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Gold Metal Detecting

Gold Metal Detecting

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…)

By Bob711, ago

Arizona Gold Drywashing

Arizona Gold Prospecting – Arizona Gold Drywashing

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…)

By Bob711, ago

Arizona Gold Prospecting

Arizona Gold Prospecting

Plenty of gold still out in Arizona.

The perfect combination went out gold prospecting – –  a good dry washer and metal detector.  Yes, they really go together to help find the small gold that’s typical in a lot of the  Arizona gold prospecting areas. (more…)

By Bob711, ago

California Mother Lode Prospectors

California Mother Lode Prospectors

Exploration of gold in the hills of northern California.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

In the United States, Mother Lode is most famously the name given to a long alignment of hard-rock gold deposits stretching northwest-southeast in the Sierra Nevada of California. It was discovered in the early 1850s, during the California gold rush. The California Mother Lode is a zone from 1.5 to 6 kilometres (0.93 to 3.73 mi) wide and 190 kilometres (120 mi) long, between Georgetown on the north and Mormon Bar on the south. (more…)

By Bob711, ago

Arizona Gold Metal Detecting

Arizona Gold Metal Detecting

Bumble Bee/Cleator Arizona area with Gold Monster and finding small Gold Nuggets!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Established in 1863, Bumble Bee served as a stagecoach stop and an outpost for the U.S. Cavalry, with a post office established in 1879. The creek, and by extension the town, were so named because early travelers in the area claimed that the indigenous people there were as “thick as bumblebees”. (more…)

By Bob711, ago

Volcanic GOLD NUGGETS

Huge Volcanic GOLD NUGGETS

Metal detecting volcanic gold nuggets on the island of Papua New Guinea.

Up until 1970, there was little mineral extraction in Papua New Guinea. Since the 1970s, mineral extraction has dominated the national economy. With the exception of the Ok Tedy Mine (copper-gold) almost all of the mining in PNG has been gold mining. (more…)

By Bob711, ago

How to Spot Fake Morgan Silver Dollars

Fake Morgan Silver Dollars

Fake silver dollars from China are showing up all over the Internet. 

The big problem, is the fact that many people who bought these coins in the past, do not realize that they are fake Morgan silver dollars and therefore honestly believe they are selling the real thing. What we’re showing here is just one way to estimate if the Morgan Silver Dollar you are purchasing is real or not. We also have another video on fake silver dollars that show another way to get an idea if you’re getting the real thing or not. (more…)

By Bob711, ago

Gold in Quartz

Gold in Quartz

This is a December gold prospecting trip around Yuma Arizona.

We were searching through some tailing piles from an old mine where the miners were following gold in a quartz vein.. We were doing dry washing and some metal detecting and met up with Daniel who is looking for iron stained courts in the tailing piles to crush and hopefully extract gold from the quartz rocks. (more…)

By Bob711, ago

Learn Gold Panning

Learn Gold Panning

This instructional video features Freddy Dodge, a mining expert and one of the stars of the hit TV series “Gold Rush.” Freddy, his brother Derek Dodge, and their family have been prospecting, panning, and building mining equipment for decades.

Freddy offers the fundamentals on: collecting and classifying material for panning; how to work the lighter materials from the pan without losing any gold; and even how to properly collect fine gold in your vial. Freddy’s brother Derek and his daughter Nikki offer additional demonstrations and tips on how you can become a better gold panner right away.  (more…)

By Bob711, ago

Aussie Gold Metal Detecting

Aussie Gold Metal Detecting Australia Gold Nuggets

Huge gold nuggets found metal detecting. A deadly snake falls into the hole where the Victoria Diggers are prospecting for gold, setting off a panicked attempt of relocating the snake whilst trying not to get bitten.

 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

On 1 July 1851 Victoria became a separate colony and, on the same day, James Esmond in company with Pugh, Burns and Kelly, found alluvial gold in payable quantities near Donald Cameron’s station on Creswick’s Creek, a tributary of the Loddon, at Clunes, 34 km (22m) north of Ballarat. Esmond and his party found the gold after Esmond had been told by George Hermann Bruhn of the gold that had been found in March 1850 on Cameron’s property at Clunes and that in the vicinity were quartz reefs which were likely to bear gold.[60] Esmond rode into Geelong with a sample of their discovery on 5 July. News of the discovery was published first in the Geelong Advertiser on 7 July and then in Melbourne on 8 July. (more…)

By Bob711, ago

Monster Gold Nugget

Monster Gold Nugget -Gold Metal Detecting

The Gold Gypsies are on the move believing a new 200-hectare lease will answer their prayers. When prospecting on their new lease for the first time, they hit the jackpot with an incredible 3-ounce nugget worth around $5000!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s. It led to a period of extreme prosperity for the Australian colony, and an influx of population growth and financial capital for Melbourne, which was dubbed “Marvellous Melbourne” as a result of the procurement of wealth. (more…)

By Bob711, ago

Australian Gold Prospecting

Australian Gold Prospecting

This is in Pinyalling which is NW of Paynes Find in WA. Found a patch that we got 1.5 ounces off and it was lucky if it was 8m long x 5m wide. We found some stray bits upstream and downstream of the patch but little else other than what was in this little spot. The first 9 grams came in the first 2 hours after we arrived.

 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The first gold rush in Australia began in May 1851 after prospector Edward Hargraves claimed to have discovered payable gold near Orange, at a site he called Ophir. Hargraves had been to the Californian goldfields and had learned new gold prospecting techniques such as panning and cradling. (more…)

By Bob711, ago

Minelab Gold

Minelab Gold Nuggets

In the video’s its just about capturing the events that unfold on our journey through our gold detecting, and the best part about that is we just never know what the day will bring.

Certainly we get excitement just from being out there. But the joys of finding gold no matter what the size is something we just never get back and need to share these moment. (more…)

By Bob711, ago

Gold Metal Detecting

Gold Metal Detecting in the Desert

This nugget took over an hour to dig and chisel out. It was 10″ deep in caliche. Caliche is a cemented conglomerate sort of rock very common in the desert southwest.

The metal detector used in the video is a Minelab GPZ7000. At this time this detector is the flagship gold detector in the entire Minelab line of detectors & cost about $8,000!

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By Bob711, ago

Arizona Gold

Arizona gold weekend Gold prospecting

Looking for Arizona gold near the Little San Domingo Wash near Morristown, AZ., approximately 50 miles northwest of Phoenix, at the junction of State Route 74 and U.S. Route 60.

We did this outing in early July, when the forecast was for 112° in Phoenix! So, what we did is we met up real early, and got out to the claim somewhere around 6:45 AM. We plan to stay, only until about 9:30 AM before the heat got too intense. (more…)

By Bob711, ago