Mining gold out of gravelly clay

[@GSProspecting]

What a blast fam 😎. That's how to get it done indeed. Keep on having fun getting that Au and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠

[@IAGoldProspectors]

Thanks, Gold squad.

[@jeffsmidwestgoldadventures4593]

Nice longggggg video 😮but was fun to get out even if you didn’t wear gloves and gotcold 😮😂😂😂 we still need to get together and do our end of year Gold at my man cave that’ll be our final video out for now

[@IAGoldProspectors]

I’ll spend this week dumping all my cons containers into one or two 5 gallon bucket

[@Ltn.Immelmann]

I'm always happy to see such good friends 🍻👋💪

[@kennethking5424]

#1#LOVE THIS ONE#NICE#LOVE IT

[@IAGoldProspectors]

Sorry, somehow you’re comment got into the held for review. I really don’t know how that’s done. I really like that one too perfect or thumbnail. Thanks for the comment.

[@ClaytonCountyHistoryHound]

Crazy how much black sand is in that location. Thanks for sharing the adventure. Take care ✌️

[@IAGoldProspectors]

Yeah right., in some places here in Iowa there’s just gops and gops of that black sand.

[@lesterleporesr5228]

What a "Operation"🤪👌👍😎

[@IAGoldProspectors]

😎

[@lesterleporesr5228]

And we All need a Bigger "Screwdriver"😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😆👀‼️

[@IAGoldProspectors]

I looked at that later he had a triangle piece of bedrock. He was trying to pop out of that slab.

[@lesterleporesr5228]

Hey, Jeff, Real Men only Need Gloves when There's No Gold🤔🧐👀😆🤣🤣🤣‼️😎

[@IAGoldProspectors]

There is possible glass in that area, and there was a lot of clay, and that’s what we were working to dissolve

[@lesterleporesr5228]

Does Mike have a "Channel"⁉️👀

[@IAGoldProspectors]

Not yet, he’s told me he’s thinking about doing TikTok and I don’t know if he has a TikTok channel or not

[@VictaoBR]

How to dissolve clay? Big amounts of clay?

[@IAGoldProspectors]

Well, there’s a chemical recipe for that. I think it involves fluoride Hydrogen peroxide and dawn dish soap. I got that Recipe somewhere in a folder on my laptop. Give me a day or two and I’ll look for it and if I can find it I’ll send it to you.

[@VictaoBR]

@@IAGoldProspectors Oh, thank you so much! I am having this problem here and wondering how to melt tons of clay LoL

[@IAGoldProspectors]

Well, I tell you what I got my laptop out but the battery’s dead and I cannot for the life of me. Remember where my plug is. It’s an older laptop is the problem. So I googled a few things and I tell you you’re just gonna have to dig through it because I don’t think there’s really a good solution to dissolving a large quantity of clay. I do recall that. Recipe for clay be gone, has fluoride and hydrogen peroxide as the two chemicals that it takes to dissolve clay added to water. I tried this out probably eight years ago. I think I got one tube of cheap fluoride toothpaste, and one bottle of hydrogen peroxide and mixed it with 1 gallon of water and tried it in a 5 gallon Bucket with some clay material it wasn’t a magical potion. It did not do anything close to what I needed it to do. But if you get on Google and search what dissolves clay, you’re gonna come up with two items, fluoride and hydrogen ions. I don’t think there’s a really good solution to your problem, unfortunately.

[@VictaoBR]

@@IAGoldProspectors Oh, nice! I saw many videos from prospectors in Brazil and they told the same thing: they "skip" the clay. I know the slaves here in the 1700's did that too but they used to stop when the first layer of clay was reached: But the theory says there are more layers of gravel below, another layer pf red though clay and the final rich gravel. I hope this is what I will find underneath. I had a sample where I found 15 small pieces, then when I took a 20 kilogram bag to analyze trying to break the clay... nothing was found, I think the clay took the gold away. That's my experience for the last days...

[@69mustang07]

On average how much are you guys finding on an outing?

[@IAGoldProspectors]

Not that much here in Iowa, too many variables to give you an average. First off you have to have a good location. Then it would depend on what type of equipment you take out there. It’s also going to depend on how much material you move. But you also have to always remember the gold that you can find in Iowa is absolutely tiny. It is not coming from hard rock deposits. It’s been ground up by glaciers and is eroding out of the soil if you’re in locations that have glacial till. The best spots might produce a quarter gram or better. The average spots you walk away with gold that’s unweighable. It’s a good thing I have a full-time job. And this is one of two hobbies that occupies my free time. You might ask yourself if I’m not finding that much gold why waste my time. I do go out of state to mine in different locations. I want to know my equipment even though I’m not finding that much gold here at home. We all figure that if we can find it here in Iowa, we can find it anywhere.

[@69mustang07]

@IowaGoldProspectors thanks for the reply. That's what it seemed like, more of a reason to get out hang with the guys and drink a few beers.

[@IAGoldProspectors]

@69mustang07 we do find gold, but it’s nothing to make a living at. It is just that a hobby. Some of us are thinking about vacationing out west to find bigger gold.

[@iowapanner2223]

Nice gold, now go get warmed up!

[@IAGoldProspectors]

For the short time that we ran per clean out, it wasn’t bad half hour. There were some chunky pieces in there. I suspect it would be a nice clean out if you sat there and ran all day long.

[@OringalBudBurner]

Where do you mine gold. I live in the shitty state of illinois. No gold here just high taxes

[@IAGoldProspectors]

That’s funny you have as much or more gold in that state in the rivers and creeks. You need to do some due diligence. You need to start reading up on what glaciers and where they stopped at in Illinois. I’m the researcher for the locations that me and Jeff go to for the most part I do a lot of field research backed up with a lot of book and Internet research. The first thing I would do is I would go to Google and I would type in glacial coverages over Illinois. And I would start searching to see if I could find map programs with glacier coverage overlays. At a minimum you need to find where glacial moraines are located near you and find rivers and creeks that run through that material. Another key term is till. Those are the things that I would be researching this winter for the whole state of Illinois. You would be surprised what you will find once you start checking out, creeks and rivers in these locations, if you have any questions come back and ask, but as far as telling you where I mine in Iowa not happening