Solo prospecting in Sierra Navada

[@mattpanas5741]

I just started watching your videos.. there the best gold videos out there. I’ve been a gold prosecutor for more than 35 years. Don’t forget to try the bank near the river! The river may have once been there.

[@MishaBoylan]

Tysm i really appreciate it and yes that bank is loaded with gold!

[@harveyhueth3636]

Down in Arizona and Nevada, people leave their gear in their holes as a way of saying that they will be back later on and generally nothing is messed with when they return. 🤠⛏️

[@MishaBoylan]

Yeah I found out later 🤣

[@EstesQuest]

Love this! For anyone not in California, Especially if you live in the Charlotte or Atlanta area, get in the 30 day treasure hunt before it ends! Este’s Quest

[@MishaBoylan]

Interesting. Sounds cool

[@EstesQuest]

@@MishaBoylanthank you for saying that! As a new creator any positive feedback from another creator is encouraging!

[@harveyhueth3636]

That little crack held a lot of good gold... Great job Misha! ✨⛏️🤠👍✨

[@MishaBoylan]

Tysm indeed it did

[@GSProspecting]

Nice Au indeed fam 😎. What a blast. Great day out there. Keep on having fun and living the dream. Gold Squad Out 🤠

[@MishaBoylan]

Ty

[@ChrisJohnson-py4gg]

Thanks for another great adventure, Misha.

[@MishaBoylan]

Thanks for watching!

[@harveyhueth3636]

Awesome video Misha, loved every bit of it! Sometimes, it's about the journey, and this has been a good one. As always, safe prospecting to you Misha, and you have a blessed day. ✨⛏️🤠👍✨

[@MishaBoylan]

Tysm I'm working hard on improving my videos any thing that will improve the videos let me know

[@harveyhueth3636]

@@MishaBoylan I think just the way that you are doing things, is perfect. The only suggestion that I would have is that you just continue being you and doing things The way that you are doing them. It gives all of us a chance to grow in the experience with you. And that makes for the best content of all. GOD bless you, and as always, safe prospecting to you, and may you have a blessed day. 🤠⛏️

[@MishaBoylan]

@@harveyhueth3636 tysm!

[@mandybrown7758]

What a neat place out in nowhere, I bet you had a blast, im still watching I just can get over how peaceful it is out there

[@MishaBoylan]

It sure is!

[@harveyhueth3636]

How awesome is that! Great clean out!✨⛏️🤠👍✨ I find myself pretty partial to the rocks as well, I've got tons of them on my porch that I collected from Arizona... All of them agates.

[@MishaBoylan]

Haha they are fun to collect

[@waimradio]

Beautiful gold! The Sierra Nevada range is where I found my first gold ever 😊 I’m on the east coast so the gold I get now is much smaller.

[@MishaBoylan]

Forsure that's awesome

[@we.s2872]

Great result brother!😃👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@MishaBoylan]

Tysm!!

[@ervinslens]

Fantastic upload man, enjoyable and so nicely executed!

[@MishaBoylan]

Tysm I appreciate it

[@harveyhueth3636]

Nice gold! ✨⛏️🤠👍✨

[@MishaBoylan]

Tysmm

[@Patrick-fn8sq]

I haven't watched yet, but I can tell this is going to be good 👍

[@MishaBoylan]

Tysm, yeah, I'm putting a lot of effort into my videos trying to make them more entertaining, so let me know if you like something and what I can improve on!

[@aaronbanning3372]

That's awesome good job man

[@MishaBoylan]

Tysm!

[@mwebb-01]

I'm in your area almost every weekend. Always solo too:) which gets old

[@MishaBoylan]

Definitely I get a lot of invites but it's hard to work around schedules hopefully soon I can work on getting to go out with more people. I'm always up for going if I can make it work

[@richardsmith9872]

Nice video, you should really consider getting a PVC hand dredge. It is very hard to dig gold in water you will miss more than you get because it sinks faster than you can dig it, as soon as you move the gravel the gold will dive to the bottom.

[@MishaBoylan]

I have one e and they get jammed and it's heavy sp hard to hike in and u battle with it all day

[@phackqu]

Great video! What size dream mat is that?

[@MishaBoylan]

It's a 12×48 inch dredge mat sluice. I love it

[@autwins5610]

Nice work 👍🏽

[@MishaBoylan]

Tysm appreciate it!

[@mandybrown7758]

That's some beautiful gold great work I'm gonna call 1g

[@MishaBoylan]

Haha yeah great job

[@devin1754]

Good job!👍💰

[@MishaBoylan]

Thanks

[@C0017A]

Misha... Thanks for taking us along... 1 gram is better than half a gram. :) I've had a lot of days that barely tipped the scales... Oh, on "boil holes". 99% of the time they're big LOSERS. I've wasted WAY to much time/effort over 20 years on them. Normally, when the river is flooding really big, all the rocks inside swirl and roll, like a ball mill and simply grind ANY gold that MAY have fallen in into tiny, super flat flakes ....that then wash out. The ONLY boil holes I even try on occasion today are the ones that appear to have a REALLY solid rock/cobble jam at the top, that MIGHT prevent water flow from spinning the rocks. The few that gave up decent gold also had collected square nails, iron, lead and other heavies too. IF you don't see those indicators digging your way down, almost always NOTHING worth the effort on the bottom. :) Better to simply sluice all the material you can that's producing. Randy C0017A :)

[@MishaBoylan]

Ah very interesting! Yeah I can tell what little gold was in there wast very good. Back at the river near my old place it was more common to find gold but has to be a certain elevation on the river you find gold.

[@aumetalmental8403]

correct indeed, everyone has their own way of doing things that works for them and what works for me in my geographic region but not so good in others. ✌️😎

[@MishaBoylan]

Definitely

[@GoldHunter-77]

Impressive gold there buddy! I’m also a fellow gold miner and KZbinr so I can appreciate not only the effort of finding the gold but stopping to film and editing is a bear. Subscribed

[@MishaBoylan]

Tysm I will check your channel out! I enjoy sharing my experience!

[@mwebb-01]

The first big rock you climed over looked killer the sediments on it is nice

[@MishaBoylan]

Lots of gold everywhere at this spot

[@harveyhueth3636]

You really should look into that military snatch block. It fits in the palm of your hand, that's how small it is, but it has a lot of power... I can literally lift a full size deer up into a tree, with one hand... So I know that it will fit neatly in one tiny little pocket of your backpack. Great for moving those big rocks out of the way! 🤠⛏️

[@MishaBoylan]

Hmmm interesting. i will look it up

[@Patrick-fn8sq]

Great video, this person seems to have his sh-t together. Seems like he is a good guy too ! Thanks for the video ! 👍👋🤞😊

[@MishaBoylan]

Tysm!

[@MishaBoylan]

Thanks for giving my video a watch!

[@Patrick-fn8sq]

@@MishaBoylan if I could say one thing, classified more and save time and gold. Just my thoughts 😊

[@MishaBoylan]

@Patrick-fn8sq i start to in future videos! It'd just less gear i hike in with the better but I'm starting to get better results classifying

[@Patrick-fn8sq]

@@MishaBoylan I know just what your saying.by the way, great work 👍

[@wolfeyez77]

Hi MIsha, this is the first video of yours that I've seen. I'm a geologist and grew up in Placerville, so the title caught my attention :) I wanted to ask when you were panning at 27:05, I noticed large grey pieces of something that were in amongst the gold and black sand. Any idea what that material was? Heavy enough that it stayed behind, whatever it was.

[@MishaBoylan]

Yes, it was lead. I'm not sure exactly from what, but tons of lead and mental from the old timers before me.

[@Diesel_Dan_______]

Another great video man! One of these days maybe I’ll tagalong with you on your Prospecting Mission , or maybe you can come up and check out Canyon Creek with us guys sometime. Stay safe and get that gold.

[@MishaBoylan]

Definitely that would be awesome. And my email is [e-mail] shoot me an email we can maybe plan something.

[@WanderinWilderness]

Like the ugly stick shirt MB nice swag my favorite fishing rods

[@MishaBoylan]

Tysm man

[@ModernDayProspector]

Bro I’m in California. And I half no idea where you’re at bro. So I’m sure some people recognize your spot. But I’m just dreamer passing through and can’t imagine even where your at even with research it’s still had to narrow down unless you maybe grew up around here . I think you’re ok buddy! Thanks for sharing tho!

[@MishaBoylan]

Nope, just tons of reasurch didn't know a single thing about prospecting for the last 6 months. I just talked to a lot of people and found out if you hike far enough, you find good gold!

[@MishaBoylan]

Just relized I was just watching one of your videos a few days ago🤣

[@ModernDayProspector]

@@MishaBoylan yeah bro have been waiting to update my name that probably through you off. ive been following your channel and your on some phenomenal gold. I do as much research as im aware of so far and I think just need to get more time on the ground but to drive 2 hours one way in the diesel for a day without any idea if there's gold is a commitment. slowly but surely ill figure it out. I know there is gold all around me the key is on land that isn't posted and yea that we can get to. I love finding gold! that certainly keeps the journey alive!

[@MishaBoylan]

@ModernDayProspector I probably went on at least 15 trips where I barely found any or no gold. If you ever want some advice shoot me an email [e-mail] I can share some info I found out. Or what I know I'm new to prospecting but happy to share what I know

[@douglasbrown4775]

i see your adapting to gravity panning use a wider body pan / les angle more forward motion also pump the pan a litle upward light bounce will puff move pan out from under takes about a second do it 3/5 times or done in 6/8 sec to spec count or 60 buckets classified and panned per hr ish

[@MishaBoylan]

Yeah

[@douglasbrown4775]

next time take a tarp 7/9 8/10 put under water in the flow shovel 100 role the rocks graveldo another 100 snd again 400 is 100 bucket chalnge about 1 hr

[@douglasbrown4775]

4 men shovel 150 each or 600 is 200 buckets about 1/2 hrs you should have 1,000 pounds of cons use tray to shake down to pannable you just mined 200 bucket 1 cubic foot per 3 200 cubic ft or 7/5 yrds

[@douglasbrown4775]

remember that hole you found where a little creek came in last mo about 2 days work

[@Micismine_]

Check the clay as well below the stones..Gold is there as well.

[@MishaBoylan]

Sure was! Tysm for the advice. In future videos you will see me doing more of that!

[@michelob1007]

Boil holes…you must go to the very bottom. The heavies has already been sluiced to the bottom.

[@MishaBoylan]

I got a few scoops. I think it was to high. Only flour gold

[@Smithsgold]

get another pair of boots and leave them in the car !!!!!

[@MishaBoylan]

Haha yeah lesson learned

[@aumetalmental8403]

getting some nice bits indeed. You need to watch how you clean your mats. When you washed the mat, you were washing the gold out the back side, if you rewatch first clean out. Just trying to be helpful not an a..✌️😎

[@MishaBoylan]

Forsure man! I've never had gold past the first 3 holes. I will have to do a test but I think no gold ever drops further than that. Appreciate it and tysm for watching!

[@Azfiretattoo]

What is that long pan called with the green mat?

[@MishaBoylan]

My sluice?

[@Azfiretattoo]

@@MishaBoylan Is that what it’s called? Sorry I’m new to all of this.

[@MishaBoylan]

@Azfiretattoo totally fine i was new 5 months ago! If you have any questions I'm more than happy to share what I know! Also my email is [e-mail] if you need any advice on spots to go if your in California. I have a few friends on other states but can possibly share how I find spots near me

[@victorrodriguez5590]

Were about is this place at?. There is plenty of places for who ever want to dig right.

[@MishaBoylan]

Yes there's lots of places like this just have to hike! :)

[@victorrodriguez5590]

@MishaBoylan it is ok i can hike them just let me know the place please i would apreciate it.

[@MishaBoylan]

@victorrodriguez5590 i don't say it on youtube. If you email me I can give you a few spots to hike to.

[@victorrodriguez5590]

Ohhh ok

[@FASKY2788]

Please don't fall for prying commenters trying to get you to publish any locations for any vids. They'll just ruin it! Let them hike, explore, research - prospect - like everyone else! If you e-mail to them it'll just go up in your comments and flood the place with selfish, ruining, human leaches. Personally, I like how some act so innocent and 'loving', and honest! No different than internet hackers. 'What's a sluice'? Try googling!

[@karlfonner7589]

Four hours? I live in Concord. Can I help pay for gas?

[@MishaBoylan]

Well i usually drive up anyway to make the videos

[@erickg5736]

What size sluice box you using

[@MishaBoylan]

12 in wide by 48 inches long. I got it on high plains prospecting website

[@MishaBoylan]

If you would like a link, I can get you 5% off on their website

[@erickg5736]

Thank great videos by the way

[@erickg5736]

I'd like a link thanks

[@MishaBoylan]

@erickg5736 tysm!

[@THATPROSPECTORSLIFE]

bro how are you awake uploading already lol!

[@MishaBoylan]

We schedule videos and always make them available to our channel members first, so they can watch them a few days early.

[@hikingca4154]

Friendly heads up, it’s Nevada not Navada

[@MishaBoylan]

Ah tysm

[@aumetalmental8403]

...you did the same thing on second clean out. You pull mat forward and water is gushing out the back and flushing your cons out the back. Again, trying to be helpful, work so hard to get the shiny just to lose it like that...🤔

[@MishaBoylan]

80% of the gold is in the front. But I understand it's just shuck a large mat and is hard to clean out properly

[@aumetalmental8403]

@@MishaBoylan you are absolutely correct that the gold should be up front in like the top third and that's when I do my cleanups as well, so it doesn't migrate down too far. Beautiful spot you have as well, very peaceful.✌️😎

[@MishaBoylan]

@aumetalmental8403 tysm yeah I've done tests and never found gold further down but still clean it out

[@hikingca4154]

Yes I noticed Misha losing gold as well. Over time you may have lost a gram. Trying to be helpful. It’s easy to critique from a computer but sometimes you may not notice. Also some new prospectors may do it your way and you could teach people to do it incorrectly.

[@scottbalbas7752]

SUPWIDIT BRO?!! LOVIN' YOUR CONTENT BROTHER M!SHA!!

[@MishaBoylan]

Tysm

[@hikingca4154]

Boil holes are a waste of time if you’re trying to seriously find gold. If you’re doing it just to have content then I guess there’s a point.

[@MishaBoylan]

Well u was curious because my original river i started recording at had lots of gold in the boil holes but it'd just the way the water flowed

[@Red-et2rd]

I no that spot it's not Nevada.

[@MishaBoylan]

Sierra Nevada is not nevada