The 1st gold found in colorado was in a stream in Arvada in the area of Sheridan and 58th. Platte river was where all panned in the great depression. Pan for diamonds as well. If you look at usgs map of vents you will find us in that area. (There have been 2 major diamond mines in Colorado). By the by, pyrite has about a 15% gold content in some areas here. Do not discount fools gold. The real fun comes when you triangulate where the gold originated on a mountain. Rock mining is much more profitable.
Thanks for another fun video. . Nice little bit of gold as well. You can make a couple of very easy to build pipe crushers for some of your smaller rocks that are 2" and under. 3" with larger pipe. You break the large rocks into smaller pieces in the larger pipes and then powder the smaller pieces in a 1 1/2" model. It only takes about 2 - 3 minutes to crush them to powder. Small enough to throw into the pack as well. Crush on the spot. I can give you specifics if you'd like.
Yeah I remember seeing something about those pipe crushers. Ill have to find a welder or fabricator to cobble something together for me. Thanks for watching and the suggestions!
That bucket gets heavy quick too so you don't necessarily want to fill it up all the way before you sluice. Last time I went out I tore a muscle in my shoulder lol. We do have some beautiful quartz boulders everywhere up here in Alaska. The schist is so brittle up here the quartz ends up outlasting it in nature. You end up with quartz boulders scattered everywhere.
it's amazing what you go through for a little bit of gold, but as you said it gets you away from the city (and all your viewers with you). It's so darn interesting I watch every bit of it. I never skip over anything. I can see why you have a bad back. Mine is from sitting and watching videos. Also I have been tied to a 9 - 5 + job. Keep them coming, I love your vids and live streams too.
Hey Shirl thanks for watching! I'm glad you enjoy my videos! My bad back is actually from a few bad parachute landings in the Army. I landed so hard a few times I woke up not knowing what happened, except that my back hurt really..really bad. Never been the same since! Fun stuff! LOL
Beautiful fall day to be out enjoying Colorado. Looks back breaking but I wouldnt mind trying it sometime. Probably as much value as I would find in clad while metal detecting in an afternoon. Thanks for sharing.
I think a few of us meeting up and seeing what we can find would be a great time. Its colder now but we're all big kids. I'm sure we'll survive. Anyone up for tomorrow or Wednesday? It's supposed to be pretty warm. I'm Chris by the way.
Very nice pull for out there! Question... I’m running basically the same sluice and know the aggravation... How many classified buckets do you recommend to run, before you clean out? I’m going to be trying out Ralston Creek soon, and have been out many many times, but I really don’t have a clue when it’s best, to clean out the box
@@Klesh I appreciate that. That’s kind of what I thought, but just nervous about losing anything. Thanks for answering. Your videos have been very helpful. I really need to get me a small clean up sluice, but since I’ve been drying my cons, it’s been much easier once I get the magnetite out.
This is Great, I can't wait to get out to Colorado and do some Prospecting the Creeks, Streams and Rivers. I will wait for warmer weather though, like Summer next year. Love your Videos keep them coming.
Been prospecting in Colorado for 10 years. Been doing it with my brother. You sir are a wealth of knowledge. I would sure like to meet you or maybe even pan together. I watch all your videos and also watch Dan Hurd and flour gold wizards. I watch gold recovery videos daily.
Thanks for sharing video, ideas and great info. Always look forward to what you find next prospecting, metal detecting and all adventures. Keep up the awesome videos.
The Google Earth VR is a really cool, dare I say pioneering addition to your videos. Since you prospect in or near a major metropolitan area in some fairly well known areas it isn't an issue showing your location, but most prospectors who hunt public lands are much more secretive about locations where they find success lest they arrive at their spot to find a host of people digging it up. Sharing is caring but when it comes to gold, sharing is daring.
I agree, but If I find a good spot...I'll go ahead and show the exact location anyway. I can only do this stuff once in a great while due to my back injuries...my doctor doesn't even want me bending down. But they can't stop me.
Enjoyed this video. in the 70's I used to sluice and pan right near the middle of Denver. I would be the only one and people thought I was nuts. But I got gold and had a lot of fun. I was more near Lakeside Amusement park... that side of Denver. You need golashes or some sort of waders as the water is not the purest.
Awesome stuff man keep up the videos. I've been at that spot you sluiced at Broadway, it's a good spot found some chunky pieces. Also you can prospect at I-70 West and younfield. Look up the Arapahoe bar in Wheatridge,Co it's a public mining spot too.
Remind me not to come over to your house for dinner! LOL Nice to see you are getting lots of use from your virtual dohinky! Always interesting and entertaining to watch, Klesh. See you on your streams!
Just started watching your videos maybe a week ago can't get enough you have got me excited to try my hand at gold prospecting I live in Virginia and have a few minds in the area I live in and have friends who know the owner and there are streams near bye as well what would you suggest for start out equipment any advice would be welcome thanks for the great vids
Check the description of any of my gold prospecting (in nature) videos, I make it a point to have links to everything you need to get started in those videos.
Much of the gold is ultra fines along the sides of clear creek. I seen small nuggets come from several feet down on old flood layers right where your panning!
@@Klesh yeah I had to follow clear creek on the map till it meets Broadway. I couldn't picture where it crossed Broadway. Found it not long after this post. Thanks for getting back to me though. I really DIG you channel man. I know you're super busy and I appreciate you taking time to reply. Good looking out. I never actually tried panning yet. Too many hobbies and work right now. Keep up the great content Klesh! Maybe I'll see you out there some day. 👊🏽
Super funny I was in that same hole digging today got a little miffed and dig a different spot and it was a lot better not so back breaking . I have a high banker set up to run as well run a ton per hour
Hi Mate.. That’s great Gold spot.. Nice gold . I will be uploading one myself on using a rota pan for Gold Panning..Today..! It definitely makes Gold panning easy when you can’t use a gold sluice.. Cheers Tony..👍🍺⛏🇦🇺
Everyone sais don't use neodymium magnet but, honestly, It's the only way to effectively remove the black sands because rare earth works on magnetite and hematite. You just save it all for later and move on with the process. I have seen small flakes of gold with magnetite attached up here in Alaska so you just gotta be careful.
Hey buddy I'm from the same area roughly and wouldn't mind joining helping and learning from you one of these weekends. I also have land in deer Creek and curious if it's worth searching. Please get back to me soon!! Until then I hope the searches are fruitful
Hey Silver Superman I'd be happy to have you along for a day of digging in the river! I can even take a look at your land and give you my ideas on where to look for gold there.
good video, I lived in Lakewood back I 93 and 94. I found some gold up on clear creek before you get to black hawk. that was before the price of gold went up. I plan on moving back in January. maybe we could team up,
That sluce box is Def not 3 feet long is it? Looks only like it's maby 1 1/2 ft long. I think they lied to you lol. But I could be wrong. Awesome video tho my brother most love
Wish I could go gold mining but I'm paralyzed and don't have a wheelchair cause someone stole it so now tryna raise money for a new one and am now bed bound without one. But maby one day I could afford the hobby
Good idea with the right type of detector. There's so much trash out there that I'd spend all day in a 10'x10' square picking up signals of all types. Thanks for watching!
Hey brother, just imagine yippy have done 20 buckets. You would've made 20 bucks plus. Hey you never know. I'm pretty jealous I'm in Brooklyn New York, not one gold spot at all. Gotta get outta this city life. Enjoy
klesh i found tons of gold near where i live in reno nevada. I have 1/2 ton to process also iam building my own rock crusher,mill all for less than $100...PEACE!!
Yeah for sure. Never really thought about it that way, maybe I should do a 1 hour metal detecting vs 1 hour of gold panning. Then compare the incomes. Thanks for the idea (i'll give ya credit when I do the video!!)
i love the videos man what would make your end process a lot easier is ether buy a miller table or make one. there is a guy on youtube that makes amazing miller tables with directions on how to make them named @utahavalanch
Right on, glad you're enjoying them. I would already have built a miller table but I don't have the space for one, at least not yet. Thanks again for watching
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