Gold Prospecting a Scottish Tributary burn - MrDazP1's Gold Panning Experience

[@Anton-g5w6c]

great to see my sluices at work, great video

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

It certainly packs a mighty punch for it's size and I swear by this sluice Anton. If there is gold in the ground, it will find it 👍

[@weekendwarriorprospecting817]

Love a bit of Mr Daz. ❤ Insightful, happy and hard working. What a great guy 👍🏻⚒️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Ha ha cheers buddy, I genuinely enjoyed this day out and trying to tell the story .

[@bernicebest]

I enjoyed your video and beautiful Scottish scenery Darren, it was a sight for sore eyes, and very interesting, I’m not very active just now having had a stroke just after my birthday and spent 5days in hospital, not very pleasant in very crowded conditions, plus I was the only female in one of the mixed wards 😅that was an experience, but I couldn’t fault the staff and nurses they were all excellent and caring, enjoy your adventures and keep adding the gold you find to that wedding band, will be watching again soon, all the best Bernice 😊

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

I am so sorry to hear about this Bernice, I can recall you mentioning it being your birthday not so long ago too. Wishing you a speedy recovery and the best of health, I am genuinely upset to recieve this news. Thank you so kindly for commenting on this video and sharing this with me. Stay strong Bernice, take each day at a time and most of all. Keep on fighting. ( Not literally mind you 😁) and please keep commenting. I look forward to our little chats on here .. Take care, my thoughts are with you at this moment Bernice....

[@bernicebest]

@@MrDazP1adv3ntures Thank you Darren, it could have been worse, at least I have the use of my arms and hands, although at risk of falling now, I spend all day trying not to 😅I have lots of help from my son & daughter & home help so I’m most fortunate, I’m not so good at typing though yet, but will keep watching, not sure when you start cycling videos if ii will be up to careering down hill at 40mph though, but will give it a go when I’m a bit stronger, thanks for the well wishes and encouragement as always, best wishes Bernice 😊

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

I will start my cycling videos in the coming months and will definitely mention you in one of them. Not sure which way to do it yet. I was thinking about riding down a big hill in my local Pennines and saying "This one's for you Bernice" Hopefully you will get a first Person view of the ride 😉

[@bernicebest]

@@MrDazP1adv3ntures Thank you 🙏 I will look forward to that, hope I don’t miss it as I’m not on YT much these days, just make sure there are no cops around, we don’t want to end up in jail, 😅 and be labelled the fastest Gran in town, 🚴‍♂ if there is a caffe involved the coffee and cream teas are on me as a thank you for indulging me all these years:) see you later 😊

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

@bernicebest Ha ha , sure thing Bernice

[@OriginalMudSlinger]

Well done for the absolute Briliant filling in of the holes you made mate no one would ever know you was there RESPECT

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Thank you OMS. I have made a few dams in my time to run the sluice and at the end of a long day shifting the boulders back into the gravel bar can be back breaking work but it's the right thing to do 👍

[@OriginalMudSlinger]

@@MrDazP1adv3ntures mate i have metal detected for 38 years and nothing worse to put a stop to your hobby than leaving it in a mess. it should look how you found it

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Thank you kindly once again, I know with detecting you definitely have cut the earth out cleanly and then refit the turf back in place afterwards 👍

[@ScotlandsGold]

Another fantastic Dazp1 original 🍻

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Thank you kindly SG 👍😁

[@surreygoldprospector576]

Great video and fantastic scenery - thanks! I love the yellow Scottish gold you found. :o)

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Thanks SGP. It's only tiny stuff but I genuinely had an enjoyable day putting all what I have learned so far, into practice.

[@NuggetNinjaAdventures]

Another great video Daz 🙌

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

A nice one to edit as there wasn't that many clips but it still took a while to remember what I actually did on this session as it was while ago 😊👍

[@NuggetNinjaAdventures]

@@MrDazP1adv3ntures yeah I remember you saying it was from June. Feel like we’ve not had much of a summer this year. Got a week off next week and some places in mind to explore. Hoping to be back on the gold next week

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Best of luck my friend, hopefully the midges will calm down soon too

[@NuggetNinjaAdventures]

@@MrDazP1adv3ntures I know right! They have been fierce recently. I love Scotland but the midges and tics can go in the bin lol

[@theoldguyofwhinlatter157]

Hi Daz, much appreciate your comments. I said I haven't a friend to ride with but I have you thanks mate 😊

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

People would pay to ride along side you on a gravel bike tour in the Lakes, your local knowledge is second to none

[@rangerdan8661]

You don't always get the shiny stuff. That's prospecting. I wish there were more videos like this, ,it's more honest. I did 36 miles of walking in two days for two specks. You never know. Ace video Daz

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

36 miles Dan ! That deserves some respect. I've had similar experiences on the English rivers. You can Spend hours and hours finding nothing and then when that solitary spec appears, it's a special moment and so rewarding. 👌

[@PaulEcosse]

My neighbour in the 70s used to take my older brothers gold panning in Leadhills, South Lanarkshire. I'm not sure if they ever found anything. Might be an area worth checking out, there is an old Lead Mine which our school used to take trips to but it closed many years ago.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Thanks for the information Paul. I have wondered around Leadhills and the old mines, it's absolutely fascinating 👍

[@rastaralph7154]

Chuck them single bits back in to grow a bit bigger 🤣👍💚💛❤️

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Sustainable panning there buddy. I'm in 🙂

[@Puffball-ll1ly]

Fatten them up with Terry's All Gold 😂

[@rastaralph7154]

@@Puffball-ll1ly 🤣🤣👍💚💛❤️

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Very good 😁

[@hobbieminers8487]

Nice 1 bud iv been trying to prospect a bit more but keep getting board after few hours and head back to my fav spot 😂 pulled over half a gram in under 3 hours the other day. Really should get to filming my trips again. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚒️

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

That sounds like you are on good ground there and at the end of the day, I guess it's all about what tickles your fancy. I'm enjoying the prospecting element of the hobby because slowly but surely, it builds a picture up of what's going on around here.

[@hobbieminers8487]

@@MrDazP1adv3ntures ye bud know what u mean and the pay streak won't last forever lol👍⚒️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@theoldguyofwhinlatter157]

Hi Daz, not sure if this this correct way to send you a reply to your message to me 😢. This is a story about my experience in the wind. I used to be an RNLI crew member, the phone rang at 1am, the request from the coastguard was an immediate launch, the wind was gale8 occasionally force 9 ,a SW blowing all the way from the Atlantic. A fishing boats engine had stopped, it was off St Bees head and was going ashore, the crew would not have survived. We took the boat on tow, the fishing boat weighed about 27 tonnes. There was a large following sea, the waves were at a height of 15 feet and we were losing sight of the boat in between the waves. Due to the conditions both lifeboat tow ropes snapped. We asked the stricken boat did they have a tow rope, they had a very thick tow rope, my comment was that isn't going to snap. Their tow rope wasn't very long, we knew it was dangerous to tow with a short tow but there was no alternative. The worst happened, their boat came down a gigantic wave and hit the rudder of the lifeboat disabling it. We managed to get the fishing boat crew onto the lifeboat then had to cut their boat free and it later sank. A Royal Navy helicopter came from RAF Bulmer, his call sign was rescue 177. The fishing boat crew were winched onto the helicopter, in the dark with a 15 foot swell. This put the winch man and the helicopter in great danger as we were at anchor. It was amazing to see the winch man appear on deck. Unfortunately we had to wait at anchor for the Port St Mary Lifeboat to tow us back to base. The whole rescue took 14 hours. Not doing that again!!!! The new Workington Lifeboat is a Shannon Class and has no rudder or propellers, it is all controlled by water jets.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

What a fantastic story. I knew you were a dark horse. There's enough information there to make a real life drama about it. God bless you my friend that sounds like a seriously scary experience. Keep on showing us the Lake district's finest views and old miner' s trails 👍

[@CryoGenUK]

Great video as always thanks for taking us along. :D Just to let you know you have a bunch of dead air/black screen at the end of the video.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Thanks buddy I left that for the adverts at the end. I will take a look 👍

[@theoldguyofwhinlatter157]

Hi Daz nice to see you back in the bracken and the Wii Scottish Burns ,this gold panning looks hard graft. The end of the video when blank not sure if it was my tablet 😕

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Hi Old Guy, You need to be pretty fit to enjoy the hobby, especially if you are prospecting way up in the hills.

[@mattjohn7700]

Great video Daz, do you knock on land owner door for permission?and do you need a licence or something? Not sure how it works.

[@chambochambers8906]

Nice to propspect new spot's and find a bit or two thank you DAZ 👏👍

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

I have permission to prospect here and I used footpaths and trails to gain access.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

I like to share my experiences regardless of the outcome. It would be great to have a 10g day and find a nugget but them days are few and far between. It's a shame the dog is too old to come out with me now, as he'd have loved it 👍

[@piratedredger1857]

Hello Mr Daz, was on the wrong account lol .Aye there's a lot of burns were you were, the Romans did a number on that bit .yes you can find gold in every wee burn .the geology is nutts .the question is ,is it worth it .your looking for blue stuff .that tends to yield the best results but you will get wet .well in and it's the never no spirit that makes you a prospector .well in

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

I thought the Romans would have played their part in all of this . They must have had proper hoard going on at the time. Must admit, I do enjoy a good prospect, most people just want to see a pan full of gold on here but the hard work and continual prospecting (asking yourself many questions too) is important as it keeps the panning skills right up there

[@piratedredger1857]

@@MrDazP1adv3ntures yes indeed Mr d ,the history up there is mind blowing ,you can move mountains wi slave labour ,8000 I believe .up there in all weather's. It must have been hell for them ,poor souls .fast forward and it's us up there doing it for fun lol were all mad but we love it Arrrr

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Never a truer word spoken. 8000 slaves digging and mining ! Wow, that's insane. It's tough enough spending a weekend in the rain in June up there let alone a life of incarceration and surviving the elements

[@phillipmellor8648]

Mr Daz when are we having a cycling video it has been months !? Thanks

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Hello Phillip, tell me about it 😮 I have a number of gold prospecting videos still to edit and then a pile of cycling ones. I'll get there in the end buddy 👍🙂

[@Slugworth88]

Iv been researching into gold prospects in U.K it's really inspiring to see you out there in the hunt it's just a matter of time. Once I get set up, I'm hopping by next summer. I'd love to jo8n ya for a putting many hands make light work lol, and yeah, you're gonna get wet 😂 Jeff William's is amazing. Have you seen his high banker made from Buckets ingenious

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

It is a great hobby and I never really thought that there was any gold out there in the UK. Little did I know... I still think it's important though to have a few good prospsecting trips out where you are trying to hone your skills and find the tiniest of flakes on new ground. It can be just as satisfying finding a few pieces as finding a pan full of gold. Love Jeff williams too, he knows everything there is and shares it all for free on his channel. Mad as a box of frogs but ace !

[@Ian-vv6tf]

Mr Daz. I notice you're walking through bracken. Do you not get tick bites ? When I'm panning in Sutherland I'm always getting bitten.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

I have been fortunate on my travels not to get bitten by ticks, if it is really over grown I will wear thick socks and pull them right up or even wear my waders on the walk in. Can I ask how the panning has been up at Sutherland. I have a friend who lives north of Golspie with a burn running through his croft and have often thought about prospecting his little corner of Scotland.

[@Ian-vv6tf]

The number one burn to pan ( in my opinion) is the Suisgill burn. Some good chunky bits of gold. Access is pretty restrictive though. You have to hire a cottage off the Suisgill estate to give you panning access. Mind you, a friend of mine found 16 grams gold in one week. Spraying all my gear with permethrin next season to deter the ticks. Your videos are excellent by the way 👍.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

That's a pretty hefty haul Ian ! Thank you for the reply, it was greatly appreciated. I have cycled up that way on my John o Groats and Land's end rides but never took a pan up with me. Surely there has to be gold on the beach somewhere near Helmsdale at low tide...

[@Ian-vv6tf]

Be sure to get a fish supper at " La Mirage" in Helmsdale. Two pieces of fish and a mountain of chips. Perfect after a hard day's panning 😀

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

@Ian-vv6tf That sounds like a proper treat after a day on the burn 😋

[@HistoryRevisiteduk]

New sub here thanks for sharing

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Thanks HR 👍

[@Jonthebelchingguy]

Cant beat a bit of jeff williams

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

He is the stand out gold prospector for me and one of the most entertaining and informative characters on KZbin. I also like watching Mount Baker mining because he knows his stuff from cutting trees down to make wood to gold smelting and recovery 👍

[@rastaralph7154]

I've got more gold sitting in a couple of buckets from the last time I was at my local place at the bridge. If you want to come round I'll take you there and you will be buzzing 👍💚💛❤️👌💯

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Nice one Rasta, on this occasion it was about sampling the gravels. There's plenty of gold in the main river it feeds. Thanks for the invite too buddy 🙂👌

[@rastaralph7154]

@@MrDazP1adv3ntures your welcome 👍 have you found any noogs yet?👍💚💛❤️

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

I think the nuggets are found with high end detectors today Rasta and by the specilast snipers who know their stuff. As for me, I'll take a tiny flake or the odd picker as and when they appear in the sluice.....

[@rastaralph7154]

@@MrDazP1adv3ntures that pleases me too. Fly poop in a pan is good enough. I still love the nugget I found though. If you forgot about it it's the top bit in my profile picture 👍💚💛❤️

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

I remember that big chunk you found many moons ago Rasta

[@SAABROSS]

Plenty burns to pick from here. Keep it to yourself though... You know what it's like, someone will have a problem and want what you have.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

No worries SAABROSS, the areas I visit are well known by so many

[@SAABROSS]

@@MrDazP1adv3ntures too many lazy soft beggers these days anyway... But it works two ways, you don't have competition but you get snakes aplenty. I think I'll give you a little sub mate and look out for you. I mess around with gold silver and watches for a hobby, I may film some for my channel at some point. Pure novice stuff not a massive scale type thing. Some scrap gold, a few coins, rolex, omega, tag, watches and other interesting bits and bobs. Have a nice day, and I'll have a browse of you channel shortly. Thanks for the response.,😉👍

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Much appreciated my friend, my channel is a bit varied but ever since I got into gold panning, it has become more of a promenant feature as the seasons go by. My father used to enjoy repairing old clocks and my grandfather was into repairing watches. It's a bit of a dying art nowadays. He showed me how to do some basic clock repairs and it was a fascinating subject. I enjoy taking spring air guns apart and filming the process as I have a mechanical engineering background

[@SAABROSS]

@@MrDazP1adv3ntures that's awesome, it's good to have interests that harm no one. I've no specific background so can turn my hand to anything, especially when I can use time attention and a dash of care and turn a few hundred pounds into a few thousand pounds worth, increase the value shall we say as I'm not really money orientated, I just end up with money as a consequence of doing what I love and harming no one. I guess my background is survival, staying alive in a system that is perpetual slavery. And obviously that's not welcome on KZbin as it is pro slavery anti rights. I guess I'm a spiritual teacher as well as I have been at war all my life, enduring attack after attack becoming more aligned with truth as I go. Which is enough to get me the colditz belson awscwitz guantanamo treatment so I don't go into anything deep here, just base level stuff as you see. And that is good your dad and grandad had the chance to spend time passing on skills to you, the family unit has been wrecked here, by the state. Things are in a bad way, and I say what I see, hahaha I can't help it, it's only right to tell the truth. I have a couple kilo of scrap stuff there, melted down, I need to refine it and see how much I actually have. I wouldn't mind making a belcher chain, or at least practice, I've studied the process and think I could source the equipment and set up a station to do it, it's finding the time though, that's one of the usual problems 😆 Anyway... Keep up the good work, and I'll keep an eye out for new uploads. Take care. Ross.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Thanks for the little chat in this corner of KZbin land Ross. Much appreciated. I guess we all acquire skills as we embark on the journey of life and also develop new ones with experience. Take care my friend and I hope the chain actually becomes a reality. Them Belcher chains look pretty heavy and chunky to say the least...

[@frogscotch19]

did you have to get permission pls?

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Sure thing 👍

[@MrRedeyedJedi]

How haven't you got more subscribers/views?

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Comments recieved and appreciated 👍The channel is probably too varied for the Ai to feed the algorithm is my guess. KZbin kind of opens the gate promoting content for a week or two and then it shuts it down just as quick. It's a good job I work for a living and this is only a hobby 😁

[@gordonm1690]

The middle of nowhere..... I know exactly where this is.... Ive been going there for 40yrs. Just watch the sheep on the road lol.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Point taken Gordon but to reference the middle of nowhere with a dash of poetic license is fair game to me. The reality is this. As you know, there's no phone signal up here and if something went wrong, it's a helicopter ride out if they found me in time. But yes, the sheep can appear from anywhere 🙂 Heavy pans to you my friend too 👍

[@gordonm1690]

@@MrDazP1adv3ntures obviously....... I didn't want to share your location. For me the hills are about it's beauty, that's where the real wealth is. Since I was a wee boy I've visited this place every year.... It holds a special place inside me.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

No probs Gordon, I may have misread your initial comment so apologies for the reply. I love it up there as it reminds me of my local hills in the Pennines I have spent many a day up there and not seen a soul with the occasional flock of sheep passing by. I can appreciate your 40 years spent up there buddy 👍

[@gordonm1690]

@@MrDazP1adv3ntures that's OK pal not a problem have a great day!!! 👌

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

You too Gordon. Take care

[@jaycee2392]

Them burns and streams have been near emptied over the years. In the sixties most were dredged with diesel driven pumps and searched going way back longer. Beter off digging the soil and banks where the gold hasn't been washed away or found 😊

[@secretgoldhunter5400]

Simply not true in scotland. And bank digging is very much not allowed

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

I dare say the whole area was mined for gold by the lead mine workers on their days off and they took the lions share of the gold, obviously their predecessors found tonnes of the good stuff too way back when. I would not want to dig up the adjacent land though as this would violate my permit conditions

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Too true. The old timers spoil heaps are probably worth looking at though if you had the time and some good equipment to point out the likelihood of gold being present.

[@jaycee2392]

@secretgoldhunter5400 I was from Sanquhar and remember seeing them doing it. Mainly the older guys who probably worked the pits at some time and a lot of finds were kept quiet aswell.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

Sounds interesting. Do you know if there are any old pictures of this. Stuff like this soon gets forgotten. I've seen the old pics of prospectors up at the Windagte burn with the old wooden sluices. It is fascinating stuff to know what used to happen up here

[@TheConcretekickdrum]

The English really are a desperate lot.

[@MrDazP1adv3ntures]

As a Britsh man, I love Scotland and the people, love Wales and the people and love England...not forgetting Ireland. I don't know what else to say