gold metal detecting
Huge Gold Nugget Metal Detecting Huge 5.1 ounce gold nugget discovered metal detecting. It certainly seems that if you’re hoping to find a huge gold nugget metal detecting, your best bet would probably be Australia. Huge Gold Nugget Metal Detecting Did you know the largest gold nugget discovered was called Read more…
Digging out the 50 gold nugget hole, which i actually believe had 62 nuggets in it (so far).
The 50 nugget hole is actually only 25m away from 3 x different camp fires and old workings that have been done to death and 20m from a main track through a mining area. (more…)
NZ gold prospectors have their best day ever! They made a little mistake on the video in their excitement of weighing the nugget when we went from grams to oz and forgot to put it into troy oz , so the nugget was 3.98oz not 4 2oz. (more…)
The Pennyweight trail, Mineral Bar on the North Fork of the American River.
I’m certain all the gold detectorists who are reading this, know what it feels like when you finally on unearth that target, not only see that it’s a gold nugget, but from the size, you know you just set a new personal record! (more…)
Learn about the devastating power of diamondback rattlesnake bites!
A rattlesnake envenomation can be a life-threatening event. There are potentially devastating physical AND financial complications for those unlucky enough to experience a rattlesnake bite! (more…)
Video is really for the new prospector or those thinking of getting into gold prospecting.
I haven’t been drywashing for gold in 6 or 7 years, just been doing gold detecting.
Prospector Mike and I had found some nuggets in two different washes in the Santa Domingo wash area. Mike actually found five good-sized nuggets the largest of which was about 3/4 of an ounce in a wash area of just about 150 feet long.
Arizona gold prospector Mike talks about one of his greatest finds, a real piece of gold prospecting history! An arrastra drag stone!
This is really something that you would expect to see in a museum
I find it fascinating to see the ingenuity and creativity of the old-time gold prospectors. (more…)
Large Arizona Gold Nuggets – gold metal detecting – Minelab 6000
A patch of five gold nuggets found metal detecting in Arizona. (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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)
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…)