This is the No.1 Mistake Gold Prospectors Make | 4 Places You Should Pan For Gold

This is the No 1 Mistake Gold Prospectors Make | 4 Places You Should Pan For Gold
Don’t waste your time in the wrong places! In this video, I’ll reveal the top 3 spots where you’re least likely to find gold, and why these areas often trip up new prospectors. Avoid the No. 1 mistake that countless gold seekers make and increase your chances of striking it rich by focusing on the right locations. Learn where not to dig, and save yourself time and effort on your next gold hunting adventure.
🔶 What You’ll Learn in This Video:
The top 3 areas to avoid when prospecting for gold
Common mistakes made by new gold hunters
Tips on identifying more promising locations
🔶 Why This Matters: Understanding where not to prospect is just as important as knowing where to dig. By avoiding these common traps, you’ll improve your chances of finding gold and make your prospecting efforts more efficient and rewarding.
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[@johnturner5031]

Some say vogus doesn't know what he's talking about but I know those people are just mad he is giving up secrets. I learned everything I know from vogus prospecting and watched every one of his videos. Now I frequent the creek and have found lots of gold, sapphires, jasper, zircons and topaz.i got inspiration from him to make my own gear like franken banker and much more. Thanks Chris for sticking to your guns. You are a great teacher.

[@VoGusProspecting]

@johnturner5031 anyone who says I don't know what I'm talking about doesn't have the gold as proof so 👍

[@oldbonesbushcraftrodjackso474]

Chris is definitely one of the best. people living in the concrete jungles are plain strupid They don,t know shit about life

[@johnturner5031]

@@VoGusProspecting I've met a couple on the creek say it but I see the type of person they are and how they carry themselves and know it's bc they don't like how you teach people and how you have made your dreams come true and they can't

[@weekendwarriorprospecting817]

I'm VoGus educated. Graduate of the VUP VoGus university of Prospecting ❤👍🏻⚒️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@michellesgarden5695]

​@johnturner5031 when you choose to use videos or even hands on lessons you take what you find works for you and use it and discard what doesn't...people who don't know that rule have a lot to learn about life itself before watching Chris' videos. I'm a beginner and I like watching his vids

[@happydazep]

Mate I’ve watched your videos 4 years and this one is awesome, you have so much knowledge and thank you 4 sharing it 🙏

[@Eski1100]

At the 10 second mark, I know the comment was for me and every Canadian following you! Thank you!! Love your work!! I can't imagine how sore you are after a day out on a creek. Wishing you dozens of kilos of gold in your future!!

[@VoGusProspecting]

Not sore at all actually. Either I'm numb or used to it.

[@knightnight42069]

just bc you buy a go pro, dosent mean you can make great videos, but your good at it, thanks for the content. your on your way to 1 million subs

[@barry7608]

Thanks I'm 74 and 'past it' but I would love to get out panning creeks again. I know it's hard work but if you love being outside and the bush as I do the fun is in the chase. I detected in WA and came up with 3 nuggets, 7, 5 and 3g each and was totally stoked especially the bigger one as I was sure it was another bullet but straight into the mouth and gold it was !! Thanks love your style, and to a mug like me great tips. Done a fair bit of panning around Sophala and often came up with specks. It's funny because as your doing the last swirls I found myself getting closer to the screen!! Take care.

[@KarlStein-mc3dg]

We have just started on our addiction with the lovely yellow and most of what I have learned has come from this channel.All I can say is Vo-Gus is a legend in my opinion.

[@martindavis-z3f]

I'm VERY NEW to prospecting this helped me tremendously thank you

[@brucemoores366]

5:18 perfect southern cross in gold. Another great video thank you.

[@brucemoores366]

5:04 sorry

[@ryanadams3858]

That’s exactly what I thought 😉👍

[@VoGusProspecting]

Huh, neat.

[@asjamuir5534]

Another finely tuned vogus upload to help understand your river better

[@SSB-im9mn]

You are extremely good at explaining things. Most eloquent indeed! Not bad filming either! 😃👍👍

[@jkohler607]

best description of how inside bends work, I ever heard.

[@LanaLaughsRealLoud]

I can't say this about any of the people from other countries who are watching and not hitting the like button, but where I'm from, I'd say there can be only two reasons, the people in America, which is where I'm from, either have attention deficit disorder (ADD) and at this time are all out of their ADD meds and lost focus, or, they're older viewer's and have an extremely short term memory, and they either lose focus before hitting the like button that they had good intentions of hitting but just forgot to hit like before moving on to another video, because every single one of Chris' videos should have as many likes as there are views, and his videos should also be recommended by the algorithm a lot more than any other gold prospecting content creators on KZbin. ❤

[@scotttousey227]

Actually youtube hides alot of comments and thumbs up its not people watching its the sencorers

[@mocaman99]

I thought dodging those heavy adult responsibilities was the whole reason for going to the creek? Cheers for the vid Chris :)

[@richardvaradi683]

Great video,,learning more each time

[@carlwalton8910]

Great tutorial. Keep up the great work.

[@jeffreyelliott622]

I quit trying to figure out all the hiding places for gold because GOLD is where you find it and it's everywhere for it's in places where you never thought it would be mate !!! Virginia , USA prospector here !!

[@hungryprospectors9260]

Brilliant instructional video!! 👍You covered the greatest areas of interest in placer gold mining and did it with your usual great sense of humor. Absolutely loved it, VERY well done! Thanks Chris for putting in the time to create videos like this, there’s no doubt in my mind…you’re the greatest of your kind out there on KZbin. You’re the GOAT! 😉👊

[@dustin1-1-1]

Your epic and awesome! I Always enjoy your videos! They bring me great joy! Thankyou for being you! :)

[@VoGusProspecting]

Glad you like them!

[@stevenpackman4570]

Thanks Chris, yet another quality video explaining as you go ! The world has been blessed in the past with .. Plato, Socrates !, now we have a Chris the Gold God ! 😂😂 Bless you dude, stay Gold 👏👏👏👏

[@VoGusProspecting]

Haha, very flattering

[@stevenpackman4570]

​@VoGusProspecting Your an inspiration dude, I've just posted my first Yt video, MDi ,talks about your great products among others 👍

[@laurencedicker2773]

Thanks Chris

[@norandois]

The funny thing, everytime i give up gold prospecting, a video of you appears and convinced me to go back panning again 😄

[@9sei72]

Have you gained anything? I am ready to enter this game. It looks interesting.

[@gabivalla6279]

Quite some erosion going on in the stormy weather currently, Chris. Liking this lesson on the creek, succinct!

[@chambochambers8906]

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC INFO AS ALWAYS BRO 💯👍👏

[@VoGusProspecting]

Much appreciated

[@MichaelRowe-f3r]

Chris thank you for all your advice and lessons, I've followed you for quite a while now and with what I've learned of you and your channel I've found gold in UK quite a few times,and in places I normally wouldn't have looked.so cheers Chris 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@JohnWilson-cs7iq]

Probably doesn't help that you were the one thousandth person to have dug in those spots but it does prove the principles of what you were on about & those spots were re gathering flood gold. Good stuff. :)

[@joshuajackson6442]

Thank you, Chris

[@VoGusProspecting]

My pleasure!

[@DavidJohnson-nz1wf]

Thanks!

[@scruggsbuster9458]

Oh come on people he has over 800 views and only 155 thumbs up he's teaching you how to find gold and where to look I've listened to him before and I found gold😂

[@oldbonesbushcraftrodjackso474]

It has been along time since i took on a gold journey Chris has guided me into the new world of prospecting . I love, Prospecting . Me my gear and my 12 guage magnum slugs . Up in northern Canada we need bear protection always did like micro mining Chris THANK YOU .

[@asjamuir5534]

Most videos get a ton of views to likes it's the yt way the comments likes and interactions all play into the algorithm

[@Lisa_Simpson421]

Be a man and hit the thumbs up button 👍 😅

[@brocojack]

bro, you are assuming that yourube is honest. thats a bit of a stretch.....

[@brocojack]

​@@oldbonesbushcraftrodjackso474 what part of canada? im in eastern washington...

[@Dood-man]

Thanks dude! Mucho appreciato

[@zacharymccloy]

Thank you so very much for all of the wonderful information you provide on your channel

[@Ev3ntHorizon]

Chris, these are hugely entertaining videos. Great work. I feel like I'm learning a lot.

[@TonkaToy-pv5kn]

One of your best videos. Great stuff.

[@PaulDunen]

Thanks chris easy and understandable teaching, Thankyou.

[@tinytree100]

Thanks for some excellent advice. Keep putting out these great videos!!

[@VoGusProspecting]

Thanks, will do!

[@NovoGold]

Dare or a Whiskey on me Chris... thanks for the pointers in this episode. Appreciate your knowledge Cheers 🍻

[@juju-xx5xn]

Great video Chris! I think I'm soon ready to go out and start panning some local creeks. Going to take my 12 year old grandson along, I think he will like the adventure!

[@shawnkamla7890]

Chris ! Love your videos. Can you do a video somewhere where their might be less gold and show us how to find gold. I live in california and some places have lots of flower gold. It's not as abmount. Where you live seems like a easier or ideal place to find more gold. Keep up the hard work looking forward to next video

[@HastingsMtalimanja]

Great big brother ,I will try today

[@dailyallowance3826]

1. Inside bend you gotta get rite into it with a hoover type device your shovel is very crude extraction tool especially with solid rocks and bed imo

[@davidamos8192]

Chris, I use the fine riffles of the pan to separate the black sand from the blonds. Tilt the pan whilst gently shaking side to side and the friction of the fine riffles holds the black sand. Oh and the gold. Makes the concentrated more manageable with just the black sand and only takes a few seconds to do.

[@VoGusProspecting]

It's a long story and I somewhat agree with you. But side to side motions over the rifles opens you to loss. I'll make a video on it.

[@davidamos8192]

Cheers for the reply. Looking forward to thi vid. For me it works well for the reedy creek black sands.

[@TheSilmarillian]

Nice indeed hello from NSW remote rural AU. Opal miner here never got the gold fever know a few people even here that take three months off each year in summer to chase gold.

[@kacicowan9794]

Informative & entertaining 🙌

[@michealklonowski5267]

nice job of this thank you for sharing the adventure and information

[@allanfahrenhorst-jones6118]

Excellent video. I'm 70 years old and your channel is good. 👍❤️😇. Doing great mate.

[@TheCoffeeBushKid]

Great explanation as usual. Might increase the count for me next time out. Take care mate 😁👍

[@VoGusProspecting]

That's always the hope bro

[@frankbritt6166]

Thanks for the tips

[@tommynoel9929]

Thanks Chris!

[@andypandyAU.6669]

Thank you for you continued education . Cheers Andy PPA

[@polymathperspective]

Panning maybe involved in the crushing process, but it is called a prospectors pan for a reason. Panning isn’t actually mining, it’s meant to be used to find an area where gold is then follow the gold to the vein. Collecting dust is not really mining at all. It’s just a stepping stone to finding the lode

[@billy-joebirch5152]

Hey Chris, first of all mate I've been watching your vids for years now pretty much since you started I think and you were the first channel I ever subscribed to. I'm not really sure how to reach out to you so I'm just commenting here. I have a really big project on the go at the moment and I think we can mutually benefit from it. You probably hear that a lot but it's all very professional and legitimate and I can prove that to you. It involves a successful software development company here in Australia so you can check it all out yourself. And if your interested in chatting about it, I think it could add a couple of zeros to your subscriber numbers. Cheers legend. Oh and thanks for getting me into prospecting all those years ago. Best hobby I ever took up.

[@peterfarmer9976]

Thanks for your tips mate. You've inspired me. Got a cheap sluice kit "Vevor" 50", just for fun! Can u suggest a detector that is effective for around 3-4 grand? Or not worth buying at this price point?

[@Aaron_Hanson]

SDC2300

[@VoGusProspecting]

At that price point you have a lot of options for gold detectors. The SDC2300. A second hand gpx4500 or 5000. The garret axiom. The new nokta PI machine is ment to.be really good

[@peterfarmer9976]

Thanks Chris. I'll start small and I promise ill test pan!@VoGusProspecting

[@LaurieSchmid-y6z]

What do you think about using a metal detector pro pointers

[@RonaldBridge]

Love your tips very educational

[@VoGusProspecting]

Glad you like them!

[@peterspurway-smith8597]

Got me thinking vid or two ago about washing detergent allowing gold to drop easier, next mass flood iam going top with heaps of washing detergent, turn the creek to massive bubble slide

[@peterspurway-smith8597]

And bought off eBay thousands of ball bearings 😅

[@9sei72]

[@lastanetaarion]

Man, I wish this kind of weather. Over here in Poland it's 32 degrees in shade. During summer I take a break, because my multiple sclerosis doesn't like heat 😵‍💫...

[@Lisa_Simpson421]

I was just dancing to the salsa music in the video. I had to stop when you said giant spoon

[@jonathancardy9941]

Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't a big part of it finding somewhere that hasn't already been cleaned out? I appreciate the erosion helps there, providing the erosion isn't of stuff left behind by a previous generation of panners.

[@AndrewAtkins-b2g]

Have you tried using a normal gold pan like a bataya pan? Does it work?

[@LaurieSchmid-y6z]

I have been panning in a river where I have been finding all that stuff but not finding any gold so do you have any suggestions for me because I’ve heard that people have found gold in it

[@48thstateprospecting]

Actually surprised you found any gold in those first areas that creek In flood has to get stripped clear to bedrock lol us as the flood waters recede velocity will drop a little and deposit small amounts very rarely do I see you or gadzee hitting higher banks away from the water your usually in the creek itself but there are great deposits in higher banks can you do a video on that? 😬 may take you a while to find a decent deposit as your not used to looking up there, the easiest way is the trenching method just look for the heavy tin streaks in the trench they will usually be not as compact as the surrounding dirt. Because once all the creek deposits are mined you might as well right? Great informative video thanks for sharing see you on the next one👍🏼👊🏼

[@harryisherwood3653]

Killer education. Thank you

[@duosacrifice7543]

Great teacher

[@AussieSwagAdventures]

1130 s7nday night n im just getting on my phone lol not for anyth8ng other than my sunday vid drops lol cheers ledgend another great vid. Now off to see what Gadzee posted today lol you guys rock

[@ShawnWOutdoors]

1:49 that sound is telling you its time to strap of a snorkel and snipe that spot

[@Garde538]

Soooo at the end of the creek all the HV gold will be?

[@henrybell8478]

funnier one and more info . liked this on more, but hey i like em all.

[@allanmckone8853]

#1 is where in the creek to dig, but first there needs to he gold-bearing soil above it.

[@johnwoods1247]

So Chris , thought you were planning a smelting video of this when the 100 bucket challenge was over. Are you still planning one? or has that changed. I'm really curious of the actual total weight after all the impurities are removed.

[@johnwoods1247]

that was a ridiculously wicked wiegh in at the end .MADD RESULT

[@VoGusProspecting]

I never planned on a smelt. I did say I may use mercury but because of legal reasons I chose not to.

[@aggressivegold7330]

Bro you always teach really well and in 98% cases you are correct but bro you should mod your comment on the black sands size etc because it' might be like that down there and it is 100% but up in nsw it's not always that way more is it down there it comes down to erosion and minerals and velocity ww have areas up here that the high-flown pushes the larger iron stone up higher iv pulled pickas out of mega fine black sands on the bends it can vary because of the width of that bend and it can change if it has a straight befor and after it then stuff won't settle but lol you know this I take it you got more bids coming ay bro p.s last part of vid was sick legend but lol up here and down there we can't under cut those banks no more some of my best alluvial been on edges that were eroded under neath and had lovely juicy false floors and that's another thing on the edges with bedrock there's a lot more decay I'll leave you to explain decomposition brother tag your it 😂😂😂😂. Love ya work as always. Coming diwnfir my bday in October legend hope to catch up with you all whilst I'm down there. Peace bro hope your having a good season so far

[@sarahhomer9992]

Hilarious! Love this channel!

[@emilmanyarski536]

Teach them students Chris! 😊

[@James-fi6rv]

Chris, do you have Telluride in your area? It's a b¡+ch trying to separate gold, silver & bismuth, & sometimes in the field to recognize platinoids from them

[@alextravine9422]

Let me know if you visit Colorado. I live in mountains and have cool things to find

[@Khusringoldminers]

Amazing

[@martinmoessmer9527]

Moist, lovin' it. I say it to mi mates just before I hang up, been doin' it for 25yrs. Onya Chris.

[@toddrodgers5108]

Good morning sir.

[@weekendwarriorprospecting817]

Erosion: mans best friend ❤

[@PamelaJohnsonthefairy]

Amen!

[@PeterAcrat]

Maaaate! 👍🍻

[@GAMBLERS_EXPRESS]

Did you have any problem getting your permit/ license for prospecting.

[@peterfarmer9976]

Sweet. So I guess it's minelab, minelab or minelab. Lol. Perhaps I'll ty their 1200 version.

[@PowRKord]

^5!

[@robosock380]

I've always wanted to open a restaurant and call it The Moist Oyster. Probably just serve fish and chips though, I'm no chef.

[@TalRohan]

A mate I had in my Teens had a band called the Humid Oysters, they were a punk band oddly enough....somewhat of a dodgy subject to discuss though.

[@robosock380]

@@TalRohan I really like that name, gave me a good chuckle mate.

[@josephknowlton7246]

Liked, shared and commented 🗽🍻🤴🏻 12:33

[@kensanity178]

Well the title said number one mistake. Ive found a little gold in my time, the biggest mistake is believing that a panfull of gravel off the top is an indicator of the presence of gold. A panful off the bedrock, 3 ft down is a much better indicator.

[@MickH60]

Just for the record, I like MOIST....!!!!!

[@johnbaker1256]

depends where

[@amazonian4789]

🎉🎉

[@EMFMiner]

give Fern a scratch behind the ears

[@LanaLaughsRealLoud]

You forget Gadzee, he also deserves to have the backside of his big ol' scraggly ears scratched too. ❤😅

[@phatphat7089]

And before all that you need a supernova to create it!😂

[@anarky9591]

Your back must be made of steel panning like that all day haha

[@VoGusProspecting]

It is

[@Snipedforlife]

👍

[@1JimmyTheOne1]

“Moist” is hands down, A great word.

[@patrickreges9856]

you got a sub with meat scoops 😂

[@dshogan6174]

It’s SULTRY dam it!

[@alanbithell4587]

Moist is one of my favourite fictional characters, Moist von Lipwig. From the genius mind of Sir Terry Pratchett. Find him in “Going Postal”, you will not regret it.

[@mezame1626]

I fink i saw a gwanet 😅

[@samuelallen9206]

❤

[@Nnsk470]

Yaaaaaaay

[@insidebendprospecting]

Inside bend! Inside bend!!

[@WildernessMedic]

PHALLUS

[@dogit1840]

💥💥🐿️

[@FISHUNTREECOUNTRY]

"Big Cereal Bowl"