Did we find GOLD in SAND⁉️

After reading all of your comments asking if we've ever find gold in our sand operation, we decided to look. After the sand washing plant shuts down, Aaron and I jump down to recover some of the sand left behind. We have very little experience panning for gold, so we do the best we can. I'm still uncertain if what we found is actually gold, so I guess we'll need to test it to find out for sure. It was a lot of fun, and I see how people get "gold fever" now! Thanks for watching!! #goldrush #gold #goldprospecting
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[@glenmel78]

Pro tip: lightly sand or scuff up the inside new pans. The slick bottom allows the heavy concentrates to travel with the water. A scratched pan will give the heavies something to hold on to.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

That makes sense, thanks for the tip. and thanks for watching!

[@hydroaxop73]

​​@@TheRealMrDiGGthere's multiple videos on how season your pan, klesh Dan Hurd, or ask Jeff Williams they also have good panning techniques too

[@hydroaxop73]

​​​@@TheRealMrDiGGalso I forgot you can use a plastic concrete mixing tub from home Depot and pan into that this way you can repan if you think you lost gold and you can use jet dry in it it helps with fine gold that can float on water tension seasoning your pan and jet dry will keep that funky way the material is reacting ask Jeff Williams is probably one of the top guys I recommend he is the one who proved home Depot sand had some gold in it

[@markpashia7067]

@@TheRealMrDiGGIf memory serves about a 120 grit paper and just scuff it, don't sand the whole thing.

[@stevenclaeys6252]

Your interaction together is worth the watching. Thank you for another great video. Stay safe out there. Cheers

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Thanks 👍 🍻

[@LauwersFreddy]

Ok, time to change pricelist item ‘concrete sand’ to ‘paydirt’ and significantly increase the price on monday. You’ll know by friday if it has any gold in it if clients complain or start a rush😉.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Paydirt! Love it!!!👍👍

[@markbbuilder]

get a sluice and run a some of the sand thru it and see what you get. I would love too see the video of you running some sand through a sluice box. they do find gold in home depot sand.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Yes, I saw the video of them checking sand from Home Depot and Lowe’s! Going to try to find me a cheap sluice 👍👍

[@ianrobinson254]

Hello Mr Digg found you after watching Dirt perfect and letsdig got to say loving your videos keep up the great work 👍🏽👍🏽 Ian from the UK

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Thanks so much Ian!

[@juztyn00]

Need to invite Dan Hurd down... He's the youtube gold prospector.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I’ll check him out!👍👍

[@squirtdaddy3428]

No question about it, without a doubt, you have definitely found a bunch of something.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

lol. Thanks for the confirmation! Have a good day buddy.

[@Kangenpower7]

My suggestion to quickly find some dirt to pan, is to take a wet/dry vacuum to pick up all of the dirt, and then take it to wash someplace else. If you have a portable battery pack with a 500 watt inverter, it can run the vacuum cleaner. By looking at how the sand is drained from your separator, the gold will flow out. If there was a rim about 1" tall, then the sand that is not flowing over that 1" rim, then it can collect gold there. Remember there is a diamond mine in Arkansas, so there is always a possibility to get some diamonds too! From the looks of it, seems like you are finding a lot of lebberight. It is the stuff that you should be leaving right there.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Diamonds would be cool wouldn’t it?!!

[@williamhouk6880]

You've already found your gold with the landfill business. 😊

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

One man’s trash…….👍👍

[@rhondasweeney7271]

🤞Keep dreaming! Love the video! Thanks for sharing! 😊

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Never stop dreaming I guess! Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment

[@philmccormack6925]

In the Western Australian gold fields, if you go prospecting for gold, a metal detector is a must.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

For iron ore?

[@James_Scheid]

​@@TheRealMrDiGG For gold. They find a lot of nuggets with metal detectors.

[@arkansas1336]

Gold in that part of the world was being mined in 1849 before all the gold miners heard about the "big find" in California and asap the miners abandoned their work in this area for"better gold" out west.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Cool info! I hope it’s gold???

[@lordcaptainvonthrust3rd]

Entertaining as always, Mr Digg 👍 If you'd like me to test it for gold I can do so But there probably isn't any But keep sending it anyway And if in the future you hear I've bought a yacht and a private jet but still no gold that is just a coincidence 😂😂

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

lol, very funny!! 😁

[@rudyrivera7426]

I hope you’re right!! Ryan! GOLD!!!

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Me too, hopefully will find out soon!!👍👍

[@joeBeranek-lh8qz]

Put heave grise at the bottom of the screw Below the bearing. I have seen sand plants the have found gold when the were gesing the bearing when the service them and then they collect all the old gres and clean it to get the gold. Worth a try.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Super cool idea, thanks!

[@Southalabamaoutdoors]

Hey you can make video showing gold in the sand then get 1,000's of 1# bags of sand and sell em for 10$ a bag.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Cool idea!!

[@scottholman3982]

There is gold all over the world, in minute quantities. Most people who chase gold work much harder than folks who have regular jobs. The freedom and distance from the regular world draws some people to chase gold.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I’ve been researching and learning so much about gold that I never knew! I sure hope we have some there because it is a lot of fun to find it

[@precisionputtin]

Wish I would have known you were looking for gold. I was in Augusta Saturday. Would have been happy to help look

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I hope it’s gold!

[@Nicholaskleyn]

Crazy. Almost Another 5k subs in a week. Good job.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I know! It’s been amazing, thanks to folks like you who take the time to watch & comment!! I sure appreciate it and hope you have a great day

[@snowfire45]

If you don,t have dreams life would be boring ! Realy enjoy your content ! Not made up like lots of u tube,s 😊

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Life definitely is what you make it, and I don’t like boring! Thanks for your comment, I sure appreciate you watching!!🍻

[@MrChancebandit]

You need a tote of water to do your panning ...so yoy have a constanst flow of water ...watch a video on how to pan

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

They make it look easy

[@MrChancebandit]

@TheRealMrDigg once you get it it's easy. Basically 45 degree angle or little less and dip the pan to the upper part of your sands . And pull out . And repeat. If theirs gold it will stay just have faith

[@Jamieclarke88]

Next video will be Mr Eric and a Aron building a mini sluice box certainly looks like gold Ryan

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

It looks like golden me too. I’m gonna have to put those boys to work to build us something. Thanks for watching!

[@ronarant2897]

Sounds like the cost of sand and concrete is going up! You need to contact You Tube prospector Dan Hurd.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I think someone else mentioned his name, I’m gonna go look him up now. Thanks!!

[@Failandy]

Send a sample over Jason and mount baker mining and metals

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Thanks I just might do that

[@raymondlb]

get a sluice and sluice the sand from the lowest point in the mill, gold is 19x heavyer then water so it will be at the lovest pont in the plant, pan i a tub much faster

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I think it would be awesome to have a sluice. Gonna try and find one!!

[@zundappchef]

time to call freddy dodge , if there is gold on youre ground he wil indentify it for you . and then adjust youre washingplant to also catch gold one way to indentify if gold is present is to check if the black sand you pan is magnetic or not . no black sand means usualy no gold

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Sent his contact information to me and I will call him! Lol

[@zundappchef]

@@TheRealMrDiGG call msi mining they have his contact info, they also build the plants . Or just call the people who build you're plant they have is info as wel most likely

[@rogerhiggins3190]

Really funny video, good job.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Thanks!

[@arkansas1336]

Check the lower end of the screws.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I agree!

[@JD-zm4eh]

Good study. How the Earth was made.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Very cool isn’t it?!

[@TerpyToaster]

Great video Ryan. I think riffles are potato chips though. 😂

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Me too

[@quaileggsvermont]

With all that grease and oil in their. I hope you use dishwasher soap stuff!!! Jet Dry!!

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I will!

[@martydix4257]

Best place to pan is bends in currents

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Thanks

[@tomwainwright7102]

I bet Tony Beets sat watching that, scratching his head thinking `what the heck are they doing ?`.......but then again he had to start somewhere didn`t he.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

You’ve got to start somewhere!

[@lastone8896]

Don't know how to do it but it looks like gold flour takes a special technique to separate it from the sand

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Thanks for watching! I’m gonna have to figure out how to test it

[@michaelhuhn90]

It wouldn't be the first Gold found in South Carolina, there's a big Gold mine in Kershaw S.C. Don't let them find out they may take over your Claim....lol.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Oh yeah, I forgot about that gold mine. It’s a big one. I remember driving by it a few years ago. Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. I appreciate you!

[@michaelhuhn90]

@@TheRealMrDiGG The only way I knew about it was the fact I have several Nephews work there....lol

[@paulhammond7489]

I reckon you could be charging more for your sand, after releasing this video ;)

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Great idea!😂

[@jhanny4337]

If y'all got gold in there, might be a good time to raise your sand price!! 😂😂

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Dang right! Lol

[@johnautry7165]

Looks like gold dust. You need a miniature trundle

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

👍

[@fredpitts9382]

Great idea I like screw location best

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Might have to clean it out soon!

[@ramtuff2007]

good video

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Thanks buddy!

[@user-wo6oh7iy5m]

You need some jet dry and season your gold pan.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Like for the dishwasher???

[@user-wo6oh7iy5m]

@TheRealMrDigg jet dry, it helps the fine gold settle to the bottom of your gold pan. Fine gold will float without it. And yes, stuff for dishwasher.

[@jimhoran5445]

That would be epic if you found gold after your divorce! 👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I know!! Talk about a happy ending!!🤣

[@robertdiedrich1475]

Blind leading the blind

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Basically!😂 I agree with you the next time we do a clean out of the sand screws. I’m gonna check there for sure.

[@raymondgochenour8725]

Maybe get Freddy and Juan to come out and check

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I wish

[@gordonoldfield403]

3× people , for an hour , for $2-50 worth of gold !!! Stick to ur day job !!! 😂

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Probably right

[@quaileggsvermont]

The way you guys are panning that stuff, Your going to lose a lot of gold!

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Probably, we’ve got no idea what we’re doing! We’ll get better…. Hopefully

[@quaileggsvermont]

@@TheRealMrDiGG Yep you should have someone down there give you guys a little bit of knowledge and show you what to do! You do have gold there all over the place!! Your not to far from the major gold veins down there. We up here in vermont, have a lot of placer gold. This is gold that fell of the glaciers 10,000 or more years ago. But we do have as well veins here too! But not like you have! I have scowered the eastern USA for gold veins! Given the fact that at one time your area was under water your gold really is deep right where you are! But things move and shift around over mils of years, you have that gold pushed up from deep and rivers that washed over your land! You find river rock!! So there you go!

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

@@quaileggsvermont super interesting!!

[@ClintHackney]

You found gold in the people that you have around you. I enjoy watching you and your team!

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Good point! Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment!

[@mikeznel6048]

Sorry to hear about the divorce. I hope it worked out for you.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Never been happier!

[@mikeznel6048]

@@TheRealMrDiGGThat’s great! Woman can be such a drag sometimes. Especially when they are attracted to money.

[@HalfCutGarage]

Yeah Boyz! Get Dan Hurd to come pan some out for ya ! He'll tell ya where to look! I'd wager you'd have to find where the sand meets a clay layer before you find much gold thou! Cheers from Northern Canada!

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Thanks for watching up in Canada!!

[@brentclarke1841]

maybe flour gold,, do acid test,, nitric acid will dissolve all except the gold👍👍

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I saw that acid test on amazon, I’ll go ahead and order it. Thanks for the tip & thanks for watching!

[@pauldillinger2286]

Get a few buckets and take it to a expert because you could have something major going on there. Just saying.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Trying to find one

[@chipmccoy5077]

Good Sunday morning Ryan aka Mr. Digg. Great video. There's gold in the sand. Thanks again for sharing this with all viewers.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Good morning! Thank you very much for watching!!

[@martydix4257]

I would hire a couple guys to set you up a small operation for checking for gold worse case generic you'll hit pay dirt but you need knowledge of slicing it will pay off but it's time consuming but worth it.dnt make me call Parker lmao

[@020Dutchy]

That stuff wrapped around the valve stems must be hair from the woolly Mammoths…😅

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

This gave me a chuckle!

[@steveray7280]

4000 oz in three weeks you can do it 💪with eric the gold master and aaron master of the universe and ryan master of them all gold rush north Augusta usa

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

lol, I’ll be happy when I figure out if it’s even gold! Thanks for watching Buddy

[@beckyumphrey2626]

Your videos are awesome. Your channel will reach a million fast because you have so many great opportunities to film super content with your many interests and businesses. You do a great job talking through them and the humor is fun!

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Sure appreciate all your support!

[@patdenney7046]

I’m a professional Gold miner it looks like gold! It don’t mean you’re rich or can make any money at it.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I hope it’s gold!

[@markpashia7067]

find a gold mining channel in GA and invite them to colab on an episode. First one I found was www.youtube.com/@goldiswhereyoufindit

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Thanks I’m gonna reach out to him and see what he says

[@wallbawden5511]

Think if there were any Gold in the Sand it would have bin found a long time Ago there is no gold in that creak Cheers

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

We gonna find out!

[@precisionputtin]

Yeah, I was going to say on the last comment to go to the bottom of the screw. The heavier stuff should be there.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

If we really have gold, we definitely will go to the bottom of the screw next!

[@48thstateprospecting]

Well in my professional opinion it’s gold but without seeing it in person it’s hard to tell it stayed behind and didn’t move with the water and it’s the right color somehow your video about the thief popped on my recommendation area and scrolling through your videos I saw this and naturally had to watch it lol. I watched tons of panning videos to learn how to pan and found gold my first time out which was fun and exciting.I think its gold. Would you be interested in sending me a sample of the sand from the area you got in your buckets and I could tell you for sure once I pan it out and look at it under a jewelers loop (unless you’ve already had it tested and found out for sure). It does look like fine gold and it’s hard to say how long that piece of equipment has been collecting the gold so you may not have a lot in it but what you were getting in the pan looked promising and there could possibly be an ounce sitting in that piece of equipment. Great video thanks for sharing see you on the next one.👍🏼👊🏼p.s. I would send you back the gold if it is gold and ya I’m sure everyone would say that but I’m a man of my word.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Still havent found out for sure, where do you live?

[@48thstateprospecting]

@@TheRealMrDiGG I am in Central Arizona. If you have an email I can send you my address.

[@mickmccard]

@FlourgoldWizards on KZbin has the techniques and equipment for panning sand! Its what he does on KZbin, recommended!

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Cool, I’m going to check it out now!

[@jmeadows8890]

That’s definitely gold brother all you need now is a shaker table where it can shake the sand to one side and then the gold will shake to another side

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

You think so?? I’ve got to find out for sure somehow

[@jmeadows8890]

Yeah that definitely looks like gold me and my son go to Helen to pan for gold and I have got some nice size pickers

[@Star_._]

Lol 😂 I'm not sure if this is gonna get you rich, but it's fun to watch ⏳

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I’m having fun with it! Thanks Star

[@tonycole613]

Mr. Digg. Good luck on your Gold panning enjoy your video. Keep them coming. Let us know if it was gold stay safe God bless

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I sure will as soon as I figure out how. Thanks for watching and have a great day!

[@DR-jo7fg]

Use a scotch bright ( greenie ) on the pan, should not be shiny

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Good advice

[@charliehill6914]

Crystal wants to know why you are playing with her water bowl

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

🐶

[@ericferguson6463]

You need to season your pan then dont spin your material do it side to side

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Thanks

[@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb]

Time to call Freddy Dodge and get his opinion

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

👍👍

[@kat2641]

lol ❤ I have absolutely no idea to pass on to ya all but could be brass mineral too An?? Brass is high 😂😂😂

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I’m hoping gold!

[@markpashia7067]

@@TheRealMrDiGGGA is known for gold not brass. Why do you think the US government moved all the Indians out to Oklahoma and taking their land? Because some folks connected to government wanted to file gold claims!!! All was good in GA, SC, and NC until the California strike was so rich that the miners moved out there. Sorry but many native tribes call your area "stolen lands".

[@raymondgochenour8725]

Send a message to discovery to the gold rush people they might come out and make a episode on your sandpit

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I doubt they’d come to my little site!!

[@raymondgochenour8725]

@@TheRealMrDiGG you don’t know till you try

[@richardhedrick5601]

I’m no expert but it looks like gold I hope so

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Fingers crossed!

[@jeffhenson1994]

MBTGP man behind THE garbage plant AARON is the man

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

lol, he’s my buddy.

[@timmyfrierson2684]

Another awesome video Mr. Digg and I asked you in another video but I don’t know if you saw it but is your landfill in Graniteville South Carolina and if it is my grandson used to work for you Carson Lee he used to run the big grinder for you and he just live right across interstate 20 there by the sawmill But anyway, my friend keep up the good work and we’ll keep watching them

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Oh yeah, I remember him he’s a Good fella! Thanks for watching I appreciate you

[@arkansas1336]

A drop of dish soap in the pan can act as a surfactant to help seperate the gold/heavies from the 'host sand'.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Cool! Thanks for sharing

[@plumbob916]

Don't quit your day job!

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Lol

[@jonbell2305]

Could have been giving away gold for all them years 😮😢

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I know!!! 😢 Hopefully soon I can find someone to test it and see if it’s really gold or not. Thanks for watching!!!

[@jonbell2305]

@@TheRealMrDiGG I'm watching all the way from rainy London. Fingers crossed you could be sitting on early retirement. Nice move with the ex. image the face. Bulldog chewing a bee 🐝 Be safe 🙏

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

@@jonbell2305 this really gave me a chuckle!! Thanks for watching in London!!

[@mikeludwig4315]

Great quick storyline on why you waited so long to do the gold panning

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

lol. Sad but true

[@davidbaker5579]

Use a tub and as jet dry.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Thanks

[@Skorpychan]

You run a landfill, though. That means you're able to get people to drop gold ore off to you in the form of e-waste. Electronics. With a significant side order of copper, tin, aluminium, and steel, while you're able to dump all the plastic you end up with in your existing landfill!

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

This is true. Might look more into E waste. Right now we can’t accept it

[@jcullipher01]

Ask Tony Beets!

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Send me his contact and I’ll call him, lol

[@Sean-i4r]

That's enough color to set a table up, the vibration will work best for dust,and if I owned that land,I'd gold sift it for sure

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Working on it

[@Sean-i4r]

@@TheRealMrDiGG awesome, can't wait.For advice, Freddy Dodge,

[@benspoliticsandnewsbencook9151]

There is always gold in the sand

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Hope so!

[@benspoliticsandnewsbencook9151]

@@TheRealMrDiGG I got faith in ya man. I’m going up by Baghdad mine in April here in Az. By the Santa Maria river. I’m gonna go pan there I always find gold. I will try to remember to video for ya. I suck at making content. But if I do I will tag ya.

[@normcoker9399]

What a nice find to watch . Just stumbled on to this video.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Thanks for watching and I appreciate you taking the time to comment. Have a great day!

[@theundertaker2250]

the hoffman crew

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I wish

[@theundertaker2250]

@@TheRealMrDiGG black sand is always a good sign .

[@lenmorgan1755]

My father in law went to Fl each winter, he had met a friend who had a sandpit and a barge like yours in Indiana. Everett told him that a man came to him and asked if he could look for gold. The man returned after a couple weeks and gave Evertt a gold sample he had found.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Whoa! That’s encouraging!

[@VideosByAl]

I see you have specialty Eye Chart right above the Eye Washing Station in the Shop. Is that to encourage the guys to protect their eyes, because they will miss out if they go blind ?

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Dang right! 👁️

[@AnomadAlaska]

👍

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Thanks for watching!

[@precisionputtin]

Get in touch with Doc from gold hog. He's not far from you in Georgia. He would probably be happy to help. Also a giant gold mine is just up in Kershaw, SC

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Thanks for this tip. I’ll have to look him up and see if I can get in touch with him.

[@tbix1963]

Thanks for sharing your videos. Looks like you might have some. Need to automate the process so the sand sales pay to move it along and the sluice does the bonus work before the sand goes in the classifiers. Right now your just getting what’s left after you send all the gold out the front door as sand. 😂

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Thanks for the tips! I’m excited to see if it’s real gold first

[@ScottyStock]

on todays episode of Parkers trail, the blind leading the blind.. Good luck guys.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Seriously! We haven’t a clue 😂

[@derrickpettit86]

Ryan if you have gold an you been selling it for years, man that sucks lol, only happens to the best, close it down , no more selling sand 😂😂😂, that was a good video bud , thanks for sharing

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I know we need it all back, right? Thanks for watching!

[@TheVillageIdiotUk]

I’d be tempted to use a magnet to remove any iron heavy compounds, such as fools gold, which is iron pyrites. Nitric acid will turn fools gold black - anything that remains gold is probably gold. Good luck in your new venture ! 😊

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Thanks buddy!

[@terrypomatto907]

First known gold rush was in North Carolina creeks. You may find some gold in your operation!!!!

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I hope so!!!!

[@dirtgrainsteel]

You need to scrub that pan with some gravel and get rid of that slick factory finsh so it works properly the water should not bead up on it like that

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Thanks I’ll try that

[@dirtgrainsteel]

@TheRealMrDigg your welcome! send me some material and I'll run it through my blue wheel and see if I get anything lol

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

@@dirtgrainsteel I’m so glad you commented because you were the one I was talking about in the video I just couldn’t remember the name of your channel. I definitely need all the help. I can get down here! I just bought a little sluice yesterday. Can I send you what I believe is gold and you check it out for me for real?

[@morgansword]

I am seventy four now, pushing another if the good lords willing. I have worked in gold mines and my son works for one of the largest mines in alaska... hard rock underground. In the many years past, men were not very tall and the wore cuffs in their pants. No one really changed clothes just to get mud in them first thing off in the morning..... stand in the creek and kinda wash off their muddy junk. As time went by, they took their clothes to a place that did the laundry. Those china men would unroll those cuffs in the pants and find fine gold in them. The miners never really got rich but the laundry men were banking good money from those pants cuffs. There is a small amount of gold just about anywhere in the world as its just the nature of it.. I live here in alaska where people are known to just pan gold out of the driveway. In Nome alaska, there are high concentrations of gold on the beaches, roads, and any creek near it. They constantly dredge gold out of the bay there as its not very deep... about five to twenty five feet and you can take a excavator and dig the bottom, run it through a sluice and some days are quite heavy with gold as it settles to the bottom. The gold you have is worn down to fine flakes or even smaller. Micro size and that can be profitable. There are places here in Alaska that they extract gold from the salt water and make a lot of money as in millions

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

Such a cool story, thanks for sharing!!

[@chrismadge5472]

Hey Ryan, ya`ll need to watch a parody KZbin channel from a couple of years ago called KZbin Gold. I do not know if you have heard of them, but it was pure genius, and they were only running Radio Controlled construction equipment between a few good friends, and built a minature Gold mining prospecting site in his back yard which was quite a few Acres of land. Now as funny as it was to watch, it was also very good to see how they managed to segregate all the tailings on minature scale compared to yours. But look them up and start from around series two, as that is when they started getting better tools to sort the Gold from the tailings. One was a water wheel propped up at an angle with gentle water flow running, and it would seperate some small amounts of tailings up a corkscrew pattern inset into the wheel, to a hole in the middle of it, which the gold would always find it way up to it, and drop into a mini bucket behind the central hole. The other was a shaker table ribbed horizontally, and water would flow again also from top right hand corner, tailings would be dropped in right hand corner, and it would shake it out across the table, all the light stuff would head down across to the bottom left corner, but the gold would only come down a little way and come off the left hand side. But just watch a few programs, and then look through his videos to see when they got the wheel and shaker table introduced, i promise it is pure fun, all done with (Adult) Radio controlled toys, but, it god damned worked. All from an idea from Aaron who ran the channel, just to make fun of the real guys like Parker etc doing it for real on a humongus scale. Great video Ryan as per usual, keep up the great content :) chris from the UK.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I think I might have seen one of his videos weeding his wife’s garden with RC’s. Cracked me up! I’ll check it out & thanks so much for taking the time to comment!!

[@markpashia7067]

You are really lucky that your black sand is magnetic. Take the stuff in your snuffer bottle and dump into the pan and let it dry out completely. Then take a strong magnet and cover it with cloth. Run it over the dry stuff to pick up the black sand and move it away then pull the cloth off of the magnet to drop it. Once you get the black sand out you are about as pure as you can easily get. They weigh it on a fine scale to see if it makes sense. Gold is very heavy for it's size. Way more than you would expect. Looks to me like you got some there.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

This is a great idea. Thank you for sharing!

[@matthewferguson2515]

If you dry you take it to a gold selling place. They have machines to test for gold.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

That’s a good idea, I’ll have to try and find someone. Have a good day buddy!

[@frankeasterling4108]

Man I need to come hang out with yall, surprised though its 5:30 and nobody has cracked a beer yet! Im gonna see how far yall are from Savanah, may drop in next time we head up there,.

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

lol, don’t worry beer was on ice! 🍻

[@quaileggsvermont]

I see a lot of black sand in their!

[@TheRealMrDiGG]

I guess that’s good??