Breaking the Gold Nugget Dry Spell!

[@sheliahafley3431]

Thanks' for letting us come along with you today. I sure hope we find a few nuggets.

[@noemiemckay1311]

Dan you are a fantastic teacher any pearls of wisdom are welcome, teach us about the world you are currently immersed in. See rivers in general would be a great teaching moment.

[@xyzabc4574]

Dan "That's a picker!" Hurd is good people. Thank you for posting this.

[@apostlepaulvining5688]

Dan, hey from Florida Rev. Paul. Thanks for taking the time and effort to film & comment on your videos. You do a great job sir. !!!.

[@Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming]

I simply cannot get on with my Sunday until I have watched Dan’s latest video. Thanks Dan.

[@benjidasbear]

Thanks Dan. Look forward to every Sunday morning for new videos. Keep rocking!

[@dartmart9263]

The sight of gold always makes me happy, even when none of it is mine!

[@MegaHuskers21]

I love that you replant. Professional grower and have never thought to do that! Thanks!

[@SherryRoberts-4356]

I love to watch your videos! You are lots of fun and brighten our day. I love to hear you talk and your cheerfulness!

[@hupo1983]

Never lose your high energy, my friend. You are a king. I smile all the time when I watch you, I guess I should thank you for that. THANK YOU. Love and greetings from Turkey

[@George-tz1cv]

Very beautiful place. Nice location to spend the day.

[@HE-pu3nt]

Of course if you leave a nugget in your pan and put more paydirt on top, your first nugget might find another nugget, and if they love each very very much, you might just get some baby nuggets! Not a lot of people know this.

[@cliffordkelly5327]

😂😂😂

[@danayneal4409]

This is the professional advice I came for. 😂❤😂

[@cjblazer385]

I like that you replant things if you can and are cautious of the moss . People laugh at me sometimes but once after I found a nice flowerstone on the beach I noticed I missed a little snail that was still attached and alive. I was all the way back home at the time but I put the rock back in my truck and drove the snail back down to the beach, found it a tidal pool and put it in. That snail had a very interesting and confusing day that day.

[@loumarken486]

Starting my day with a cuppa hot coffee and Dan Hurd...life is good. Only way it could be better would be if I was at 'Pickerton' too.

[@markdalton8391]

Hey, I've been a follower for a while now. Love the treasures you find, but you as a person are the find. Keep up the great work.😊

[@highseassailor]

Dan, you always sound so optimistic. Sure helps me find happiness in the day, thank you!

[@Sticks017]

Man this was a great video Dan. I love your gold panning videos, ESPECIALLY at Pickerton

[@26hurban]

“Just 1 more pan” 😂 I think I just wanna live vicariously through yalls videos because I know how I am about shiny things…❤

[@Sticks017]

Pickerton videos are the best videos!! I'm so excited!

[@O.K.-Raised]

Thanks for a fun video Dan. Some sweet looking candy!

[@fredrikschubert2692]

I've really enjoy your enthusiasm for geology. I would love a more general video on prospecting and how one could go about finding land with precious minerals etc in other parts of the world. I'm in Sweden for instance and I don't know where to even begin to figure out what to look for.

[@danayneal4409]

Yay! Nuggets feed my gold addiction! Thanks for sharing and saving the plants.. 😊

[@Quansem]

Hungry algorithm needs fed. Thanks for the videos, Dan!

[@coffee19837]

Awesome video Dan hope you have a wonderful bless day

[@brettmurphy8523]

I really enjoy your videos like this one. Good music choices and nice and relaxed. Perfect type of videos to relax to after dealing with society all day.

[@SweetLuLund]

What an amazing spot. Gold in every pan! So cool!

[@PenetrationOgre]

I find that geological history is pretty interesting to learn about. Like how in some places ancient seabeds caused certain rock formations and the like. Something like that but for the Fraser river area and the host rocks history could be interesting. Like many others have said, you do an excellent job at explaining things in an easy to understand way and I very much enjoy your lessons.

[@sajijoseph1726]

I ve seen such stones near the river while young. Your video taught me something great today. Nice. I need tools

[@patcaza6166]

Dan's smile and energy are worth more than the gold ✌

[@eddieeldorado-qw2nb]

good to see your still panning, I am a miner in Hangtown california, i always try to watch your videos

[@ScottG420]

I find myself cheering for you every time you find a picker.

[@sharonclevenger3734]

I love watching you. It's like I'm on. Treasure hunt but I don't get wet or cold. Lol.

[@edwardlangdon9256]

You always puts a smile on my face. Thanks you sir.

[@3goodtimes3]

Perfect timing for this video. I just got six pounds of paydirt in the mail. Great video, Dan. U were my first paydirt provider.

[@saragandey8625]

Good to see some bigger gold. Congrats on your persistence

[@troyster33333]

Great educated and entertainer! Don’t ever stop!

[@josephcormier5974]

Awesome adventure Dan thanks for sharing this with us six stars

[@sortofkindofhandy6944]

Nice work Dan - love the video's and your enthusiasm - keep them coming

[@HE-pu3nt]

Well hello there Dan! 💙from west Yorkshire🇬🇧.

[@Tyler-gd7yw]

had no idea you could find gold so consistently albiet in smaller pieces, awesome first video to watch on gold panning

[@markxthespot]

🙂 You did it Dan Yay! You broke the dry spell! Thanks Nice Job as always.

[@johnkiser2658]

Amazing scenery Dan!

[@patmayer7222]

,,,,,,watching from land o' lakes,wi,......only a very few things can adjust our attitude like this,......😮❤,..holy cats,that river changes dramatically,.....,,,great finds Mr.Dan,,,..tnx,,,pat & family.

[@thetinkerist]

Statistically you could have hit the lucky spots, but today you've shown it's probably just... an awesome claim!! good lunch break, I enjoyed that, have fun out there Dan! Hope to see you on the next one, and don't tire yourself too much to get yourself home safe! cheers!

[@FlatulentBreeze]

Great video as always! I seldom comment but today I'm panning paydirt on my desk in my studio apartment as I watch, so I thought I'd say hello and thanks for the inspiration.

[@dagwood1327]

I love the geology lesson of the day but I also find interesting the rules / laws of gold mining.

[@S-T-E-V-E]

Great video Dan! Love from Scotland! ❤

[@SurfingTheSoundwaves]

What a great moment, those first two pickers. It was like Babe Ruth calling the homerun, then hitting it.

[@urmama9845]

Great video as always. Thanks for sharing

[@jimrf1137]

Thanks Dan.

[@EvanGrunwald-x2r]

Man thanks to guys like you, I made my biggest find of my life of rock hounding so far..45lbs Agate it's a dark grey like a Botswana found on my trip across Canada from Kelowna...I found it in Amethyst country outskirts of thunder Bay Ontario and I was in the middle of a field on top of a hill and it was almost impossible to see and in a heavily traversed area and went unnoticed for ever.. with just the tip of cracked agate sticking out of the ground was a small piece the size of a finger laying on the ground in the grass and I just happened to notice and look better... I tried to move it but it was deep in the ground, I got my pick and 10 mins later got this sucker out .. the entire piece is almost perfectly square and is almost full Agate but has some white geodesic quartz formations on just one side.. i need to clean it up but man I am absolutely stoked as it's my first big find I did on my own.

[@arasukaviarasu6068]

Nice inventions very beautiful location to see this place.

[@cx7sleven369]

Love plant montages. Maybe talk about a future site for the geology lesson.

[@nocapyoulackn3594]

Had to click when I seen Nugget talk 😂 Always Dan I click when I see a new video not just Nugget titles I swear 😂.

[@Stand.Your.Ground.]

Dan I’m oooking to get a high banker after all these years! I have 2 gold spots that continues to produce fine gold mixed with flakes in my state! I just feel I’m on the brink of a nugget! Been watching you for over 5 years! Pickerton 100% used to produce amazing amazing gold!

[@ralphkearns7600]

I would have no idea about requesting a 'geology lesson'! I so would like to join you and do some 'panning'! But that is not a possibility!!! I love your videos!!! PS: I have never 'gold panned'!!!

[@CacklingChick]

What a relaxing FUN time! Thanks for the education, too. GOLD ON!! 😁👍🏻🪙⛏️

[@bcbradley]

Maybe not GLOD. But talk about why the Fraser surges like it does. It's the only river that I've seen to do it so obviously. Great vid

[@Quansem]

There's the problem: Dan has been looking for glod nuggets all this time.

[@bcbradley]

@@Quansem Geology Lesson Of Day GLOD

[@Quansem]

@bcbradley2359 I know.. I was trying out that 'dad' humour :)

[@Forlong21]

Good Geology Lessons are the types of rocks you find in a pan and how they are formed and if they can help indicate if gold might be around.

[@heroofnone]

not necessarily a geology lesson of the day, but a bit more on mining/panning laws and the history/reasoning would be interesting.

[@cliffordkelly5327]

Howdy Dan ! I would love to hear Yu tell us again about how gold, finds it way into slate , up on the bank , as apposed to staying down in the bottom of the Fraser ! Cliff Kelly from Tucson, Az

[@susanfender307]

I find it interesting that the spring rush is ongoing even in July. Frasier River hydrology would be interesting, at least to me- it seems like it also governs how you can find such nifty minerals.

[@aaron6806]

Plenty of huge mountains full of snow and ice along the upper Fraser. Water doesn't rise until temps get high enough to melt high-elevation snowpack. This year we also had rain through to late spring, so early summer there was a lot of water everywhere. Then everything caught on fire, so that was fun.

[@susanfender307]

@@aaron6806 woof. That's really different from my neck of the woods- most of the rivers we have around here have a constant flow from direct aquifer discharge (springs). The largest river near me is basically an estuary for most of it's distance and flows north (St. Johns River in Florida). I just find it amazing how complex ya'll's area is for geology.

[@jacksonforman9560]

you should collect all of the little gold you get along with whatever else is left in the pan for real small stuff and after a while you could clean it all up and get a nice amount of flower gold

[@scottdilley356]

Nicely done

[@motorsnutts6594]

Nice one Dan , cracking find 👍🏼

[@richardbrobeck2384]

Nice find Dan !!

[@jefftruax77]

@Dan Hurd geo lesson... look at the video at about 5 minutes left... Notice the water current when you were talking about geology... The Pickerton inflow current is showing spectacularly going the OPPOSITE as water current from the river rushes by

[@danayneal4409]

That's an eddy. It's quite normal. The current flows around an obstacle, like a rock or the river bank, and the water circles back around to fill the space behind the obstacle.

[@anatrejos8879]

❤❤❤Always live ur show love prospecting just work a lot and not much time. Ur last pan saw a vivid blue stone what was it? Much love to ur family. North near about 5 miles from Lake Erie we have Black River and Vermilion River lots creeks.

[@lucasreid6335]

I appreciate that you took the time to replant the greenery you have to move. You didn't have to tell us it replant it. So big respect for your honesty. I was hoping to ask, you say you've been skunked a few times at Pickerton. Roughly what percent of the claim would you say you have worked? Just wondering how much ground is left unexplored

[@wendywobbles1]

I really look forward to your channel, Blimey it's Sept 20th now lol

[@Gomorragh]

looking at the flow of the river at the side of you, when the water is higher up the bank the whole flow will change, and like the eddies at the side of you, they may move further up the bank, and that might be why youre expecting the pickers in one place but theyre not appearing in the right direction to your mind

[@rogergriffin9893]

I'm glad you found some pickers. I was worried that the claim jumpers got them.

[@TmM-vb4ue]

I always love your videos Dan!

[@risingwolf96]

Geology lesson to discuss. The term heavy vs density. We use these terms like they are interchangeable but scientifically are they? A good discussion on density would be an interesting.

[@joshredding9588]

GLOTD….take us up to where the snow melt starts, to show the source of why the Fraser River water levels rise and fall 60ft every year. Would be interesting

[@wigi49]

Here's a GLOTD idea: I am always impressed that seemingly large pieces of gold get into amazingly tight spaces. How do large pieces of gold get below bedrock (like Pickerton slate) that has only minute cracks in it, that I assume have not moved significantly since they first fractured. It would seem that new, very tight fractures would only allow very small gold to fit between the cracks.

[@drpikegeologist]

Just off your left shoulder while panning there is a serious boil-out... probably the mechanism for the sporadic gold placement there. Boil-outs can lift plenty of gold from lower than where you are on the bank. I see boil-outs on lots of videos you do on the Fraser. That would be a good placer geology lesson.

[@davidoconn9352]

Thanks Dan!

[@robertatpierpontbeach]

Dan, nice persistence with continuing until you have success. I'd like to hear more about the geology of the rock formation that you were working the crevasses from. I noticed that the "country rock" looked banded. Is it a metamorphosed shale (slate)? Thanks in advance for considering discussing the local geology you were working in.

[@Alondro77]

Alas, I'm over here in No-Nugget New Jersey. Just teeny dust specks and pin-head-sized flakes.

[@davidvincent1093]

Dan if you have not yet do a lesson on how to pick your gold pans and the different graders. I have panned in California at Sutter's mill and found - and that i some "dust" but that is a state park and panned to death. But I do travel the US now I am retired that this looks like something I could do to relax when I park the coach for the day. Who knows it might even make me enough for a gallon of petrol in my coach would get me 5 miles down the road (those 42 footers are really hungry for fuel)

[@WingmanJohnny]

You always have a great video. Keep up the great work

[@bradleyslightom6313]

Thank you brother!

[@allauricia1985]

Thanks again Dan✌️

[@zedaprime]

How retro, spring run off in September 😂

[@1944chevytruck]

good job!

[@debcamp2359]

It's always fun to watch your videos. I bet filming takes up alot of your time. A time-lapse and go hard surely would b more productive. But not as fun.❤

[@rudysmith2946]

Dan, good video, your very entertaining.

[@islandmade52]

You earned my subscription on this one buddy! Love your stuff. Do you ever come out to Vancouver Island?

[@whartonoutdoors7493]

You crack me up. Great vid, mate.

[@GaryRoenickr]

I have no tips for you, just that on the Yuba R in N California where I prospect, it seems gold always gathers in the same general area and each time I look there it’s back. And hardly ever a new spot. Your Pickerton Claim looks so cool and would be awesome to find a place like that. Where I go it’s heavily prospected. Love your videos, keep em coming 👍

[@hobbieminers8487]

Got to love them pickers 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚒️

[@Amrinprospecting]

Luar biasa sekali pak saya suka cara bapak bekerja

[@janetgrahamtheberge4772]

I saw some very green stones in your pans. They were smaller than your pickers, but I wondered what they are. They looked emeraldy.

[@TheNich29]

I like it when you smelt some of your gold in to 😅 bars

[@jax2428]

You had me worried that Pickerton might have been pinched out.😆

[@kellyw.1779]

Hey Dan, way to go...beautiful gold!!😁😜

[@darthbonobo]

Time to spend Sunday lunch with Dan. :D

[@Gardeningchristine]

Good job! My guess was .67, but I didn’t want to short change you too much. I was closer than I thought!

[@Bailey-adventures]

That was a nice surprise, Right on!!!