I have watched a lot of videos on where and how to find gold in rivers but yours are the best by far by showing the scientific reason why and where the gold will or should be. I wish I could take your class, I know I wouldn't fall asleep. LOL Thanks for making the videos.
@1uptospeed7 жыл бұрын
if i was a kid in your class the last thing i be doing is falling asleep , great info. Dan,
@nathanellsworth923 жыл бұрын
People should be very thankful for all this free information on KZbin. Thank you Dan
@DonorcyclistАй бұрын
I don’t understand these dudes who go to a class like this and fall asleep or talk while someone like Dan is imparting his knowledge. Man, put me in, coach!
@pattaylor44074 жыл бұрын
This is great! I wish I’d had a gold prospecting class like yours when I was in high school! I would have wanted to go to class everyday!
@manuelchavez34313 жыл бұрын
I could watch and learn from you so easily, I admire your ability to teach what you love. and. do ,truly great u r
@irishscarface4211 Жыл бұрын
Great class to have posted on KZbin! Thank you for sharing, a lot of great info.
@donaldtrumpet14657 жыл бұрын
thanks for your teaching a lesson..im from philppines always watching dredging,sample location and I gonna try this..
@shawnmccormick11426 жыл бұрын
Thanks from New Hampshire. I will use this info today. I needed your help bad!
@lionel66215 жыл бұрын
In New Hampshire as well! Just started out couple weeks ago! And Dan's videos help a lot!!!
@markopittman28334 жыл бұрын
heydan, hangtown mark here. hey bud how is the heart valve doin. i hope your doing well. you know i will bet there are alot of us prospectors you have helped and we wish you long life brother.
@kennethgreene71242 жыл бұрын
Yet another great video with very good information. I can say you had my full attention and interest during the entire video unlike your class for some reason lol. I have always wanted to quit my job and live off the land and prospect gold. If it were plausible to better support my wife and kids to give them the life they deserve instead of living in a tiny apartment in the ghetto
@freddymello32275 жыл бұрын
Very educative thanks Dan. respect from Tanzania
@Danhurd5 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@freddymello32275 жыл бұрын
Dan Hurd ,can you make a clip explaining which kind of rocks rich in gold deposit. I'm a small scale gold miner in Tanzania, I do river gold searching and uphills mining.i don't have any knowledge about rocks with gold deposit or gemstones.please consider my request brother!
@robertbmoss63199 жыл бұрын
Thanks for taking the time to share! Very useful channel.
@herby3759 жыл бұрын
Lucky Kids! Awesome Channel!!!
@luzbel.averno3 жыл бұрын
Good explanation Dan, even after my whole night working I didn't fall sleep as seems to be some of the guys there..LOL.. keep going!
@andreas0s6 жыл бұрын
Really good and informative! Thank you for your time and effort in making these videos
@Danhurd6 жыл бұрын
Thanks - I enjoy making them.
@utubestalker.dotcom2 жыл бұрын
@@Danhurd Wow!! You taught that class at a High School. I wish my high school had courses like this!
@frederickbierweiler80205 жыл бұрын
would love to raise my hand and ask a question.AgainDan you are a master teacher!
@Danhurd5 жыл бұрын
thanks!
@isaacgibbs3 жыл бұрын
Invaluable information! Thank you.
@kidslearning89985 жыл бұрын
Best teacher in 🌍.
@Danhurd5 жыл бұрын
Gee, thanks
@metarossy46098 жыл бұрын
yes the sugar coma. sadly a true phenomenon, this tutorial should be heeded by all who are just thinking, it is cause and effect 101, nature at it's rawest truth. You have my subscription and with thanks.
@odanfre7 ай бұрын
Awesome! Found your classroom videos and now Im studying hehe
@Miranda.T5 жыл бұрын
I like how you teach, the cause and explanation. It's just unfair when those kids are in sleepy mode when you are teaching well and of interesting subject. But it's good that you took a video, so we can watch videos here.
@Danhurd5 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@safethamzagic72265 жыл бұрын
I like how Dan just smiles at the kids and they start paying attention....lol
@NordeggSonya7 жыл бұрын
I just realized that where you find gold I find fish!!!
@robs95747 жыл бұрын
Fish love Gold Miners, no joke.
@rogerdudra1785 жыл бұрын
I've flyfished Montana for 50 years thinking the same thing about hydrologic influences on trout spots. I'd read a bit about placer deposits, but I've always thought of it as fly fishing water.
@jllarade38193 жыл бұрын
Yes, you're absolutely right. I've been brook trout fishing my whole life and have only started looking for gold a few years ago. It seems that where the trout hang out is where the gold deposits, maybe the big brook trout are guarding the gold, LOL.
@einsteindrieu51176 жыл бұрын
i enjoy this so much Dan,your a damn good teacher !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Danhurd6 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@SpryGuy2895 жыл бұрын
Funny Ive found ur videos Oct 30th 2019! I planned on trying out panning for the 1st time with my 10 year old son this weekend, never thought to consider the sugar crash he's gonna be nursing lmao!
@endaleatnafu2026Ай бұрын
Absolutely real lecturere
@JohnathanLee87023 жыл бұрын
Hello Dan, getting into the Virginia Gold Rush this year anyway you can help me out. Getting ready to purchase the Keene A52s sluice...with a Honda GX 200. Was wondering can you help me with which pump i should buy Keene or Proline pumps...also what's the biggest size 3" or 4" pump can the Honda GX 200 run thank you so much Dan for your help! God bless!!!
@greglarson61375 жыл бұрын
Good info and well presented.
@Danhurd5 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@ccassar193 жыл бұрын
Does a river or creek have to be bedrock at the bottom, or within a few feet of the bottom of the river, in order to contain placer gold? I live in Michigan where there is glacial runoff gold possibly anywhere, but I am trying to understand the mechanics of river gold Better before my next trip to Pa. also interested in checking more Michigan creeks and rivers, but seldom find a spec. Michigan is a good 1200 feet of soil and mariole above bedrock is my understanding. I hear there’s shale exposes somewhere nearby, I’m trying to learn how to read geological/topographic maps
@manuelchavez34313 жыл бұрын
Great vid
@reneuriartejr89529 жыл бұрын
very informative. thanks dan
@spagsketti4 жыл бұрын
Ya, I was falling asleep until teacher Dan came on then I was wide awake.
@williamvan9095 жыл бұрын
we have a lot of iron pie-right here alaska river's in some area's so how do you know if you have gold or fool's gold in your pan ?????????
@vahagnmelikyan29068 жыл бұрын
Will the bigger pieces of gold be trapped in the center of the triangle or the edges of triangle?
@startenderspacebar4 жыл бұрын
This is gold!
@bjvoorhies8 жыл бұрын
...so how do you "dig out" behind a rock in the middle (or even the side) of a big rock to get the gold out? A shovel-full will be scoured away by the water flow. Dredge? But some areas do not allow dredging. Hand dredge (sucker thing)? How do you get the sand, etc. out from below the larger gravel without getting the gold washed away downstream in the process?
@Danhurd8 жыл бұрын
Hopefully the rock is out of the water at low water times. Or at least in calm water. We are not permitted to use dredges here in BC.
@jeffreyallen37968 жыл бұрын
Dan Hurd why can't you use a dredge? environmentalist suck when they go to lie about the damage a dredge does. we have pulled a lot of mercury out of the creek using a dredge. I have not seen any fish in our Creek since we got stopped dredging.
@Serainia1235 жыл бұрын
Where exactly am I headed to register/take these classes? (Or something very similar) I'm in Grass Valley, Nor Cal & I've been looking for ages. Smelting, ores, anything...?!
@Serainia1235 жыл бұрын
I'm a grown-up, btw. Perhaps you're looking for a TA?
@caffein2raffy7 жыл бұрын
Getting a lot fine gold in Newfoundland or is it gold what kind of test can i do to find out or where can i get it tested
@hopeneverdies0077 жыл бұрын
what if the boulder is at the start of an inside bend where to look for good gravel
@GOWIN81098373 жыл бұрын
457th 👍 Hey, I noticed, different size rocks do different things to the gold. Different swirls on backside sometimes meeting, sometimes maybe the swirl "reconnects" 6' behind it., 🤣, AS IM TEXTING, YOU SPECIFIED IT ALL, WATER SPEED AT DIFFERENT TIMES, ROCK SIZE OTHER OBSTACLES. Sitting back down
@derekenlow76076 жыл бұрын
Hi Dan. I really learned alot from watching this. I'm just starting. Would you recommend i use a sluice if I'm just getting started. Thank you for the knowledge!
@Danhurd6 жыл бұрын
I recommend using a pan a classifier for a long time before you move up into a sluice or highbanker.
@derekenlow76076 жыл бұрын
Dan Hurd if I can find a pan lol might have to order one. Thank you !
@Danhurd6 жыл бұрын
15" Garret "Super Sluice" is my choice in pans.
@derekenlow76076 жыл бұрын
Well I managed to improvise. However my pan sucked but I did learn a lot about panning. Harder than I thought but maybe easier when I get a real pan lol
@derekenlow76076 жыл бұрын
I just purchased a 14 inch pan and classifier. You will also be happy to know I've brought dirt I sampled home to practice panning. Thanks for all the info!
@matthewbernard41522 жыл бұрын
Rough weekend? I wish! … said no one outside high school 🤣
@daviddancuk50268 жыл бұрын
You did not mention anything about the gold getting under the rocks... does it not do that?
@davidlee60428 жыл бұрын
+David Dančuk It does. Often, boulders keep areas from being dredged. If you winch out a large boulder, there is often a great concentration of gold beneath.
@vahagnmelikyan29068 жыл бұрын
Can you make a video about how to recognize mountains bearing gold or silver. I live in Las Vegas and don't have much financial resources to make trips in river areas. But I see lots of mountains that seems like they were mining there. Is there any rules or secrets about how to recognize gold mountains where to look for.
@davidlee60428 жыл бұрын
+Vahagn melikyan If I'm prospecting I look for granite or quartz. Both of them together are even better. If you aren't in a "river area" you probably need a metal detector. If you find any old granite or quartz, focus on that area and downhill of it. good luck
@vahagnmelikyan29068 жыл бұрын
Is granite rock the bottom layer of the sedimentary layered mountain? Does granite contain gold, or any fossils? The reason I ask if granite carry any fossils,because I want to know if it was created by flood or it is a prefloood rock...
@davidlee60428 жыл бұрын
I have never seen fossils in granite. And its not sedimentary. I haven't been in school in a while but I believe its igneous rock. Its from lava (magma) and comes from deep underground. The place I am currently prospecting has a ton of granite with quartz stringers through it. Usually the gold is where the quartz and granite meet. Volcanic or tectonic forces bring these to the surface. Other places I've been in the past have rocks other than granite that have a lot of iron with some quartz. It's red and ugly. The quartz carries gold in these rocks too.
@vahagnmelikyan29068 жыл бұрын
David Lee I went to a dry river (sorry don't know the right terminologies) was connected to a flash flood water drainage channel. At the sides of the dry river there were all kinds of rocks glued together with clay I believe,it was hard like stone. So I hit it with hammer and all these pieces fall off,there were some gray quartz,few white quartz, gravels,different types of rocks don't know the names. Seems like they were washed down the mountains by a massive flood water and after drying turned to a stone. Could they contain gold? And the ugly stones you talked about do they contain pieces of broken quartz like they were mixed with water and glued together or they are crossing through the rocks,like with granite?
@davidlee60428 жыл бұрын
The quartz stringers I'm referring to solidified with the granite way before you or I were born...when the mountains were formed. The dry river beds (arroyos in spanish) can have many different layers of concretion. If the water traveled through gold bearing ground it is possible it could have traces of gold in it. The best layers to sample would be a layer of river gravel (the rocks will be rounded...not sharp) a layer just above or in contact with clay, and most ideally, the layer right above bed rock. You have an unusual name. May I ask what your ethnicity is? I seldom prospect in the states anymore. I am making much more in other countries, and have been to many countries in my search for gold.
@vahagnmelikyan29068 жыл бұрын
Do you have email address if I can show you these rocks and if you can give me an advise?
@WormWorld943 жыл бұрын
Rough weekend? The kid : " i wish " 🤣
@kjbaran2 жыл бұрын
“Hey Eddie, water you doing?”
@frederickbierweiler80205 жыл бұрын
how id love to take your class
@grinfort5 жыл бұрын
Fuck story about Gold Deposits and Large Rocks, talk bro about your golden beard!
@Danhurd5 жыл бұрын
Ha!
@GOWIN81098373 жыл бұрын
On a side note. Did these sleeping people pay for the class?? Wow
@djack9157 жыл бұрын
like your vids but ....lol 'gold is lazy'...? Gold is heavy, too heavy for water to move it when the flow is slow.....
@jeffmcdonald80762 жыл бұрын
You need to keep a pot of coffee cooking in your classroom.that will keep them awake .
@boneyfreak91975 жыл бұрын
OK. The noob lesson with single boulder in the middle/side of a river is over with. How about reality lesson like multiple boulders of various sizes and various bedrock types and throw in a few 80' fallen trees..now where's the gold? LOL.
@unsilencedman6 жыл бұрын
If I was a kid in your class and paid for this, I would be a bit upset you were picking my ass constantly, not a good look for you bro.
@unsilencedman6 жыл бұрын
Ahh after seeing the actual class you're dealing with (actual kids) I can relate now to why you may have been getting short. Im no kid (over 40) so I understand now. I never thought kids would actually do this type of stuff. Its a bunch of hard work and they likely never worked a hard day in their life yet. I come from the oilfield so I know all about hard work. I wouldn't be able to do something like that as I am a copper top like yourself and well I need not say anymore. (Scotts temper) I would likely just ignore em and if they want to spend money just to be daft, I'd let em lol.