Finding GOLD with a Metal Detector The Hidden Secrets Nobody Tells You

[@DaleDuffy]

I can say with certainty after watching hundreds of videos through the years, just watching a half dozen of your videos, I wasted my time with "most" of the other videos...your a wealth of information... thanks again, Chris..!

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@bobbiegrigsby1666]

Hv YB in

[@anitamorrisonmiller9166]

How deep can I submerse my Fisher Gold Bug Pro in fresh water. I enjoy your videos very much.

[@ricgorgg]

these people change the world i'm in Brazil and i have the same thought.

[@TheFrog767]

Excellent many screen shots taken 🥂👏🥂🖖

[@ChrisRalph]

Thank you kindly

[@johnberry8117]

I bought your book Fists full of gold and it’s worth it’s weight in gold ! Thank you for all your wisdom n wealth of knowledge much appreciated!

[@ChrisRalph]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@Nonotkidding]

Chris, my dad taught geology and took me out with him prospecting. Your Nugget detecting ... is useful and fun, thank you, Jon.

[@ChrisRalph]

glad you enjoyed the video....

[@reconscout5994]

Nice videos, about time somebody does videos explaining the nuts and bolts of prospecting. Hope to see more. Thanks!

[@trevorwhat]

Nice summary, Chris. Thanks for putting it together!

[@bring6not12]

ive met some very stupid people when it comes to gold prospecting "ur 2 foot long wire gold with crystals is not gonna sell for anything over troy ounce value" an exxageration but you get the point. thanks for the great vid once again! very imformative!

[@ChrisRalph]

Great point!

[@-ausleuth5471]

Great information! I'll definitely be watching all your videos to help me find more nuggets. Thanks for your service to our prospecting community.👍

[@freedomunrestricted]

even in a remote desert area that didn't get nearly the amount of traffic as other places, I still dig alot of trash. Only thing I've found so far lol.

[@ChrisRalph]

Listen for the faint signals too.

[@TheRealRyebred]

Once again, thanks Chris!!! The Heart of a teacher and it’s much appreciated. 😎🙌🏻

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad to help. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

[@deepakkulkarni6851]

Nice info

[@frankrizzi5312]

Fantastic information. Especially valuable. Thanks! 👍

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad it was helpful!

[@watermain48]

Very interesting Chris, thanks for sharing your knowledge. Yep, I have the book and it is a great tool...

[@andyamysarizonaadventures5450]

🤪

[@IBRAKEFORBEDROCK]

Most excellent talk Chris !!!

[@josecaipa4365]

Just learn and you answer some of the questions I asked on your last presentation.Gracias

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad it was helpful!

[@royguitar2000ify]

Thank you, Chris: a very interesting video: we (as young prospectors) need to know theese kind of things for better prospecting :-) Could not find you on Facebook...

[@ChrisRalph]

I dont do a prospecting channel on Facebook - that's why you couldn't find anything. Glad you enjoy the videos....

[@donaldking8288]

I do that for a hobby, have a whites Gmt , had a little luck, it's so hard to find, but thanks for your video. !!

[@ChrisRalph]

Gold is rare and hard to find. That is why its so expensive.

[@phyllisparmenter818]

Chris, always a wealth of information !!!! Do you happen to have a series of DVD’s that give this series of information? Trying to watch these as well as having distractions sometimes make it difficult to be able to absorb everything you are showing us. Everything seems very important and I don’t want to miss anything. I have seen several different videos with many different styles. I can’t thank you enough for sharing all of your experience with all of us. MANY. MANY. THANKS. MY NEXT STOP IS AMAZON FOR THE GOLD BIBLE written by you.

[@ChrisRalph]

I just dropped off 600 copies of the book to my distributor, so they should be supplied for a while. I dont have any videos other than KZbin.

[@wadefreeman7340]

honest man never miss

[@aakniazi253]

Thanks teacher 🤠

[@ChrisRalph]

you are welcome.

[@dhairguy]

Hi Chris i really appreciate what you bring to us, in didn't see your video on discrimination i bought a fisher gold bug

[@ChrisRalph]

Fantastic! Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@DavidBelliveau]

Thanks for this Chris. I can't wait for the next bunch of videos. I'm just waiting for the snow to melt around here to get out in the field. Of course, today's snowstorm is dumping another 20 cm, so the wait will be longer than previously expected. I'm stuck with a Garrett AT Max for now. I can easily find little chunks of lead with it, practically slivers, so I should be able to see any gold more than 1/4 gram at least a few cm down. But I'm not sure how it's going to handle the ground up north. We'll see.

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks for your interest. In the next week or two, I will be putting up a bunch of videos similar to this one. Look for the following new videos soon: My African gold rush adventure; The geology of placer deposits; How to find gold with a dry washer; Basic Prospecting skills; How to sake your own mining claim and All about Nevada Turquoise. These are all presentations I give to various clubs and I decided to do them up as KZbin videos. After that I am doing one on processing hard rock gold ores - taking a large sample all the way from ore rocks to a final gold button.

[@jayshields9919]

Cheers Chris👍👍👍

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks!

[@ivor7407]

Im one hours drive from the famous historic gold Town of Barkerville. Located in Northern B.C Canada. It was the second biggest gold rush north of California in the 1800s.

[@ChrisRalph]

Should still be some gold there.

[@ivor7407]

@@ChrisRalph There are two active major gold mines out in that area.

[@karolyferenc3184]

Could I use my half an ounce Krugerrand for practice and learn the sound ?

[@ChrisRalph]

Half ounce nuggets are quite rare. A half ounce coin is too large. gold sounds the same as lead. there is no recognizable difference between the sound of metals other than Iron as opposed to non-iron. So gold, aluminum, brass, copper, lead, zinc and many other metals which are not iron or iron alloys all sound the same.

[@zakir.khan123]

Good info

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Goldenstateprospectors]

Great video ! I would be nice to have a in person class on detectors

[@ChrisRalph]

There are some detector dealers that offer personal classes along with their sales,but I dont offer classes - just the videos and my book.

[@Goldenstateprospectors]

We know a lot of the same people. Surprised we haven’t crossed paths yet.

[@scottk1525]

Any advice for determining whether or not an area has already been searched to death by other prospectors? How would one know whether it is a popular spot or not? Cheers.

[@ChrisRalph]

If you go a number of times and almost always see other prospectors there - its popular. Signs of other prospectors past digging - holes, screening piles and other work clearly done more recently than the old days when the site was originally worked tell you other folks have been there. When you are metal detecting a near total lack of trash also says its been well worked as the old timers often dropped trash all over.

[@scottk1525]

@@ChrisRalph Awesome. Thanks, Chris! Much appreciated. Loving your book by the way. Between your book and your channel I feel like I'm taking a college course in prospecting. Can't thank you enough.

[@karolyferenc3184]

Why does large coils not able to find smaller targets close to the surface and why does the smaller coil not able to find bigger targets near the surface?

[@ChrisRalph]

Short answer is physics of magnetic fields. Long answer, look at my video on how deep will my detector go? - See: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXWWlIahms6eqtE

[@SandhillCrane42]

All these people who find a pound or two, I think my dowsing rods are malfunctioning. Then there are the lying types who panned a half ounce off the top of the dredge tailings beside the highway one afternoon. Is that so? Quite a story. I've been running stuff at about a half gram a bank yard, and then I find out it's 750 fine 😕. I appreciate the advice on where to look for that easy hard cash though sir. A fortune for the trouble of stooping down! With a little luck, I'll be a hundredaire!

[@ChrisRalph]

That was a really spectacular find.

[@prashantchandane4216]

Thank you 🙏

[@ChrisRalph]

You’re welcome 😊

[@davidhamilton506]

Chris, greetings from Australia. I have an inquiry that I'm hoping you don't mind helping me with. What can you tell me of those strange looking detectors that are nothing like the conventional metal detector?. They're rectangular in shape, have a long "nose" type antennae at one end, with some having two, and also sporting a pair of what we used to call "rabbit ears", like was used for early TV sets.. They have what looks like a post handle at the bottom, and the unit is coupled to an electronic box that's clipped to your belt. They range in price from a few hundred dollars, up to well over a thousand dollars. They claim to scan an area of 1500 square metres and can detect Gold down to 30 metres. Also the front panel of the hand held unit has separate LED indication for not only Gold and Silver, but for precious gems and diamonds as well. Supposedly good at locating undergroud structures, as might apply to Archaeology. AKS is one such brand. Apparently to find Gold, or whatever else, you need to walk along with the unit pointing straight down, more or less in line with your right leg if you're right handed and vice versa. My curiosity was piqued, so I thought that as a professional, you may have come across it and can tell me if it's a good or not. It can be found on eBay, but I'm a little skeptical as to all of its claims. It sounds to me like a potable version of ground penetrating radar, but I'm no expert. But finding precious gems, including diamonds, Hmm!. Many thanks for sharing all your videos. They're very informative, and you've convinced me to go for the Gold Bug Pro, as an entry level detector. Thank you in advance, cheers...

[@ChrisRalph]

I'm a very poor mind reader to know exactly what brands and models you are thinking of, but Long range detectors simply dont work. I talk about them in my video on dowsing. See: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmWulKp5jtRqpas They are electronic dowsing systems and just dont work.

[@davidhamilton506]

@@ChrisRalph Thank you Chris for your feedback, When you get a spare moment look them up on eBay, but I'll not bother with them, as I much prefer the tried and true results from conventional metal detectors. Cheers, and thanks again for your prompt reply...

[@NUGGETSHOOTER]

Howdy Chris, as always a great presentation and enjoyed as well as learned. Will be good to see you in 2020.

[@ChrisRalph]

Looking forward to it and I am sure it will be fun. Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@lenvogel4395]

Hi Chris, I’m new to this and am finding prospecting quite interesting. I’ve just ordered your book, contacted our local prospecting group in Utah and am researching detectors. I am aware of the Goldbug 2 and Goldmonster 1000 and am most likely going to get the Goldmonster. However, during my research I came across the QZ 80 made by Vogel (no relation to me that I know of). It’s pretty pricey but seems to be among the most superior products, based on the hyped advertising, which is all I can find about it. Have you had any experience with it, heard of it or know of anyone who has?

[@ChrisRalph]

See my other reply to your question.

[@bobstephens5348]

⁠@@ChrisRalph😊😂 3:27

[@michaellathrop4508]

Chris do you have any insight on prospecting in NorthWestern Washington

[@ChrisRalph]

Sorry, I'm not familiar with that area.

[@Meowmix4U]

That should be all you need to know about NW WA.

[@crackerjax4330]

I’m wondering if I’m throwing nuggets out? I’m in highly mineralized New Mexico mountains and I’m exhausted from digging so many holes only to find junk or rocks. I’ve brought home a ridiculous amount of hot rocks but lately I’ve been tossing all rocks - many look like that clump you showed. But they are more like a pumice rock - mostly yellow but some reddish. I’ve crushed some and got nothing but I’m new to everything. So my panning might be all off too. I know I’m in gold bearing area but my geology is terrible and I’m a slow learner...😖

[@ChrisRalph]

If you are crushing the rock and finding nothing, then it probably is nothing. I have several videos on suggestions for successful nugget hinting, Listen to those also. Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@jonathant752]

I know it's already a year, but what you need is the ATX Garret detector. With Its Ground Balance feature, you can easily balance out the hot rocks.

[@Smithsgold]

Good video Chris

[@ricgorgg]

if you're curious to know where I'm going to start prospecting. My city is called Cristina MG, Cristina is a small city in Brazil, where I live is not like São Paulo, or Rio de Janeiro. my city is famous for good coffee plantations with good scores. I'm just sharing information.

[@ChrisRalph]

I do not know Minas Gerias very well.

[@spiritualityinGod]

Your name Prove your Works, NiceOne.

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks.

[@CMDROldDuck]

Probably a dumb question, but is there such a thing as silver nuggets?

[@ChrisRalph]

Yes, but they are much rarer than gold nuggets! Most silver is mined and processed as silver bearing minerals, not metallic silver.

[@libraryfiles4470]

Which coil for which terrain?

[@ChrisRalph]

There are so many coils and so many different types of machines, I think I will do a whole video on selecting the right coil. Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@libraryfiles4470]

Garrett atx pro good for gold?

[@ChrisRalph]

Yep, its a good detector. Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@libraryfiles4470]

Have you metal detected drift mines?

[@ChrisRalph]

I've not - too dangerous. Nearly all the old ones are caved in - They dont stay open easily for long. There are a few exceptions, but I've not detected them. Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@travissimpson3199]

Did your friend find the big nugget here in the United States?

[@ChrisRalph]

Yes, in California

[@drewbravo5042]

With your thumbnail pic, I took a 🔎 to it sideways & upside down and I can confirm that faces, people, & a hillside can all be, somehow seen embedded within the crevices of the large golden nugget. My guess is beings that obviously pre-date us, on a much smaller scale, became scorched by a higher intelligence. Bubbling even seems to have set in. If true, and yes the odds *would* be great, then would there be any added advantage knowing the true nature of the rock?

[@ChrisRalph]

The most amazing secret is that if you spin the picture around backwards at slow speeds, it says "Paul is dead". (you have to be a boomer to get that one).

[@ryanh909]

1. Live in Australia

[@ChrisRalph]

I visited Australia.

[@sungazer888]

“Guys” aren’t the only people who are metal detecting. Just an FYI.

[@ChrisRalph]

I did not imply anything different. The term "guys", when used in plural for a group can refer to a mixed group of both males and females - as in "Hey You Guys, look here". You are way over-sensitive.

[@sungazer888]

@@ChrisRalph “Hey you guys!” is the group form. “A lot of guys clog KZbin with click bait.” would be the masculine form. You’re too out of touch with the times.

[@arieerkkila]

Gold doesn't grow back... except in river crevices ;)

[@ChrisRalph]

I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

[@albujeyash2580]

going out metal Deteacting cost u moeny

[@ChrisRalph]

Yes, it is not free.

[@albujeyash2580]

just the batteries each nine volt batterie is 15bucks each and my mattel detecter taks tow 9 volt batteries n thy run out fast

[@mrmagoo9901]

Wish you could just get to the point.

[@ChrisRalph]

Why take time to learn something? Knowledge and skill are useless.

[@donaldadams4826]

Click bait... Lol. In your dreams. There ain't no gold, in your stream. You ain't got no, bling!

[@ChrisRalph]

I've got plenty of videos of me finding gold. Check out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4OzgGV4p5l1hdk kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5-adZimhMx8mJI kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZu8kGVtprerp68 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYHKpaOIjLimg8U The nugget in the photo was found by a good friend a few years ago. The subject of the video is teaching you how to detect nuggets.