POCKET of GOLD that won't stop giving!

now that's what i like to see in my pan [Music] well hello everyone dan here with dander prospecting here welcome back to my channel and if you're new welcome i hope to earn your subscription today i am back here on the fraser river at pickerton and i'm here today with beat nice to see everyone we are finishing clearing out that pocket that just keeps giving us gold every time we go into that one pocket we find more and more pickers uh last time i only did like four pens i got seven pickers out of it so today pete's here to help move some of the boulders that are in the bottom and we're gonna see what's hiding under the boulders wish us luck and i hope you enjoy [Music] so pete and i've already been working a little bit we got rid of the big part of the boulder that was up top here the the boulder is just crumbling on us but we just found that in the bottom in the very bottom there is another couple of big boulders that are loose and we're gonna be able to get right down to the bottom of this crack quite easy and i found most of my good gold right in oh where is it right over there right in that little spot a little bit over here today both leading up under that rock so i'm really thinking that we're gonna find something good when we move that rock let's get to it so my pan's full i'm gonna go pan it out i don't expect much because most of that was just broken up uh that boulder it's got bedrock broken up in there so i don't have much great material however i am down into the juiciest crunchiest looking stuff around this type of stuff is definitely where i'm gonna find the big gold down in the bottom of this pocket into clay sandy gravelly stuff this isn't broken up bedrock down here this is the good stuff i'm just poking around right now hoping to see something i don't that is going to have pickers in it definitely working on the upper side of the boulder i pulled i don't know a dozen or more pickers out of up there before we actually took the top edge of the boulder off so hopefully pete will be able to find them so here we go with first pan of the day i'm not expecting much in this one it was all just sort of overburdened and mostly just broken up boulder that boulder was just crumbling it is the middle of february right now and this water is really cold on my bare hands set that aside over there we'll run the metal detector over later see if there's a big big bucket i do have rubber gloves if this water does get to be a little too cold for me to pan with bare hands that's a beautiful beautiful day out here well let's see what's in the pan and as expected nothing in that first pan but now i'm down to the good stuff [Music] it's crazy how finicky pickerton can be last trip here i couldn't get a pan without a picker this time we're like three pans a piece with none and we're digging the exact same material it'll happen pete it'll happen let's go here comes a nice one let's hope oh you got one piece one little one one little guy that's better than anything i've done today pizza on the gold pizza on the gold pete gets the first nice piece of the day it's not a picker yet but it's a nice flake well done pete what you found pete yeah oh a crack down into nothingness yep oh crazy the bottomless abyss i seem to think i remember finding something like that once before around here crazy eh yeah cool you're supposed to show me gold not whole [Music] okay i have high hopes for this one i'm gonna find my first pick of the day here i know it power of positive thinking there we go [Music] we've almost got that entire boulder removed from that crevice now it's just breaking up into pieces there's a lot of material underneath it too really nice looking clay stuff looks old and this is old gold we're finding this isn't flood gold there's old stuff so we want those old grounds wow this water's cold most of the times in the past when i've been working pickerton here and finding good gold uh the pieces are big enough that i'm seeing them before they go into the pan seeing them sitting on bed rocks seeing them up in the shovel in the vacuum those kind of things and we haven't seen anything today which you know is not a good sign but as long as pete and i stick with it we're gonna find the pocket in there that's holding the gold so it will happen we got all day as long as i take it slow i should be good for the whole day i hope but here we go first picker of the day right here now that's what i like to see in my pan not just one but two pickers that's what we're looking for oh pete heard me he's running here we go the first two pickers of the day our luck is gonna change from here on out also a little piece oh i got nothing because i went to the other end pete's gonna get some this time too hopefully i'm looking forward to it you'll get him pete you'll get him nice pieces ah what a beautiful day i found my one picker for the day i'm happy [Applause] hey look it's the better side of pete and the very next pan a little noogie i call it a little nuggy it's a nugget that's way too small to be classified as a nugget but it still has significant thickness for its size so it's kind of a round little thing that's why i call it a nuggy a little tiny micro nugget and the very next pan another picker there it is not a bad little picker i like it into the stuffer bottle she goes so i've been getting deeper and deeper and deeper into the hole out at the front side rather than the back rather than under the boulder moving out towards the river and we're actually finding better gold on this side than up underneath the boulder and i was just complaining that i hadn't seen any gold on bedrock and that's usually what indicates i'm doing well is that i start seeing gold on bedrock but here we go my first piece of gold on bedrock right there i'll get out the close-up camera so you can see it as well there we go gold sitting on bedrock that's what we like to see this is why we either wire brush or vacuum the bedrock because that would get missed by a shovel easily there's that piece on my finger that's a nice piece after seeing that pete's going hardcore where i was digging he got some new energy never seen an old guy move that fast i guess so pete's moved down to where i've been grabbing those pickers so the last four pickers or so came from one spot pete just took a pan from that same spot let's see if he comes out with one of his own and pete gets a little piece of gold not quite big enough to call picker but another nice little piece good job pete third pin in a row now with nothing but tiny tiny specks whatever pocket we're into we're out of [Music] so i'm starting to get tired from digging here so i thought i'd break out the vacuum for a little bit and start cleaning up the um jagged bedrock which i can't really dig into nicely and start just sucking up all the loose material so i'm going to clear out this whole area right up here and see if maybe the gold is coming up from coming from up there because you know down by my boot where we thought it was coming from the last you know five pans three for me two from pete haven't given us anything so maybe it was up top here let's see pete's happy he's found a nice piece he's found his first picker of the day let's go have a look ooh it's got character yep funny shaped piece very cool [Music] pete got a picker pick her pete that picker well i'm gonna go pan now pull this in this little you know one square foot area that i was able to suck up with the vacuum cleaner and see if there's any pickers in it pete's just continuing on his quest for the holy grail quest underneath that big boulder to see what was hidden underneath there i think you got to go behind your your boots there behind you after i said down the hole was uh done look at that pete picks out another picker uh peter picker from pickerton peckerton pete the wind has come up and it's chilly out here 12 pickers 12 pickers pete thinks big so this is the contents of the vacuum cleaner um as i just said to pete last time i used that vacuum cleaner was to collect all the garnets from garnet beach and i did clean it out afterwards so this pan is probably gonna be loaded from gardens hopefully loaded in gold too crazy exactly that wind is chilly this water's chilly i accidentally put my gloves right in the water last time so i just said you know screw it may as well they're wet i forgot to clean out the hose when i emptied this i'll have to remember to go back and do that those corrugated hoses can act like a natural well not a natural an unnatural uh sluice box they can actually you know catch the gold in the hose so we don't want that we want gold in the pan i'm doing a lot better than last trip here i've actually been able to do a lot more before i get tired though i am getting tired now pretty big rocks man through the vacuum lots of garnets no gold where is that gold hiding one little speck yep my back starts hurting just watching you pan man pete likes the smaller pan rather than the 15 inch pan he goes for the 12 inch pan yup whatever the smaller pan because he's just you know a little guy he's good the pans are smaller small hands you know the weight small other things you know just can't handle the bigger pan just vacuuming away here and i see a piece of gold sitting on bedrock right there it's not a big one or at least i only only see a little point of it or something but let's get a close up and have a look and see what it is so there it is just a little guy sitting on bedrock it's not much of anything but hey it's always fun to find them sitting on bedrock there it is right there i'm gonna suck it up with a vacuum and see if i can get it out of the vacuum again when i pan it all out well that's not a bad pan at all one picker one little nuggy two nice big flakes i'm happy with that that one's got some thickness to them a little nuggy there's a nice nice picker again crazy shapes i'm not sure if that's i think that's two look at that two little flakes well big flakes little tiny pickers and then one more over here just a big flake nice i'm liking it two pens in a row with multiple pickers two nice pickers two big flakes i like this i'm hitting the hottest the hotter spots again that's a nice one and then those three over there one i'd call a picker two i'd call very large flakes i'm on the gold but i'm getting tired and look what i see in my shovel a piece of gold in the pan she goes there's the nicest flake of the day that is a beauty i like that that is a beautiful flake only a couple of flakes this time but still gold any gold is good gold well that's a nice pan two nice pickers and this one's all folded up thing it's like folded three times over i am getting some nice gold i'm feeling bad for pete pete's not getting the gold pete's a little bit cursed at this claim pete must have something in his pan he's asking for the camera there it is nice that's a nice picker pete hey picker pete yep seat from pickerton found a picker and a nice one pete just left the hole we're both working in the same spot here and uh he just left the the hole that we were working with half a pan saying like he's getting tired uh pete's colorblind he can't see colors i can see colors very well and i can't even look in what he had left behind it's jumping out at me gold sitting on bedrock and that's a nice looking flake let's pick her up it's a picker we can pick it up that was just sitting right behind after pete was digging here i'll take that and i see another one i just i saw the edge of it so i brushed it a little bit it was i just saw the edge of it so i brushed it with my finger but there's another one sitting right there pickers sitting on bedrock at pickerton just waiting for us to pick them up there it is i'm having a good day finding pickers at pickerton i'm liking this so pete's going for one last pan i'm done i've had enough for today but what a day i had i don't know how many pickers i've got there must be a dozen in there i'm gonna take them home and clean them up and take some good pictures i'll leave those right here for you guys with weights and you know close-ups and all that kind of stuff because everyone loves looking at good gold the gold is dried let's see what we got for the total for the day i'm guessing that's about a gram of gold that's pretty much a gram of gold nice so with today's gold prices that is 71 canadian but of course i don't do this for the value of gold i do it for the experience and the fun and the knowledge the wind has come up here peckerton it's getting cold we're tired and we have done a lot of work today i don't know how much we move but it is a ton we had a good day it's always nice getting out prospecting in the middle of winter gives us a break from our cabin fever and gives us a bit of the gold fever hope everyone out there is having a great day i hope you all enjoyed watching big big thanks to my patrons because of the support of my patrons i get to make these weekly episodes of dan heard prospecting for everyone to watch so if you are a patron thank you so much if you'd like to learn more about how to support my channel head off to patreon.com wishing everyone an amazing day and until the next video everyone bye you

Channel: Dan Hurd

Views: 82,406

Rating: 4.9736719 out of 5

Keywords: gold panning, panning for gold, video, how to, where to, find gold, finding gold, gold nuggets, placer gold, prospecting, mining, pocket, sniping, crevicing, fraser river, BC, British Columbia, Canada

Id: EsQO3QSP5_8

Length: 16min 37sec (997 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 21 2021