Gold Prospecting a Virgin Wash - We found Gold !!!

Prospecting for gold in a virgin wash. This desert dry wash is greatly effected by flash flooding during monsoon season and is constantly changing over the years. Certain natural features render high potential for locating gold. Let's see if we can find some ! Thank you for watching ! #Gold #Mining #Prospecting #Dry Wash #Panning #Desert

[@Askjeffwilliams]

really good info there Allan.....like that you are talking about stuff most don't .... wonder if you will do some hard rock mining vids in the future

[@allansgoldmining]

Thanks for the comments Jeff ! Much appreciated ! You do a pretty good job explaining to folks what to look for. Just doing our part to help gold enthusiasts enjoy the experience ! Yeah, would love to do lode deposits, especially if with you !! Cheers Bro ! 🤠⛏⚒👍

[@Famo59]

Hi Allan. Eureka Yeee Haaa Show me that Shinny. 👍 Thanks for sharing this mate. Cheers Tony 👍🤓🍺⛏

[@allansgoldmining]

Thanks Tony. I'm sure you have places like this in the Outback ? Good luck to you. Hope you find lots of shiny !!! Cheers mate !!🤠⛏⚒👍👍👍

[@WestCoastGoldProspecting]

Great job 😁🤙👌

[@Time2Vote2012]

Very interesting.

[@richardstout267]

I love watching your show and I appreciate what you said to me that I don't know much about Arizona or California but I like prospecting for gold it's a hobby to me I'm 71 years old and I love to watch all these shows about gold watching one of these days I'd like to go out there with my Dr washer and give it a try so thank you for coming and I'll keep watching your shows you have a nice day and God bless you

[@allansgoldmining]

Thank you for the kind words Richard. The weather is perfect for dry washing ! Hope you can get out there and have some fun. God bless and, best of luck to you in your prospecting adventures ! Cheers !! 🤠⛏⚒👍

[@richrue3225]

Nice...

[@56chevy11]

Thanks for showing what to look for in washes. You really explained what to look for very well.

[@allansgoldmining]

Thanks Chevy ! You never know what you might find, and have fun doing it ! Thanks for watching and best of luck to you! 🤠⛏⚒👍

[@FlashInYourPan]

Nice, Allan, the lower, last test spot results looked really good, I bet you have been back with your washplant to get more. Happy Hunting and Heavy Pans!

[@allansgoldmining]

Thank you sir ! Yeah, I was quite surprised to see that much shiny. Has to be one of my best test pans. Will definitely get that wash plant out there ! Best of luck prospecting!! 🤠⛏⚒⚒👍

[@goodyguy1260]

Hi Alan. Love your channel, keep the videos coming my friend, Go for the Gold!

[@allansgoldmining]

Thanks for your encouragement ! And best of luck prospecting to you !

[@jamiespenner]

Nice colors in that Pan my man!

[@allansgoldmining]

Thanks Jamie ! Be sure to check out the next video where I process an entire cubic yard of that stuff through the wash plant. Cheers !

[@reidogarimpo1691]

I love it!

[@gg05irgm]

I found this video because i searched for how to pan gold and gotta say did not disappoint - showing good mastery of the process really fast and very good control of the water everything calm everything getting done real fast too. I would probably have sat there for like 20 min throwing stuff all around and being afraid of losing the good stuff.

[@allansgoldmining]

Welcome to the hobby and my channel ! Thanks for the kind compliments too ! Feel free to check out the variety of videos I have, especially the latest Gold Rattler wash plant. Also, check out the recommended channels I have listed. Folks like Jeff Williams, Chris Ralph, Dan Hurd, I Brake for Bedrock, and a few others to help you get started. Be sure to click the subscribe button for updates. Best of luck to you in your prospecting adventures !!! 🤠⛏️⚒️👍👍👍

[@aumetalmental8403]

Sweet...😎✌️

[@allansgoldmining]

Thanks for watching ! Best of luck to you !

[@RalphReagan]

Good to see a video! Thank you for your hard work

[@allansgoldmining]

Thanks Ralph ! Yeah, me too ! Finally cooling off out there. Hope to produce more soon.

[@joediggings844]

That's some good looking gold buddy! Great job now you gotta get back to that natural sluice box and clean it up, take a 5 or 10 bucket bulk sample and put some gold on the scales for us! Good luck hope you find some chunky stuff!!!

[@allansgoldmining]

Will do !! Will make a video too !! Thanks for watching, and good luck to you prospecting !

[@gtaovlogs9061]

Great video, instruction, and demonstration Allan! Fascinating area and geology! Thanks for the video my friend. Best wishes and stay well. Aaron

[@mrbigreddog420]

awesome video🙏💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥

[@allansgoldmining]

Thank for watching !! Best of luck to you prospecting!! 🤠⛏️⚒️👍👍👍

[@joannehart9624]

Just watched the video. Nice pan there! It's nice that you are sharing your knowledge with folks.

[@allansgoldmining]

Thanks so much for watching Joanne ! Glad you enjoyed it. Hope you're doing well. 🤠⛏⚒👍

[@1es4s5]

Great video. You really know how to read the ground Allan. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@allansgoldmining]

Thank you ! Glad you're enjoying the channel ! It was a fun video to produce.

[@joeburkett8493]

You done a great job as usual, Very interesting and informative , thanks for all the your hard work you do.

[@allansgoldmining]

Thanks for all the kind words Joe ! Glad you enjoyed it ! It was a nice surprise to find that much gold in the gulch sample. Hope there's more ! Best of luck to you prospecting ! 🤠⚒⛏👍

[@johnchism9625]

In 1997 I made a prospecting crevicing vacuum by using a leaf blower/vacuum designed to suck up leaves and bag them at the same time that worked really well. But like yours it just doesn't have the power to clean areas like that natural bedrock sluice and bending over on my knees just wasn't working. Bigger rocks were a problem too. So using an old 5 hp lawn mower engine and modifying a 5 bladed steel cooling fan - off a 350 chevy engine - I built a metal container from a stainless steel resturant size pot to mount the engine/fan with a 4" hose out the top by the engine to get the vacuum and any fine dust away from where I was working and ran a 3" vacuum hose to a 6 imperial gallon plastic bucket as a "catch bucket" at the top, that I put a stainless steel window screen insert below it and the vacuum hose below the screen that went to the nozzle end that had a piece of pvc and a pvc elbow I attached a broom handle to it, to stand up while I vacuumed areas and kept the hose close to the ground level. Again rocks were a problem as they plug up the nozzle and hose to the catch bucket. I took the old style hay rake design that had spring loops on the upper part and built a 18 tine wheeled rock rake using the springed swather tines off a New Holland windrower. It kind of had the look of an older self propeled grass cutter. As you pushed or pulled it over to remove the rocks the tines wouldn't hang up on the bedrock and the larger rocks were all you had to remove by hand. This cut down on labor and I could remove more material in less effort and time spent. So much so, that I switched to a removable top for the hoses to switch to a clean "catch bucket" because I was spending more time cleaning out the 6 IG bucket to transfere to other buckets.

[@johnchism9625]

While I'm now retired and declining health and mobility issues. Prospecting is becoming a thing of my past. I'm able to persue building such equipment as finances allow to improve on these designs. While giving others the ability to maybe try making them themselves to process more material in a shorter time and recover more gold in the time they have spent. In most aluvial placers the gold is going to be under a basic mesh with very little being larger so screening is important. Followed by having a two or even three tiered sluce designed to deal with each size differently. Second is nearly anybody that has ran a sluice for gold recovery, knows the majority of the gold is caught in the first 20 inches of say 4 ripples with whatever matting they use. Everything longer than that is wasted materials used to build it in lenght that could be used more wisely in width. The first tier is the grizzly where washing the fist sized rocks from the gravels happens and separates them into tailings of rocks and material to run. The second tier is a separator of under 1/8th inch that goes to the third tier sluice that only deals with fine gold and most of the black sands, while the rest over 18th inch is ran through the end of the first tier of sluice that's only about 16 to 20 inches long that has the normal sluice 3 or 4 ripples and matting to recover the odd bigger size gold. Because the under 1/8th inch is for fine gold recovery only the amount of water pressure is the same, but you need it to be spread out to a wider sluice going over a fine ribbed rubber matting and at least 3 feet long. Therefore the fine material from the first tier separation needs to be divided by a slide plate into 3 - 6 sectioned fanned out before it enters the second tier. Desert placers clays are always a problem - whether running dry or wet recovery systems - because they tend to hold onto the gold. Just as they stick to the rocks and gravels to sands holding the gold. A wet trommel is the best way to break the clods and clean the rocks over any slide type grizzly. But a dry grizzly works well for dry washing too and will improve your gold recovery. I attached 6 lengths of 1/8th inch chains spaced evenly to the inside of the trommel that as it turned gave more beating of the rocks and broke up the clumps better before dry washing and it improved my wet sluice recovery even more. Last...Always check your rocks tailings pile with a metal detector for that odd large nugget.

[@johnchism9625]

One last thing is magnetic separators for magnetic black sands. Three or more Electromagnets made from transformers from old microwave ovens - using a 12 volt battery - are the best. Attached to a steel plate the width of your smooth plate from the first tier to the lower fine gold recovery sluice. Place it an inch above the smooth plate that the under 1/8h inch material flows past. I created a motorized convayor belt that allowed the majority of the magnetic sands to be removed that when they reached the end of the magnetic plate, dropped off into a plastic rain gutter to a catch bucket. After checking the magnetic sands I found there was not enough gold to recover for my effort, while keeping the majority of the fine mesh gold in the fine ribbed floor matt of the second tier... because it didn't have all that black sand plugging it up. Again, by doing all of this I could increase my material volume and recover more gold in the time I spent out in the desert. It also reduced my clean-up time several fold. I wish I'd had the de-watering recirculating system you built. It would have made a bigger recovery and less water needed to be carried to where I prospected. Time to make one for myself...Thanks.

[@CandSMINING]

Great video Allan. That is a load of great info and tips that we use inn processing desert materials. NIce gold in that sluice box area. Thanks for sharing.😎👍👍👌👌⛏⛏

[@allansgoldmining]

Thank Chuck ! Glad you enjoyed the show. Had fun putting it together. That natural sluice box sample was quiet a surprise. Wasn't expecting that much ! Good luck to you out there. Weather getting nice ! Look forward to your vids. I need to catch up with everyone ! Cheers !

[@tortugalisa4748]

Thank you Allan🌟 I really enjoyed your video. I'm in the central Arizona area and I also have an off grid property 30 miles west of Kingman. I look forward to putting some of the skills you have shown towards my prospecting when I head back out towards Kingman. Thank you for the info and I like your screen idea on your drywasher👍

[@allansgoldmining]

Hi Lisa. Thanks for watching ! Wish you the best in your prospecting. Maybe we'll meet out there sometime.

[@HDshovelEd]

catch you on the next one

[@californiamotherlodeprospect]

That was some nice gold in the second pan! Great video Allan

[@allansgoldmining]

Thanks Bro ! Looks very promising. Hope to get the wash plant out there soon ! Best of luck to you !!

[@geraldlarue2312]

Love the videos from south texas

[@allansgoldmining]

Thanks Gerald ! Glad you enjoyed it. Best luck to you !

[@prospectorrick623]

Great pan, and assume tips for desert dry washing!

[@allansgoldmining]

Thanks Rick ! Glad you enjoyed the show. Best of luck to you prospecting ! 🤠⛏⚒👍

[@getdownanddirtyprospecting]

Great video and Demo and some nice yellow in the pan cheers Glenno

[@allansgoldmining]

Thanks !! Glad you liked the show. Best of luck to you prospecting ! 🤠⛏⚒👍

[@TFTDreknethol]

Really great video! Earned my subscription!! I cant wait to watch your channel grow

[@allansgoldmining]

Thank you for the subscribe and kind words Alex ! Hope to have more videos soon. Thanks for watching, and best luck prospecting ! 🤠⛏⚒👍

[@S13402]

Great explanation,wish you good luck from Arab Peninsula

[@allansgoldmining]

Thank you Shakir. Glad you enjoyed the video. Are there places to prospect gold in your area ? Best of luck to you !

[@S13402]

@@allansgoldmining sure, people here used to find huge nuggets around black volcanic mountains, but as for me; never found a single piece until now 😂

[@chuckp3131]

Thanks Allan. From marion North Carolina

[@allansgoldmining]

You're welcome Chuck ! You folks out there have some good gold too ! Historically speaking, I think NC was one of the earliest discoveries ? Good luck to you my friend !

[@RTLichable]

Heck, right near the surface, able to drive right up the the area; I'd be scramblin to the local claims office ASAP!

[@allansgoldmining]

I did ! Posted two 20 acre tandem claims following the river course. When it flash floods again, it will restock the gold. Yeehaw !! Thanks for watching, and best of luck to you prospecting ! 🤠⛏⚒👍👍👍

[@FlourgoldWizards]

Fantastic visuals and information regarding each spot!!!! One of your best ever Allan !!!! A+?👍🏻

[@allansgoldmining]

Thanks a ton Jason !! Actually, I like how you explain the layouts in your vids too. Helps the viewer understand what's happening. Your geo is much different than here. Best of luck to you Brother ! 🤠⛏⚒👍👍👍

[@bigbird2240]

Need to invent a “ miniature dredge “ where you have a hole with water in it and dredge it lol

[@allansgoldmining]

Nice idea, but here in the desert water has to be hauled in. The ground is very porous and would suck up the water like a sponge. Check out my Gold Rattler videos. It's a solution. 👍

[@littlebuck7188]

Awsome I would love to go this in the winter months we get cold weather up her in nebraska

[@allansgoldmining]

Let me know when you're in Vegas or Laughlin. I'm at 4,000 ft. I don't do much mining in late Dec or Jan because water freezes a lot.

[@williamschuman4951]

Always good stuff from Allan, just saying motor on.

[@allansgoldmining]

Thanks for the encouraging words Robert ! We'll certainly keep at it ! Best of luck to you prospecting ! 🤠⛏⚒👍

[@BEDINSSGUKRAINE]

Me brough Jeff Williams , yeah ha!

[@allansgoldmining]

Welcome aboard ! Hope you like the channel. Thank you for watching !

[@andyrusten5748]

First time watching here really enjoyed your show and learned a lot where at in Arizona are you doing this?

[@allansgoldmining]

Thanks for watching Andy. I'm in NW AZ

[@Sal.sanchez]

You could take a magnet to the dry material to cut out a lot of the black sand

[@allansgoldmining]

The problem with that is it also pulls out a lot of gold with the filings.

[@davevan1928]

Might be worth it in that natural sluice are to bring in the wet equipment or at very least just classify alot of that stuff down to the size of your biggest piece. And bring it to a more permanent sluicing station. Another great video allan

[@allansgoldmining]

Hi Dave. Exactly what I was thinking. Check out my next video, "Going for Gold !! - Virgin Wash Mining & Processing," where I do that. Thanks for watching and best of luck to you prospecting !! 🤠⛏⚒👍

[@RalphReagan]

Farout!

[@nwmining9488]

Dry panning not so terrible like I thinked!

[@allansgoldmining]

Can be fun too ! Thanks for watching !

[@VegasDave53]

Grand Wash Cliffs to the east, Garnet Mt. to the south. Ah yes, I remember it well.

[@ronheflin7848]

Love the videos .Do you ever go out to gold basin?

[@allansgoldmining]

Hi Ron. Honestly, only been there a couple times. Once I get my wash plant mounted on trailer, will make more trips there. Good luck to you prospecting !

[@markopittman2833]

i like what your doin, do ypou scrape the bedrock before vacumeing or after , then vacumme again ??

[@allansgoldmining]

I sweep most of the volume, then return with a shop vac to remove the fine material trapped in cracks or under rocks. Thanks for watching !

[@kingmanazgold6233]

Great video Allan, are we gonna see you this weekend at gold basin?

[@allansgoldmining]

Hi Chris. Unfortunately I have to work this weekend. Have fun out there !

[@richardstout267]

Is the wash always found in Arizona or other places also I don't think we have washes in Indiana maybe you could explain more about the wash we don't have we don't have dry seeing all the time oh yeah have Rivers

[@allansgoldmining]

Hi Richard. Indiana gold geology is much different than out west. This type of wash exist almost everywhere in desert regions of the western states. Usually due to millions of years erosion and re-deposition. Gold is sprinkled everywhere, however, through this process, gold will concentrate is washes and arroyos.

[@Jaysgold]

Still no gold in Texas.

[@bigbird2240]

Is any of that sand or stone good for sand like mason sand or gravel ?

[@allansgoldmining]

The old-timers used it to build their shacks.

[@raydowdy6914]

What kind of vacuum are you using?

[@allansgoldmining]

In the video, I used an Echo 2 stroke. Currently use a Troybilt 4 stroke.

[@bobcow363]

Hey bud how reliable are them dry wash plant

[@allansgoldmining]

About 60-70% recovery. Great prospecting tool, however, you're better off with a wet wash plant for production. Thank you for watching. Please check out my channel. I have lots of wash plant videos, and how modify a dry washer to improve recovery. 🤠⚒️⛏️👍

[@LUCKYB.]

Thats got nice color all through that pan . AL Did you pull any Dirt outta that lower part of that bank ? That looked pretty interesting .

[@allansgoldmining]

I dug up most of the lower gulch (natures sluice box) and place it in my cubic yard box. Currently, making a video of it. Will run it through wash plant and see what shines ! 🤠⛏⚒👍

[@LUCKYB.]

@@allansgoldmining Im talking about the cut to the left .where all that old river gravel is that comes up about a foot from the wash floor .. Now , I know you know alot about finding that shinny Yellow. As much as Jeff Does ..this tells me you are a Gambler. That false Bed. Cla'lechie ..thousands if years go that looks to me like over burden that could have been a River . Silt and clay over time can become hard pan Rt . Ok so how thick is that Hard Pan care to take a Guess ? Got a gas comptessor and a Jack Hammer . Or access to a jack hammer ! How far does that clachie travel up and Down . East or west nort or south . Have you thought about that at all . Whats underneith that Hard Pan . Maybe sample that hard pan .Jeffs got that monster chain grainder .. watching that area I started getting a tooth ache , and I have not had teeth for years . The ache where no tooth is .. is like a dector going off in my head telling me something is really good in that area .. George massy used to tell me if you have that strong of a gut feeling play it out .. 👍

[@allansgoldmining]

@@LUCKYB. yep, I know what mean. Sometimes your gut feeling works out. Jeff and I have claims near each other. It's part of the Muddy Creek formation, which consist of multiple layers of hard pan about 6-12 inches thick, separated by gravels 2-4 ft. thick. ASARCO did extensive drilling in the area and determined to be too spotty and low grade. I have a 30ft. trench on my claim demonstrating layers. Best gold on top layer. Gold is very coarse, so not too far from source. Source has never been discovered

[@LUCKYB.]

@@allansgoldmining DUMB question .. Where do you run out of that trail of yellow . Yes Im an old nosey Bass tard LoL . If I have been close to that area it was in an 18 wheeler . So I dont have the foggiest accept what I see in your videos and Jeffs .. But I would love to take a Gander .. might be about as much help as a one legged man at a Butt kickin contest .. but im fair with a muck stick and a probing bar .. mine was a solid shaft Drive line . . Miss that old Girl more than my Ex Wife ..

[@allansgoldmining]

I forgot to answer your question regarding the left bank in the wash. I've prospected it and only got a few specs. Most of the wash is low grade material. Best to focus on narrow channel where the gold concentrates. I will never run out of gold. I have the fever, and there's no cure. It drives me to find more. Lol !!

[@brianw4brian]

Hello allen: my name is Brian. We met through route 66 club when you spoke to us. Anyway im looking for some places that i can travel in car park side of road and detect for gold nuggets. Im located near Brea ca.

[@allansgoldmining]

Hi Brian. Honestly, I don't know of any places like that. Usually have to travel off road to get to places. Out in AZ there are a few GPAA claims, especially in Gold Basin and Lost Basin. There may be places near Morristown or Congress AZ to try, but I'm not familiar with the area.

[@brianw4brian]

@@allansgoldmining alright.

[@user-rj4xh9ns1i]

Hi Alan. Watching your videos. I'm from Russia. I want to come to the USA and do some mining. I have some tools and experience. I have some money. How can I accomplish this? You can help?

[@allansgoldmining]

Thank you for watching my videos. Best advice to join "Ask Jeff William's" channel and become a Premium Patreon. He has special activities on his property for guests to find gold. He receives people globally at his activities.

[@user-rj4xh9ns1i]

@@allansgoldmining Ok. Im look.

[@user-rj4xh9ns1i]

@@allansgoldmining By the way, thanks for answering. Usually American bloggers don't answer me. I will continue to watch your videos. May I ask you questions? If so, can we communicate by mail?

[@allansgoldmining]

@@user-rj4xh9ns1i your English translation is very good ! Unfortunately, I cannot speak Russian. Thank you for your help ! My email is: [e-mail]

[@user-rj4xh9ns1i]

@@allansgoldmining I wrote. Perhaps the letter is spam.

[@brentsmith981]

If black sand was worth much i d be interested...i know youre trying but how bout showin us some real gold?

[@allansgoldmining]

That is real gold. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it.

[@brentsmith981]

By real i meant quantity not just a few colors..move a coupla yards then shock us huh?

[@allansgoldmining]

Obviously, you misinterpreted the title of the video. I'm prospecting. You want to see large quantities of gold, go watch Gold Rush.

[@brentsmith981]

@@allansgoldmining yeah...youre right..im just diggin at ya..i do enjoy your vids