Prospecting Gold Veins With Dan Hurd!

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Went on a gold prospecting adventure with ‪@Danhurd‬ , and I almost killed him! We hiked to a quartz gold vein that I found last summer and found some gold in quartz specimens. I also brought back a bag of quartz ore to run through our hammer mill and shaker table to determine how much gold per ton there is. Stay tuned for more videos!
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@hopebear06 2 года назад

I worked at a home which belonged to the owner of a marble supply company. He saved the best piece for his kitchen splashback. It's black marble with a thick white quartz vein running diagonally is full of gold. In some places the gold is over two inches wide. It stops you in your tracks and you just have to stare at it for a while. It's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen, ex wife included.

@MrShekoexile 2 года назад

🤣🤣🤣

@thisisbeyondajoke6748 2 года назад

Any photos of the ex.?😁😁

@hardworker645 2 года назад

😁😁😁😁😁

@dna3930 2 года назад

I worked high end construction, houses mostly costing 5 million plus. I seen stuff similar to your description, it's not cheap, can be hard to work with.

@Michael-rg7mx 2 года назад

@@thisisbeyondajoke6748 I have some.

@Wess-S 2 года назад

I love these collabs. The only one thats missing is Jeff Williams. The holy trinity of youtube gold prospectors

@paraglidingprospector 2 года назад

I totally agree with ya! Call up Jeff next time too! 😂

@PogueMahone1 2 года назад

Jason visited Jeff a while back and released vids both on-site in NV and back home prossing ore samples from Jeff's mine.

@kscory8577 2 года назад

Jeff looks like he would be alot to handle if you were a chill person

@PogueMahone1 2 года назад

@@kscory8577 A little Jeff is a lot to take, which is why I don't subscribe to his channel. He needs to turn himself down a bit.

@kscory8577 2 года назад

@@PogueMahone1 I like what he does but he is too much. I don't watch his stuff either

@bobdobbs4525 2 года назад

I love watching you guys work together. Jason,Dan and Jeff are My favorite prospectors..

@BillMulholland1 2 года назад

It’s great to see you guys together again. The two smartest guys in gold mining and prospecting. 🍻👍

@Psychedelicide 2 года назад

This collab is pure gold!! More & longer vids por favor!!

@dionh70 2 года назад

Jason, your personality really comes through your videos as a decent, likeable, easy-going dude. Enjoyable to watch, and probably a great guy to hang out with, too.

@kaboom4679 2 года назад

What's a death march between friends ? Especially when you have all that scenery and a little gold ...

@andysmith1962 2 года назад

Love you two when you get together, your energy when together is remarkable!

@damianstasek8946 2 года назад

Long time fan of both shows, mbmm for like 7 years. Love these

@mikewinings4120 2 года назад

Miners a hundred years ago were more fit than any one of us today,good job you guys,love you both

@johnpappe3289 2 года назад

Jason takes it easy with Dan. He is no jungle gym anymore. Glad to see you both prospecting together. And also I was surprised to see Jason has been modified to be like the bionic man. Way to go!

@mikehartman5326 2 года назад

Dan Hurd was my first Gold channel I subscribed to when he may have had 20K subs. Massive following now. Your channel too has grown. When you keep putting out good vids you get your following. Great video.

@scruggsbuster9458 2 года назад

I love how you explain the difference in the rocks and how to look for what we got to look for makes it easier for when I go out there because I found gold watching your show on the rocks that have gold in them and I do appreciate all you info that you give so thank you very much I'll keep doing what I'm doing and keep watching your videos

@dodgeit3014 2 года назад

Man I love Dan. He just seems to be a amazing person

@paulpurdue5963 Год назад

Millions of years ago that white quartz vein was a hydro-geothermal vent / smoker. As the microscopic heavy metal was carried up by superheated water from deep within the crust, when crossing a iron vein which was magnified by the energy, the heavy metals slowed down and built up along the walls of the vent eventually closing off the vent. Finding the point where the vent was blocked is where the MOTHER LOAD is found. Pressure forced cracks in the schists to create finger veins until crossing another iron vein. Plate tectonics lifted the the smokers from the Ocean floor to mountain tops and in between.

@jtswhitewater4940 2 года назад

Poor Dan it must have been a struggle for him. Nice to see you back here again

@csamazonturk6201 2 года назад

Jason, I love the prospecting videos. It always seems like you're going on an adventure with a pot of gold at the end. Exciting stuff keep it up!

@douglasramsey1303 2 года назад

I love watching you both on your adventures!! I wish I could go along but you must hear people asking you all the time!! Wow !! I can't wait for you to assay that gold too!! Well keep bringing your awesome content I'm excited to see more!! :)😀

@whalercumming9911 2 года назад

Dan is a big RU-vid celeb now. It's great that everyone wants him on their adventures.

@patdexter9188 2 года назад

Thanks for this share! Finding something like this today is extremely difficult and a very good find. I have found in areas that the old timers found these veins and they brought in stamp mills. A town sometimes sprang up, high in the mountains. When the vein ran out so did the people. Leaving ghost towns all over the west. When crushing the veins the gold was turns into very fine pieces. They used mercury early on to extract the gold. Letting the tailing run into the creeks below them. Now the tailings are covered up with 100 yrs of erosion. Imagine when they were running there mill what the creeks looked like in these areas. White layers of crushed quarts so fine its like putty. Running that material through a trommel can break it up enough to sluice it and find gold and mercury. Problem is that can reintroduce mercury back into the environment that has been covered up for yrs.

@patdexter9188 2 года назад

I can't go out prospecting anymore because of back problems. But my grandkids are about old enough to go with and help with the back breaking job of digging. Keep up those great video's!

@1jasonrl 2 года назад

All I can say is more, more, more. Love the Dan collab vids. Can't wait to see what comes out of the crush and that assay

@rockman531 2 года назад

Hey Jason, Great video! Happy to see you mining again. Hope you're able to figure out the helicopter rough rock pick-up! 3 tons would be an awesome "sample" to run on your machines. Good Luck! Looking forward to your processing video. Stay safe, Jim

@mattshaffer5935 2 года назад

Love these prospecting videos! Super interesting! Thanks for your hard work!

@cjsoutdoors4412 2 года назад

Really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing! 🇺🇲⛏️

@davidjohnstone7959 2 года назад

I was always taught. Quartz veins were part of the geothermal waters. Solidified after earthquakes disrupted the waterways. The gold never melted in the geothermal waters. Being heavy they were always traveling along the bottom of the geothermal water rivers. And when they became quartz, the best gold is always at the bottom of the quartz vein.

@jeffbybee5207 2 года назад

May wish to get a second teacher

@davidjohnstone7959 2 года назад

Jeff Please re educate me if I'm wrong. Always willing to learn new things

@chicagovasko 2 года назад

Dan I really appreciate you and all you teach and I see you have crisp brand new threads. Have a greàt day sir.

@jbowerman50 2 года назад

You guys get to have Way Too Much Fun!

@KadosAI 2 года назад

Dan Hurd is the man, I love when he makes guest appearances!!!!

@brucevanderzanden9638 2 года назад

Great video Jason. I like it when you work with Dan. Those feather & Wedges work great! I have a set also.

@daz41262010 2 года назад

looked like a fun day out with Dan :) can't wait to see the results :)

@phillipswain4942 2 года назад

Glad to.see Dan survived the hike...

@Nitrodus 2 года назад

Great energy, two geologists :) i been watching both of you for some time, and kept hoping u ll become friends!

@alfadoofus 2 года назад

That was good to see Dan on your claim . He's quite the character

@d.t.4523 2 года назад

There's always the option to parachute in, and save the hike effort. Good luck.

@chicagovasko 2 года назад

Jason your awesome too buddy, I know I fixin to laugh during before or after work is done in this video. I really dig this stuff I wanna soak up this valuable knowledge.

@matthewf1979 2 года назад

Im glad you went back to that spot. Every time I see you post I think about it.

@jimmyj9838 2 года назад

Jason we need a video with also pioneer pauly & Dan, all on a prospecting adventure!!

@m8s4lif 2 года назад

You follow a rainbow all the way to the end, and when you get there, there's a seam of quartz with Dan and Jason working on it with a pick. How can a regular guy compete with these guys? Love the video.

@FancyPants43 2 года назад

I recently started watching both of your streams. Nice to see fellow people in the same streaming community and collabing great content. 💰⛏⚒⚖💯

@jeffholmes1362 2 года назад

Awesome job, can’t wait to see what you get

@midnitemike 2 года назад

Love the videos with Dan and you!

@blech71 2 года назад

Great video! That’s really good looking material. I usually concentrate taking material from the contact zones (or rather just a little left and right of the main contact) and sometimes if u get lucky I can see a few different runs of the same vein over time… meaning the main portion was one time and then a small contact then into a newer run at a later time and so on. Those are really good where I am. It seems in my area a single vein can have a few different fill-ins over geo time. In some of the bands u can def tell the quartz had way more alteration and/or was embedded with much more than previous older bands. Ours are more or less “stringers” running from pencil width to maybe 6” or so avg. Oh by the way… I love seeing you team up with Dan. I love your channels and actually got introduced to your channel through his if I recall from a way early vid of his.

@spudnikholyghostroller7314 2 года назад

Now the fun part is when you have all your mining equipment flown up to your new hard rock mine

@danwells3401 2 года назад

Great video thanks Jason, looks like great fun :)

@michaelleeadkins9611 2 года назад

It would be awesome if everyone had you guys personalities doing what we love to do!!

@anonymously4U 2 года назад

Good to see you both making videos

@tortugalisa4748 2 года назад

It was interesting watching you use the feathering wedges. I might try that out myself if I find a good spot here in the Arizona desert🤙 Great video guys!

@johnramirez5032 2 года назад

Great to see you two teaming up. I saw Jason a few months ago pokin at this vien.

@Alondro77 2 года назад

I recently found the 'core' of twin parallel glacial moraines in NJ. All along the hills, mostly small gravels and fist-sized rocks. Then suddenly, a THIRD, much lower moraine appeared as a finger sticking out into the middle. LARGE rocks are embedded in it, 40-50 lb boulders, and I even found a huge chunk of crystalline quartz, CLEARLY hydrothermal in origin, and another one that appeared to be a chunk of the inside of a massive geode, with many small pea-sized clear crystals condensing together into a single mass. To test, I took samples of the side moraines, and then the central low hill. I found no gold at all from the exterior material, nor from the clay at the base of them. But from the first little sample from that center part, 3 flakes of gold! That's the origin material of the gold I'm finding in the tiny streams! I suspect there's larger pieces deep inside that ridge. The material is very densely compressed iron-rich clay and ground-up quartzite, and hard to dig into, so it hasn't weathered much. Only the lightest material at the top has worn away over these thousands of years, leaving the very rocky clay intact. So the next and very difficult task will be to dig INTO that core and get some samples.

@dabrusterguy 2 года назад

I was wondering if you two would ever do a video together. You two are just a jump hop and a skip away across the border.

@jeffbybee5207 2 года назад

With the whole share of Washington in between

@leighanncronin6905 2 года назад

Great video with Dan❣️

@kasnitch 2 года назад

Those feather and wedges are excellent . Luck on the assays .

@dodgygoose3054 2 года назад

Been waiting for you to go back there, so glad you took Dan... and didn't give him a heart attack. Looking forward to seeing what pops out of those samples.

@hiddentruth1982 2 года назад

if it turns out good enough it might be worth making a road up to the quartz or at least as close as you can.

@Stopbeingnosyffs 2 года назад

Awesome enjoyed that thank you both well done Dan you made it to top 😜

@chris-nwue_B 2 года назад

That vein is a hell of a climb up there, think I got a sample back in the late 1990s. Some nice veins in that area. Think I spotted another vein up there with a drone years ago.

@kkingquad 2 года назад

I was excited to see those split wedges, too bad they didn’t work out quite right

@brianmcintyre8940 2 года назад

Great video . Easy to do your own assays with a torch. The man that taught me send a sample of rich ore to practice on.

@fredygump5578 2 года назад

There's guy on youtube, "Demolition Dave", who recommends greasing the wedges. He says they last longer. He breaks and blasts rock, but he isn't a miner.

@jeffbybee5207 2 года назад

Oils can hamper gold recovery

@outdoorloser4340 2 года назад

What a beautiful location, looks like lord of the rings.

@jonathanbolender9258 2 года назад

This looks very much like a place I cut timber at in the late 70s on Segalson ridge. There was a rock outcropping at the end of the sale that appeared to be mineralized.

@whitebuffalo84 2 года назад

you should bring a battery operated vacuum to capture any flour gold in the dust from drilling and once the quartz cracks

@damianstasek8946 2 года назад

Long time fan. PLEASE, DO A VIDEO ON THE SAMPLING. I really dig these vids together.

@brettbretterson6062 2 года назад

Two of my favorite prospectors!

@michaelpass2176 2 года назад

Dan is alive with humor!

@bulwynkl 2 года назад

One of the things that may be occurring is that quartz veins don't form all in one go but in bursts - possibly during earthquakes. There is a supposition that during an earthquake the shock wave traveling through the rock temporarily drops the pressure on the hydrothermal fluid filling the crack and the silica drops out very rapidly - dumps everything in solution, including any gold, suphides and metals. Then the hydrothermal fluid slowly refills and pushed the crack apart again - since it's the weak spot anyway - until the next earthquake... so a 60 cm thick quartz vein may be one deposition event, or it may be dozens. you may be able to see a line or change in mineralisation (galena, pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, &etc) that defines the auriferous event... if there is a clear delineation between the gold rich edge and the rest it may be easier to high-grade once you know what to look out for. There is also no guarantee it'll stick to that side of the wall either - so keep an eye out for the indicator minerals occurring else where in the vein - especially if it swaps sides & etc. Of course I could be totally wrong, but hey....

@DR_SOLO 2 года назад

Maybe those wedges work best with solid rock or solid Stone that looks like sedimentary layers so maybe it didn't separate the slab as expected

@bully9917 2 года назад

Cool video's Jason, question: Have you ever looked at one of you smelted lead beads under a microscope to get an idea of how much gold might be in it before Cupellation ?

@sharkscrapper 2 года назад

Very interesting - I'm an urban prospector but love watching the hunt for gold.

@jimwednt1229 2 года назад

That's hiking with purpose ! I can't wait to see the assay video(s) Thank you .

@whoopwhoop3660 2 года назад

we love Dan

@patricknoveski6409 2 года назад

Poor Dan. Gotta try to keep up w young buck. That's what he gets for showing you those wedges. Cardio Dan. New name !

@danbrown7735 2 года назад

Hello Jason! I’m Dan from Missouri. I really enjoy your gold from rocks etc. videos. I’m in a mining district, Iron county Missouri. Finding many interesting rocks and believe I’ve possibly found gold that needs extracted from and iron-hematite type rock. I’ve watched melt many different things and wondering if I was to send you samples, would you be interested in possibly doing an extraction to possibly get some gold. Thank you I really enjoy your videos.

@gorillagoldhunters 2 года назад

Right on Dan, that hearts still working awesome buddy!! Great video you 2

@RyanDCH 2 года назад

Jason, you gotta go easy on us old guys! Maybe rent the helicopter for Dan next time? :D

@rastaralph7154 2 года назад

I remember the last video of you sitting on the sketchy ledge! 😂❤️💛💚

@kylemcshooter1627 2 года назад

I love ur shows keep up the good work

@briankepner7569 2 года назад

Is it correct to say that the gold was deposited in the courts vein then as the mountain rose and folded over that the gold is migrating to the lowest point? Maybe the surface leaching I've heard described is part of this process. It's always fun to watch your videos because I get educated and then I have annoying questions they can't answer

@joelhiggins6156 2 года назад

Can’t wait to see what comes out of that sample😄

@ChatterontheWire 2 года назад

looking smokey in the background, dealing with that in Idaho too

@xenaguy01 2 года назад

11:54 Your correct response should have been, "No, I took it slow on the way down for *ME!* 😃😄😁😆😅😂🤣

@foreversolo810 2 года назад

I would love to Go prospecting with you Guys would be a blast

@frantiseklaluch6605 2 года назад

Ahoj Jason, what a beautiful nature... I think, you had video from this spot some time ago... Dan and Jason, my favourite gold boys...

@seanparchim9165 2 года назад

Well now!! Dan knows he can do it so he can check that off his bucket list✌️ Napa California

@tristenshumway6999 2 года назад

Clean your holes out half way down and it will save bit and drill faster.. Thanks for sharing brother much love and respect from GJ Colorado!👊🍻

@easternwoods4378 2 года назад

That vein looks like it has too many flaws in it ( cracks ) to get a piece to make a kitchen countertop out of. Be frightfully expensive but a Mastercard moment to see.

@maryglo1 2 года назад

Wow! You men are sports! Snowing already! And is that last year's snow on that skiable slope behind Dan?!? I wanna go!!! Gold, a view and I'll ski the gold down. We could use a ski patrol like sled! National Ski Patrol Vet 12 years service. Proficiency, Ski Mountaineering, Avalanche Safety and Rescue Instructor "Ms. Fit" OmAGoldiggerNow

@jdavis954 2 года назад

Wow Dan Hurd My hat goes off to you keeping up after open heart surgery

@yardmine 2 года назад

I recommended a Hawaiian buyer to you at the escrap conference in New Orleans this weekend and he seems like a very motivated buyer. He should be reaching out.

@l.mcmanus3983 2 года назад

Could you use some sort of travois or sledge to help move heavy loads out? You have the advantage of only needing to go down and not up with heavy bags of rock. I can’t wait to see what gold might come out of your samples.

@timerickson7056 2 года назад

Holy crap nuggets Batman I have been under the assumption that this area is on the Baker but now I'm thinking you may be about a hour south

@jeffersonstategold8349 2 года назад

Cool you two getting together. Don't give Dan a heart attack! ❤

@smokeyandspikeproductions 2 года назад

Awesome!

@thelotec007 2 года назад

Nicely done brother 👍.. Equipment just showed up..👍

@lancenutter1067 2 года назад

Very fun adventure!

@butziporsche8646 2 года назад

Sweet, take that home and run it Jason!

@Alondro77 2 года назад

Finding gold on a lower edge of a quartz vein makes sense in the material was 'flowing' slowly as it formed. Gravity will still be in effect, and the gold in this silica-rich fluid will want to sink naturally.

@paraglidingprospector 2 года назад

Gonna have to call up Heavy D Sparks for your helicopter stuff!

@naughtiusmaximus830 2 года назад

I was working with a guy that had a nail head fracture and flew into his mouth knocking out two teeth. I hate wearing safety glasses too so I mostly keep them in my picket for easy access now.

@paulcallicoat7597 2 года назад

It wasn't a good idea to take a heart patient up there with the wildfire smoke we are experiencing without a mask. I live in Bremerton and it is as bad today as what you guys were having during your climb. I'd say the fire from the North Cascade National Park/Ross Lake Rec area and Manly Park up in Canada is the source of the smoke as are other fires in the Pasayten Wilderness further east of you.