FINDING GOLD! 2

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GOLD & GEM locations: TREASURESITES.COM How to find and process your own gold and platinum! Click "More From This User" to get all the films. Gold and platinum are 15-19 times heavier than other streambed materials and concentrate in low pressure areas and cracks that run across rivers and streams. You look for a crack on the bank, and follow it out until you meet the "gold line" and there you suck it out with your dredge. Gold will be on the outside edge of a river gravel bar, at the head of the bar (large gold but usually beneath big boulders), and at the tail end of a bar (vast concentrations due to river bars forming in the shape of an airfoil and sucking fine gold to the tail end) but be small to microscopic at the tail end. Gold will travel down a river or stream in a line, usually off center of the high pressure water. Gold will settle behind a boulder. A good place to fish, can also be an excellent place to find gold. "Black sand" is iron ore that can be readilly identified in gravel bars and is a ready indicator that gold is probably present. The most effective and economical way for the average person to find paying concentrations of gold in a river or stream is with a simple ($80) sluice that you shovel into and the riffles retain gold, platinum, gems and anything heavy for you. Gold can be found up high on the old river channels and recovered with metal detectors, a gold wheel, a highbanker, or simply by identifying the material, shoveling it in your truck and working it out later in a wheel, or your simple stream sluice. The states which have gold in vast quantities are: Maine, Vermont, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, California, Idaho, Washington, Montana, and Oregon. The rest have gold as well, some in very good concentrations. All have gems of some kind that a sluice will seperate and hold. Good luck finding the gold of your dreams!

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: May 28, 2007 at 11:53 pm
Author: flagold

Length: 0:09:52
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Tags: gold dredging prospecting hookah diving platinum diamond dredge Keene Proline gold-wheel Matt Mattson

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Video Comments:
SuperRed88 (Tuesday 23rd of September 2008 02:06:25 PM)
Excellent video. I have been wanting to do this for a very long time. I truly feel I was born in the wrong century. How much can an experienced hobbyist find during a one week excursion?
SplashOFblOOd (Wednesday 20th of August 2008 12:30:09 PM)
At 5:00 min the green pan was showing the Gold, What was that black stuff with it? Was it oxadised gold?
flagold (Wednesday 20th of August 2008 12:47:21 PM)
Turned out to be platinum, and some hematite. The Umpqua has gold, platinum and even some diamonds (thought to be from volcanic eruption vs kimberlite vein). I generally run the wheel 3 times at 3 angles (tilted way back on the first pass).
jerktrucker (Thursday 31st of July 2008 01:43:09 AM)
ok now ware do we find the gold?
CrimsonGuardJay (Sunday 15th of June 2008 09:46:14 AM)
Can you explain in laymans term how a spinning, threaded wheel will get the gold to move UP from the iron ore its mixed with?
flagold (Tuesday 17th of June 2008 08:42:06 PM)
The gold, being heavier than the other materials simply climbs the wheel farther up than they can on the wheel's water slicked grooves. We can fine tune the wheel by tilting it up and up until only gold climbs it, or tilt it back, so objects as light as a gemstone (sapphires in particular) will climb it. Has a lot of uses.
flagold (Friday 13th of June 2008 08:54:03 AM)
They both work, the spiral wheel to get the small stuff it all has to be classified to various mesh sizes as close to the smallest size of gold you are trying to separate. With the bowl, it has to be constantly watched and water pressure adjusted down when you see flakes going up the drain. Both take patience in the extreme for light gold.
sf4eric (Thursday 12th of June 2008 03:38:34 PM)
Message 2: I also have a huge batch of black beach sands that is loaded with platinum and rhodium. The little specks are just over 100 mesh size and are massively reflective - the sand sparkles in light - there's quite a bit of metal there. But I can't get it out using a blue blow. All of the mass goes up through the bowl. It's too light. I'm using the bowl per instructions as well. Got any ideas on how to free this prize? A 5gal bucket might = over an troy oz of Rhodium here - thanks!
flagold (Friday 13th of June 2008 09:01:34 AM)
Interesting. Rhodium prices can be astronomical (oddly, that's also where this strategic metal is used). Have you tried a (good) spiral wheel and separated all the materials to 100 mesh? Just spoon a spoonful in (on a Gold Genie) and leave it for 1/2 hour and see what works out. On the gold (below) the old timers used Mercury. You might also want to take it to a refiner. A shaker table will get it out, but they are expensive. Small gold is the toughest of all. I'd try the wheel first.
sf4eric (Thursday 12th of June 2008 03:34:11 PM)
Matt, I like you suggestions about fine gold and all the work you've placed in the videos. They're helpful. Maybe you can give us all some feedback on what you do for very fine gold ("micro" gold) or flakes that are easily visible to the eye but still so thin that they get sucked up by a Blue Bowl. I've run black sands with gold less than 100 mesh and visible to the eye and even PAN-able gold, but the darn stuff is too thin/light to be stopped by the blue bowl. I'll post a second message