Odysee is a good platform for free speech as well

Results show that reduction of larger rocks is mandatory 😉😅

Ahh , and i was looking forward to that Photo showing all if together in one pan , lol . Damn it !!! Well , i guess i will just have to imagine it . Would have been a fair amount no doubt . 👍👍 Cheers . ✌

Be sure to digest your magnetics or smelt them for that possible missing gold.

Just become tin miners and problem solved

Always bring home the big rocks. Ha ha ha. Good to see some results

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I always check the iron I pull out because I don’t find anything in the concentrates. Which is always.

We never had much luck with magnet separates either on our drywashers either spent more time cleaning than anything

Sorry I’m late

I'm home schooling my kids. This was a 'gold mine' of knowledge. Cheers.

Awe just put on your rain suits and run through the fire. What color possibly go wrong? 😂

The real gold is the teacher.

Yeah , better to be safe than sorry . I would do the same in that situation . Cheers Ned ✌ Always a next time .

Keith were you up by the fire tower?

Chocking on it over here in Portland. The wildfires are crazy through central Oregon & Idaho, and lots of places all over Montana. No bueno...be safe!

You and the Ms's be safe out there

Let me guess ya just found the motherlode and now ya got to bug out.

I hate brush fires. Don’t get trapped.

Hope you're safe!😊

congratulations Keith, you're one of the few people who have simply and coherently described primary gold deposition

I’d like to see how you crushed the rock

Hi Professor Keith, just saw some interesting California Gold in them Hills: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIOsmX6lrZ2JhLMsi=sgMpAbCExuAnYlrW Don't know much about the ginger guy or host, yet Rich in Loners Miner's Trail. Enjoy

I have an upcoming examination...this is by the best explanation....thankyou so much...

Thanks Keith!

I bought an impact mill from Croatia initially it was working fine,when I changed the chains,,they started touching and plugging out the screen housing which at the bottom of the drum,what might be wrong,I have the drawings ,I conducted the manufacturer but did not respond,can you help me

Used to have the intro, As my ring tone. The good,the bad & the Democratic.

Heya guys, great discussion here! Butte, not Billings, is the place to go, u can request pdf's of some, not all, of the old reports in pdf format direct from Butte via email, sometimes a fee is rqrd, some old records are on microfiche too... When I was prospecting a few years ago just northwest of your area in the Ogden Mountain area the PHD dissertation a Butte geologist did back way back in the day on Ogden mountain to get his doctorate provided good insight to go along with all the usual mine reports (or lack thereof), and it came from Butte of couse, where he got his degree, but many areas around there don't have that granularity that I could find. All my research into that whole area around Helena, which is SUPER JUICY due to all the hundreds of mines and placers resulting from past tectonic forces and the ongoing volcanic activity relatively close to surface from Lincoln to south of Butte and all the way east to Yellowstone, indicates everything has been checked out thoroughly in the past by the sheer volume of prospecting and mining people that whole area received up until 50 years ago. As u guys know, its a prospecters dream but the lack of good information, or accessible info, is also a huge problem for sure besides the sheer volume of prior work done in the area. I think Mr. McCullogh would confirm that...yes he is the go-to guy for that area.... At about 55 min in there is discussion about "where is the vein to find above all the patented placers below" I was reminded of one area east of u not far away that was very very rich for placer but yet no vein was ever found that could be directly tied to it, because they determined later the whole vein was weathered away over a million of years or more, a key thing to remember for all of us. That area is confederate gulch, is well documented because of all the tens of thousands of miners there and the original hoard of placer gold, and a shit-ton of miners looked for that vein but it was gone.... As u guys have seen, all that research digging up also takes much time which removes u from being out in the field in an area with a short season!!

It's has to be an epithermal vein Keith. That's why it's so hard to find

You need to buy a quartz fairy. It will fly around and sniff out all the quartz veins. 😂

Hummm.. strange. The smell is likely sulfer. I had some yellow looking quartz material that smelled heavily of sulfur. The smoke has been heavy, obnoxious, and posinous in Nampa Idaho. I've been getting headaches and allergies from it. It's supposed to be better this week, but unfortunately, it looks to be blowing your way. 😬 Thanks Keith Peace Prospector Tripp

One of these days I have to get down there with you both to check that out. You know, just to confuse things even more. 😆

If it were easy what fun would it be ? 😃👍🏻

There is some sulfur in the shale, showing that there was some sulfide material there at one time.

Being a regenerated Pine forest there has probably been a lot of excavation work over time , maybe adding to the confusion you are seeing Keith . In an area not too far from where i prospect around , was a lot of mine shafts and they have posted warning signs in the area of many shafts that are not to deep , but they consisted of verticle Quartz plugs that came straight upright , and when the tops through erosion appeared the old timers dug them straight down to about 30 feet and if they found nothing in the quartz they would abandon them . Some became profitable . I came upon several of the shafts myself , but one i came upon once had been dug around in a concave hole only about 2 foot deep exposing the Quartz plug .It was as neat around as a drum and about 18 inches , maybe 2 feet round , it was a recent appearance and lots of people had a tinker around . I too went over it with a metal detector with no response , hence i walked away from it like everybody else . I suppose there are multiple scenarios and anomalies YOU , might be dealing with . Sorry for rambling on , lol and sorry i have no idea what you're up against , best of luck 👍👍 Other than to gather up what samples you have and get the gold out of em , and continue the search . Cheers Ned . ✌

My observation is tree's look the same, meaning they were planted around the same time & here get soil disruption. Find old tree's and dig around the base. Tree roots of old tree's i would focus on, and not disturbed out of whim fractional quartz. Make it simple. That Mtn has been tampered with & you are digging up second-hand rocks.

Bet your cursing that the archives are locked up for the next 2 years lol

Could the quartz come from above and rolled into the ditch

Would be nice if you had a geological map of the area that would show know viens and faults. Then you could get a general idea of the strike direction and dip on them. This would help solve the old timer ditch mystery of if they were following somthing or trying intersect a vien to locate it.

Sir, how long have you been prospecting and mining?

Weird little mystery there .

Keep pulling up on that lead there. You never know what will come up. A little story about a mine in the desert that a friend had for 10 years. He was always following the quartz and residual lean placer which lead him to large masses of fractured magnesite ( yes- magnesite) overlain by green andesite and basalt lateral and below the quartz. The fracturing was extensive and intense and in the fracture voids was a light weight dark brown powder with very little iron that panned consistently, and fire assayed at 1/10 to 1/14th opt. he was living right on top of it. The grades were lower than what he wanted, but the tonnage was big. He passed on without mining it. He loved the hunt too much to stop hunting for the big one. The magnesite was a metamorphosed magnesium rich tuff with zero quartz also associated with a dry river channel nearby. You can probably imagine all speculating we did over BBQ and beers out there.

they were trying to cross the vein at right angles so they could lay there claim over the vein at the apex.

I think it runs vertical instead of horizontal across that mountain. It is a mesmo thermal vein you are looking for Keith that's why those guys didn't find it going straight up the mountain they were hoping to hit it running vertically but it comes straight up out of the Mountain. They picked up that float and threw it in the trench they were going to sample at or take it with them and it never happened. I have found a vein like that structure in Arizona before

Hi

Come to the upstate of South Carolina, lots of veins

As another old guy with heart issues, it is always good to see you still out there prospecting. I have appreciated your videos as a great training tool over the years. I am teaching my daughter in law how to pan. Thank you.

Please reach out to me! I think I have a lot of gold in my yard!!

Cannt have enough dudes .. i.ve always said that ...mostly ..😍😎😁pip pips

Of all the KZbin prospectors you are the goto expert on fine gold recovery. Keep up the hard work. It's just a matter of time before you hit a home run. Wish you the best of luck.