See the richest spots in the stream by Reading the River for gold. 

Back from Virginia just got time to watch !!!!!!! First Gold of 2024 found yesterday video coming soon !!!!!

Hey Mr. Ralph, first of all thanks for the great content. I just got hired to work the Frac rigs in the Permian basin, 2 weeks on and one week off. During my off-weeks, I plan to camp out in New Mexico on the margins of some of the many collapsed calderas to prospect for gold. My housing is provided while I'm working, so I can save money by camping while I'm not working. There was a report from the 70s which suggests that there are over 30,000 ounces of placer gold still in the Hillsboro mining district, and there is plenty more to explore in NM as well! Thanks for helping me in my endeavors, I truly appreciate your work. May God bless you and your loved ones!

I absolutely love and appreciate your videos! So educational! I got your book for Christmas and it's incredible the knowledge and tips you know. You are appreciated!

Excellent video. this is a whole course about gold!!!

Thank you for posting this Chris. It’s always good to get a refresher course.

Thanks Chris! Great information.

Thanks Chris. Always enjoy the in-depth videos you do. Appreciated.

Great stuff as usual chris. You get into things others only mention. One of the things i always do when placering is to just try to imagine what that area was doing a billion years ago.

great video, well done.

Awesome explanation of river reading. Great amount of knowledge.thank you..And yes I bought the book awesome amount of knowledge in it I still haven't been all the way through it but still flip to certain sections to remind myself of your knowledge

Great video message. Thank you

Thanks for the great info and happy new year

Great information as always.

Always a pleasure to receive his new video alerts. Chris is leaps and bounds ahead of any of the mining cosplayers and pretenders on RU-vid (looking at you, Williams).

cool video! My wife bought me your book for my birthday and I'm slowly working my way through it.

Thank you,I always learn more from your knowledge

I like all this education, It's like going to seminars,. A lot of this is a good confirmation.And I really appreciate it.Thank you

Very informative. Thanks.

Thank you for yet another fantastic video, I really appreciate your knowledge and wisdom!

Just excellent video.

This is the best prospecting video I have ever seen...

Great info!! From NZ!

Nevermind I found some of your videos that gave me some answers on it. Thanks

Thanks!

I listened to these to go to sleep but they are really good to watch - lots of work you've done with graphics and charts and pictures - mining and geology stuff is great to sleep to cause you travel to other places and lots of allusions to natural environments - prospectors and miners are outdoor cats for sure

That is the best river diagram I have ever seen,

Great Video

Great information thanks for sharing your wisdom Where was that campground in the 90's ??? with more violent storms these days that area will be worth visiting since the gold is already there it just needs some good washing out. Thanks again definitely worth watching COMPLETE PRESENTATION

Seeing those images of flood stage waters ripping through a drainage like that, it makes me chuckle to think of folks absolutely freaking out about a little silt from an in-stream sluice, or even a 4 inch dredge. 😊

This is a good one Chris. Very informative and of huge relevance to me. Especially the bit about flooding because weve been getting tons of that. Have u ever been to the Antelope Valley of Southern California in Riverside county off the 15 or 215?

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Thank you for the great video. Answered so many questions and learned so much. I was wondering about punching through the clay layer or false Bedrock to see if there was more on the real bedrock. Very interesting lots of good information to use on my next gold dredging trip thank you so much

Thank you for these tips. I can try them out in a few weeks. I am curious. Of all these old mines, before they knew what uranium is, how often do you think they dug up uraninite and just discarded it to the side?

Hey Chris, your video here is a treasure. Thank you for sharing some of your decades of diverse mining experiences. I'll save to watch again for fun and for technical reference. Good health and Happy mining to you sir. Question: Can 'pickers' be found at or around the Lower American? Say Nimbus, to the Sacramento river?

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At 26:45 time mark, you were talking about the tributary stream. You went from 7 & 8 then jumped to 10 & 11. You missed #9 the depression in bedrock that is listed in the stream..

was in the pinacate district (perris ca). they built a house were the good hope mine was you could see the intrusive bed rock. rust in the dirt. but riddled with bullets. and seeing people shooting. found a old corner post ,some white paint on a 4x4 post laying there. go back further. off santa tosa mine rd. walk a bit more. just trash and bullets. today. have a good day.

i realy like your video and i have some land with a creek runing through do you think there be gold in it ?

Chris do you have a fire assayer you recommend? for hard rock samples.

After listening off and on to sleep you must have traveled quite a bit and seen way more than me - it sounds exciting - like hunting all the time

hi, i just came across this video and i want to commend you on your knowledge of finding gold! Very informative! i live in Calgary and 11 years ago we had a huge flood. I lived and still live on the Elbow River where we were displaced for 6 weeks. The city did a lot of modifications to the river (added a bunch of rock and changed the flow). My question is with the huge flood and being that I live on the sharp bend, do you think there is a chance of any gold deposits?

Chris I have a question about garnets and gold. Found half gramer nugget yesterday and flakes that all together weigh 0.25. an abundance of garnet in the sand. With that said did some other sampling found a couple fly poop in another wash but no garnets. Would the gold run with the garnets or does it have nothing to do with it?

Chris is those deposit still out there can i invest on it or that is only RU-vid gold field

For the flood waters, I have a question. In general Texas sucks for gold deposits. Apparently we are #1 here - #1 in having the least amount of gold in any state apparently. But we do have some decent floods on some gold bearing rivers. The gold itself is a powder like gold - i.e. really fine. Would these rules apply as well here or because its so fine it goes everywhere? Thinking like the Colorado and Llano Rivers.

Can you analysis the rivers in india ... and where might be good deposits .....it will give you good views as well

Hi Chris I have a question about different mineral deposits in very deep red coloured dirt. I'm finding huge amounts of brecciated jasper with other metallic minerals inbedded in the rocks also a lot of other metallic mineral rocks and quarts all around. So my question is... Would gold be found in areas with such huge amounts of jasper?

Through vibration expansion and contraction crevices open up or close shut. My dredging partner years ago took our bar and started prying on a big crack you couldn't squeeze a piece of paper into. I said what are you doing nothing can get into that crack. He opened up a slab of bedrock as big as a bed we took over 1/2 ounce outa that crack and nuggets up to two pennyweight . Made a believer outa me as the crack or fracture was shut tight

I have a question about gold. I watched a man selling gold coins on a cable channel. He was throwing in a small tube of gold leaf. He made an interesting statement about it, though. He claimed that you can’t *MELT* gold leaf because it would *_BURN_* first! I somehow doubt this. Can it possibly be true? Even *IF* it would burn *under normal circumstances,* couldn’t you put it into a vacuum or inert gas first?

So when there are heavy rains in normally dry states or there are earth quakes...does that expose new gold?

Great info! Looking forward to the video on bench gravels, I have huge gravel benches on one my best claims,..

would reading a wash be same idea as a river?

Your ears had to be burning as we were talking about this the day before your video was released.

Over 40 years gold dredging and believe it or not most all my gold I found was on the outside bends not inside or middle of river or in the riffles after a deep hole...

2nd question is why can't they dig below like 8 miles or however deep the KOLA mines or holes ? in Russian go ? is the 'earth' too hard or the opposite where it is too hot and melting ? like do the drill bits melt ? I'm curious on the limitation outside of let's say economic factors like there is nothing useful below 40,000 feet

So drill and dig testing! I was thinking with my zero experience drill a hole 3"-12" possibly to bed rock. Then possibly spray water in the hole, then dredge it out test panning each level, use a gas or electric auger , i have seen up to 16" diameter, and capable of going over 10' deep! Take about 5 gallons of water, a high pressure low volume 12/24,v pump capable of 100+psi. Basically a car wash spray, then spray tge bottom of the holes, and pump the water out i to a gold pan or sluice! If the hole is 8-10' or less! If it brings up gold, follow it with a shovel! This is basically the same idea behind well drilling! Only alot different! Also a pocket can be opened a couple feet around the bottom of the hole similar to hydraulic mining. Onle concentraited using a tiny amount of water and recycling it! Pass through classifiers, a gold or heavies collector, then settling pond. With a large sentiment filter i was thinking about sewing large socks make a 18-36" ring with a 8-10" diameter tube filled with coarse sand, with another sewn on top possibly,3-4 put it in the tub , place the pump in the center! It should keep the solids out! The Pump being 5gph or less , im from the east, we have plenty of water about anywhere, id like to go out west prospect about a bit! Maybe get a old mine claim! Probably not a so great one. And possibly find something the miners though was mined out! As long as i can get a 1/4-1/2 oz every few weeks , month or less, id like to find a drift mine, like jeff Williams, though a quartz vein would be ok also, Maybe sneak a bit of black powder on a few holes. Use some feather and wedges, possibly a core drill, drill a 3"-4" core 6' place a peanut butter jar of powder in there bottom. Cement about 5' of the core back in the hole! Drill about 4-6 holes around it for displacement, go far away and let it rip , surely A pound or two of powder will break rocks! Haha. Probably not go that far! But i could definitely build a small wash plant. Rock crusher, pulverizer/hammer mill, possibly even shaker table! I even looked into a bit of ar,500, for a hammer mill, if you are going to crush it just as well turn it to dust! Jason at mbmm makes some nice EXPENSIVE equipment! Im thinking running everything from a single engine like a factory back 150 year ago! Possibly use. A car /truck engine a 5.9 Cummins diesel from dodge truck, or tractor, all kinds of equipment used this engine! It can generate power, spin a shaft to powe all the equipment and pumps. I was thinking, mount everything on a 20-30' trailer. With the sluice hanging off it. But what i was thinking to start would fit everything in s 8' trailer! Sorry to ramble. Have a awesome day. Thank for the info. If i ever make anything of it. Ill send you a nugget!! Or gem. We have gems in my area of NC!

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You're like Home Depot where they have to accept all returns and you will answer all questions so here goes - I live in Northern Ohio and below me is there potential 'gold' albeit tiny atomic amounts ? like I'd watched a great series called "Out of the Fiery Furnas" (which all episodes are on RU-vid - 1985 British excellent ) but one comment in there was that almost all handfuls of dirt contains tiny amounts of bauxite but it's concentrations are so so low - is that true of Gold ? like is there Gold below where I'm typing do you think ? and this is not so I'll start digging but more a philosophical question it's fascinating to think of a 'world' of earth below me

*-Cry-* Read me a river … 😀 Seriously, I love your channel. I need to search your videos to see if there's one that estimates what it would cost in equipment to pan for gold. Sounds like a fun *HOBBY* if not a real money-making enterprise!

Great topic Chris! Most helpful. I live on a 55 acre ranch with a patented placer lot on 7/8 mile of Mill Creek in Scott Bar Ca. 1½ miles from the Scott River. (You may have heard of Scott Bar. It's 15 pound pure placer nugget, and the largest placer strike ever in California around 1850.) Somebody up there likes me. 😁 You know, it's hard to focus on your words because I can't unsee the word "Rive" on the white board 😂 Thank you for all you share here bro! I have a guest house if you ever wanna check out this region and community. Contact thru my channel ✌️ J 👍

The missing 'r' was stolen by Pyrites. Arrrrrrrrrr.....

It would be a lot easier to find gold if people would stop saying “GET OFF MY PROPERTY!” Meanwhile, the owner has never panned in their life. Ohhhh, it’s great to be an American! 😂

“Glory hole” is another name, lol

The funny thing is no gold ever reported in the area the gold was found😂

You have a high degree of teaching ability, if you had chosen to be a teacher none of us would need gold!

River...r-i-v-e-r.

"ONYA CHRIS" Another GREAT INFORMATIVE UPLOAD/VIDEO LOADED FULL OF EXELLENT CONTENT THAT YOU YOURSELF PREPARED FOR US FELLOW PROSPECTORS.I was wondering if you can do a upload/video about pressure & suction eddy's,just some food for thought about eddy's for those who don't know or heard about.MANY MANY THANKS CHRIS YOUR A TOP BLOKE/MAN.Shane Bathurst way Australia 🏞🇦🇺

I’ve been binging your videos all day. God I wish you had been my teacher back in school I would have for sure gone on to be a geologist myself I think had it worked that way. You explain everything so perfectly and easily digestible teachings. Ok off to go watch 100 more videos from you 😂🫡🫡🫡