Hydraulic Mining, The Series, Part 1

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Part 1 of the Hydraulic Gold Mining series. Featuring the devastation of the 1800's Hydraulic mining operations. A first hand look at an old sluice box and the Blue Lead along with some history and pictures. A great informational playlist that goes into every different aspect of hydraulic mining that I could think of. There is a lot of knowledge passed on in this 3 part series and then there are more movies added in on this playlist. If you find more movies with some new information on hydraulic mining that should be included in this playlist then let me know the url & I will add them in here for the person who has them posted :)

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@williamhiles7404 Год назад

Love these videos. Thanks. LedHed 🎶

@robr4596 7 лет назад

Thank you for the videos! I finally have figured out how to work in the old pits with my GMT detector now, thanks to you and some other guys that posted good info. No longer overwelmed and lost when I get to a hydraulic pit. can't wait till the weather clears.

@oddsource 12 лет назад

Jim Morrison needs to sing us a gold rush song.

@FlashInYourPan 13 лет назад

I can not find the other parts 1-3 on this series I will watch what I can find. Very interesting good job and thank you Reed.

@DavidHuber63 Год назад

The trees have seen better days

@plutus205 Год назад

They could have dug holes with tractors.

@chucklotro8749 4 года назад

How much of the muck your buddy stood next to for scale is still there? I hope it's even cleaner since your series.

@ReedLukens 11 лет назад

Wow, I would love to see some pics :) That's an ausom find.

@ReedLukens 11 лет назад

This was buried under 40 feet of tailings for 110 years or so but I come across this stuff every now and again up here.

@TRyan3 5 дней назад

I watched this and other vids of yours when they came out 13 years ago... I'm an exploration geologist now! Thanks!

@ReedLukens 4 дня назад

@@TRyan3 Right on Ryan 😎🍻👍👍👍 Congratulations 👍👍👍🍻😎

@ArizonaBob 13 лет назад

There is an old saying: "When a geologist asks you to stand for a picture...it is not because he wants to take your photograph...it is because he needs you for scale." Wonderful videos! Cheers!

@mikemiller7231 3 года назад

Well is it part 1 or 4??

@ReedLukens 11 лет назад

Nope, it is a stacked wall but this is one of the early old mining camps where there were no Chinese allowed yet. It was one of the first buried by tailings soon after Hydraulic Mining was invented.

@ReedLukens 12 лет назад

@oddsource Now that's funny 8°) hehe, I can't get him to keep quiet now! All I need now is him singing in my ear all day, hahaha.

@jasonjasonjason503 12 лет назад

Earth first-Then we mine other planets later!!!!---KEWL!

@ReedLukens 13 лет назад

I'll have a lot more info in the next few clips when I get them put together but you also want to look for the small mounds where they had the monitors set up on. Usually these were never hit and can come alive with a metal detector. Really the rocks in the blue lead out here are a dark midnight blue or almost black. The clay is that color as far as you can see it until it is washed and then the colors start to separate. There you will easily see the turquoise blues mixed with the Gold.

@ReedLukens 13 лет назад

Just click on my name above the video and it will take you to my page. On the right it shows all of the videos, click the box that says show all.... & there ya go

@mudlogga 11 лет назад

After 3 months of dredging the deepest hole on the upper Arkansas river in CO. I found a Spanish sluice made from a single log,and a fire-ring.35 feet from the surface.Sluice was intact,and went to a museum.

@ReedLukens 12 лет назад

@Ibringthetruth1 - yep, hydraulic monitors. There's pics here in part 6. Then if you go into my hydraulic mining playlist there is another video of actual footage of them being used still today in Alaska. There's some great videos in my playlists.

@ReedLukens 12 лет назад

@Ibringthetruth1 - Nothing bigger than my 8" dredge in the 2006 video or my trommel in its video. Usually it's just 2 of us but that was an exceptional find that day so I invited a couple of friends who were just getting into gold mining.

@ReedLukens 12 лет назад

@winching4au Well if it was steel and about 1½" around then it was probably a broken drill bit stuck in the bedrock or part of an old bucketline dredge but you never know until you dig it up 8°) In many cases the swimming holes that we use today were made by miners originally and if it was at the front of the hole then this is probably the case. If it's wood then it could be part of an old sluice. The sluice box here was covered for over 100 years in tailings and now it's gone, washed down river

@ReedLukens 11 лет назад

May have been at one time but being in the river, there wouldn't have been much of a chance of it being anything other than maybe a longtom from the 30's. It may have been part of a sluice but there's only one way to find out :) hehe. They did flume back in the day and more than likely it may have been part of one of them. We do know that it was for gold mining anyway. I'd say there's maybe a 30% chance on it being a sluice & I'm 50/50 on a flume. The wood would be so old that it would crumble

@coreymacgregor176 Год назад

Jim had no idea he was gonna be mining that day, wait til the guys at home Depot hear about this.

@aperfectcuremt 13 лет назад

I am very interested in what you are calling blue rock....here in montana i see alot of blue rock, what other signs am I lookin for in ole hydrolic pits...

@runandgun41 11 лет назад

that's incredible.to devote so much time in that one spot.not to mention the deference in the area and how it's changed..wow!! the old timers sluice box.what a find.i'm blown away.here in so calif we prospect in places where the old timers did the same thing.not much remains..