S2E2: Georgia gold is super difficult to mine because of this.

[@Askjeffwilliams]

that would be a piece of a horse shoe. Some nice looking Shiney there ....keep on it and keep us posted

[@MrCountrycuz]

Thats what I thought as soon as I saw the end knob.

[@ProspectorAl]

I panned a creek a few times in the South Mountain area of North Carolina. Lots of black sand, but what's worse is when you get toward the end you are left with a heavy yellow sand. It's called Monazite, and it's almost impossible to separate the gold from it. It contains REEs so it has some value as well.

[@GSProspecting]

Always have a blast coming by. Keep on having fun getting that au and living the dream fam. Gold Squad Out!!!

[@Pyrorazon]

It was a huge storm in Dahlonega in 2021 they called it the hundred year storm into trees down the creeks and even wiped out some bridges. It was severe and it wiped away a lot of the rocks but left a lot of more ancient rocks underneath.

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

And took all the gold that was down deep and stirred it up and made new deposits :-)

[@Pyrorazon]

My family lives in Dahlonega and I visit a lot. Love the creeks. I look for Rhodium and platinum more so than gold. However Dahlonega gold is some of the purest gold in the world and has a bit more yellow color due to the purity. I like to use a magnet once I get to the black sand. It’s time consuming though

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

I had a gram of my Dahlonega melted and assayed for fun. It was flour gold so not 100 percent clean. had a little lead and iron contaminants but was still 22k with 1% Rhodium and like 2% Silver.

[@MerchantMarineGuy]

You can pan fast down to the black sands, then toss that in a concentrates bucket and take it home. You alluded to the problem - coarse black sands displaces the gold, making it difficult to pan. The solution is classification! Take your dried concentrates and classify them out into as many increments you can 20/30/50/70/100/200 fractions is what I use. Remove and save the magnetics. Pan out the magnetic and non-magnetic fractions. Viola! Easy to separate gold and black sand when they are the same size. Don’t pan slowly though, unless you are worried about losing gold out your pan but your technique looks sound so I wouldn’t worry about it too much.

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

I have so much black sand at home its kinda ridiculous actually.

[@MerchantMarineGuy]

@@goldiswhereyoufindit classify and go through it again, you could also try grinding the larger sizes (50+) with a small mill to release some gold that may be surrounded by the sulfides

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

@@MerchantMarineGuy I need a small mill in my life.

[@shucksful]

It’s amazing how small gold can be, isn’t it? Hey, it’s great to see you bringing in the bigger amounts of gold, compared to when you first started. I had a record amount over this last weekend, in Blue Ridge. I can’t even believe the difference compared to my previous trips. Take care, and thanks for sharing! P.s. I figured out a good way to get that “last bit of iron sands” separated from the gold. Maybe I’ll make a video and share it on my channel. Later!

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

Yes please do. The way to get big gold this year is to capture as much 500 mesh gold as possible.

[@ClaytonBigsby01]

​@@goldiswhereyoufindit where are you planning in this video ?

[@gwolfeman]

Excellent pans! Keep up the hard work, all that small gold definitely adds up! 👍

[@jeffreyelliott622]

Enjoyed your video and yeah that's a lot of black sands and yes pan your cons down slow which is what I do here in Virginia !! My most very favorite way of prospecting is to use my Gold Magic automatic gold panner for I can run through 6 or 7 buckets of concentrates taking my time while sitting in the middle of the creek or just on the side of a gravel bar !!! It's the most relaxing hobby I believe there is and you get rewarded for doing so and I capture nearly 98 to 99 % of all the gold I dig up so that's pretty darn good for the initial investment of the automatic panner that I swear by !!! Dredging is fun also but way too much effort and hard work for not as much gold recovery as my automatic gold panner !!! If you can make that investment in that Gold Magic auto panner you would not regret it !!!

[@ProspectorAl]

You can use mercury to capture the small gold from the black sands, but you have to be careful. You also need a retort.

[@LIVINGGEAR1]

We were just in Cleveland and panned in Yahoola Creek. Didnt find much. Can you use a small sluice? I would have love to use mine had I known.

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

Yeah the gold at Yahoola is super fine. I don't believe that the county wants people to use sluice boxes in the park though. For that you'll need to find private property

[@gastoncampbell6895]

Have you tried using a magnet to get the iron (black sand) out of the way?

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

That usually requires the material to be dry and only about half of the black sand here is magnetic. Usually easier to just pan it down.

[@samshapiro9033]

We have similar black sands in CO outside of Denver. And lots of fine micro gold. I have to clean out my GH mini stream sluice every 30 minutes or it gets too packed with black sands! I just bought a Miller Table to help process and clean my cons as it took me a good 5 hours to separate the gold from the black sands after a 2 hour highbanker run!

[@gordonwhittington3358]

Definitely part of an old muleshoe. Found one similar near Talking Rock.

[@billsnodgrassadventures7489]

I've been watching about the Gold rush of Georgia. Very interesting.

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

Yeah I had no clue it even happened until a couple years ago. They didn't teach us about that in the midwest.

[@GeorgiaDogScrapper]

Great Job, I have been watching all your videos and the only thing that I say is that yeah running slower produces more of the fines that might have washed out. I am thinking about it and if you run your adventure sluice and place a catch pan at the end to slow wash it then you might be able to run just a little bit faster with the sluice. Then after every run pull the pan and pan it to see if any fines went out the end or just dump it in a bucket for final clean up at home. The spot that I have been going to has yielded lots of small garnets and black sand. I haven't done a slow clean up yet, just dump it in my bucket till I get a whole bucket then I will rework it to see what comes out of it. Happy hunting.

[@kurtdiegel7430]

You should make a paydirt bag with nothing but non magnetic black sand and fine gold lol.

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

I could make it even worse and put 500 mesh black sand with 1000 mesh gold.

[@kirkstewart-vf6hg]

Have you done any tests on the amount of gold locked up or hidden in just the black concentrates? My private property in far Northern california where I live had black sand similar to that they assay around 17 grams to the ton of head ore...

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

There is lots of speculation about that here, but I haven't seen it proved out yet.

[@johngritjohngrit140]

I really like watching this. Thanks for the show!

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

thank you so much! Hope you stop by again.

[@ericbest9562]

100%, between the amount of black sand and our red clay it can be very frustrating

[@ClaytonBigsby01]

It's crazy how the red clay just stops south of macon and near Savannah where I am there is no red clay at all

[@ericbest9562]

@@ClaytonBigsby01 I drilled wells with a company for a few years just north of Macon and it's neat to see the geology coming out of the ground, the depth of the red clay is anywhere from 10 feet to 250 feet and deeper before you hit bedrock in the area, some places the bed rock is exposed right on the surface and then like you said below Macon it stops (the fall line) and it's sand stone and it's a pain to put a well in because it just collapses some times and there's no fractures with clean water like there is in granite. Then over around twiggs co you have the kaolin clay that's snow white, they mine it in huge open pits and it looks like huge white hole and when they fill with water it looks like giant blue swimming pools. It's fun to swim in them pits but you can't tell how deep it is . Some of them are over a hundred feet deep but you can see the bottom

[@ericbest9562]

@@ClaytonBigsby01 p.s. sorry about you and your wife, I would have divorced her too 😞

[@keneastman5045]

Nice color you got there Aaron thanks for sharing bud

[@adee2324]

I found a 3 gram nugget near Dahlonega with my cousin i had it test ed and it had 3% rhodium which was neat but some of the purest gold you can get for sure

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

@@adee2324 weird Yahoola gold came back almost 1% rhodium and 3 point something% silver

[@WestCoastGoldProspecting]

Good job man 👌. Looked like a great day out. And awesome detecting finds.

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

🤜

[@montanatreasurehunter9600]

I have Garnets like you have black sand!!! I would say that was a mule a shoe as straight as the back half was, nice finds.

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

If I go further up into the mountains the black sand disappears and is replaced by garnet sand. There is less gold up there though.

[@shucksful]

Yeah, I noticed that last month when I was working Yahoola creek.

[@andrewkellar6511]

So, is Georgia not a good place to pan? I live in northeast Georgia and I was just wondering. Stephen's county

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

Georgia is a great place to pan! Clarksville has the closest rich gold deposits to where you are but there are probably traces in Stephens County

[@kelbeeding7291]

Hey, I’m new to panning! Your videos are extremely helpful. Can you point me in the right direction when it comes to how to acquiring mineral claims in Georgia?

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

There are no BLM claims in Georgia. You would have to purchase property or find a property owner to lease or get permission from.

[@ClaytonBigsby01]

​@@goldiswhereyoufindit my brother lives in dahlonega and bought a house on a acre of land near the chestataee . He had to sign a form saying if gold was found it belonged to the original owner 😢

[@RedmanOutdoors366]

The Spin Method Very Nice 🙂👍💯 I'm gonna show you a trick when I come up there this Spring A trick for that Black Sand we will catch that micron stuff

[@KaiserGold]

Cherokee county, GA so far does not have that much black sand from digging a hole with shovel and panning it. Should def come down here and check it out would give u some good spots if u want to.

[@mrhot6shot]

It doesn't matter how small it is, it all adds up. I like your scientific approach to your prospecting. It makes sense to me.

[@mandybrown7758]

Great video you sure do have alot of black sand to fight through

[@Destrothedestroyed]

another area with a ton of black sand like that is Wisconsin especially the banks of lake superior but tons of gold. The restrictions on sluices and dredges where you are make it hard to deal with but not impossible a good neodymium magnet can help sift through and make it less of a hassle but your best bet looks to be collect what you can and sluice it at home. there are some excellent devices out there if you wanna build them or spend the money on them.

[@lowrangeoverland9013]

I'm in N.E. GA too and I fell ya pain.

[@gregfletcher3557]

What about using a strong magnet in a circular motion?

[@diggersdentysonu.k.m.d8813]

Tip top job as allways 👍 hope your well 👍

[@Algoldprospecting]

Yeah I hear ya. I’m in Alabama and we have lots of black sand as well

[@thebodgingbigfoot4014]

Gonna have to tag you in a one my vids now. Ill take GA black sand over all the silver stuff in my creeks. Never mind how fine the gold is compared to chunks of black sand lol. There may be a tad bit more black sand there but man this stuff up here is definitely tougher

[@God-Life-Power]

You need to get one of those vibrating tables that declassify the black sand for you

[@mixmediaproductions]

turn a pan 45 degrees and lift it carefully. then back to 45 degrees, and lift it.. shaking up and down. Sand will work itself out as you slide water over the pan slowly - so gold don't jump out. Too fast, too quick.. you get Sand.. lots of it. And, look for dark pebbles.. needed for better gold sites.. Any Caves around? Take silt out of?

[@Eagle_Eye_PROSPECTOR]

i noticed that to about black sand and flour gold , When i shake the pan hard the Not all the very small GOLD make it to the bottom of the Black Sand , 🦅

[@danielpeters3760]

Try using a straw to gently blow the black sand away from the dried gold I seen someone do it seemed to work well. Good luck on the next one.

[@robertcritchley1338]

I go in/to the Cummings area. The steam I pan changes every time I go. Black sand and the same type of AU.

[@mandybrown7758]

ROOKIE 💪💪

[@raylynngiroux5525]

Maybe you should be a black sand dealer. Holy crap that's a lot of black sands. Vermont is hard to prospect but we don't have that much black sands. Lots of heavies here though. I feel for you. Good luck this year

[@pappyb9644]

I use my Royal Miller Table it cleans the gold pretty good from black sand nice gold enjoyed the video 🕳️🇺🇸⛏️

[@hipbeeexplorer]

That's a lot of black sand. The Tweed river in VT has black sand like that There is an Iron Mine on the river. Nice day of gold

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

Maybe I need to be an iron miner. I'd be very successful

[@brianlucas7604]

What if you took the concentrated black sand and heated/ melted the fine gold out of it?

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

It's definitely possible but not the most efficient way.

[@josephknowlton7246]

Liked, shared and commenting. I missed if u list fine gold outta the DM sluice.??

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

I didn't test my tailings or anything, but i was mainly concerned with if it was catching the very very small stuff. It was.

[@josephknowlton7246]

@@goldiswhereyoufindit tyvm. I figured it would. But u were testing so I was watching 🥃🍻

[@Pyrorazon]

Wow. Love old coins.

[@secretgoldhunter5400]

Great work m8

[@jaymoney8755]

Why in other places do they dive for gold on riverbeds but everybody here in GA pans instead?

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

You can dredge in Georgia on private property. Dredges' cost alot of money and require a truck to haul them around. I enjoy panning. You learn more every pan and it's easy to keep a pan and shovel in your car.

[@DRTLYFE]

Hey buddy my area totally has that much black sand and lead mixed together over four ounces of lead in every pan and ever bit of my prospecting has at least that much black sand I live in CA in cajon pass area and the amount of material to black sand and tons of heavys is a lot it is difficult but not impossible I'm gunna be coming out with videos and I'll be able to show you what I have to go through you'll get it buddy and my gold is good size to super super small gold and you need to probably run different matting and bigger riffles works great for me I use miners moss and big riffles which agitates the material and allows the gold to drop you got it buddy

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

Most of the gold is super tiny so I think you're right. Carpet, miners moss expanded mesh and metal riffles might be the way to go

[@DRTLYFE]

@@goldiswhereyoufindit yeah man don't sweat it our style of prospecting with all the black sand is difficult but good to learn if you ever go anywhere else to find good you will see how much skill you have when there is not much black sand and you learned the hard way first which makes us better in the long run, I bring home half a gal of pure cons and it's all black sand and lead and gold it takes time to separate the gold but just work with smaller quantities of cons and it will go faster and one other thing you can pan fast you just have to stratify your pan harder and longer and only wash out material one or two times before you re stratify and when you wash out the light materials use the dip and lift method and it will allow only the top light materials to was of and in the end you may loose a few micro specs but it takes so many anyways to amount to any weight the other thing you can do at the creek is pan get you material down to about a cup or two and just toss it in a bucket to bring home and set your self up with a good clean up sluice I make my own and you can then run all that as many times as you want good job buddy on your videos and your efforts your doing great and don't forget your doing things most will never try or be able to do have a great day and hope what I said helps you out your doing great 👍

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

@@DRTLYFE Thanks for the perspective. I'm learning all this stuff from people like you as well as experience in the field.

[@Patriot1777]

Try a magnet to the black sand. That's half of mule shoe .

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

That's kinda what I thought. Maybe donkey but that's the same difference with different similarities.

[@ClaytonBigsby01]

You know theres some viens feeding those rivers that havent been discoverd yet. There are so many little creeks up there coming out of the mountain that look like perfect places to find those veins . To my knowledge alot if not most of the gold originally found in dahlonega was picked off the bottom of the river. I know they invented submersible vehicle that allowed two men to work and breathe on the bottom of the river because there was so much gold just sitting there. There are only two mines uo there still running and neither is on the river . Also to my limited knowledge no veins hsve been found feeding the creeks and rivers . So they are still there.

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

I agree. There have got to be tons of small stringers all throughout the area that have nuggets but were too small to mine tonnage. I'm gonna find one!

[@kylekalminski1939]

I’m in Marietta ga live on a creek never tried but I might

[@johneaton3173]

Steeper pitch on you box will help with removing black sand

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

If I remove more black sand won't I also be losing more of the 500 mesh minus gold? I'm after the invisible stuff.

[@johneaton3173]

@Rookie Gold Prospector run multiple boxes steeper pitch

[@johneaton3173]

I never had any so in my head if I loose a little who cares shovel more in box run multiple put a beach towel at the end dry it out tap fines

[@s.d.iprospecting4359]

Looks alot like the material in the Uwarrie river.

[@salmonhuntersean5539]

U would think if u catching that small gold the bigger bits would be to u could always test ur tailings to get a better idea

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

I'm not worried about the big gold as much. I'm pretty sure I'm not losing much of that, but this spot has so much fine gold I'm more worried about losing the 500 mesh stuff. If I can maximize the micro gold capture rate I'll bring home alot more gold.

[@colddna]

My area has about 10x the amount of black sand I can fill a pan to the top with pure black sand

[@s.d.iprospecting4359]

The black sand in the uwharrie is about 95% hematite also.

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

I think that the gold geology is very similar from NC through GA and Alabama. Out west is where it gets all weird lol. I'd just be guessing but I think it's about 50/50 magnatite/hematite here.

[@s.d.iprospecting4359]

@@goldiswhereyoufindit

[@s.d.iprospecting4359]

Yes we are in the Carolina slate belt.@@goldiswhereyoufindit

[@Becca2334]

Are people allowed to walk the creeks?

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

Why wouldn't people be allowed to walk in a creek?

[@henrygross6583]

Maybe need a different type of sluice mat for the flour gold.

[@Pyrorazon]

Wow those are some old coins.

[@rockymountainlifeprospecti4423]

Gold time!!

[@ilyasmuhyialdin1944]

If I found just a spec I'd be happy as hell 🤣

[@lanier1000]

How much money in gold is that? Like $150? I have no idea. .

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

I'd have to go back and watch it to see how much I got that video. but I usually get $5-$25 of gold per day. It's just a hobby.

[@lanier1000]

Wow....that was fast....thanks!!!! .

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

lol just sitting here. Just premiered a video a few minutes ago.@@lanier1000

[@briandutcher5055]

Leave plenty of marble size rocks in your pan to agitate the black sands so the gold will settle.

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

Thanks brother. makes sense.

[@shucksful]

@ Brian Dutcher Yo Dutch! Hey, it’s Dan from the creek. Thanks so much for all the great tips you gave me…Especially the one where you turned the gold pan into a sluice. Best advice, so far. Peace.

[@dube7729]

Classify your gravels.

[@jtprospector4501]

Yes I alot black sand in north Georgia

[@therrienmichael08]

I didn't know you metal detect.

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

Mostly for relics - I'm not very experienced and I don't have a gold detector. I have a garrett at max. Not many pieces of gold in georgia big enough to find with a detector

[@therrienmichael08]

@@goldiswhereyoufindit I’ll bring my Equinox 800 if a meet up is planned.

[@Thatcntrygirl1]

You need to medal detect for gold I’d put my detector on top of Thst pan b4 going thru all that effort.

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

I love the challenge and think its fun. The gold I'm looking for is way too small for a metal detector to pick up.

[@bobkirk942]

Telluride co is brutal and shows alot of small gold

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

But insanely beautiful in comparison to here I bet.

[@johncourtneyscott2757]

Your area is absolutely hard to find gold in!!

[@chasingcloudsandflavorrevi9817]

I understand how blacks and could be sort of a pain in the butt however blacks and is usually where the gold is at to my understanding.

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

This is true in most places, but in my area the black sand is everywhere, including where the gold ain't

[@864atvs]

Dry it get a magic and a plastic tube and it the magic in ther and run it around it pic up all the sand. Let it out and fall back down and do it a few times and ther u go then pan the sand after lol u rookie

[@bkblackmon1402]

👍

[@donbarboza1415]

How bout using a magnet

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

magnets help the final cleanup a little if you dry out your concentrates first.

[@jffbrk1]

METAL DETECTOR

[@larrykenimer5261]

GET A MEDIUM SIZED METAL PAN...............

[@WColeZPorter]

Busted shoe

[@solonwoodall1330]

mule shoe;;;;;

[@mrhot6shot]

I think there are better mats and or other ways to to catch fine gold. The one you are using I would not trust to get the smallest stuff. I sure would take those cons home and try again.

[@goldiswhereyoufindit]

I'm going back this weekend and thinking of using carpet/miners moss/expanded mesh/traditional metal riffles