URBAN GOLD PROSPECTING

For those of you who can't get out on the streams as much as you would like, maybe there is something closer to home that you can collect and run. These are just a few video clips of about 4 runs I was able to salvage from a computer crash about how my 13 year old grandson got me into trying some Urban Prospecting this summer and how it all started. We had a lot of fun together and got some nice gold as well. This actually went on all summer for us and made for a very memorable summer. I certainly learned that "Gold Is Where You Find It".
You can check out my grandson's channel at utahavalanche grandson.
For some more Urban Prospecting check out the Kleshguitars and Old Lab Rat channels.
Update: for those who are interested, a video on how to build this miller table can be found here:
• HOW TO BUILD THE DEEP ...
Note: I also found out where those street sweepers dump all that gold they sweep out of the gutters. They dump it at the Green waste dump site and they put it into mulch. So everyone who gets mulch from them gets some nice gold as well.

[@Dani-rx1sv]

This is absolutely amazing. I see your grandson doing better than those that spend all day in the rivers. The streets are paved with gold. God bless America!

[@utahavalanch]

Yippers, he is doing quite well and avoiding a lot of the problems that the kids are getting into now days. We both found out that there is a lot more gold on the streets than in the rivers and easier to get to. They use crushed Quartz rock for the topping on the road and that quartz has gold embedded in it and so it gets put into the road. When the snow plows come by in the winter they tear off some of that topping and it gets washed into the gutter just waiting for someone to come pick it up. :-D So yep, the streets are paved with gold and God Bless America from here as well.

[@mountainviews5025]

Your grandson is very smart to look into that dirt that was going to be put in the garbage great job also he is Lucky to have a awesome grandfather thumbs up my friends

[@utahavalanch]

Mountain Views Yes, he is very observant and found a lot of gold that weekend. We had a lot of fun that summer. Thank you for watching.

[@FlashInYourPan]

Excellent, That miller table works great, and this goes to show, "Gold Is Where You Find It" Keep them coming and may you always have a Flash In Your Pan.

[@utahavalanch]

Thanks Ed and may you always have flash in your pan as well. Yep, this Miller Table is a real keeper. I can't believe how smooth it is to run.

[@EdBragg]

So glad to have you post a video again. I really enjoyed all your videos. This is quite amazing and I'm so happy for you and your grandson. I live over here in Virginia, in the gold belt, and keep eyeing the culverts running under our roads nearby. Maybe it's time to go fill a couple of buckets.

[@utahavalanch]

Ed Bragg Hi Ed, thanks for stopping by. This was a real eye opener for me. I live in a very low gold area and look what we ran across. It certainly wouldn't hurt to give the culverts a try and maybe other unlikely places. Yup, gold is where you find it.

[@bryanmitiner6863]

Great show! You have your grandsons interested!! He will be rewarded in many ways,!!!!

[@utahavalanch]

Bryan Mitiner Hi Bryan and thanks for watching. Yippers, with the price of gold jumping up by $200.00 an ounce here lately, he is a happy camper.😄

[@GeorgiaDogScrapper]

I was catching up on some older videos and came across this one with your grandson. I am surprised that he had found that much gold basically just laying around on the ground. I hope he has continued to find gold doing his little cleaning job. Thanks for the videos. Happy hunting Dewey

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Dewey and thanks for watching. Believe me, no one was more surprised than me. He continued working the gutters all over town for the summer and ended up with a lot of gold. I still grab dirt samples wherever I go out and about and I’m surprised at how much gold I get from unusual spots. If you saw my last video, I made a highbanker to try and keep up with all the dirt I get. Nice thing is, that no one believes you so no competition.😄

[@GeorgiaDogScrapper]

@@utahavalanch , I have been watching the build yourself videos and I am gathering up materials to see if I can build my set up with recycle items. I have built a smaller version of the miller table. Mine is 6" wide and 12" long. I didn't include the well but I have it built and now I will disassemble to paint it. I have got a wooden sluice box built that is also 6" wide and 30" long. I have a entry door mat with expanded metal on top from a paint screen. I have been collecting materials from creeks around me and have caught small Garnets with it. Still fine toning and trying new places to collect materials to try. Happy hunting and congratulations on the finds. Thanks again Dewey

[@utahavalanch]

@@GeorgiaDogScrapper That’s great Dewey. I have some very nice and expensive equipment that I never use any more. I found my homemade works much better. No sense investing a lot in equipment. Get a gold pan to go with the rest as it’s the best tool you can buy. Good luck and good hunting.

[@GeorgiaDogScrapper]

@@utahavalanch I have been thinking about my wooden sluice box and was thinking of trying to add more riffles to see if that would work on catching the flour gold and not let it blow thru the run. Also thinking of using different sizes to create the high low effect that everyone is doing with silicone mat. May just build a new one and work on it with wooden riffles to see what happens. Then take my cons and run them through the first one and see what I missed. What would you think about high low wooden riffles on a sluice box.

[@utahavalanch]

@@GeorgiaDogScrapper You would be better off having all the riffles the same height for flower gold. It is very light and you want as smooth a water flow as you can get with it. Almost everything you see on you tube will blow out the flower gold. I’ve spent 12 years testing and I have several easy to build designs that people are building all over the world and having great success with. I have 2 videos on how to build drop riffle sluices that will catch very fine flower gold. You can buy a 1x6 or 1x8 pine board and a 1x3 pine furring strip from Home Depot or Lowe’s plus 2 or 3, 1/2” or 5/8” square dowels from their moulding section. Very simple and easy to build. Those 2 videos I have take you step by step through the process. These sluices can be used both in the stream or with a pump as a recirculating sluice. I also have a video showing a clear sided sluice so you can see how the drop riffles work. Also get at least a kitchen strainer to screen out the larger rocks and only run the fine material through the sluice. Pan the bigger sized rocks.

[@lv2mine]

Great video. I'm impressed and excited. Good grandpa. Time well spent.

[@utahavalanch]

lv2mine Thank you and thanks for watching. It's been fun for both of us. The grandson has been picking up more Gold in this area lately and will be doing another video on his channel about it. We are going to explore this type of Prospecting a lot more this summer.

[@mrMacGoover]

The Kid is going to be a Millionaire by the age of twenty at this rate!

[@utahavalanch]

Thanks for watching. Yes, he is getting a good start on a nice nest egg for college or whatever he decides to use it for. He is still working the dirt from the back of the truck and no telling how much he'll get from it all. Plus with a very wet winter, we have a lot of new road gravel in the gutters to collect. I'm finding out I wasted a lot of years of gas, and energy working the streams. He got a gram of that gold from the gutter in front of my house proving to me he wasn't setting me up. :-D

[@hitterhalifaxn.s2164]

@@utahavalanch This was a fantastic video the bonding between you two being most valuable. Thank you for sharing.

[@utahavalanch]

HITTERS UNION HALIFAX N.S Hi Hitters Union and thanks for watching. We had a great summer together and had a lot of fun. And I learned a lot from him.

[@alanrobertson2510]

Thanks for sharing That was some nice gutter gold very cool. Great job on the bucket classifiers.

[@utahavalanch]

Alan Robertson Hi Alan. Thanks for watching. Yes, he has been getting some nice gold.he still works the gutter on the weekends. I think he'll make it to at least 3/4 oz this year. Those classifiers have been nice for the old shoulders especially when you are using them almost every day.

[@igorbanski5157]

You and your grandchild are my heroes! I've been searching Arkansas for gold for years, and have found a few -100 specks. Thank you for Posting!!

[@utahavalanch]

Igor Banski Thanks for watching igor. Pixie dust is all we have here as well in the streams. Much bigger gold in other places we're finding. Like in front of our houses and in our yards. He is still getting gold from all the places in the video.

[@jfdesignsinc.innovationsid1583]

They should teach this shit in school..... and holy hell is that table an amazing tool... u know how hard and how much effort it takes to pan down to what just simply happens on that table in seconds...? You guys really go it figured out boys! Great work

[@thesurfingprospector6345]

That was AWSOME great find young fella Unreal

[@utahavalanch]

It certainly was. Sure threw me for a loop. He did very well during the summer and got himself a nice stash to put away for his college fund, car, or whatever. Thanks for watching.

[@woodsoundsflutes]

Super video. I love how you work with your grandson. Letting him be the lead. Well done. Reminds me of the old days in scouting. I am subscribing. By the way, live in Mapleton Utah and am super happy to see what you are doing.

[@utahavalanch]

Hi and Thanks for watching. Thanks for subbing. Glad to hear from another Utahan. Yes, my grandson has been a lot of fun and I have really enjoyed him. We had a lot of fun that summer and found a lot of gold in places we never suspected there would be any.

[@benwarren2559]

I think I'd be ripping up my front yard I think your grandson was right time to ask about the front yard what a great find

[@utahavalanch]

Ben Warren Hi Ben. Thanks for watching. Yippers, I’m working my parking area this week before snow falls again. The road breaks down and releases the gold and it ends up in the gutters and when a car parks there they splash the gold up onto the grass. I rake the dirt in the grass along the edge of the cement into the gutter and then vacuum the grass to get the fine gold that didn’t get raked in. The grandson is still working that truckload of trimmings and getting more gold. I’m alway amazed on how much gold gets trapped there after the winter and summer.

[@kevinbradleygardeningandou9767]

Great video, time well spent, win win. Thanks for sharing. :-)

[@utahavalanch]

Kevin Bradley Gardening and Outdoors Hi Kevin. Thanks for watching. Your right, it was well spent. We had a good time. We'll do it again new year as it seems these spots replenish just like the streams do

[@goldfreundedeutschland2774]

Schöner Film und noch schöneres Gold👍

[@utahavalanch]

Goldfreunde Deutschland Vielen Dank.

[@MrLodak]

That's crazy! Good video.

[@utahavalanch]

Hi J, thanks and thanks for watching. Kind of like your foundation work only we don't have to do any digging. :-) We are still at this and I guess as long as the gold keeps coming in, we'll stay with it. Been fun summer, and winter. Who'd a thought? :-)

[@LadyTSurvival]

thats pretty slick and very ingenious of your grandson and yourself. good job

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Taraz. Thanks for watching. Yes, I thought that it was a great idea he came up with. It has given us a common hobby we can both enjoy and we don't have to make the long trip to gold country to enjoy it.

[@LadyTSurvival]

makes me wonder if all ditches in the city would do that or just certain parts of the country or certain cities or counties

[@christopherscallio2539]

Your video inspired me to pan a few trowel fulls of dirt from my garden this morning. No luck though. Some black sands and garnet is all.

[@utahavalanch]

Well, I wouldn't give up yet. Garnet, black sand and gold all go together. I would dig down about 1-1/2 feet because gold is a little heavier and get about a gallon of dirt. Then take one of those kitchen screeners and screen the material. Then try panning the larger material and the smaller separately one teaspoon at a time. Just work the material down together in a corner of the pan like normal panning and then backwash or swirl the material until you get it spread out and see if any gold shows up. Even an experienced panner will lose the fine gold with the usual panning method, so by doing it this way a spoon at a time you will be able to see if there is any gold for sure or not. Also try different spots in the yard. My yard has about 6 spots that have gold. Best of luck.

[@lianeisme]

I hope you retrieved the rest out of that truck ha ha ha love it

[@utahavalanch]

lianeisme Thanks for watching. Sorry KZbin is not notifying me of comments. Yes, we piled it in his back yard and he is still getting gold out of it. Also just got another gram and a half from that gutter you see in the video. He's having a lot of fun with this and getting some nice gold. I'm jealous. :-)

[@milesglasgow5016]

Lifelong memories with Grandpa.

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Miles and thanks for watching. Yippers, we had a great summer together and I got a lesson in Urban Prospecting. 😄

[@p1nesap]

Love it! Gonna try some curb areas in my area.

[@utahavalanch]

Legend of Green Man Thanks for watching. We usually keep a gallon bucket in the truck at all times and if we find a bit of dirt in the gutter or wherever, we take a small sample. If there is gold we go back. If not then we're not out a lot of time. It's surprising how much gold there is around us and we're in the worst area of the state for gold.

[@p1nesap]

@@utahavalanch I'm in Maine, with known glaciated gold. If I had enough balls & was willing to get away from people/safety for a while I'd do all right. Not sure what's stopping me. It's not the pussy I'm not getting. Thanks 4 giving me more 2 think about.

[@deadheadprospector]

Wow, nice haul.

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Utah, Thanks for watching. Yep as the Cher song goes, "The Beat Goes On". It's amazing how much of this gold is all around us. It's also just like working the streams, you sample and sample and then go back for the best gold. However this is easier. I can run to the store for groceries and come back with a bucket of dirt with gold to boot. :-)

[@BruceschultzAU]

Wow mate im still trying to get my head around how your grandsons garden is richer than my gold feild. Your not salting the summer are you grandpa. If it snows there now would be the time to add a room and not worry about a floor so you can mine inside at home all winter. I love it. Thanks for the movie.

[@utahavalanch]

Well, all of this gold he is collecting out of the street gutters right in the neighborhood in the video. He is still collecting it to this day. A couple of weeks ago we had a warm spell and he went out and collected a few gallons of it and got about another half gram of nice big gold. We are also finding it in other cities gutters as well so it's quite wide spread. Just about anywhere they put the pea gravel size quartz rocks on top of the street. I thought he was salting when he first showed me. Then he went out in the gutter in front of MY house and collected about a half a gram the size gold you see in the gutter.

[@BruceschultzAU]

Thats Great.

[@christopherscallio2539]

That kid sure can find the Gold!

[@utahavalanch]

LOL, yippers, he really can. Just about anywhere we go, he can take his pan and find Urban Gold. We think it's more fun finding the urban gold that stream because it's interesting the places you find it.

[@bartbley1269]

Good way for your grandson to get the gold bug. Time to prospect local gravel pits. We have a gravel pit out side of the city that has a wash plant before its washed sand collection . Heard rumors that it collects enough gold to pay for fuel .

[@utahavalanch]

bart bley Yippers many of them are actually gold mines licensed as gravel pits. All of ours have gold in them. The gravel topping they put on our roads comes from crushed quartz that has gold in it. During the winter snow plows scrape off all the loose gravel and gold and push it into the gutters. They also sand the roads with sand with gold in it. A never ending supply of gold dirt to work. :-)

[@utahavalanch]

Come join the party. Plenty to go around. We have so much gold we pave the streets with it. :-D This summer's events got me trading my Gold Hog sluice for a small recirculator system and I'm getting 4 times more gold. I'm learning that there is a lot of gold all around us and to treat our surroundings like a large river. Sample, sample, sample.

[@connieeveritt5704]

Maybe you should offer to dispose of the cities dirt that they clean off the street in the summer. Just tell them to back up your driveway and dump it there lol thanks for sharing.

[@utahavalanch]

@@connieeveritt5704 I would love to. They dump it in a green waste dump about a mile from me and turn it into garden mulch. Hundreds of people get to put gold on their gardens and flowerbeds. Oh, well. Just found a new dig in a Village Inn parking lot. :-D Have a Happy 4th of July.

[@terrysmith4440]

must have a leprechaun for a neighbor lol

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Terry and thanks for watching. Aye that he did for a fact. 😄🍀. He roamed a number of neighborhoods that summer with his bucket and brush and collected early half an ounce. I can’t get out much anymore and so I find it nice to not have to travel to do a little prospecting. They top the roads with crushed quartz that has gold in it and the snowplows scrape the loose off into the gutter in the winter. A water line broke 2 houses above me a month ago and washed 25 gallons of what turned out to be paydirt down in front of my house. Turns out the road base under the roads has much larger quartz crushed up in it and it is bigger gold. Yep gold is where you find it and it can be in the most unlikely places.👍😁

[@SuperJupiter33]

seriously...wonderful story. i read a very small red covered book at one time forget the title ,story line travel the whole world searching for treasure while the diamond mine was out in yard.

[@utahavalanch]

That is pretty much how it worked out for us. We found we had gold building up in our gutters from the roads wearing down. I have another collection building up in my gutter from the snow plows this winter. 😁

[@chadandersen1119]

This brings memories of me and my father amazing❤

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Chad and thanks for watching. Yippers it was a good way to spend the summer with my Grandson. He ended up with a nice amount of gold as well.

[@christopherscallio2539]

Your Grandson will cherish these childhood memories with his Grandfather.

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Christopher, Thanks for watching. Yes, great memories for both of us. It was a very fun summer. These are just clips I took as it happened for us to remember it by and I thought others might like them also. It's interesting how much gold is in the material all around us that we never check.

[@David_Lee_33]

Very nice!!!!

[@utahavalanch]

Thanks Dave and thank you for watching. It was a very fun summer with the grandson and I learned to look in unusual places for gold.

[@Nunya_Bidnez]

theres GOLD in them there Lawns. Eureka

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Nunya and thanks for watching. Actually there is. The pea gravel topping they put on our roads is mostly crushed quartz rock that contains gold. The gold is embedded in the topping and during the winter the freezing/thawing cycle breaks a lot of the gravel and gold loose and the snowplows push it into the gutters. When the snow melts, cars park in front of the houses and splash the water, gold and gravel up onto the grass. My boy’s grass was badly overgrown and hung down in the gutter. He got a power edger and trimmed it and was going to haul it to the dump when we decided to test it. It was loaded with gold that had gotten splashed into it over the years. I just raked the edge of my grass into the gutter last week and got a quarter gram of gold out of it from this last winter. My next door neighbor is next.👍

[@KLeVoyBarnes]

Great video

[@utahavalanch]

SDVOSB LATVIAN CONNECTION LLC Thank you and thanks for watching. I found it interesting as to how much gold is around us that we never see. Now I'm find it all around me.

[@connieeveritt5704]

lol I would love to get that amount of gold from dirt on the road or from edging. Please tell your grandson I loved his video. By the way imagine how much your son threw away. ;)

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Connie and thanks for watching. I'll tell him. We really enjoyed making this video as neither one of us were prepared for what was in the dirt the brought over. This is just clips I shot as it happened. My son decided at the last minute not to take the trimmings to the dump and dumped them in his back yard. My grandson is still working them and getting more gold.

[@johnnytoy5487]

Day's like that with your grandson are worth more than all the gold in the world. 👍

[@utahavalanch]

Yippers, that they are. We had a lot of fun that summer and ended up finding a lot of gold in the most unusual places. We found out that if you’re looking for gold, don’t look in streams.😄 we have 7 others urban prospecting now and having a ball.

[@SouthernCrossGO]

Looks like that little table works great :)

[@utahavalanch]

Southern Cross Prospecting Yippers, it really does. I love working on it. I’ve been working more with my combination unit this summer as it has the Miller Table plus a fluid bed sluice and a regular sluice. So it’s great to throw in the truck for camping and exploring. Everything is in one nice little package. My video on testing the 10” Silicone mat shows it in action a little more.

[@SouthernCrossGO]

@@utahavalanch yea i think i saw that in another vid with the silicone matt

[@utahavalanch]

Southern Cross Prospecting Ok, good. I have been playing with the new highbanker this afternoon. I’m loving this. I shovel very nasty dirt to the hopper and it gives me back sparkling clean rocks sand and gold. It has the equivalent of 24” of gold glue traps to try and go through. However, I may have to cut a foot off as nothing so far has made it out of the top 3” trap. Love Silicone.

[@SouthernCrossGO]

@@utahavalanch i think ill give making some a go. I might try the groove before the front riffle and make the front riffle a bit higher too. I like that idea

[@utahavalanch]

Southern Cross Prospecting I love these mats as you can make them how you want them. With the gold liking to stick to the Silicone makes it better. I suggest you make a mat about 10 - 12 inches long and then run a batch of dirt through it with some 30 mesh and smaller if you have it. Then carefully pan the tailings and see if any gold made it out of the sluice. If so then you can make another section and butt the sections together and glue them and then run another test. These are much more efficient than rubber mats and you don’t need them as long.

[@rubyduma6238]

I'm glad you posted this video. That's some nice gold. You say you have some material stockpiled to work on through the winter? Id like to see more of what you got going on up there.

[@utahavalanch]

Hey Ruby, Thanks for stopping by. Yeah, my grandson has quite a pile to work on and I can't keep up with how much I'm bringing in. I've run 80 buckets in the past month and still have about 30 to go. I went to Homey D to get sluice wood and came back with 5 nice pieces like in the video. 1 key thing to look for is the black sand like in the stream. It will point you to the gold. Use your gold stick.

[@JesseSwaney]

Very cool

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Jesse. Thank you for watching

[@thebodgingbigfoot4014]

Love this one!

[@utahavalanch]

The Bodging Bigfoot Thank you and thanks for watching.

[@thebodgingbigfoot4014]

@@utahavalanch you're welcome!!!! I'm a newbie at all this. I love the idea of your deep well Miller table. I gonna make one for the fine gold we have here

[@utahavalanch]

I think you will really like the table. I am currently working on some material sent to me from one of my subscribers in Michigan that has a lot of black sand and some of the tiniest gold I have ever seen. I am having no trouble at all in separating it from the black sand. The extra smooth water flow with that table makes it very easy to collect just the gold.

[@thebodgingbigfoot4014]

@@utahavalanch that's awesome! Pickin up materials soon as I wake up

[@utahavalanch]

Sounds good. Best of luck.

[@philtyfil]

Thats pretty awesome. Think i would have any luck up here in Idaho? Might be worth a try.

[@utahavalanch]

I would think that you would have a very good chance. You are in a better gold area than we are. Give it a try but be extremely careful and keep out of the road. Lots of idiot drivers out there. Check very old roads with a pea gravel coating on top of them that are falling apart. Old streets with gutters for the dirt to collect are our first choice. Take lots of samples from many places then come back to the ones with gold. You only have to take about a quart or half gallon sample and pan it out to check it. Screen it through a 1/4 mesh screen to remove the worst of the leaves, grass, etc. Good Luck.

[@jjbailey01]

You must live in heaven... The streets are paved with gold!

[@utahavalanch]

Bullfrog's Workshop That they are. They put a pea gravel topping on the roads that they make from crushing quartz rock which contains gold. The gold gets embedded into the asphalt along with the rock. As the road wears down the gravel and gold get washed to the gutters when it rains. Most of the old roads throughout the country are made this way. We have found gutter gold in 4 other states as well so it's not only here. Thanks for watching.

[@jjbailey01]

@@utahavalanch thanks for the videos! I'm hoping to build a combination drop riffle sluice with a fluid bed at the top. I loved your drop riffle flow test video. I live under gold mine mountain and have an asphalt road along the property. If I find any paydirt, I'll have to send you some.

[@utahavalanch]

Thank you for watching them. I think you will really like the Deep Well drop riffle sluice. It's also quite easy to build and I have found it's one of the most efficient on catching gold. It's funny but after building about 60 different mat fine gold sluices, I'm finding that a drop riffle fine gold sluice beats them all out. I have been using one all summer as one and it has caught every bit of gold. I'm currently using one for -100 black beach sand and it catches all of it. I always love to get a bag of dirt to run from other places. I'm just finishing up a bag a viewer sent to me with some Michigan black beach sand that has been fun to pan.

[@jjbailey01]

@@utahavalanch I just watched the deep well videos. It seems to do exactly what I was thinking as a fluid bed at the head of the sluice. I'm working on a few ideas to make cleaning the riffles a snap. I'll keep you posted.

[@utahavalanch]

Bullfrog's Workshop The fluid bed on the Deep Well style works quite well. If you screen your material to the same size and adjust the water flow to where it just moves out the lighter material, all that's left will be the gold and some black sand. If any material happens to escape, then the riffles will catch it.

[@GoldPanDann]

I had a similar experience. I went with a couple guys to an intermediate school to do some gold panning lessons for some science students and the bucket of material we had from a claim was left at the house. So we ended up using some dirt from around the school fields. Almost every kid that panned found some gold!! This shocked us as well! It wasn't quite as big as what you have in this video though.

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Dann, thanks for watching. Yep, I know just what you mean. What's happening is that the roads where they put a pea gravel coating on the top is made of crushed quartz rock. The crushing also releases the gold trapped inside and both are embedded in the top of the asphalt. I can go out on the road here with my Falcon MD20 and find 8 mesh size gold quite easily. As the roads wear down from snow plows, big trucks and cars, the gold and gravel are washed to the edge of the asphalt when it rains. Up north here they also apply gold loaded sand to the roads when it snows. Double whammy. The shoulders of the old back roads that aren't well maintained and falling apart are a real gold mine....Literally.

[@GoldPanDann]

Makes me want to test the roads around here with my MD20! I don't expect anything, but gold is where you find it! haha The gold we found at the school I want to think came from the potting soil mixture around the trees and bushes or from the fill dirt they used to build the school where it is. Which is on a lava flow.

[@EugeniaBonucci1965]

Amazing

[@cheesemongering109]

=0 computer crash ? Sounds scary glad you're okay =}

[@utahavalanch]

Thank you.

[@gabrial3377]

This reminds me of a 1950,s Maine gold story about paving a parking lot in Ogunquit, and how the huge pile of dirt fill that came from some river got dumped in the lot for leveling fill. The driver of the truck soon spotted a gold nuggett!!! It that began what was called the Great Maine gold rush! Miners from all over the country and canada showed up in that parking lot claiming a pile of that gold rich fill for themselves!! It turned into such a fiasciao, with fights and cars parked all the way up rt 1, that he made the contractors pack it down and pave over the dirt which i am sure still holds some gold to this day under the old tar! Y just never know!!

[@utahavalanch]

Victorias, Oregon or Bust That fill dirt here is a big source of gold. I try to sneak a gallon of it when they are doing road work or laying new sewer lines. Always get nice big flakes. I now take 1/2 gallon samples of any interesting looking dirt I run across like when you sample a stream with a gold pan. I have really been surprised at the gold that is all around us and I live in the worst area for gold in the state. Lol, because no one ever looked.

[@tracestaker6237]

@@utahavalanch Amazing video! Your other videos on how to make a Miller Table gave me inspiration and I just finished my very first one! I’m also here in UT. I’m in Eagle Mtn. Are the streets also paved with gold down here or do I need to go to different cities? 😂😊 Can’t wait until me and my family spend some quality time together and find out very first flake! Any recommendations on where to go would be great! Keep up the amazing work by the way 👍🏼 loved your video with your Grandson.

[@utahavalanch]

@@tracestaker6237 Hi Trace and thanks for watching. Congratulations on your Miller Table. I’m sure you will enjoy it. Well, all the gravel that you see on the roads all came from gold bearing sources so you probably have it on your streets as well. We have found gold in the gutters as far south of us as American Fork. Also check any dirt around where they are doing road, home or building construction. Older roads out away from town or in the older parts of town are good places to look. Especially in the spring as the snow plows scrap the loose gravel and gold to the side of the road. You will find some old roads with deep gravel on the side of them. These are the ones to check. Use a kitchen strainer to screen out the bigger material and just run the finer. Also try sampling dirt anywhere you go. I’m finding gold in my lawn and flower beds. So it’s all around us. Best of luck to you.

[@tracestaker6237]

@@utahavalanch Thank you for the quick reply! I am LOVING the table! You have a great design 👍🏼 I also made the Black Sand Walking Stick and Plunger Magnet. 😊 I’ve sampled up Provo Canyon, AF Canyon and some gutters out in Lehi. Haven’t had any luck yet unfortunately. still on the hunt that’s for sure. Are you located in Northern UT? I have some pictures of the roads that I have been panning that I’d like to send you for you to maybe take a look at.

[@utahavalanch]

@@tracestaker6237 HiTrace. Sounds like you are off to a good start. The black sand magnets will be a great help in finding places to collect samples. The magnets work the best either in water like a stream or pot hole with water in it or dry dirt and sand. This time of year they don’t work as well as the black sand sticks to the mud and can’t be picked up easily by the magnet. I’d be happy to check out your pictures. Do you have an e-mail you could post here so I can get in touch with you? I’ll erase it as soon as I get it.

[@johnr.8723]

As of today, an ounce Of GOLD...$1,298.95, time well spent with Grandpa...PRICELESS!!

[@utahavalanch]

John R. You are so right there John. A fun summer plus he got some nice gold to put toward a future "gotta have". 😄 Hopefully college. Thanks for watching.

[@shaunsmith7642]

Hmm, I think my Makita cordless jobsite vacuum is going back in my truck in addition to a dedicated sampling kit and bucket. I’m about an hour North of you from what I can gather, and your video and comments confirmed some suspicions and partial theories I’ve had with flour gold concentration at the mouths of the canyons from Lake Bonneville. That being said, I honestly didn’t think about the crushed quartz in the roadbase, the sand used on the roads all winter, or the fact that pretty much every city and town here does the chip and seal program to make the roads last. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on all this. I’ve been playing with sluice mat concepts to quit losing all the flour gold off the end, and I think you have given me a lot of really good information to think about in your various videos. I’ve found flour gold all over the general area, but it is usually small enough that I have to spend a crazy amount of time classifying and panning to catch it.

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Shaun. Thanks for watching. Yippers, we have hundreds of gravel pits along the Wasatch front. I have taken samples from all of them in a hundred mile range from springville to Brigham city and found gold in all of them. All construction work whether it be on roads or buildings has to have road base as a foundation. That, the asphalt gravel and the gravel road toppings come from those pits. Home Depot and Lowes bagged construction sand comes from those pits as well. The big dike around Willard bay came from one of my favorite prospecting sites. The Willard gravel pit. You can fish from the dike and pan gold at the same time.😄 With the freezing thawing and road sanding this year, there will be a lot of road material that will break loose and get pushed to the side of the roads and gutters. Store and restaurant and strip mall parking lots will end up losing more gravel. Watch where they pile the snow. Look for black snow as the piles melt. Look for small piles of sand in low spots and around drains. Also where the cars park and drip mud. When parking lot is dry, walk around on it on a sunny day and look for the tiny shiny specs by your feet in the crevices. Use your vac. I have a PVC black sand magnet cane I use to check the piles and if I find a good amount of black sand, I take a quart to a gallon sample to run. Black sand and gold travel together. If I find gold I go back for another sample. By using small samples is like test panning a stream it let’s you find the best places to collect larger amounts of dirt. Most of it is fine gold and that is what I design my equipment to catch. I mostly go after gold in the 40 to 300 mesh range. But, to me gold is gold.👍 So you might want to give urban prospecting a try and have a sluice set up to work this fine stuff. Keep the water flow low. Around 300 to 600 GPH and have a valve on your water line to adjust the water flow for the smaller mesh sizes. If you run across flooding or water pipe breaks, those are places to take lots of samples. Use a black sand magnet to find any gold pockets. Also any sand bags after it’s all over. Guess where the sand comes from? 😝 Also look for sagebrush growing alongside the road. Sagebrush is a gold indicator plant and needs the mineralized soil gold is found in to grow. Notice how lots of sagebrush grows in and around the gravel pits? It will also mark good spots at the side of country roads to take samples too. Good luck and Happy prospecting.

[@shaunsmith7642]

@@utahavalanch the funny thing is that the whole reason I even started collecting and looking for gold is that I own a pool and spa company, and I started noticing gold sticking to my gloves and equipment when I would change out the sand in pool filters. I started keeping some sand when I would notice it, and have panned out a fair amount. I think it is a similar situation to what you have noticed, and got me looking for gold in odd places, with a focus on recovering the fine stuff that most people don’t really care about. I honestly need to build something similar to one of your Miller tables to see if it will speed things up and catch the small odd stuff that I’m slowly having to pan through a little at a time.

[@utahavalanch]

@@shaunsmith7642 Yippers Shaun, the fine gold can be frustrating to try and separate out for sure. But if you get set up to work with it it’s not too bad. I break a sample down into multiple mesh sizes and that way it’s quick and easy to give each size the attention it needs and let’s you strip out every piece of gold in a sample. I built my first Miller Table about 15 years ago and loved it. It really made getting the fine gold easy. Since then I have been able to really improve on it. Sadly the commercial versions are not made to work with fine gold at all. Mine will easily work with all visible gold and hold on to the non visible so you can process it with other means. They really aren’t that hard to build and if you would like to try I’d be happy to help you with it. The first one is the hardest but after you get one built, then you have that experience behind you in building another one if you weren’t quite happy with the first or want to make changes on it. There is a method of panning out the superfine no-seeums, gold that is so tiny you can’t see the individual pieces but you can see them if you get enough of them together. I would think that a lot of those would get caught up in those sand filters. A prospector has developed a special panning method of panning those so that it is quite easy. KZbin won’t let me give you a link to his individual videos. But if you have an email account I can send them to you or you can do a search for Hardrockuniversity or search for panning micron gold here on KZbin. He actually makes a living off that super fine gold. I really like working with them as they are in a lot of the dirt.

[@shaunsmith7642]

@@utahavalanch for some reason my comments seem to disappear if I leave my email address. I’m not quite sure how to get that to you, but really would love to open a line of communication. I have a few questions on your fluid bed sluice in addition to your Miller table, and want to bounce a couple ideas off you if possible.

[@utahavalanch]

@@shaunsmith7642 Hi Shaun, be glad to help. No problem. You can drop me an E-mail at this address. [e-mail] And I can get back to you.

[@Tbowie13]

This is incredible! I live not too far from Reed Gold Mine in NC. We used to be able to purchase paydirt for $7 a 5 gallon bucket. At Reeds, they salt the pans, especially for groups such as school kids on a field trip, etc. After the dirt has been panned, they dump the troughs and sell the "tailings," so to speak. Lol. As you can well imagine most kids have short attention spans and don't pan the dirt well, so much of the "salting" ends up in the tailings, (then it was mixed with virgin dirt from the creek area) and its Reeds, so there is obviously a good gold source there without salting. Anyhow, people started buying the buckets and selling them for much more on the internet. The DNR owns and runs Reed Mine, so they said they couldnt have a taxpayer funded place being used to make random people profit. Thry no longer sell the dirt in buckets that can be taken home, so I need a new source. Thank you for the idea. I had found 2 creeks that ran through an old military base (now closed) and found gold in them. But they are, of course, developing the area now (because nothing natural can be left alone, these days, when it can be subdivided). I was wondering how the gold got there, but read your response to someone about how its in the rock quarrys used for the concrete on the streets.

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Tbowie and thanks for watching. Most people don’t realize that there is gold all around us. Back a few years ago when glaciers moved down from Canada and covered most of the US in ice, they brought gold with them and deposited it when they melted. So Gold can be found most anywhere. Most of it is very fine so if you learn how to pan very fine gold, you will be able to recover it. I live in what is considered a no gold state but myself and a few others find a considerable amount of gold every year just Urban prospecting. You live in a gold state so you should be able to find it most anywhere. Yup, the roads are covered with pea gravel that came from a river or gravel pit that has gold in it. When the road wears down, the gold will be washed to the side. Also off-roaders, construction workers and cars driving on muddy dirt roads pick up gold in the mud that sticks to their cars. When it rains, it gets washed off onto the roads and parking lots. Look for low spots in parking lots that collect sand during a rain storm. Especially around storm drains. We had a heavy winter and the snow plows scraped the parking lots and piled up the snow in nice big piles for us. When they melt, we will have a nice pile of dirt to mine. Our Wallmart stores are always good for several grams of gold. So test dirt from everywhere. You will be surprised at the unusual places you will find it.

[@UtahProspector]

What state was this in? I've never in my life seen anything like that. Hope you had a great summer!

[@utahavalanch]

Hey UtahP. Thanks for stopping by. Thank you, as you can see, we had a great summer. Hope you have one as well. I have never seen anything like it myself or even dreamed of it. But my grandson was the one who got us going on this. I documented the whole summer and there was a lot more footage of our adventures and gold, but I lost it in an unexpected computer crash. I thought he was pranking me after the first run and so I told him to show me where he got it and he went out in front of my house and collected the dirt in the gutter and a lot of that first run was from in front of my house for crying out loud. :-( This went on like this all summer. This all took place here in Utah in a city just about 40 miles north of you. However we are finding it all over the state. They crush quartz rock into pea gravel to put on top of the asphalt on the roads and there is gold in the quartz and it gets embedded in the asphalt as well. As the road wears down, the gold and pea gravel gets torn up and washed to the edge of the road. Look for old deteriorating roads. The road base they put down under the asphalt has even more gold in it. You probably have it in your neighborhood as well. Look for piles with pea gravel and lots of black sand. Check in and around pot holes. Use something like in my video on walking stick magnet to test for the BS. They also sand the roads in the winter here with sand that has fine gold in it. You will find some of that as well.

[@milesglasgow5016]

Smart kid

[@justinbeckstrom3874]

Cool video! I live in Payson and I tried some urban prospecting over the weekend. I gathered a 5 gallon bucket of dirt from the curbs and cracks in my area but unfortunately I didn’t turn up any gold. What city do you live and do you think I ought to keep trying my area? How do you tell if the roads have been coated with crushed quartz? Most of the coating I see looks like a darker color with maybe some quartz but not a lot.

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Justin and thanks for watching. I live in Ogden but my grandson I have found road and gutter gold all up and down the Wasatch front. We have found some up American Fork Canyon. Look very closely at the road. Some have round river gravel on the top and some have sharp crushed rock. We find the larger gold in the sharp crushed rock. The older the road the better. A lot of the country back roads are very old. Look for small gravel piles along side the roads. Check right on the edge of the asphalt on old roads and at turn offs. Pot holes are good too as the gold usually washes into them like riffles on a sluice. But the cars usually splash it out and right next to a pot hole you will see a small pile of dirt that has been splashed out. That's where to look. Roads up to the ski resorts are a good place to check. They sand those heavily. We check the turnoffs. Large mini mall parking lots are also good. Check the roads around gravel pits. You have a big one near you that has a lot of loose gravel on the road edges. Hit it on a Sunday when they are closed and you shouldn't get hassled. That's where the gold is coming from and a lot of times they just dump or spill piles of sand alongside the roads and some of the sand and gravel is always falling off the trucks. Look for sagebrush that is growing in a unlikely place or along side the road. You see it in the medians of the freeway all the time. Sagebrush need the minerals that are associated with gold. The big piles of road base material that they put down when they make or repair a road or use for fill when putting in new pipelines in the road, is loaded with large gold because they crush quartz rock to get the 1" size material they need and that has the larger gold in it. This is just a tiny set of examples of where to look. A lot of the gold will be quite small so you need to be able to recover -30 mesh and smaller gold. Screen your samples down to about 4 different sizes and run them separately. They put sand on the roadways in the winter and that has the fine gold in it. We also do like with a stream, we take many small samples. Usually only about a half gallon to a gallon. Most of the material you find won't have gold in it but some will. If you find some gold, go back to where you took the sample and get more. Don't waste time running large unproductive samples. Keep it small and keep sampling. Keep a dust pan, whisk broom and gallon bucket in your car and when out and about and you see a little pile of sand or gravel, grab and check it. Also check flower beds and gardens. We are finding gold in all kinds of unusual places. Yes, I'd keep going as I know for a fact there is urban gold in your area from other folks. Once you start learning where to look, You will find way more material to work than you ever dreamed of. Best of luck.

[@justinbeckstrom3874]

Thank you for the help I will keep trying now that you’ve given me a better idea where to look. I’ll let you know when I find some.

[@utahavalanch]

Justin Beckstrom If you normally work the streams, this will give you some material to work when you can't get to them. I have a number of small finishing sluices that I run in a tote to run my samples. I find this way works better for me as I can control the water in order to catch the fine gold the river sluices lose. Good luck.

[@pertinentparadigm1337]

@@utahavalanch Haha! I started carrying around a 1/2 gallon plastic bucket, standard screw driver, and large paint brush after watching this a couple months back, no luck yet, but then again I haven't been sampling as much as I should.

[@utahavalanch]

@@pertinentparadigm1337 Hi Pertinent and thanks for watching. Yippers, it doesn't always pan out. But keep at it. Try all kinds of dirt, Construction piles, gravel on the side of roads, Old dirt roads, Dirt in parking lots etc. I learned to pan very small sand and I find very small gold in almost every pan. Most of the gold will be in the -30 mesh. Yea, it's small but can add up. Most of the gold I find in a lot of unusual places.

[@RiverLifeUS]

Great video - thanks for sharing! How did you build this Miller Table with an exposed sump? New subscriber.

[@utahavalanch]

Hi River, thanks for stopping by and subscribing. This is a new design for Miller Tables and sluices I've been working with for a year now to try and get the smoothest water flow I can for recovering the very fine gold and it works better than anything else I've run across over the years and I'm really loving it. I've been trying to get some videos out for the past 6 months but we keep finding new things these will do and I have to start over. I guess I'll have to just put the info out in smaller videos to try to keep up with it. So you might stay tuned as I have 3 build videos I'm currently working on.

[@RiverLifeUS]

Looking forward to the upcoming videos! I hope you will enjoy my channel too.

[@utahavalanch]

I certainly will.

[@coptechgold]

Found more than I find here in Illinois total for several years.

[@utahavalanch]

Hi doublenot. Thanks for stopping by. Yippers, me too. We are in a no gold zone. All of this comes from the material they make our roads out of. Sometimes it pays to listen to the young 'uns. :-)

[@scoobydigger3210]

So I live in Midvale I have a pocket sluice, metaldector, and gold pans, I pick rocks up from everywhere crush them and pan them out.

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Scoobydigger. Thanks for watching. Sounds like you are all set. Hope you have a great summer.

[@cruzincruz2982]

Midvale ut?

[@bonsaibeanz]

What would the recommended GPA to run water through a sluice?

[@bonsaibeanz]

Gph sorry auto correct 😅

[@utahavalanch]

It depends on the width of the sluice, the type of mats you are using, the size gold you are trying to catch. I am after the fine gold because there is much more of it so I use low water flow so as not to low it out of the sluice like most do. Based on that, I use about 500GPH for sluices 6” wide, 600GPH for sluices 8” wide and around 700GPH to 800 GPH for sluices 10” wide. I have an 800 GPH pump and a DC motor controller on it so I can adjust the water flow and that way I can use it on my Miller Tables and sluice pumps to fine tune the flow. If you don’t have a controller, you can buy a valve to put in line on the pump hose to adjust the water. I found that a gas valve from Home Depot works very well for this. They also have the nylon adapters you can use to connect the hose to the valve.

[@MrDemolitionmission]

I think I would be following the street sweeper to its dump area . That will be Eldorado from the looks of that one little bucket .

[@utahavalanch]

Believe me Russ, I would if I could still drive. I lost most of the video in a computer crash so this is just a tiny bit of footage of 4 different runs. It certainly blew my mind. Out of 10 more separate piles from 4 different streets in 2 different parts of town and 1 bag of tube sand, this is the way it went all summer. My grandson still has a pickup load of that material he had in the little zip loc bag to run and I have the cons from 100 buckets to miller table yet.

[@BruceschultzAU]

I think its time for you to buy a street sweeper 😉

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Bruce, thanks for watching. Believe me the thought has certainly crossed my mind. It seems that just about the time I get a nice collection building up in my gutter, that doggone sweeper comes buy and takes it. I'd love to find out where they dump it. :-)

[@utahavalanch]

Update Russ: I followed one of the sweeper trucks. They take the gutter sweepings to the green waste dump and they grind it into mulch for people to put around their flowers and in their gardens. If only people knew :-)

[@DiscreetHustle]

Are there any key areas in urban surrounding where I could look

[@utahavalanch]

Hi and thank you for watching. Yes, there are a lot of them. Just about any dirt you come across. The streets that have a pea gravel top coating came from a gravel pit that had gold in it. As the road surface breaks down, the gold embedded in the gravel gets washed into the gutter. Cracks in the road and along the edges can contain gold. Water when it rains, washes across parking lots and can leave small piles of gravel in the low spots with gold. We are taking shop vacuums and vacuuming parking lots and streets as the gold gets caught in rough surfaces. If you walk across a parking lot at around noon, look down and you will most likely see the shiny gold. Get a dust pan and brush and collect some. A corn husk whisk broom from Lowes has stiff bristles that gets into cracks very well. If you have old dirt or asphalt roads in your area, check the dirt that piles up on the sides of the road. Any piles of dirt they use in building or repairing roads or construction have gold in them. We found that a big lake near us has gold in the sand on the beaches. The list goes on and on. Check any dirt you come across. We are finding it in places we never would have thought of. Collect small amounts like a quart zip loc bag full and pan it out. If there is gold, go back for more. If no gold look elsewhere. The gold is small so get some small mesh screens to screen it down and pan small amounts at a time. I have a new follower who just wanted to do a little panning with his kids once in awhile. He is now finding gold in so many places, that he is spending a lot of his spare time collecting gold. We are finding gold in the sakrete multi purpose sand from Lowes and Home Depot. Not the play sand. So take samples from any dirt you come across. It’s all around us. Best of luck.

[@gabrial3377]

Lord, i hope you stopped your son from dumping that truck load of dirt before his son and you could run it!!! Your grand son is getting more gold then the dudes busting rock in the hot sun in Arizona!!! The boy will get his college money by time that lawn is excavated!! I dont know where he lives and dont tell anyone but id give a tooth to try my new gold prospecting machine over that ditch!!! Like just wow! Here i am off to home depot to buy sand to play with for practice with some new pans and this boy is blowing me away!!!

[@utahavalanch]

Victorias, Oregon or Bust Hi Victoria and thank you for watching. Yes, we saved the dirt and he will be back to working it when it thaws out. He has been using it to test my new sluice design. When he came to my house to run the first batch I though he was playing a joke on me. When I called him on it, he walked out to my gutter, scooped up the dirt and got another gram. My loss. 😝 I have since started carrying buckets and brooms in the truck to pick up samples as we drive around town. Sure beats working streams.

[@AL-kk4ui]

This is really cool. How did you find out where they get the road material from in your area? Just wondering if some of the places I go in Utah might use the same. Thanks for the video!

[@utahavalanch]

Hi A L and thanks for watching. Pretty much all the big gravel pits along the Wasatch front have gold in them. All the major rivers that come down out of the mountains have gold in them. Millions of years ago when this area was lake bonneville, all those steams dumped into it and when they did, they dumped all their gravel where they came in contact with the lake. At the mouth. Those dump sites are now big gravel pits. They use that gravel to build new homes, roads and many other things. All streets and roads along the Wasatch front have gold in them both under the roads and on top. All those construction piles you see where they are building new homes or working on roads and streets have gold in them we literally build our streets with gold. With all this freezing weather, the roads will be breaking down and the snow plows will be plowing the roads and pushing the loose gravel along with the gold to the side of the road and the rains and melting snow will wash it into the gutters. By around April/May we will have a new batch of gold in the gutters and big store parking lots where they plow the snow and I will be out collecting it.👍😄

[@AL-kk4ui]

@@utahavalanch Thank you for the information. I’ll have to give it a try in the Weber county area.

[@CoralReefkid]

@@utahavalanchvery excited Taylorsville resident here, is there a Do It Yourself way to prospect? Is there any particular store I should go to to find gold prospecting equipment?

[@utahavalanch]

@@CoralReefkid Hi Reefy and thanks for watching. Yes, a good place to start is with a gold pan. There are many videos on KZbin on how to pan gold. Not many places to buy prospecting equipment in Utah. I think Cabelas and Cal Ranch has some pans. I buy all of mine on Ebay as they have a better selection. Get a pan and a kitchen strainer to screen out the bigger rocks and give it a try.

[@CoralReefkid]

@@utahavalanch thank you so much, my backyard is pretty large, all dirt and I’m excited to try this. I’m at a lower point in the valley as well!

[@1kreature]

Must be nice to live where the streets are paved with gold :) I was out digging for hours yesterday and all I found were odd microscopic beads. If anyone knows what they are please tell me. They are pale white or crystal clear and in my microscope I just see a perfect double concentric reflection of my ring-light. Size is approx 0.1mm diameter.

[@utahavalanch]

Hi 1Kreature and thanks for watching. Yes indeed, it's great to have the streets paved with gold. I just have to go out to the gutter every couple of months and pick up the new material. 😀 They crush quartz rock to make the topping on the streets and the quarz rock is full of gold which gets embedded into the top of the street. As the topping wears down it get washed into the gutters where we collect it. Not sure what to tell you on your finds. They could be clear or white quartz rocks or most anything else. I'm not really good on that sort of stuff I'm afraid.

[@eriknielsen1849]

Maby small diamonds I think the cilikone have same effect as Vaseline gold diamonds vaseline and cilikone are water repellant

[@pertinentparadigm1337]

Give your grandson a hug for me. I'm going to try this out, but I've noticed we don't have pea pebble streets where I live. Just visited Houston and every road out there is covered in Pea Pebbles so if anyone's reading this from there try it out and let me know your odds. Thanks for the video!

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Pertinent, I will. We still get out once in awhile. It just seems to be something you stumble upon. It's not everywhere but I get way more gold just testing dirt piles around town and driving around the country than I ever did working the streams. I check every little pile of sand and gravel I can and sometimes it's in a most unusual place.

[@pertinentparadigm1337]

@@utahavalanch Good to know, I appreciate all of your input. Take care and happy prospecting!

[@Rockhounding-with-Bigfoot]

My son, hes 8, and I just got back from a park that had a lot of dirt in the parking lot and I know the park is at least 30 years old... going to pan it now.

[@utahavalanch]

Finding Treasure in Colorado Just keep sampling from a number of different areas. Some will have quite a bit of gold and some won't. Also the gold will settle at the lowest point it can so be sure to sweep up the fine material on the hardpack and clean the cracks and crevices. Good luck.

[@Rockhounding-with-Bigfoot]

Yea I know a lot about gold but thank you. I brought a broom, buckets and screw driver. I just went through about 5 or 6 pans of dirt, large pan (so almost a 5g bucket). So far I have managed to add some broken glass and trash to my dirt pile in my back yard and nothing else lol. I will sample sample sample. I have footage so if I do end up with anything I will then create a video of the event/s

[@jasonsutis3387]

What is a good shop vac to use for urban?

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Jason and thanks for watching. My favorite is a bucket head vacuum from Home Depot. It’s the one you see in the video. It sits on top of a 5 gallon bucket. It’s great as it will hold almost 5 gallons in the bucket. You can also use it as a mini dredge as it will suck up almost 5 gallons of water and sand out of a stream. When the bucket is full, you can put it on another bucket and continue. You also need at least a 750 - 1000 watt inverter and a 12 volt battery to run it as a portable unit. It normally runs on AC. great one for shop use. Another good one I have and like is the Stinger shop vac also from Home Depot. It has the same power as the bucket head but is more compact. It only holds 2.5 gallons. It is wet and dry also. It is also AC and needs an inverter and 12 volt battery to run portable. With the HD vacuums, you can set the battery and inverter down and then hook an extension cord on them and move around. For my battery, I used a jump starter from Harbor Freight for the power and also a Harbor Freight inverter. But it may be cheaper to buy a lawn tractor or motorcycle battery. The unit I am currently using is a Bauer 20 volt cordless vacuum from Harbor Freight. I really like that I don’t have to pack the battery and inverter with me. It doesn’t have quite the power of the Home Depot vacuums but it still works well. It only comes with a hose and a couple of attachments like the others but any 1-1/4” accessories will fit on it. I bought a couple of wands for mine so I can just walk along the gutter standing up and suck up the sand without getting down on hands and knees. It is wet and dry as well and I suck up sand out of the streams with it. You do have to buy a battery and charger with it. Bauer makes 1.5, 3.0, 5, and 8 amp hour batteries. I have the 1.5 and 3.0 batteries and it will run about 20 minutes on the 3.0 battery. Another follower has also bought the Bauer and really likes it. He has Makita tools and bought a converter so he can use those batteries on his Bauer. We both used to use brushes to sweep the streets and gutters but we found that the vacs pick up much more gold that the brushes can’t get to. He recently swept a spot 3’x3’ of dirt in a parking lot and got 12 pieces of gold. He went back with his vacuum and swept it again and got 2 grams of gold. We are also finding gold stuck in tiny crevices in streets and parking lots that the vacs pick up that brushes won’t. Yippers, just sweeping a parking lot with a gravel topped surface gets quite a bit of fine gold. I hope this helps.

[@wainbanfield6775]

Get a shop vacumecleaner into that gutter asap!

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Wain, thanks for watching. I did. I got him a shop vac and he really cleaned up.

[@tomesposito5622]

What part of the country are you in the you doing Urban prospecting

[@utahavalanch]

We are in the state of Utah. However we have found gold like this in Arizona, Wyoming, and Nevada. I think it’s something you can do in many states to find gold. We are considered a no gold state yet we find gold out hiking, in campgrounds, on dirt back roads etc. you would be surprised at where you find gold. If you saw my video on the black sand walking sticks, that is what we use to find gold. We use those to find high concentrations of black sand which is associated with gold. Then we take a sample and process it. If there is gold we go back for more dirt.

[@christiandore7518]

What region are you in? I'm in Florida and have access to crushed Asphalt. Going to give it a try.

[@utahavalanch]

Christian Dore Hi Christian and thanks for watching. I live in Utah. If it's plain asphalt it won't have any gold but if it has the pea gravel mixed in with it, it may. The gold comes from the crushed gravel they put on top. Also try any regular dirt piles or construction dirt piles. You just never know where gold is going to show up.

[@jeffsingleton88]

@@utahavalanch ill b damned. how many buckets of dirt and how many hours? god bless

[@utahavalanch]

@@jeffsingleton88 Hi Jeff and thanks for watching. This is from some samples of gutter dirt my grandson collected from different gutters in and around his and my neighborhood. All total we probably ran about 5 - 7 gallons of dirt. Actual total running time was about 8 hours spread over about 2 months. We usually picked up about a quart sized sample and ran it at a time. Some didn't have any or much gold but some were very rich. I actually have about an hour of video clips just like in the video of him running dirt and collecting the gold. He collected about 1/4 oz. for the first half of the summer and more since then. I got about 6 grams from what little I collected. I now have given up streams and concentrate totally on Urban Prospecting. It's way more profitable than trying to get that tiny gold out of the stream. I take 1/2 gallon samples of interesting dirt I run across in parking lots, gutters, construction piles, roadside gravels and if there is gold, I go back for more. I usually run about 25, 5 gallon buckets a year and get just under 1/2 oz. I find it very interesting to look for gold where it shouldn't be and finding it. You'd be surprised. It's all around us and no one ever stops to look. They think it's all in the streams. Actually there is very little in the streams compared to the ground. The best part is, that no one believes you and so you don't have any competition. :-)

[@jeffsingleton88]

@@utahavalanch no, thank you for sharing and teaching your grandson. I'm gunna give it a shot. Best of luck of luck to yall. God bless. Subscribed

[@MichaelJohnson-ux7pe]

The bucket that your grandson was using how did you make those? Do you have a video on that?

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Mike and thanks for watching. A good friend of mine gave me my first 1 gallon screener bucket and I fell in love with it the first time I used it. I didn't think it would last for 20 minutes but I've since run over a ton of gravel through it and it is still going strong 3 years later. I have since trashed all my 5 gallon buckets and screeners because these work so much better. I love them as you can wash and screen 2 1/2 gallons of material using only 1 gallon of water. Great for desert work and of course Urban Prospecting. :-D You can stack them 3 or 4 buckets high and wet screen to 3 levels at one time. They hold nearly as much as the 5 gallon screeners but work much faster and clean the rocks better. Also easier on this old back. :-D I don't have the video on them finished as of yet but it is in the works so you might stay tuned.

[@MichaelJohnson-ux7pe]

@@utahavalanch Thanks again for the great video and info. I made a 1 gallon screener but it's nothing like yours and I also like using mine better than the bigger one. Going to try and make one like yours, don't have a lot of extra money to buy anything else and this should help me get the screening down a lot more. Thanks

[@utahavalanch]

@@MichaelJohnson-ux7pe Yippers, I hear you on the money. To give you kind of a quick idea of how they are built. You can buy 1 gallon buckets from a plastic container store or from Home Depot online and have them shipped to your closest store. They also have a powder coated gutter guard that makes for a nice 1/4" screen. For the other screens, I buy them on Ebay. One company sells very heavy duty stainless steel screens in 6 inch squares which will just fit on the bottom of the 1 gallon bucket. I draw a circle on the bottom of the bucket about 1" from the edge and cut it out with a jig saw. then I tape the screen to the inside bottom of the bucket to keep it from moving around. You may have to trim the corners with a pair of sheet metal shears. Next I drill 1/8" holes around the edge of the screen and use a cheap pop rivet gun to rivet it in place. The screens will last forever but the buckets break down after about a year in the sun but you can easily drill out the pop rivets and put the screen on a new bucket. Hope this makes some kind of sense.

[@MichaelJohnson-ux7pe]

@@utahavalanch Thank you sir once again on the info and have to say your grand son is very lucky to have a person like you in their life and you are lucky to have someone that also likes what you do. I'll keep in touch

[@utahavalanch]

@@MichaelJohnson-ux7pe I think that I am the lucky one to have him. He has been a lot of fun and help. This video was so fun because when I saw the first gold show up I grabbed my camera and filmed it as it was happening. It took me awhile to get it in my head that he was just getting dirt out of the gutters and running it. About a gram of that gold came out of the gutter in front of my own house. A fun summer for sure.

[@user-if8ew8nd7k]

😊

[@twichmcvey6065]

why is there do gold flour/dust too?

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Twitch and thanks for watching. In the winter time they plow the streets and then they spread sand on them so they aren’t so slippery. There is fine flower gold in the sand they put down and it gets pushed into the gutter along with the rest.

[@sovereignlivingsoul]

good story

[@utahavalanch]

Thank you and thanks for watching. There are 8 folks now doing urban prospecting around here and getting a pretty nice amount of gold. They never believed there was so much gold around them.

[@danielcarter7657]

I'd be edging and making the whole road perfect lol

[@utahavalanch]

My boy did a number of lawns around the neighborhood, no charge, just being neighborly. Still waiting to see what we get out of that.😁👍

[@danielcarter7657]

@@utahavalanch hell yeah 😎👌

[@MrBigdc111]

Well I know what I'm doing this weekend. I live in Provo and work in Salt Lake. There will be a bucket, dust pan, and broom in the truck all the time now.

[@utahavalanch]

Mvp baller Hi MVP and thanks for watching. Yippers there is a lot of material around us. The gravel topping they put on the roads was either made by crushing quartz rock which has gold in it, or getting pea gravel from the gravel pits which also has gold in it. This gold gets embedded into the streets and in the winter when the plows come along they scrape any loose rocks and gold into the gutters. They also used to put sand on the roads which has gold in it. So look for the sand in the gravel alongside the roads. Especially old roads that are breaking down. You are in a good area to work. Lots of old roads in the south part of Provo with piles of sand and gravel along the edges. Store and restaurant parking lots are good. I get 1/4 gram of gold from village inn parking lot when we go for breakfast. 👍 all the turnoffs on the road up to Sundance ski resort and also the edges of the Bridal Veil falls parking lots are good spots. Cars and trucks bring in gold from out of state stuck to their undersides and it washes off in rain storms and drops off in parking lots. Check freeway rest areas. I use 1 gallon buckets and grab about a half gallon sample to take home. It doesn't take long to pan that out and if no gold, you haven't wasted a lot of time. If there is gold, you can go back for more. Construction piles are made up of crushed quartz rock also and have larger gold in them. Between the top gravel layer and the road base material under the asphalt, we are literally driving on roads of gold. All the big gravel pits have gold in them and they use that material all over the state. There is a lot of tiny gold in the sand so I usually screen it through a 30 mesh screen and pan It carefully. Take lots of samples. Not all will have gold but I find enough that do. Also use a black sand magnet to check the dirt for black sand. Gold and black sand go together. I have a video on a black sand walking stick I use to check piles of sand for black sand. Lots of black sand means there is a good chance of gold and worth grabbing a sample. The walking stick makes it easy to just walk around parking lots and such and check them out without drawing a lot of attention. Give it a try. It takes awhile to learn what to look for and get the hang of just like working a stream, but with the price of gold going up, it's getting to be that small amounts of gold are worth quite a bit.

[@sterlingmerrell5490]

Have you tried it? If so did you find anything. I live in provo also.

[@utahavalanch]

Sterling Merrell Hi Sterling and thanks for watching. Yes, we used to go up American Fork Canyon to camp for a week and prospect the river. Good gold in the river but it's small. The Provo river as well. We would take a trip up over skyline trail and collect road sand along the Sundance stretch. Then we would go into Provo and the towns around it and take samples and try new restaurants. You don't get gold in all of them but enough for us to keep doing it over the years. It takes some practice and sampling to learn where the gold settles but I have been surprised at how much there is.

[@MrBigdc111]

Utahavalanch have you ever sampled Rock Canyon and Slate Canyon?

[@utahavalanch]

@@MrBigdc111 I haven't. I only worked to Provo Canyon and then went further down toward southern Utah. However I talked to an individual several years ago that said he found gold in Slate Canyon. I suspect they both would have gold in them. I do know that the canyon just south of Slate right above springville has good gold in it. I know of a couple that worked the stream in the spring with sluices and got quite a bit of gold. I think it only has water in the spring so I would work it now and take samples. Also all that sand at the mouth of the canyons is a good place to find gold. When Lake Bonneville was here, all the streams dumped into it and when the gravels came in contact with the lake, they were dumped at the mouth. So the beach area that runs from Idaho to Southern Utah was good for gold. Check out my black sand walking stick video. I use that when looking for gold samples. I use it to find the highest concentrations of black sand and then take a sample. If you can find a spot with enough black sand to cover the whole tip of the stick, then take a couple of samples. I usually fill quart size zip lock bags with the samples and try to fill my pack with them. If you can figure some way to mark them, and where you took the sample, and if you find gold in one or more spots, then you can go back for more dirt. The key to this is to take lots of samples and then only work the areas where you find gold.

[@RichardGottshall]

Sweet. can i ask what state your in?

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Richard. Thanks for watching. This is in Northern Utah but I think you will find that many other states have put this crushed quartz coating on the top of their roads and probably have gutter gold as well. Quartz rock is where a lot of gold is found and when they crush it for the roads they also release the gold and it gets embedded as well.

[@danielcarter7657]

With all that chunky gold I hope y'all ran a detector over the bigger stuff that was screened out

[@utahavalanch]

I let the grandson pick what he wanted out of it and then he gave it to me. He likes the big gold and I like the small. So it worked out well for both of us.

[@unoriginalsam3041]

What state are y'all in if you don't mind me asking?

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Sam and thanks for watching. We are in Utah.

[@unoriginalsam3041]

@@utahavalanch Thank you much for your reply! I was just curious.I found this video extremely interesting! I have been finding myself watching gold prospecting videos on KZbin for the last couple of years, something about it really interests me. I have always been a rock hound and collected minerals and gems. I noticed from an early age that many of the rocks found in the gravel in Louisiana driveways contain large amounts of tiny marine fossils ( a lot of the gravel is sourced and sold locally ) and to this day could spend hours just looking through the rocks in my driveway! Lol I really want to try gold panning, but I live in Louisiana. And I have done enough research on Louisiana's precious metals deposits to know gold really just isn't a real option to pan, as the gold I have read is all but microscopic!! Lol Louisiana apparently has large multi pound silver nuggets/boulders though, if in the right area and you know where to look. Thank you for the content, this was really cool to see, and very interesting!

[@utahavalanch]

@@unoriginalsam3041 Well gold panning is a lot of fun. If you want to try it yourself, you can buy a gold pan, cheap, on Ebay and a company I buy from called Goldbay will sell you some gold paydirt. He has a bag called 103% ROI that means what you pay in money you get in gold. He is the only company I know who will give you this kind of return. This will give you a bag of dirt and rocks right from his own mine and he adds the gold to it to make sure you get your moneys worth. Once you get it all panned, you can save the material and dump the gold back in and pan it again another time. I have several of these bags to practice on in the winter time when I can't get out.

[@terrencegildred442]

Which manufacturer is the table or is it diy table?

[@utahavalanch]

Haider Gildred Hi Haider and thanks for watching. It is a Table I designed and built. I have a video out on how to build one if you are interested.

[@terrencegildred442]

Yes sure I’d like to try to build one. Please share the link 😊👍

[@utahavalanch]

@@terrencegildred442 Hi again Haider. Here is a link to my channel with all the DIY projects I have put out. kzbin.infovideos?view_as=subscriber The one for this unit is "How To Build The Deep Well Miller Table". I am currently working on a newer video on how to build that I hope to have out soon.

[@bonsaibeanz]

Is Mason sand good for pulling gold

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Bonsaibeanz. Yes, if you go to the big box stores, they will have several types of sand. The kind you want is Quikrete multipurpose sand or all purpose sand. Not the play sand. It has been processed too much. Lowe’s sometimes carries tube sand or sandbag sand in the fall. It’s like real prospecting, some of the bags will have good gold in them and some won’t. I have had a bag with nearly a gram of gold and then the next 2 with very little. Other Farm or Ranch stores may have different brands of sand you can try. Bulk sand and gravel stores will sell you a 5 gallon bucket or two of sand. If you don’t get much gold out of a bag, try another bag as the pallet of bags gets sold off or wait for a new pallet to come in. Much of the gold is small so learn to pan very fine gold and pan small amounts at a time or if you are sluicing, use a low water flow. I dump a bag of sand into a 5 gallon bucket and bring it in the house and pan a little at a time in the winter. Look around you as you travel for any dirt that has round river rock in it. A lot of construction dirt has river dredge material in it.

[@bonsaibeanz]

@@utahavalanch thanks very good knowledge I'm more of a home prospector though I have sample construction materials and pull some flour gold 😀

[@utahavalanch]

@@bonsaibeanz yea, I’m getting that way myself now days. 😝 I used to take 3 - 4 trips a year to sluice a river for a week. Now I mostly do Urban prospecting and get way more gold. 80% of the worlds gold is flower gold and if you learn how to collect it, it adds up fairly quickly. I don’t even bother with any dirt larger than 30 mesh any more.

[@Rockhounding-with-Bigfoot]

That's crazy

[@utahavalanch]

Finding Treasure in Colorado Yippers, that has been my most used phrase this past year. We're up to almost 3/4 oz of gold and still saying it. It's crazy how many tons of gold are imbedded in our road system. It's like this in Colorado as well so you may want to check it out. 👍

[@Rockhounding-with-Bigfoot]

Indeed! I think I will even do a video on just this, and what I find in our areas here

[@utahavalanch]

Finding Treasure in Colorado I would be very interested in what you find. We have found gutter gold all over Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and California. Look for older deteriorating gravel coated roads. Gold is found in quartz rock and that is what they crush for the road topping. The gold that is in the crushed quartz gets embedded in the road and as the road wears down the gold gets knocked loose and washed to the edge of the roadway when it rains. We take many small quart samples to find the best areas to work. When you get a sample with gold then return for more dirt. This is also why we use the small sluices as we mostly work with small quantities and extract every bit of gold. Best of luck.

[@danielcarter7657]

Better get every little spec of gold out of that bed lol

[@utahavalanch]

Instead of dumping the truckload of trimmings, he ended up dumping them in the backyard and now after a couple of summers there is just nice sand. He is still pulling gold out of it. Yep 3/4 of a ton of it.

[@danielcarter7657]

@@utahavalanch that's the investment dirt lol

[@jpxqz4190]

Could you find it in Australia

[@utahavalanch]

sean goldthorpe I would think that it's very possible as you have a lot more Gold than we do. I would get a gold pan and take samples from as many areas as you can and pan them out. I think you would be surprised at how much gold is around you. Thanks for watching.

[@bonsaibeanz]

Wonder if this is possible in Washington state

[@utahavalanch]

It is entirely possible as you have some of the same roads up there we have here with a gravel top coat. Also the Columbia River has a lot of fine gold in it and if they dredge sand out of it to use for construction fill and other things you can get gold from that dirt. The thing to do is to take samples of dirt from the gutters, side of roads, dirt piles that have smooth river rocks in them. The gold will be quite small so pan carefully.

[@bonsaibeanz]

@@utahavalanch thanks 😊 can't wait to give it a go . I used to pan out in Jamestown California with my dad so I was looking for something different close to home now . Have a good day.

[@utahavalanch]

Well, since my grandson got me going on Urban Prospecting, I spend very little time on the streams anymore. If you look around you as you travel through town and the countryside, you will see piles of dirt everywhere. Take samples of them and pan them out. You may be quite surprised at how many places you will find gold.

[@bonsaibeanz]

@@utahavalanch I will give it a try for sure. For sure though it will be fun.

[@X02switchblades]

is it gold from someone's tailings? How on earth is gold in the streets?

[@utahavalanch]

Hi XplaneZ and thanks for watching. Nope no tailings. It’s from the road. The top of the road is made up of crushed rock or pea gravel that is embedded in the asphalt. There is gold in the gravel and it gets embedded into the road topping. In the winter, the thawing and freezing loosens some of the rocks and gold and the snow plows breaks them loose and pushes them into the gutter. They also spread sand on the roads for traction and that also has gold in it. This all gets pushed into the gutters and we just sweep it up and process it. There is also gold in the dirt under the road. We had 2 water lines break in the road above me and the water washed the dirt down in front of my house. I got some nice gold out of that as well. You’d be surprised at how much gold is around us in places you would never think it would be.

[@kevinerickson2595]

Wow

[@utahavalanch]

Thanks for watching Kevin.

[@elaineetheridge2262]

Has anyone heard of trying this and finding gold in the roads of California?

[@utahavalanch]

Elaine Etheridge Hi Elaine and thanks for watching. I have heard rumors of it. California would be a good place as it is in gold Country and I would think the chances would be very good. I would like to hear from anyone who checks it out.

[@cptcosmo]

Someone buy the kid a bucket of Felix's Paydirt?

[@inmyopinion651]

Heck even in non gold states might be some dirt brought in from a place there is gold.

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Democrats and thanks for watching. You are right, there is no telling where the road topping came from. I live in the most "No Gold" area of my state and I'm finding gold in the street and road gravel. I find that the street coatings either come from river gravel or crushed quartz. There is a high probability that the river gravel came from a gold bearing river and the quartz is crushed from a gold bearing seam. Even if there isn't any large gold in an urban sample, I'm always finding gold in the minus 30 material so it pays to be able to carefully pan/work the very fine material. In the winter here, they put sand on the streets and highways which has gold in it and in the spring that sand and the gravel that gets torn out of the road surface from the snow plows along with the gold gets washed into the gutters. Yea, I'll admit it's not big time prospecting but I can't get out to work a claim any longer and the 3/4 oz of gold we've gotten from this is enough to keep the grandson and I happy. The grandson gets all the gold to put towards a future college ed, car or what not.

[@hombreexplor7822]

muinto bom

[@utahavalanch]

Thank you and many thanks for watching.

[@GWPvR]

Send me over this boy please, he's a natural! (y)

[@utahavalanch]

K-Town Prospector Hi K-Town. Thanks for stopping by. You are right there! He sure beat me out all summer long. Good thing he didn't have me showing him how to do it.😝 He collected about 1/2 an ounce mining the gutters compared to my 3 or 4 grams. LOL.

[@GWPvR]

@@utahavalanch Must be like heaven for miners in utah when there's gold even in the gutters. 😁 Some of them were nice pickers, not like that superfine flowerstuff that's common over here in germany. I'm realy enjoying your videos m8, keep doing them please. 🤠

[@utahavalanch]

K-Town Prospector Years back, they used to crush quartz rock to about 1/4" to use as a topping on the roads to make them wear longer. There is gold in the quartz and so it gets embedded in the road as well. In the winter snow plows plow the roads and tear a little of the rock off and it gets washed into the gutters for enterprising young prospectors to show up their grandpas. 😄 I have a bunch more projects I'm working on I hope will be of interest and trying to get videos made as well so stay tuned.

[@utahavalanch]

I was stationed near K-town back in the 60's in a little town called Pirmasens. I'll bet it's really changed since then. I don't know if the base is still there or not.

[@GWPvR]

@@utahavalanch Oh cool!!!! Yeah it's gotten way bigger since then. I don't know Pirmasens so well as it is about 76 Miles away from my home. But I have a friend there. In my case the "K" stands for "Kirschhausen" which is a small town indeed. 😅 We even have some gold in a creek nearby but it's ridiculously little in both amount and size compared to that what you can find in the U.S. So, much more effort for the pay off. 😓 Your grandson finds gold literally in road dirt. That's just hilarious! I like this video so much!!!🤠

[@135sin]

Would I find any in Centerville?

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Prince and thanks for watching. I’m sure you can as your roads are topped with the same material as ours. Also, check at the mouths of any canyons and take test samples of that sand. Gold has come down many of them over the many centuries and when Lake Bonneville was here that gold was deposited at the points where the streams came in contact with the lake. The key here is to take lots of samples and pan them down. I usually take a 1/2 or 1 gallon sample and pan it down. If there is gold then I go back for more.

[@135sin]

@@utahavalanch thank you so much for the advise.

[@utahavalanch]

@@135sin you are welcome. Give it a try and see what you come up with.👍

[@goldprounlimited1750]

Guess where I'm going??

[@johnnytoy5487]

IT'S TIME TO GO GUTTER DIVING 👍

[@utahavalanch]

Yippers, it’s going to be a good year. We had several weeks of single digit temps at night and then warmed up into the 30’s or 40’s during the day. That will break loose a lot of gravel and gold. Lots of snow and the snow plows have been busy. Lots of black snow in the gutters.👍

[@bobbyhoward8568]

Lol

[@tomharrell1954]

Well dam. He beat me! And not by just a little bit either, BY A WHOLE LOT!!! Are going to dig up his yard?

[@utahavalanch]

Yippers, he beat me as well by about a quarter of an ounce. LOL. He lives on a very good street that has a lot of gold embedded in it. When the snow plows come by in the winter, they tear up the road a bit and tear out some of the embedded gold and then the spring snow melt washes it into the gutter. We are finding this is quite common in other states as well that have a rock coating on the roads. There is gold in the source they get the rock from and it gets embedded into the asphalt on the street.

[@mossy3552]

Think I'd be digging a cellar

[@utahavalanch]

daniel moss My neighbor and myself have found gold in our backyards as well so we just may be digging a swimming pool next summer :-). Thanks for watching

[@johnp8727]

what state is this in

[@utahavalanch]

Hi John. Thanks for watching. This is in Utah.

[@johnp8727]

Hey Utah thanks for getting back so soon I live in NJ and have 0 chance at finding gold here. Wuld your grand son or yourself be interested in supplying my club with true unsearched pay dirt. We are looking for someone to supply us with gold bearing dirt absolutely unsearched . We have a club and we love prospecting but have little opportunity here We had no good luck with online companies and lost our private guy in Georgia due to illness.. We want no guarantees other than you will send us the best dirt you can and it be unsearched. He would make sure no big rocks were sent just average size dirt. He would set his high banker make sure he was on gold then just fill buckets not run thru highbanker. We usually paid a buck a pound but would take all he could get. He did'nt have to process it and made prifit for sure as you know you can fill 5 bucks in little time and that can be 150 to 200 pounds. We actually made money and he did to. Don't want big company mbut your grandson might be interested if not thanks anyway if so let me know ill send my info to talk. Thanks John

[@johnp8727]

sorry about spellinjg I sent unchecked and rushed it

[@utahavalanch]

Hi John, If I had a good source of gold, I would be happy to take you up on your offer but unfortunately I live in an area of my state that has the least amount of gold and so any dirt I could supply you with would have very minimal if any gold in it. The closest river I can work is a 1 1/2 hour drive and the gold is -50 and smaller. I can no longer drive so I don’t get there very often. The roads in western states have a quartz rock pea gravel topping on them. They quartz rock they crush has gold in it and it gets imbedded into the asphalt of the road. When the road wears down the pea gravel and gold is broken loose and then gets washed into the gutters. This is the gold we are collecting here. It is pretty much hit and miss and we are only working a half gallon of dirt at a time so there wouldn’t be a very big volume to send you I’m afraid and I couldn’t guarantee that there would be any gold in it at all. So I’m sorry but I’m afraid I would be a bad source for your group.

[@johnp8727]

thank you for info God Bless love your vids

[@OfficiallyRetired]

I wonder if my street have any gold 😂

[@utahavalanch]

Hi ohsuperballbest and thanks for watching. The best way to tell is to collect some dirt from the gutters and street cracks and see. If your streets have a pea gravel topping on them then the chances are good. This gravel came from streams that could be gold bearing. Also out of state cars and trucks get dirt with gold splashed up on the undersides and if the drive through your streets in a rainstorm, that gold could get washed off and collected in the gutters.

[@OfficiallyRetired]

@@utahavalanch thank you for the tips, the thing about where I live is in south cali far away from any river or mountain, do you think the gold can still wash off to my road? I don’t think there’s any gravel in the road side, or I might be wrong, it is full of dirt and Little Rocks

[@utahavalanch]

You are in one of the best areas of the country for gold. There is gold all around you. Very little gold is found in streams. Most of it is found by sampling the ground in different areas around you. Get a cheap gold pan and then look for dirt that has smooth river worn rocks in it. Take samples of dirt on the side of highways and dirt roads. They put a roadbase down under the roads that has gold in it. I have a couple of videos on making black sand magnets and a walking stick magnet. I use these to test all the dirt I come across to see if there is a lot of black sand in it. If so then I take a quart ziploc bag sample of it home and pan it out. If there is gold then I go back for another sample. Lots of gold all over Cali and you’ll find it everywhere.

[@OfficiallyRetired]

@@utahavalanch thanks for the tip, you just earned another subscriber! I will go try it out!

[@utahavalanch]

Yippers, just get a gold pan and watch some videos and learn how to pan and give it a try. You may be surprised at what you find. 👍

[@DavidJohnson-bl9yy]

Gold is where God puts it.

[@utahavalanch]

David Johnson Yippers, you're right on that. 👍 I'm in a "No Gold" state and in the worst part of it but I collect about 1/2 oz a year just from the dirt I find driving around. 😄

[@soaponarope8995]

Gallon of pay dirt maybe

[@utahavalanch]

soap on a rope Hi and thanks for watching. Nope, no pay dirt whatsoever. This is a collection of shots taken as it happened. He found every bit of this in the gravel taken from at least 3 different gutters. One pile in front of my own house.😄 The topping for the road is crushed quartz rock that has gold in it. They imbed it into the top of the asphalt to make the roads last longer. When the plows come by in the winter, they scrape off any loose rocks and push them into the gutter. Then they put down sand that also has gold in it for traction and that also gets washed into the gutter. We just had a big snow and the gutters got a nice collection of new gravel.

[@soaponarope8995]

@@utahavalanch that's the craziest thing I've heard yet lol I'm working too hard

[@winnettryan4566]

I do t know but I don’t see it bro 😊😊😊

[@codyskillz-boxing]

Is this for real?

[@utahavalanch]

Hi Cody and thanks for watching. Yippers, I can assure you that this is true. My grandson used to come to the house on weekends to pan or sluice my buckets of dirt I’d bring home from the river. I ran out one weekend and he said he had some he wanted to run. What you see here is that dirt. I was very surprised and grabbed a camera to record it. When he finished he told me he got it out of the gutter. I didn’t believe him and so he collected some from my gutter and from across the street and ran it. Some of this footage is from that dirt as well. I know of at least 3 other people who do Urban Prospecting in the state and get about 1 oz of gold a year. Here all construction and road dirt has to be mixed to the right proportions of rock sand and dirt. That and the rock topping on some older roads comes from crushed quartz rock which contains gold. As the roads break down, the gold and gravel gets washed to the side when it rains. You would be surprised at how much gold is in the dirt around you.

[@codyskillz-boxing]

Do you think this would work in Newport News VA?? Or on the streets near mineral VA

[@utahavalanch]

@@codyskillz-boxing I think there is a very good chance it would. You can buy a cheap gold pan on Ebay and a kitchen strainer from Walmart to screen out the big rocks and give it a try. We take small quart size samples of dirt from any sources we run across and pan them out. If there is gold then we go back for more. Check any piles of dirt, dirt around drains in parking lots or along side roads, small piles wind blows up against buildings.etc. Gold is all around us. Just keep checking everything.