The Kool-Aid Mustachioed Gold Prospector

[@georgewilkey5283]

what you have there is two minerals, Azurite(blue/purple) and Malachite(green). both are copper bearing minerals and frequently found together and with gold. Azurite is unstable in the open air and weathers into Malachite.

[@janethuffman5280]

Is that similar to turquoise?

[@SmallWonda]

Lovely last shot :) And the BLUE ROCKS, heavenly - I'm sure Lindsey will love 'em - Been SO entertaining, thanks so much for sharing - like to know what the blue rocks are. Safe travels...

[@marthafenimore4279]

I have so enjoyed your adventures of this week. As a love of rocks and fossils, I was so happy to hear you were taking your wife a couple of bags of rocks. I live through your adventures. Thanks.

[@lesliegaddy5046]

I don't know if it's my internet\tablet or YT acting up, but I'm loving this double upload every day or so.

[@TheBluenoser76]

Loved these gold hunts. Thanks for sharing, Chigg!

[@CC58]

Many of those desert mines in southwest are 1,000 feet straight down. They are everywhere, and not necessarily fenced off. Dirt bikers are known to disappear in them.

[@kuhndog63]

I live in NC but was born and raised in Beckley WV... I was glad to see Chig was from Shepardstown WV and doing his thing his way. And yes I know he lives in Maryland but once a Mountaineer Always A Mountaineer...

[@ryanmorrison2489]

Yes, love the mustache, lol. Great vids, thanks for them all. Be safe on way home and looking forward to next video! !

[@cd1673]

I hope you got some of those rocks to take home!! That blue is gorgeous! So is your mustache 😜 I've got a 'ole in my pocket.

[@trishstefanuk5619]

Thanks for sharing your adventure.

[@ravenclaw8715]

Looks like Chrysacolla, malacite and silver. Very similar to some I picked up at the Rowley mine here in Arizona.....my 2cents.

[@carlhaynes7044]

That black metal could very well be silver. In town you can pick up a testing kit to see. Always enjoy your vids!

[@jaybales3160]

Enjoyed the scenery and adventure. Thanks for sharing.

[@christinesaint9414]

Beautiful rocks Mr Chigg. Love you luged some back for your wife. Safe journey home. 🤗🤗

[@richardwarnock2789]

Potassium copper Chloride,can have some gold and iron just a wild guess Beau!!!,what do you really smell there!!

[@janet7887]

Lol couldn't help it, the more serious you were the funnier your kool-aid stache got. Did not hear one word for laughing.

[@MikeDesertHunterHale]

Your mentor pumped that machine many times more than you have been doing. I'm amazed at the tiny size of the pieces that you're able to find with that machine.

[@elpwahpo6649]

Awesome adventure. Hope to see you back in the water soonly.

[@DennisFriedman]

Don't know what they are, but I like your blue rocks too, thanks Dennis

[@geologyjohn1]

please make sure that the bright blue green rx frags that you brought home are not radioactive. I have brought home blue green rocks from Arizona that "pegged the meter". Of course, yours might just be non-radioactive copper ore. …thanks for the video. Geologyjohn

[@THEVERYANGRYPERSON]

lol at the koolaid mustache Chig.............................

[@huntingtonbeachsasquatch]

.....I like Hanin' with U Chigg! I learn a Lot. Nice! Thumbs Up!

[@kurttaz]

Gota say chigs,I'm loven these gold hunting vids🤘🤘

[@TheWodasi]

thank you .. you are cool ... great vids ...!

[@ClaytonCountyHistoryHound]

Thanks for allowing me to visit the great Southwest from the comfort of my armchair. Safe travels and be safe.

[@loa81]

That beautiful is the leftovers of copper that’s morphed into chrysocolla. If there’s metal, it might be copper, silver, gold, or iron pyrite. I’ve found magnetite and galena with it as well. Hey, is there an email to which I can send some photos? I was staying at an rv park which must have been on an old range or battlefield from the years of Indian wars, Poncho Villa, maybe civil war? I just don’t know. There were pieces of exploded cannon balls, solid balls at 1 and 2 pounds. Lots and lots of grape shot, too. Then there’s some old shell casings and fired bullets with rings. I split the cashe up into four parts giving the largest part to the owners, two parts to history buff adult children who’ve told me nothing, and a small bit for myself. There were hundreds of pieces, but my curiosity is still peeked by what looks like a plug. Possibly, these plugs of various sizes were for hollow balls filled with the grape shot or schrapnel and powder. These iron pieces were almost all found in/on desert sand and were found with very little rust on them. This place is near a spot where you’ve spent time camping out in NM. They may give permission to go in with metal detectors. I know when I lived there, I was allowed to do almost anything including using my metal detector. Oh, yes, I found metal military buttons, too!

[@jphillips4371]

I’ve stepped on a rattlesnake before, let’s just say i needed a change of pants.

[@BohicaLord]

The K Laid stash is a good look. The chig looks at least 40 years younger.

[@diggingarizona8592]

I believe the blue is copper ore. Copper and gold are often together.

[@advenzures]

Nice job! Happy hunting.

[@l.r.samons8590]

Hope you do a big video showing us all the golden different irons that you found metal I like that I really enjoy you dig appreciate what you do

[@michaelpacnw2419]

You will find a lot of gold test shafts/adits that go in 10 or 12 ft and just stop. A lot of times a quartz vein will leach the first several feet of its mineral content out in to the environment over the millennia. If the old times saw an promising vein and found any gold at all in it, they would blast/dig 10-12 ft in to get a sample where some times it got a lot richer.

[@jeffhorton258]

One thing you mentioned about keeping your gold find quiet. that is exactly what happened in California. Sutter was not first to find gold. First gold found in California was found before Sutter. In southern California. NOrth Los Angles county Plascerita Canyon. That is the actual first discover they kept it quiet .And Sutter Announced his find to the world.!!

[@mikeblair2594]

I found an old copper mine like that up around wickenburg. I was metal detecting too. All I found was a half an old mule shoe. Being a blacksmith, I forget-welded that piece of wrought iron to a piece of buckboard seat spring and made a pattern welded knife that I sold for 8 hundred bucks. I guess I did get some good from that trip after all. Good luck and for gods sake, stay away from the cactus . The rattlers are fine but the cactus wants your blood.

[@KORIGAN1]

These videos are super cool

[@altonriggs2352]

I think Bill is buried down the wash..gold bag missing!

[@americanaxetoolco2076]

There’s a lot of cavalry artifacts in that area! Gold as well! Be good to check the areas with dark red or brown iron deposits! Usually gold in those! You can use portable equipment that you have to remove at the end of the day unless you camp there! For longer term file a claim! It’s easy to do!

[@americanaxetoolco2076]

Copper deposits

[@tonydavies8683]

great looking malachite with azurite the powder is likely a desiccated mix of turquoise chrysocolla or a mix of any above types of rock its all mostly copper

[@mgfarmer1]

more awesome adventures.

[@WonderingGreenMan]

The dark and shiny/silvery bits at 17:48 look like Galena. Its the ore of lead, and often has a high content of silver. It has set my detector off in Az a few times!

[@jaguarsky55]

That's what I thought as well.

[@danielcorbett1482]

Saddle, Heh. Your Army training is showing through!

[@BigJohn4516]

Have you ever scraped two quartz rocks across each other in the dark? The flashes are sparks from the piezoelectric effect. That is what causes gold deposits in quartz. Stresses in the rock causes an electric field and the gold deposits in cracks. It’s basically electrolysis of gold salts in water.

[@jeffhorton258]

Hey, Sonny Jim, you need to visit Jeff Willams! He has a class you can take. And you just might meet Nevada Jack too. They get the shiny and don't you forget it. Do you know what I'm going to say? No, it's not come on let's Go. It is Get your ass over there and see Jeff.Willams

[@slimwantedman6694]

Good morning from Southeast South Dakota

[@EdTheMole]

Yup copper as in malachite the one rock you showed definitely looked like it had a vein of malachite in it you could see the bands that it forms in. Could be kinda valuable.

[@dhankins51]

you would make a great teacher!

[@livefreeordie45]

I still have an old Garrett Scorpion Gold Stinger That has found some gold. I still use it occasionally.

[@thurin84]

another way to possibly tell iron pyrite from gold is that iron pyrite often has angular fracture planes, whereas gold is globular.

[@normawinton6832]

Paint your face with the powder😁beautiful rocks wow!

[@davidseals352]

At 6:24 The reasons the top of that cactus is missing it’s because it was shot off by someone. It took an AK rifle with a lot of ammunition to do it but some people have nothing better to do. There is really nothing else that could have caused that.

[@lucylou9417]

Love your new mustache!

[@OHIOspikey]

It would be nice to go down there. I have agoraphobia, so I'm kind-of stuck in the house, or around the house to take the dog out. 😒 It's nice seeing these videos though. They are inspiring for me. :)

[@janethuffman5280]

You should go prospecting with Jeff williams, he is awesome and hilarious. Pioneer Pauly is great also!!! Btw. Matrix is that gold material.

[@chernihivske]

Chigg this was one asskick of an adventure. I feel so amazing that you took me with you, digitally! Awesome, chiggpower!!!!!

[@danu95]

Chigg! Leave the blue powder alone! Didn’t you see “Breaking Bad”.

[@taggjill15]

I went on a gold mine tour in Colorado and the guide said the gold they mined was purple. Actually showed us the purple streaks in the walls.

[@trolltaker]

I see that plenty of people have already suggested that is a copper ore, so instead I will ask the other thing that is on my mind... WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR BROTHER?

[@gameoverlord8012]

he found him next to the gila monster in yesterdays video

[@kevimc]

kool aid on upper lip reminded me of jack Nicholson; just shift the eyes back and forth and you got it

[@PeachSt8Digger]

great tips, my friend!

[@mommaice]

at 18:55 I see what looks like an extremely small lock like a padlock. I know it's just the way the rock is but I thought it was cool.

[@TheYooperGirlAmySmith]

Up here in Michigan gold is found in quartz with iron (iron oxides), I would definitely take any quartz that makes your detector sing!

[@hardyakka6200]

I saw Malachite So you had copper carbonate and possibly a small piece of native copper. Blue carbonate is Azurite the green carbonate is Malachite. Solid Malachite can be made into statues and such.

[@blackdog.6398]

Maybe go to the Dollar store and pick up some glow sticks and chuck it down tha hole!.. lol ..... thank you chigg keep up the fluids Hydrate Hydrate Hydrate....

[@katalinas9264]

flyinthe Vasaline yeah bc the world needs more plastic in nature....

[@iceman314]

Please don't. It's bad enough we have a floating continent of trash in the pacific

[@blackdog.6398]

Doses anyone know what a Plumb bob is you can use it for many more things then a prop at a free mason corner stone blessing or a grown braking ceremony...sorry if no one carries kite string with them or tie the glow stick to a string .....that way you can recover it....thank you for making me think more of my training....bless you my child ... ⚔️🎚🙏⛏📐📏✝️⚜️🔱🇸🇪

[@NewMexico1912]

That copper ore has many precious metals in it. Gold that has been dissolved and redistributed in solution form into ore rocks doesn't always have a gold color. Ores with reds, yellows and even blacks can be rich in gold. Color isn't always the best way to determine rich deposits. Some of the richest deposits are ugly looking minerals like that. But on the microscopic level they are loaded with fine and possibly oxidized gold

[@djpuffthethird]

Lovely Echinocereus Cactus there with the Pink flower . You could do a whole video on just them . Is it Silver in the Green rocks ?

[@Olivia-en5ns]

Love your channel

[@ShineHatfield]

The rocks look like they could have contained chrysocolla, but the blue-green coloring was probably cupric oxide

[@sandua51]

Had to scroll down pretty far to find a comment that was reasonably correct.

[@ninkazi6923]

aquachigger gets the adventure of a life time and the wife gets a pile of rocks lol..

[@Llanovanya85]

And a half dead bird once in a while :-)

[@KahlestEnoch]

LOL careful now Chig or everyone will start calling YOU Nugget Noggin.

[@MC-tl7mj]

They're minerals Marie!

[@joemostaccioli243]

Come a across an old miner's bag of gold, well, take the gold out and leave the bag..LOL.

[@aguadigger]

🤔Not so many comments in the past year on this one ! 🌵🌵🌵🌵🌵Just rewatching a few of the oldies. 🎄

[@dawnlindgron5570]

I wonder if that green rock would tumble in a rock polisher ? Sure is pretty!

[@arthurc1971]

I would grind that rock with pyrite, gold travels with pyrite, sometimes.

[@lesahanners5057]

I wonder if you could use that color for water color pigment? It sure was pretty. Hope you got lots of rest when you got home. Looks like you had a great time. Thanks for sharing.

[@elementaltm]

Hey Beau! Perhaps you could ask Cody to analyse your blue power..?

[@amandapittar9398]

That tiny nugget looked like a itsy bitsy scorpion. I also wonder what happened to Brother Chigg. Perhaps they ran out of food?

[@whotheysaid]

Desert Rose, don't go!!!!! Mor gold

[@lucylou9417]

It seems you have spent a lot of time there in the desert, have you seen a camel spider yet? There like something from a syi fi movie, scarey and ugly! Love your videos,

[@geraldcampbell6834]

It looks to me like that bluish green stuff might be copper ore!

[@rogerclaiborne6815]

Probably some silver and lead running with the copper.

[@TheBRMueller]

Raw copper

[@susansmith6680]

The ground balance trick is good info. The sensitivity is awesome. The "spiny" castle Mr. Pack Rat. Could that green be turquoise? Didn't Bill talk about turquoise close by?

[@shanemike3070]

what part of Arizona, I lived 30 years in Apache Junction, only found bullets LOL

[@weegie50]

Ricky is that you down at the bottom of the mine shaft?????

[@jeanettebateman6394]

The turquoise rock looks a lot like they may have copper content or are copper ore. It could be unstabilized Arizona turquoise also.

[@suethomas9446]

What ya drinking chigg. You have a orange or red mustache lol

[@arizonafreedom1126]

Here are alot of copper and tungsten mines from back in mining days, how does tungsten react on the meter?

[@davidseals352]

That disturbed area at 6:05 looks like it was disturbed by ants. You can even see a couple of holes going down into the dirt. Welcome to the west we have that species of ant out here and be careful about standing on one of those mounds without realizing it talking to somebody the next thing you’ll know is they start biting the heck out of you up in the crotch area. The next thing you know is you’ll have your pants down around your ankles trying to get those things off of you. They really know how to bite.

[@jasonmeaty8036]

Wonder around too much out there...ur bound to get crazy again..

[@TheWodasi]

How many different brands of detectors do you own ? how many years you been doing this ?

[@dannystella1231]

hay aquachigger is that a new fad or are you wearing lip stik that your wearing.lol.thanks for the fun times been checking your chanel out so keep up the good times

[@lindatillson6302]

you know chig what a great way to spend retirement. But I have to say your wife is a good woman. Why? she has allowed you to do the things you love. Love your videos.

[@mavos1211]

Love your videos chigg, What’s the most you have ever paid for a metal detector?

[@TreadwellJay]

11:00 demonstrated a great signal and then cut to the packrat nest. Did you dig that signal or what? :)

[@Wvnursey]

Maybe there's unknown ancient technology in that green rock!!!!!!

[@hsbrooks]

The detector needs a “hold” button to tell it that it was set down and not assume the user is still searching

[@9to542]

❤💙

[@brettona123]

Chigg, looks like Malachite.

[@watermain48]

Let me know if you're done with that GM 1000 will you, I'm in the market for one...great video, thanks for sharing it.