The Klondike Gold Rush tells the legendary story of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush. Over 100,000 people voyage to the far North intent on reaching the Canadian boom-town Dawson City and striking it rich.
Historians and authors bring insight and perspective to the event that changed the lives of thousands. Present-day characters reveal that the frontier spirit is still alive in the Klondike. (more…)
Turning gold jewelry small 24K pure gold bars.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Gold is resistant to most acids, though it does dissolve in aqua regia (a mixture of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid), which forms a soluble tetrachloroaurate anion. Gold is insoluble in nitric acid, which dissolves silver and base metals, a property that has long been used to refine gold and to confirm the presence of gold in metallic substances, giving rise to the term acid test. Gold also dissolves in alkaline solutions of cyanide, which are used in mining and electroplating. Gold dissolves in mercury, forming amalgam alloys, and as the gold acts simply as a solute this is not a chemical reaction. (more…)
Victoria Diggers strike gold by finding a huge gold nugget worth approximately $30k.
They are using a Minelab metal detector. (more…)
In this video, we are on a private gold claim just north of the city of Yuma Arizona. Besides using some of the world’s best gold detectors, the gold prospectors are also using drywashers, gold trommels and recirculating sluices.
Gold nuggets were found with the detectors, a good-sized picker was found sluicing and lots of fine gold was found drywashing. (more…)
CWU’s Nick Zentner presents ‘Liberty Gold Mine Geology’ – the 12th talk in his ongoing . Recorded at Hal Holmes Center on March 11, 2015 in Ellensburg, Washington, USA.
New to gold metal detecting? If so, this tip might help you find those small gold nuggets.
This is about a little tool that I created to actually hear what a gold nugget would sound like out in the goldfield where your detecting. (more…)
Native Silver Discovery Globe Arizona
The 417 Project lies 10 km due north of the copper mining town of Globe, Arizona, and 112 km east of Phoenix, Arizona. The “417” consists of 100 unpatented lode claims covering an area where an extraordinary amount of alluvial native silver was found by metal detectorists over the last two years.
Metal detecting ultra rare native silver placer nuggets!
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Working in the Monsoon Summer season in a dry wash bottom.
We are hand placering the wash using digging tools, rakes and metal detectors/pinpointers to recover the gold. Here in this video we recovered two massive gold nuggets, one was 2.2 ounces and the other was right at 1 ounce. (more…)
Nugget patches like the one found in this video, are exciting to find: almost every target under her metal detector is gold.! There are even two nuggets in the same hole, twice!
For your average weekend prospector in the United State, when out gold metal detecting, finding even one nugget during the day is cause for celebration! But, on those very, very rare occasions, sometimes the gold prospector is extremely lucky and fines a number of nuggets in a relatively small area. This is called finding a patch! (more…)
So, how will the spot price of gold do next year? Gold price in 2022? Will gold’s price go up? Will spot gold go down? Let’s see one gold investors educated guesses.
The creator of this video buys gold and other assets on a dollar cost average schedule and then buys more as price and interest allow. His primary focus is about buying gold coins. He does talk a little about cryptocurrency, mining stocks and other equities as well. (more…)
Local government unit of the area failed tremendously since time immemorial due to bribes at the expense of poor miners who risks their lives everyday. Thank you DW documentary for exposing this illegal activity to a greater level. In the Philippines it is ignored all these years.
In the mines of Paracale, workers search for gold using the world’s most dangerous methods. Diving into flooded underground caves, they constantly risk their lives.
The business is illegal. But for many, it is the only way they can earn money. In the past, the mineral trade flourished in the small Philippine coastal town of Paracale. (more…)
Finding gold prospecting tool. This Keene 140s is a medium sized drywasher that can easily keep two gold prospectors busy and recover the smallest gold.
The Keene 140s drywasher is one of the most popular gold drywashers! It’s not a new machine, it’s actually been out a number of years, and during that time has developed a large loyal following from gold prospectors in the Southwest. Yes, water gold recovery methods are much more effective, but when you have no water available, like in the deserts of Southern California, Arizona and New Mexico, the gold drywasher is the number one gold classification/recovery method. (more…)
Finding a large gold nugget like this is every Prospectors dream!
What are the chances of finding a huge gold nugget? Personally, the chances are probably similar to going to Vegas and hitting the jackpot on one of those dollar slot machines! With that said, those jackpots are hit occasionally, and if you want to hit the jackpot by finding a large gold nugget, you have to get out there in the field and invest the time and energy that’s necessary. (more…)
Around 4.5 ounces Arizona gold nugget found by newbie to metal detecting!
We’ve all seen them, gold nugget recovery videos that undoubtedly are staged. (more…)
Weekend Arizona gold prospecting in the Wickenburg AZ area.
Weekend gold prospecting is a great Hobby if you like the outdoors. There are many ways to prospect for gold from metal detecting and dry washing as shown in the video here, to sluicing, high-banking, crevicing, panning and dredging.
So, depending on your preferences and where you live, there are a number of ways to prospect for gold. But, keep in mind, the number one rules for finding gold, is to go where it was found before.
Arizona Gold Prospecting – Vulture Mine Road area near Wickenburg, AZ today.
Beautiful day, temperatures in the low 80s. A couple of hours of detecting with the GPS 5000 just turned up all sorts of trash. (more…)
This is one of my archived videos about gold metal detecting. But, although the video is a number of years old oh, the basic concepts that I talked about are still very relevant today.
I’ve been into gold detecting for many years. On many detecting trips that’s all I find is what’s pictured here in this video and that’s trash. But, when you do find that little gold nugget, it kind of makes up for all the times you just find trash. (more…)
I think this is a good honest gold prospecting video. This goes to show, number one that there’s still gold to be found in the Arizona desert, and number two, it’s a lot of hard work to find that gold.
I’ve said this many times before and some of my videos, and that is if you’re in this for the money, I think you’d be off working at a fast-food place then prospecting for Arizona gold. (more…)