Where Can I Find Gold In Idaho? (USGS MRDS gold map survey) 

This presentation shows where gold is in Idaho and looks at a special geologic event that impacts where you can find gold in the state of Idaho. Also check out SourdoughMiner.com/GDU/ to learn more about gold prospecting and finding more gold.

I was under the impression that the prevailing theory on the apparent movement of the Yellowstone Caldera was that the hot spot and/or mantle plume has remained relatively stable in its position compared to materials of greater depth, while the plate has slowly moved Westward as per the movement Westward from the mid-oceanic ridge in the Atlantic Ocean; and not the movement of the plume from West to East?

Thank you for the in-depth information. I am new to gold hunting and live in Idaho. I can’t wait to use this knowledge in the field. Wish me luck.

This is amazing information. I enjoyed the knowledge of the area grown up in my whole life and never knew. Always wondered. Thank you for doing the video

Fascinating video! Interesting stuff! Thank you sir from🇫🇮👍

Good information. Keep up the amazing awesome videos. I need to head from utah to Idaho and prospect one of these days

Great video Jess. I've always thought that the fine placer gold in the Snake River was most likely washed down from Utah during the Bonneville Flood event. There just doesn't seem to be hardly any lode gold in the trail resulting from that traveling hot spot that's now under Yellowstone.

Great Video Jess,, Native Idaho here, and you have told a good story,,, love to go out and read those mountains with you some day, as they do have a great story! GODBless and happy adventures

Thanks once again, very entertaining and education

great information in this video.

How about Wisconsin? Haha... well if you can get to it, not sure there’s much there, but that’s where we’re at. Got a very little bit out of the river. Not much.

Thank you for this video. I got into gold prospecting here in Idaho and am part of the High Desert Prospectors in Mountain Home (right next to Boise). I've been trying to find a new claim for our club, but it's been real tough because everything seems to be claimed up. I'll try to download the file you mentioned and use it to continue to search for new locations for our club. I did find gold at the very top of a nearby mountain where there is tons of quartz, as far as the eye can see down every draw, but I have only found small flower gold in the top soil. Do you have any idea where the gold might be coming from? Decomposing granite maybe? The only water up there is from rain and run off from the melting snow.

Thank you very much

This is great info. We have been prospecting in North West Arizona. We are selling our home here and headed to Idaho. I will return to snow and leave the 120 f days behind us.

Another great lesson,to bad that map you use doesn’t work for B.C ,I would love to do some online prospecting with that program.I was under the impression that the yellow stone caldera was stationary and the content was passing over it,you just flipped the scripted on me,I am definitely open to all theories,thanks again

Thanks for all this onfo

so where can I get a copy of this digital map

Moving to Idaho in the next couple months from Oregon we have good gold here up in the Blue Mountains and Medford area but Idaho definitely beats Oregon. Look forward to using the info. Thanks!

There's a hot springs, think near south of Warren

So where can I get a copy of the Idaho map like the one you showed on your youtube video?

What I find I interesting about the 16.1 location of yellow stone hot spot is that on the oregon and nevada maps there isn't any gold finds in the ring fractures. Or am I mistaken, It's TRUE this is a very un populated area with little exploration.

Great video! And you sound a lot like Alan Alda lol. Can this gold be found by metal detectors??

Where can I find the laws for panning/detecting in the rivers as far as what's "public" or if you can in national forest? I never know what/who is legit when I look up stuff online. Thank you!

I see in the comments there is some sort of list you have would North West Indiana be included on this list ?

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS.. I AM MOVING FROM NEWPORT RHODE ISLAND TO LOVELY BOISE IDAHO,, WITH A NICE RETAIL JOB I WILL BE STARTING AND A LOVELY CUTE APARTMENT NEXT DOOR TO THE MALL.. BUT IF I GET BORED WITH MY RETAIL CAREER, AND EVEN AS A SIDE JOB.. IT WOULD BE VERY VERY FUN TO TRY TO FIND SOME GOLD.. WISH ME LUCK AND THANKS AGAIN.....................

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How do I use this map? Can I get a link? I see it is usgs data but struggle to find this specific map.

Hello Jess, I watch all your videos but have not come across one that talks about avalanches in the mountains? I know rain and snow will move gold. My question is what should I do when there has been four avalanches in the area where my claims are. It took me two yrs to find four mine shafts and eight adits on my claims but now I'm not sure of what has happened on my claims. I tried to get up to my claims in Colorado but due to the avalanches I'm cut off from going up there. My claims all start at 10200 ft up to 11500 ft there is eight ft of snow on the gulch floor, well possibly more due to the avalanches. So do you think that My claims are going to be safe to be on once the snow melts or will it be dangerous to be on my claims. Also I found a area that hydrulic mining was done should I keep away or can I check the area once the snow melts?

Well done Jess. I would like to bring up a Topic for People accessing gold areas. You mention a hiking permit and a Side w control of Said Hiking Permit. And this is my thought. I'm not hiking, but I'm Boondocking on the lands of these United states. Is Boondocking a Crime or a Rite? Enjoy Everything...

Is there any gold in northwest mo,

Live in the Boise area and I just want to go panning so bad but do not know where to go

Hey, I want to know about Idaho!

From Idaho got 8000 acres there wounding if gold on it

🗣Prospector Jess.....!!!! Can you do a “were is the gold in...TEXAS”?!?!?!! 🙏🙏🙏💋

I just agreed to purchase 2 50 acre lots in remote Lehmi salmon nat forest. Both have several mines in them. I know nothing about mines and the potential of epa issues. Can you direct me to info or give me a quick overview of what to be concerned about? I want the land for its land not tge mines but I dont wabt to be stuck with a toxic clean up.

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So gold can be found in veins with or beside cinnabar? True or false? How does cinnabar affect gold in the gossen?( oxidised zone?) This info is hard to find due to the mercury scare the government has made in the past ( yes a real thing) but book writers shy away from this part of the topic. Such as gold and Galina. I live in prineville or, a proven Yellowstone hot spot caldera. I'm trying to understand gold and associated minerals.

any gold in bonners ferry panhandle? yaak montana?

It will take a while, but if you want to learn where Gold is and find out where it first came about. Watch my last video. It has all migrated.

Jess. I know that your video was posted a few years ago and I am now just responding. I live in Nampa Idaho and have prospected in a lot of different locations in southern Idaho. Very good gold in most locations. First things first. The correct pronunciation of Boise is "Boy C" not "Boy Z". A lot of Californians moving here and they all say it wrong for some reason. Second there is a thing called the Idaho Batholith and has a lot to do with geological creation of gold in this area. We have a lot of volcanic activity under our state and a lot of hot springs every where because of it.

Where is gold in idhao?

I have a few questions for you, I'm 62, in very good health, but I found out that Social Security is only going to give me $330 a month to live off on, in today's times that's impossible, I have about $10,000 that I've saved up through life, and a pickup truck. I have nothing tying me down, so I'm seriously thinking about becoming a prospector, one time going through the Smokies, I stopped at a place and panned some gold, I found some, not a lot, but out of 1 bucket I don't think that was bad. Now what I'm considering is taking that money I've saved, buy a high banker, sluice, declassifier, and other items, including a metal detector. Do you think that this is a good idea, also I plan on getting a couple of horses to pack stuff in, and to reach remote areas, I grew up on a farm, and I know how to live off the land. What do you think, all I think I need to survive is about 1/2 an ounce a week, is this accomplishable??? Any advice on where in the lower 48 I should go, and I don't fear anything.

Stop posting on Idaho, you will be run out if we find you.

"BOISE" (boy-see) not (boy-zee)

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glad you don't teach school........