Underwater Gold Dredging in AK With Biggest Clean Out

[@ColoradoGoldCamp]

Disgusting...as in AWESOME! That shallow bedrock is beautiful!

[@MeleeMotors]

I agree, it's very Disgusting!😆 yeah the bedrock in that river is Incredible! Happy mining⛏

[@Ako2account]

Fun video. I'm in AK and frozen in. I can't wait for summer so I can haul my 6" to the happy dredging grounds. Glad I came across your video.

[@MeleeMotors]

Nice! Yeah I can't wait for summer too. Lots of gold out there! Thanks for watching

[@Ako2account]

@@MeleeMotors I leave tomorrow for a week+ of detecting in AZ. That should make the wait a little easier. Probably do another in February. I'll check out your other videos on my flight down. Should make the time go by nicely.

[@MeleeMotors]

@Ako2account sweet! Have a fun trip

[@maangonzles1078]

I really love watching this kind of video

[@gorillagoldhunters]

New subscriber! Awesome channel man! Love the winter dredging!!! Absolutely awesome!!!!!!

[@MeleeMotors]

Thanks man! Winters coming up quick, will probably be making a new dredgeing video soon! Appreciate the sub🙏

[@gorillagoldhunters]

@@MeleeMotors that’s awesome man! Lil bit of everything on your channel. Keep it coming! It’s really rare to see winter dredging, prospecting channels are taking off now, hope to see lots of gold!

[@anthonywill9975]

Video clean out would be cool. Great day!

[@richardbeee]

Glad you guys are done. I live in Az. and was freezing watching you work. Brought back memories of -40. Brrr.Ha good job.

[@robertshrewsbury4241]

I don't know about that "water detection" machines, but I have been in the mineral and water detection business for about 30 years now and so far I have tested a lot of machines, only to find they did not work and the money spent went down the drain. My water Dowsing is a hundred% accurate and I do it from a photograph off of Google earth images. Of course I find other things also, like precious-metals, graves, crude-oil. I can scan five to ten square miles from a Google Earth image in about a day and mark the water or mineral locations, large and small. I also discriminate the type of element, for example I can tell any one of the six platinum group metals apart from one another. And I can detect all of the stable elements on the chart of elements. I have done over 300 blind tests to this affect. I am not at all limited on depth detection. I did an oil deposit that was 6800 feet deep. Many of my blind teste were private people giving me permission to scan their houses and marking where their values were.

[@ThinkingOffTheGrid]

Awesome video! Keep me coming!

[@geury5371]

Me encanta esos video exelente dragado suban mas videos 💪💪

[@amandahardin1338]

Wow this is amazing! Super relaxing too!

[@goldprounlimited1750]

Sweet! Thanks for sharing!!

[@piratedredger1857]

Well in ,great footage and the water looks brilliant

[@RedmanOutdoors366]

Got you dialed in Bro Way Cool 😎👍💯🇺🇸🍺⛏️ Wow That's A Pile Of Gold 💯😎👍🇺🇸🍺⛏️

[@MeleeMotors]

Thanks man! I appreciate you🙏 😎 happy mining🍺⛏

[@dennisjamieson3328]

Nice big sucking tube. No rocks getting stuck in that one I bet. He sound of fine gravel being sucked up to give up the gold. Nice video. I’m a new subscriber from British Columbia Canada

[@epicaramemodama]

Now that's proper gold for the time spent. I see other channels manually digging and panning gold themselves for a couple flakes of what you got, spending their entire day. Makes no sense to me, if I were them I would be doing exactly what you're doing, diving and dredging for gold. Great work :) Just guessing the amount you got in this haul payed off the dredge lol

[@MeleeMotors]

Its really the most ideal way to gold mine, wouldn't have it any other way. That trip definitely pay out quite nicely 😊 thanks for watching

[@charadremur333]

Most peope's goals are to eventually get a dredge. Or a large scale mine

[@eby6114]

Yeah, "there you have it. We found a whole gram out on the claim today.". Then search how much is a gram and think what on earth am I watching

[@helenstokes1458]

Alot of people may not have money for a dredge, and hoses and battles and gas and a truck to go do all this. I want to but money is needed for all these supplies.

[@adventuresingoldrush]

That Looks cold

[@coloradoprospecting1034]

That's crazy, watching underwater dredge footage is so relaxing

[@MeleeMotors]

I agree!

[@RonyGaona-u1s]

Amigo me gustaría trabajar buceando en tu draga,tengo experiencia buceando con dragas y moviendo rocas muy grandes en ríos rápidos para llegar al lecho de roca y así obtener oro grueso,escríbeme te daré buenos resultados

[@patdexter9188]

Moving alot of gravely! Wow!

[@jeff-JAO530]

Nice running. HEAVY PANS

[@buscandoplatayoro1449]

Buenísimo 👍👍🙋

[@anthonywill9672]

Sweet video, would have liked to see the cleanup.

[@chazzface8562]

Great find, good work. What are some areas you would recommend to dredge out there? Also how did you all stay warm, looks very cold. Thanks

[@goldpredator2479]

Hi! Please tell me how you do exploration ? by what principle do you find such places with gold? Thank you for the video!

[@chrissaucier9386]

Cool video. Hope to see more

[@JuneBugJoe]

hows the dredging going? doing any this winter?

[@jettrink7510]

I like the ancient and beautiful river rocks much better than the gold.

[@PartridgeFamilyProspecting]

What an amazing set up!!

[@robertkrump2015]

Educational thank you

[@josephgutowski5894]

Would have loved to watch the cleanout.

[@MeleeMotors]

I know, I would have loved to film it! Unfortunately, when it gets to that point we are freezing our butts off and ready to get in the warm cabin. Without a dedicated cameraman, it's hard to film everything.

[@spinningfreshbeats]

im ur 1000th sub ^^

[@MeleeMotors]

Woohoo! Thank you, I appreciate the sub alot. More content to come very soon

[@TonyTooTuff]

Ha! I was the 500th like. We love y’all times 500!!!!

[@conanjam]

Need to have a longer box

[@winnettryan4566]

Cool

[@joerooney6724]

Would have like to watch the cleanup.

[@ceekay7021]

How satisfying to watch someone vacuum underwater, lol. Wonder if any gold gets stuck in that pipe...

[@jamesladue8804]

Great video. A few questions if you don't mind 1) What suit is that red one? We got a full 7mm from AMDS in Anchorage but the hood is separate and we usually get a little damp in the chest. 2) Is that a full face mask or just regulator and googles? We added an air system this fall and going from snorkel to air I am really considering getting the full face. 3) How early/late did you run this year? Snow and water temps won't keep you out of the water?

[@fullpushmetals6711]

Keep Pushin!

[@mercy4you-927]

Is there gold in all river ways in the country?

[@paulj541]

WOW a grid (screen) on the sucker will keep the big rocks out

[@videodjsweetuk]

I take it, its not on a Salmon run. 🙋‍♂️

[@MeleeMotors]

Yeah, it's not a salmon run. No fish in this river

[@videodjsweetuk]

@@MeleeMotors amazing. 🙏 thanks for reply. 👌

[@suwarnosurya]

Its coolest water. Grrrrgrr

[@MattHemmer]

Do you dredge here in the summer too, or are you only able to dredge in the winter?

[@MeleeMotors]

It's possible to dredge in the summer but it's alot harder. The water is a class 5 rapid in summertime making it hard to do much of anything.

[@htetaungkyaw9025]

I like verry good

[@ianwilsonssilverstack1981]

How cold was that water?

[@MeleeMotors]

Between 34 and 38 degrees fahrenheit🥶

[@ianwilsonssilverstack1981]

@@MeleeMotors damn

[@atmm89]

what size dredge is it, all the best from Australia

[@MeleeMotors]

It's a keene 6" dredge with a 3 stage sluice box.

[@atmm89]

@@MeleeMotors I have the same in every way but only 4", thanks mate

[@MeleeMotors]

Sweet!! Thanks for watching!!

[@atmm89]

@@MeleeMotors your diving is so different then ours, we do not dive in snow, it must be so cold, all the best to you guys

[@MeleeMotors]

Thank you! Yeah SO cold but totally worth it😎

[@nomerc3608]

You need a blaster nozzle. It will speed up the process and you need to hit all of the clay and hard packed rocks to get all of the gold. I wish I was able to do this! My body would not allow me though…

[@Winzor722]

New sub for sure!

[@dalehedges4328]

So would you do this on private ground? And is this very dangerous if you know how to dive?

[@MeleeMotors]

It can be dangerous if you don't know whats going on. And yes it a private mining cllaim

[@DalonCole]

Big clean out?

[@theonlybuzz1969]

WHOA THERE who let SpiderMan out underwater?? One minute there’s a guy in a black scuba suit, next nanosecond he gone and SpiderMans there, maybe his spider senses kicked in?

[@dalehedges4328]

How did you get the dredge in there?

[@MeleeMotors]

We had to take it all apart and carry each part in.

[@uktamtashkentk.3001]

Молодец, very nice

[@gerardvriend729]

Smart, working with 2 persons.

[@MeleeMotors]

Game changer 🙌

[@PartridgeFamilyProspecting]

Great vid!! New sub here!!

[@RLuna70]

It must of been nice catching all that gold

[@htetaungkyaw9025]

what installion

[@mincarelleonostri4350]

Shalom ! !

[@asaafash]

Really Great work.

[@MeleeMotors]

Thank you!!

[@mikhailvershinin2292]

How much for a rig like that??

[@skeetersaurus6249]

Dredge is around $8,000, dry suit, all accessories...probably around $10k to $11k, not counting the vehicle to haul it all. Then again, with a 3-ounce 1-day clean-out, you're looking at a 2-day 'Return on Investment', too...If you know the spot, then the equipment is worth it. If you only know of places with 2-gram per day clean-outs, most likely a loss in the long-run.

[@prospectingron2.013]

Why didnt you show the gold??????

[@xenaguy01]

Start watching at 12:09.

[@MeleeMotors]

If you watch till the end of the video we show the gold we got in pictures. Gold mining involves us using both hands 95% of the time. Therefore filming everything gets pretty difficult when I don't have a dedicated camera guy. Thank for the comment and thanks for watching.

[@maximomartinez-qz1vv]

Cual es el precio por favor

[@adikaya7235]

3 ounce is nice

[@jackfinch8989]

I'd like to get all the gold u washed out with all that water pressure u had

[@Winzor722]

Need to show gold and weigh up boys

[@MeleeMotors]

End of video has some pictures of the gold.

[@MeleeMotors]

Next time we go out the production quality will be through the roof!

[@richiepurucker7603]

I’ve always wanted to do this :(

[@alva7701]

OMG

[@earlycuyler9729]

The title of your video would have been more accurate if it had said "...RESULTS of the Clean Out". A couple of pictures showing the result of the clean out is hardly worth mentioning in the title. After highlighting "clean out" in the title, many viewers were likely expecting to see you performing the clean out procedure.

[@MeleeMotors]

Next trip I'll be sure to film the procedure in more detail. When it's time to clean up and clean out it's all hands on deck because everyone wants to get out of that cold water haha a dedicated film person would be a game changer 🙌

[@ryckrowan6153]

More cobbles as small rocks that get sucked up: use a Gad Bar by Estwing to pry up cobbles. Camera use body mount on Rock Man and Nozzle Man plus Time Lapse on stand. You Guys Rock ! Got your Pay for the Day 👍

[@jackfinch9291]

You lost three ounces in the fast flow of water you got washing it right out

[@pisyotdumale7530]

Its a big cost

[@ronaldheit196]

Kinda disappointed. No vid of the actual clean out and weighing of the gold. Just 12 minutes of dredging.

[@MeleeMotors]

Gold mining involves us using both hands 95% of the time. Therefore filming everything gets pretty difficult when I don't have a dedicated camera guy. Thank for the comment and thanks for watching.

[@jackfinch8989]

If it didn't weigh a ounce it went right out

[@MeleeMotors]

It's a three stage sluice box it needs faster flow to keep the big rocks from piling up. To much pile up will cause the riffles to clog, and therfore gold would be lost. This set up worked very well for us. Thanks for watching

[@donaldrollins3124]

Question: who's up on the bank watchen your ass?

[@MeleeMotors]

So we have 2 divers undrrwater, one on the nozzle, and one helping move rocks. One guy above water watching the sluice box and our "asses" lol

[@ninefingermining8694]

Just saw your channel I subscribed 👍🏻whet in AK are you ? I live in Fairbanks & prospect swing by check us out

[@idahogreen2885]

Liars, lmfao. 3 zs in one day dredging. But didnt bother to show such a monster cleanup.

[@MeleeMotors]

If you watch till the end of the video we show the gold we got in pictures. Gold mining involves us using both hands 95% of the time. Therefore filming everything gets pretty difficult when I don't have a dedicated camera guy. Thank for the comment and thanks for watching.