Classifying gravels for gold panning.

This video is part of a video series made for a high school gold mining and mineral prospecting course. Lesson on classifying or sifting gravel.

[@hobohacker258]

Really diggin on your course. You have a good delivery. I like the pauses to let things sink in. Good teacher.

[@danieldonohue3162]

another excellent teaching. Your students are quite blessed to have you.

[@phickleprickprospecting]

"it's annoying", Dan: "No, that's you!" the look on his face was hilarious, he knew he set himself up for it. Damn I wish I had classes like this in school

[@johnhoughton9013]

Great Saturday!!! Tracking down all the videos I have missed..You are the best!!!

[@Danhurd]

You are finding some old ones!

[@MrGoldRetriever]

Great touch, adding a few surprises for the kids!

[@therrienmichael08]

Dan's the Man. It was Jan. 2014 when I discovered prospecting on KZbin.

[@NewLevelAuto]

Awesome ! Now they have a hobby better than their cell phones

[@fabiobeyhautkuhn2211]

Nice to see that vids again,I really ate all 56 of gpld mining course,waking up two hours earlier(3 am),before work,to learn about.Really think you should be prized for this work,theres no other clear complete course like ypu done.Thank you very very much.,Your older student,Fabio ,

[@Danhurd]

Thanks!

[@tonyprior4307]

Very informative love watching the process

[@daz41262010]

great fun watching you teach the kids how to pan for gold :)

[@backyarddiscovery3485]

I wish gold prospecting was a class when I went to high school got to love Canada

[@Danhurd]

Thanks

[@matthewdennis2651]

Be blessed and im watching ur cool teaching 👍

[@TRGFBC]

If I had you as a teacher in school. I wouldn't have left and done alternate school. I would have wanted to learn from you

[@LokiOdinsson88]

I want to go up these rivers around my area in central California. It looks really fun 🤩

[@bluvom3t]

This is a great course. Well done, Dan. I hope you continue to make these videos and I cant wait to learn more. You are an excellent teacher. I'm glad to see our children (and all of Us) learning from you.

[@АндрейКазанов-г4к]

Great teacher! Very passive students!

[@patrickgalloway5078]

You say what was in the pan after panning what with my tool it showed you what was in there by classification and color of the garnet, moly ,galena, iron oxide ,quartz,pyrite, pyrite with gold,gold,18k or soand it eliminates stains like iron oxide this tool has taught me how to See whats in rocks without assay and without mistakes i dont loose 10 percent i dont loose anything Dan everything has color .Some things lije gold have specific colors .I am not a gold miner but a friend of mine sold me some ore that he wasnt sure what the gliterry stuff was but it turned out it was galena,lead,silver,and a very small amount of pyrite,and after hitting it with a sluge hammer i found a small speck of visible gold and so i continued and found a lot more of it by oics and some study i decided to find out what the glittery stuff was .Then i thought ccan you identify metas ,minerals by color ?The answer is most definetly Yes.I continued on this quest and i devised a way of identifying and eliminating some of the colors that make up the natural gold ore.by using a gram of pure gold i can determine the correct colors for gold and now i have an app on my phone that does just that.I want it to be combined so that i can scan an ore and it will tell me"because of the colors "what it actually contains as of this time i have specifically made it to scan for gold only and it takes several apps to achieve this .I need help in writing the app so it is more convient for people to use and they wont get confused on what they are"Seeing"call me or text me to stop bugging you i feel you have the knowledge to help.I can tell you that i do not pan for gold or whatever but this idea took hold and i pefected it at least for gold

[@patrickmanasco5905]

Classifier only makes panning easier if you’re using more than one, particularly for flour gold, 100mesg grains of gold can easily be washed away if along side 20 mesh iron/heavies… there’s a lot of factors but if the other heavies are too much bigger than your gold then the gold will tend to wash out first… then again prolly better off with a sluice for testing at that point

[@revelstokeindependantpowde9021]

Great videos! Do you feel like you ever miss out on large sapphires or garnets by classifying or do they not get that big as well?

[@blakebotha8520]

Sup favorite gold panning KZbinr of mine,I am just wandering what type of round gold pan I need bc my mom is wanting to buy a set BUT my friend says that it isn't a very good pan because it has a small dip at the bottom. He says that it catches the small rocks but the set is near perfect it has vials and a sniffer bottle and all that jaz. Plz answer me I need help!

[@elizabethademi2740]

So quarter inch classifying pan is ideal for little nuggets. Roger that.

[@slamboy66]

NICE!

[@jaymccolm9603]

Quality pedagogy. How many years have you been teaching?

[@Danhurd]

Way too long. Just over 20

[@Shonufff88]

1:00 "my favorite teacher" lol

[@welshgoldferret5107]

Why wasn't school this awesome for me? oh that's right I live in the UK...

[@kurtdiegel7430]

I was wondering if direct shoveling into a sluice box is more efficient, or not as efficient, as classifying the material into a five gallon bucket first and then feeding the sluice. Is a bigger sluice more efficient than a smaller backpack sluice?

[@Danhurd]

Straight shoveling into a sluice is much more efficient - if you have a grizzly on your sluice. the bigger sluice allows you to put more material through.

[@lisafarr2317]

Learn all what u need 2 and more. Fab.

[@Danhurd]

Thanks!

[@FlourgoldWizards]

You haven’t aged a bit!

[@Danhurd]

Ha!

[@patrickgalloway5078]

The only thing that shows is the gold gold has a specific color range because it does not oxidize

[@entertainmentforyou6677]

Are u a school teacher? Thanks for the video's! Great Knowledge!

[@entertainmentforyou6677]

I seen the end of the video! Sorry

[@Danhurd]

No problem!

[@DAVIDBUCKLE-TASMANIA]

YeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaa

[@patrickgalloway5078]

It also helps you find the gold where it lays with pinpoint accuracy .I know i must be bugging you but its true and i can prove it

[@011CJ]

Thanks again

[@lealcimmagu]

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[@patrickgalloway5078]

Dan i didnt single you out because of your youtube following i singled you out because you are a teacher

[@karimarahmane5521]

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[@LokiOdinsson88]

Thank u fren 🧌

[@matthewdennis2651]

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[@patrickgalloway5078]

I will be putting up a youtube video titeld find gold with your cellphone by pat galloway

[@tekksavvy2242]

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[@TheFrog767]

😁 Gold

[@matthewdennis2651]

Not bid big wayne need to clear that up so my bro dont punch lol

[@JakeWalksAmerica]

They're annoying. No, that's you. 😂