book and you will learn. No the outside bend of a river is not a good place to look. the blue bowl is for concentrates from other work, not gravels directly from a stream. Study and learn the skills of prospecting and that will lead to success.
Hello. I have been exploring gold for medical purposes. I was curious if you know of any techniques involving smell? I learned that actinobacteria are upregulated in soils containing gold microparticles, and this is something that humans and ants can smell. There are weird stories of ants pulling gold out of the ground in some african areas and I wanna figure out why. I think it may be related to gold bearing fault lines being worn down over time but don't know what that would be called to research it.
@@ChrisRalph been studying bacterial involvement in gold and iron precipitation. Bacteria seem to be part of the precipitation of iron bogs. I just watched another of your videos and you mentioned area where the solvent water boiled. I think that's the areas I'm looking for. Cheers.
@@ultimape I hear gold acts is a catalyst kind of like blood ,it reacts when exposed to peroxide wonder if there could be some kind of medicinal experiments that could be done from that ,your post about there being a medical connection just made my brain smoke lol in overdrive just thinking of many possibilities thought I would share my thoughts ,knowledge is something I crave forsure never heard the medical aspect of gold spoke on before now I am just being curious 😁
@@christiecrawford6119 that's a fascinating hunch. The bacteria I am looking for specifically eats mucus in the gut as part of it's life cycle. Hydrogen peroxides in the gut is seen as a problem in people with crohn's disease, and as a result I found out that mucus is meant to create a thick gradient of h2o2 has part of it's protective barrier. This research is less than a year old That the mucus eating bacteria also thrive in soil with gold in it suggests some neat possibilities. Raw honey has an enzyme in it that makes hydrogen peroxide when in contact with water as part of how it fights yeast and bacteria. I wonder if the right kind of soil mixed with honey and water would work to extract gold. Ants and bees are able to make formic acid with their gut bacteria and I believe that can be used to process metals. Maybe there is a simple process here we are overlooking.
Dont you know Chris , Cows, by nature, can not stand tents of any design 😁 While i`ve heard of greenstone belt, I never knew what it was...Sure hope my brain can retain the info. ha ha
I've camped in the vicinity of cows loads of time and never had a problem, the guy I was with had pitched a tent here many times before with no problem. I think these were attack cows, specially bred by the military for stealth counter-terrorism.
Small farmer had a cow, Nellie, she hated me, went thru the fence once, always watched where I was when she was in the barn. I also rode with veterinarian to many large dairy farms, they can try to kick you. Horses are biters, mirrors on vehicles, ..
Hi Chris today I was prospecting and found a good size gold flake and half is covered in silver is this something you have seen from southern CA if you have an email I can send you a picture thanks
First. We are not there so you need to do what feels right for you. Were big kids we can deal with it and if not, they can go to another channel and probably not learn a thing.
I got a demon in me that wont allow me to find the gold . Because this demon want me to sale my soul to the devil if i want to find gold . Please tell me did you have to sale your soul to the devil to be able to find gold .?
I did not sell my soul to the devil, I just studied and learned how to find gold. It is a skill to learn like other skills. You do not need to sell your soul either.
