Found a $1,000 gold nugget while I was metal detecting for big gold on my new nugget patch

[@Highplainsprospectors]

Chris' book is the BEST gold prospecting book on the market. Highly recommended!

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks for the kind words.

[@Jennifer-007]

Absolutely agree… hands down awesome reference, it’s not a read it once then it collects dust, this is a bible you’ll be thumbing through as a reference constantly.

[@goldcastmedia3071]

It's always a pleasure to watch your videos. I grew up dreaming about prospecting and practicing by hunting flint and arrowheads in the creek running through my backyard in Pennsylvania. I finally moved jobs out west near Elko Nevada and have been going out as often as possible to try and find my own hot spots. One thing that you are 100 percent about.. finding gold is a skill. It's a skill that has to be fine-tuned over long periods of time and practice. More failures than success = tuning that skill, and even though I'm still striking out... I will never give up. I hope to take the lessons learned both in the field and from watching your videos.. and hand them down to my children. Wish us luck!

[@ChrisRalph]

Best of luck to you and your kids too.

[@yeomanadventures1549]

Thanks for everything Chris, taking my Fischer Gold Bug Pro to AZ with my Dad. Bought two copies of your book, one for my nephews.

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks. Best of luck to you.

[@bedrockbennett1827]

Great work.... Gary is a legend

[@ChrisRalph]

THanks! glad you liked the video. True, Gary is a legend.

[@Smithsgold]

@@ChrisRalphgetting ready to get on the Boat with the legend now !!!!

[@bedrockbennett1827]

@@Smithsgold I hope you guys catch lots of fish and have a great day Jeff tell Gary I said hello

[@Smithsgold]

@@bedrockbennett1827 will do

[@blueleadgoldproductions133]

Beautiful finds. Great work Chris.

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad you like them!

[@markb9347]

That is a beautiful nugget Chris. Congrats on finding a new hot spot.

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks 👍 It is a nice nugget.

[@karlstruck5297]

You are on it. Glad you found a new spot!

[@ChrisRalph]

Yes, its a good spot! Thank you!

[@rickflysaway]

I really enjoyed this video. That was a great nugget, and you are a great teacher. I appreciate those in the community ,like Smithgold, TwoToes, yourself, who share themselves as they share their knowledge.

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mspeagle2]

Wow! great microphone for the voice over sections.

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad you like it!

[@stevensherer1440]

You are obviously having fun and being successful adds to the enjoyment. Congradulations on the great finds that are coming to you because of your hard work and research efforts.

[@ChrisRalph]

Yes! Thank you!

[@chrismathisen5435]

Great job Mr. Ralph thanks for posting, but it’s always fun to put down the camera sometimes and go for it!

[@ChrisRalph]

You got that right!

[@copter1doc]

Great job, great find. Thank you for sharing ⛏️👍🇺🇸

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@garrettmillsap]

That's awesome Chris. Congratulations!

[@ChrisRalph]

Yes! Thank you!

[@Smithsgold]

Good job on the video and best of luck on your next trip back !!!

[@ChrisRalph]

I'm going to try to get more big ones!

[@Smithsgold]

@@ChrisRalph save one for me !!!!! 🍦

[@glentomkins8044]

Nice gold Chris, keep the vids coming.

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks

[@markthomas4083]

Great video. I have a Whites GMT. This purchase back around 2002 helped activate my divorce. No joke. Anywhere, I take the detector out for hunting, near Olinghouse, Nv. I think a Minelab would be better. Some of the area has such high mineralization to it. Question for you Chris, will you consider a Part II to your book? I purchased your book a year ago. Fascinating and informative. More illustrations of good bearing ore would be cool. Due to budget restrictions, your book is black and white. I have viewed your video illustrating gold ore in various forms. Please produce another video on rocks, not solely quartz. Just found you have a website. Probably listed in the back section of your cool book. Will be in touch. Please continue to produce videos sir. Oh yah, picked up a broken rock crust last weekend. Will hope the new carb produces results. Will keep in touch.

[@ChrisRalph]

Quartz gold veins is what most guys hunt. The part 2 of that video is done - See: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmKunZ-shLOJha8

[@markthomas4083]

@@ChrisRalph Thank you. Just clicked on it. 🙌🙌

[@50Quid-d3x]

You can get a digital copy of the MXT owners manual and inside is a maped diagram of how to follow the black sand...(Pg. 13). why they didn't put it in the GMT manual is a mystery? So a lower ground measure number jumps to 75 or 80, which is indicative of a black sand accumulation and a gold accumulation in or on the edge... the ground measure will drop the ground (type) number down to 45 or 50. A magnet on a pic or walking stick or magnetic probe can sniff out the black sand. Which we hope will lead us to an accumulation that we can clean out with either a drywasher or sluice box. The MXT does not measure ground mineralization strength. So the GMT blows up in hotter mineralized soil but it measures soil conditions like no other metal detector on earth. I would consider trying a Minelab Equinox 800, 900 or the newer Manticore as these detectors operate in soil conditions where many VLF gold detectors fail ( including the GoldMonster 1,000, before stepping up to a used 4500 or new 6 or 7 Thousand. ​@@markthomas4083

[@gerardvriend729]

Good to see you are doing what you want to do! There’s gold in them hills! Love to see the nuggets.

[@ChrisRalph]

There is still good gold out there to be found.

[@huntinquincy4238]

Heck yeah that was a tremendous save! Really cool gold too, I’d really assumed most of the areas you work in ca are placer deposites so to find some eroded vein gold like this in that area is pretty wild. Keep gettin them Chris!

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks 👍 I will be looking for more soon.

[@huntinquincy4238]

@@ChrisRalph for sure! I’d be camping out there till the snow ran me out 😂

[@FabledFinds]

Congrats on the nice gold finds, Chris! I have the same issue filming. Haven’t posted a video in almost a year. Coincidentally I’m heading out tomorrow to do hiking time on feet in preparation for my first 50K ultra marathon. Might just film a little treasure hunting.

[@ChrisRalph]

Best of luck to you.

[@tywaltman4044]

Beautiful nugg, your videos are outstanding

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad you like them!

[@ricktaylor9479]

I bought Chris' book years ago. It's a very good book that helped even a dummy like me. He signed it for me, too. I recommend getting it.

[@ChrisRalph]

I'm glad I had the opportunity to sign it.

[@viktors.runtunuwu9427]

The best consistent prospector👍🇲🇨🎖️

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks.

[@shineyrocks390]

Thank you Chris

[@ChrisRalph]

Very welcome anytime.

[@dfox344]

Hi Chris. Great finds.... If you are out detecting by yourself, please consider a personal emergency location device. I use the Garmin mini. I can text lived ones, and if I get hurt, I can send an SOS via satellite to get help. It's a great tool and possibly save a life. It's worth every dollar 💵... Thank you for sharing. ❤

[@ChrisRalph]

I have and use a Zoleo device. Very similar to your Garmin. You can look them up on Google.

[@weshawkins7165]

Nice gold Chris. I say this every year but we need to get together and go detecting again.

[@ChrisRalph]

Yes we do. Send me an email and we'll figure something out.

[@weshawkins7165]

@@ChrisRalph Will do. We’re heading out next week for South Dakota for a short vacation when I get back I’ll email ya.

[@dsmoothman1981]

Beautiful gold chris 😮😮

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks 👍

[@carriecordill8495]

You funny Uncle Fish!

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks!

[@danielflinn3571]

Well done happy days stay safe

[@ChrisRalph]

Thank you, I will

[@GOLD_FEVER]

This is the stuff of dreams! I wish i knew where to find such spots! But alas i am too lazy to trek through miles of poison oak and blackberry bushes... I mean for nuggets like that i would... but so far i'm limited to finding a BRIDGE over a river and then just parking there and hiking down river to find some gold... That mode of research has dried up for me... I don't know where to search next...

[@ChrisRalph]

More research gives you options for more places to explore.

[@danbrent4618]

Chris that is a stunning Nugget! Such beautiful western country! Dan Brent

[@ChrisRalph]

Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@greedygringoprospecting6941]

gonna try all 3 coils. on my nox 900. looking for gold. ,the 15" goes like 2 1/2 feet down. might restrict the size but see what happens. got several small pieces. have a good day.

[@ChrisRalph]

Best of luck to you.

[@jbowerman50]

Chris, just curious if you think a Gold Monster 1000 would have spotted that 13 gram gold at that depth? That's the only detector I own, and around here if there's any gold, it's flour and found in waterway sand. So successful detection is probably going to be in at least a days travel from here.

[@ChrisRalph]

I doubt the GM 1000 would have seen it. The GM 1000 is great for small gold that is shallow. I use mine regularly.

[@paulsmith2105]

Nice job sir keepus posted ❤

[@ChrisRalph]

Thank you, I will

[@Mattytube18]

Nice one! Can you make us a detailed video how you clean out the oxides and the solutions you soak them in?

[@ChrisRalph]

Yes I can and I will but its too little for a whole video. I'll put it in with other stuff.

[@Mattytube18]

@@ChrisRalph another question, you said you found this with a 7000 @ about a foot deep. Would a gm1000 detected this nugg? Again, thnx a lot!

[@ChrisRalph]

I doubt the GM 1000 would have seen it. The GM 1000 is great for small gold that is shallow. I use mine regularly, but this spot is different, better for the 7000.

[@Mattytube18]

@@ChrisRalph understood, thank you so much.

[@greedygringoprospecting6941]

ever look at a estwing burpee pick. ,weighs 2 lbs. really rugged. soon out in the field. use the new diggen tool (burpee pick) maybe find some gold. see what happens. have a good day.

[@ChrisRalph]

The 17 inch pick is a little too small. The 25 inch version is a little too heavy. The estwing picks are very heavy duty and strong.

[@levimichael1136]

0:15 Chris, just strap a GoPro to your head. We just want to tag along.

[@ChrisRalph]

Several of reasons why I don't do that. 1. My targets are at my feet, so a camera on my head wont see that location well - It would look in front of me. That is why I use a chest mount. 2. I am real careful about what I show on camera. Lots of folks would be happy to move in on a location yielding nuggets worth a couple hundred to a thousand dollars - I want to limit what a heads up view shows so as not to give lots of hints.

[@GoldfieldsGoose]

Do Both🍻 Nice Gold

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks.

[@Bob-kl3es]

Where are you. Chico area?

[@ChrisRalph]

Northern California is as much specificity as I want to say.

[@anthonymalliris2089]

Go-Pro mount it on your head. Then you can film and not worry about lugging around camera equipment. I use my Go-Pro camera while Archery hunting

[@ChrisRalph]

Several of reasons why I don't do that. 1. My targets are at my feet, so a camera on my head wont see that location well - your targets are in front of you. That is why I use a chest mount. 2. I am real careful about what I show on camera. Lots of folks would be happy to move in on a location yielding nuggets worth a couple hundred to a thousand dollars - I want to limit what a heads up view shows so as not to give lots of hints.

[@Inkling2B]

... filming and finding gold are not mutually exclusive. Also congrats on the nice find!

[@ChrisRalph]

Filming takes more time than you think. If I am filming, I am not prospecting. The more I prospect, the more gold I find. Its a delicate balance to do both.

[@brocojack]

whats your operational freq on your scan and your battery input?

[@brocojack]

amperage?

[@ChrisRalph]

Its not a VLF, the GPZ is a pulse induction machine.

[@derekpugh7919]

Chris I have a gold and silver ore vein of some really good fine high grade silver and gold and rhodium already had assayed its quartz native silver and fine. The gold is fine 23 kt there is also precious metals in the dirt

[@derekpugh7919]

What would you recommend is the easiest and most cost-efficient way to extract the gold leaching process or smelting

[@ChrisRalph]

I have a video coming out soon on non-toxic gold-silver leaching.

[@Truth_Teller_101]

@@ChrisRalph I also have a question. I have a kimberlite pipe. Is it normal for a kimberlite pipe to blow nuggets? It seems to happen whenever I visit Taco Bell. After exploring the porcelain basin afterwards there are no diamonds anywhere, just these brown nuggets which have very little gold content.

[@ChrisRalph]

Sounds like you are full of those brown nuggets.

[@briankerr4512]

If you have gold you need lead to protect it ... ;)

[@ChrisRalph]

Perhaps.

[@jamesdavis5096]

Cool vid

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks!

[@paulbegley1464]

Nevada or California. ?

[@ChrisRalph]

Calif.

[@mikesherman8590]

Oh shut up you do some of the best teaching I've ever seen run

[@ChrisRalph]

Well thank you.

[@Amanda-yf7vj]

Soooooo awesome!!!

[@ChrisRalph]

Thanks!

[@deebentley9380]

Not that im jealous i like how informative yr vids are but sometimes less is more haha just talk the rust off ur gold haha

[@ChrisRalph]

Noted! Hard to figure exactly what each individual would like. Some want more information, some want less. There is no pleasing everyone.

[@JoshuaLee-e5i]

If you hit that nugget with a hammer will it break it into pieces or smash it flat I asked this question because of the indications of if you find gold and you hit it with a hammer and it shatters or flies in different directions then it wasn't gold but then I'm also told that all gold nuggets have something else in them and a lot of times that will be pieces of quartz it will be tied through a quartz or something like that included in the Nugget will it not shatter into pieces when I try to flatten

[@ChrisRalph]

Yes, quartz shatters. So a nugget with lots of quartz in it will have the quartz shatter. But the gold metal will smash. You can see the difference.

[@JoshuaLee-e5i]

@@ChrisRalph but will the gold not seperate with the host miners if it's tied into it? Like when it begins changing into more hard rock than gold? Seeing as hard rock gold is very often deposited throught a space at 45 degrees in micron this sheets or as tiny equally spaced/sized yet individually unique little blobs to or even In needle like straw wire or rope.if it was in the rock in suck a way then it would shatter aling was the the rock correct? So at what point does it become a nugget that wouldnt break apart if smashed or pressed? I see lots of specimens that are sold as nuggets that look like they would CERTAINLY all shatter with a single hammer strike .and I have the rocks that are literally identically the same as those. When I smash them they smash.sute the inside looks like the sheets or the blobs specs whatever but NONE of them are crushing down to even flakes. ...why?

[@ChrisRalph]

From your description, I have no idea what you are looking at, and I don't do photo evaluations. quartz shatters. gold metal will smash.

[@tradermunky1998]

I don't know how you get any filming done 😂

[@ChrisRalph]

I have to work at it to get it done.

[@DWCStuff]

Are you on a GPAA spot?

[@ChrisRalph]

No, I am not.

[@DWCStuff]

@@ChrisRalph bummer that would have been a lot of fun

[@kevinb7551]

I like Jeff Williams and Dan Hurd, for field prospecting! I don't like that they sell paydirt though I feel that stuff is such a scam

[@ChrisRalph]

I did a video on how paydirt is not a good way to buy gold. Its a high margin type of thing where the seller makes really good money.

[@Truth_Teller_101]

Any channel that claims you can make 50k a month mining dirt in your backyard (and SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON!!!!), or runs "contests" where they supposedly give away stuff, is suspect by default.

[@kevinb7551]

@Truth_Teller_101 Jeff Williams does do that a bit but I also understand the youtube algorithm, honestly I'm pleasantly surprised when simple educational stuff like Chris raplh has a fair size fan base!

[@josephnewman9175]

Very nice finds! Congratulations on the 13 grammer! Hope you find some even bigger ones. Joe gold

[@ChrisRalph]

I'm going to try to get more big ones!

[@ModernDayProspector]

Where you from bud?

[@ChrisRalph]

Compton, California.

[@CharlesAAnnen-rh4mk]

Is it possible to obtain that market price in cash

[@ChrisRalph]

Yes, gold can be converted to cash.

[@glennwoods2462]

New report says large gold nuggets formed by earthquakes... Gold forms in quartz all the time," said Chris Voisey, a geologist at Monash University in Australia and the lead author of a new study published Monday (Sept. 2) in the journal Nature Geoscience. "The thing that's weird is really, really large gold nugget formation. We didn't know how that worked - how you get a large volume of gold to mineralize in one discreet little place," Voisey told Live Science. Two separate clues helped Voisey and his colleagues solve the gold nugget mystery, he said. The first was that the largest nuggets occur in orogenic gold deposits, which are deposits that form during earthquakes. The second was that quartz is a piezoelectric mineral, meaning it creates its own electric charge in response to geologic stress, such as the stress generated by earthquakes. Thought you might be interested, Chris ... 🙏

[@ChrisRalph]

Don't know if you are reading that right. Earthquakes open faults which allow mineralized fluids to flow in them.

[@glennwoods2462]

@@ChrisRalph it's a scientific paper, published in a scientific journal called Nature Geoscience ... The Scientist's at Monash University have been doing tests on how earthquakes make electrical charges that somehow affect the quartz, and the gold clusters up to form larger nuggets...they have made it happen in the laboratory.... I copied and pasted the article from a news report....🙏

[@patdenney7046]

I sold so many ounces for less than 300 oh really nice ones. Ounces of rye patch gold for less than 300 dammit!

[@ChrisRalph]

If you sold for $300 and that was a fair price, it was 30+ years ago.

[@jamesdennis9400]

I think you should have guests on your show and in the field 😎

[@ChrisRalph]

Maybe one of these days.

[@patdenney7046]

It doesn’t take much gold to make $1000 nowadays. Isn’t that great! 😀

[@ChrisRalph]

Its true, a $1,000 nugget is a lot smaller than before.

[@thundercougar]

You do a great job, but you do just rattle on and on. Lol not being a troll. Constructive support. Keep up the good work.

[@ChrisRalph]

There are plenty of reasons why I do things the way I do. I also get about 10 times more compliments on how I go into full detail on a lot of topics vs. complaints that I go on too long. So I will continue to go on the way I do.

[@WilsonPendarvis-tn3wm]

If I can afford a $7000 plus metal detector I don’t need to go out and any gold

[@ChrisRalph]

You don't have to have a $7,000 detector to find gold. I've found plenty with a $10 gold pan. On the other hand, Ive found thousands more than the cost of the GPZ 7000 with that detector.

[@kenlowder6932]

Swing your detector. Find a good strike. Stop! Take two steps back from the strike and turn on your camera. Swing your detector while walking two steps forward. Oooooo a strike!

[@ChrisRalph]

Stopping to film takes more time that you might expect.

[@Truth_Teller_101]

If he does that he'll have to change his name to Jeff Williams. Then he'll start planting gold and pretending to "find it".

[@Truth_Teller_101]

Those dying trees in the background indicate that Democrats have been in the area. Chris, please be careful you don't run into one. They'll take that nugget you found and try to redistribute it.

[@ChrisRalph]

There was a terrible fire through the area a few years back.

[@Truth_Teller_101]

@@ChrisRalph The Paradise fire? I was days from closing on buying a property in Magalia when it hit. The house I was going to buy burned to the ground. What's ironic is I had just lost a house in Santa Rosa a few years earlier in the Tubbs fire. PG&E still owes me $100k, and they are dragging their feet paying anybody. It's going on 8 years now. The only people getting paid are the lawyers.

[@lorasmith9380]

Leave politics out of it! There are other places for you to spread your venom. This is a prospecting channel.

[@Truth_Teller_101]

@@lorasmith9380 The sluice box found one! It's a biggie too.

[@billwaterson9492]

​@@lorasmith9380seriously. I came out here to get away from these people.