Where to Find Gold in Any River!

gold has reached a ridiculous price of over 3 000 Australian dollars per troy ounce and there are many new Prospectors out here wanting to give prospecting a go with so many Prospectors on the gold Fields checking all the regular spots for gold like inside bends today I want to show you three spots I check for gold that most Prospectors don't before you start prospecting you're going to need a gold pan it doesn't matter if yours is small and black or a big blue one or even the shape of a dustpan as long as you know how to use your pen they pretty much all work exactly the same and once you're all practiced up with your chosen pan I always switch back to a 10 inch small pan to do my testing because if I get a lot of gold in a 10 inch pan when I put a sluice box in there I'm going to get a whole bunch we'll step down the slippery clay we almost went in gravity still works here the places I'm going to show you will work on any Creek but I'm on ready Creek Reedy Creek is world renowned for its ultra fine gold and it's considerable tin all irrespective of the size of the gold that's in your area these techniques will still work it'll just depend down how much water is coming down the creek as to where it got deposited in those spots the first spot we're going to try is in the edge of fast water now a lot of people know to check the inside Bend which is what this is here but this works for anywhere there is fast water so long as there is a section where it slows down our concentration point for our gold is right on the edge here that is where all your gold is going to be hanging out all right random Creek Boulder hold on to my stuff for me you're gonna have to excuse my camera angles there's not very many places I can set it up here we're going to Waddle out right to where the fast water slows down which is about here then we're going to feel around for some gravel that's all bedrock at the moment so the fast water scouring it there there's some gravel all right so we can see we've got a fast line of water right here and within a foot it's dead that dead water is what's going to stop our gold from traveling Downstream fast water traditionally scours everything away except for the heaviest items and that's why we're seeing a lot of big rocks but you know you're in the right spot because we have Leaf debris so we have fast water big rocks and we have something so light it would normally get washed away gold is 19 times heavier than water it drops out as soon as it has a chance so if we're getting really large rocks mixed with very light leaves the Gold's probably dropped out near it remembering that this is only a 10 inch pan we're not going to see a huge spec count but if we got 10 in here we could times that by three for a regular pan and that means we'll be getting 30 specks of pan and that's the deposit worth working think of this as like a Polaroid of the creek it's just a snapshot and because we dug next to very fast water the only heavy things that are going to drop out are going to be the really heavy thing so I would expect to see a mixture of big tin and small tin together if you just get one size of heavy material like Iron Stone or considerite you're probably off the pastry a little bit you're probably too far Downstream from it the bigger the tin the harder the water was running the moment of tooth is there gold there oh there we go we got a rivet of some kind so we're getting metal objects that's a really good start oh we got gold and we got that mixture of tin look at that remembering that there are three of these small 10-inch pans in every one of those big blue pans and I can count 18 little pieces of gold in that pan meaning your followers to pan that particular spot with my big pen I'll be getting 50 plus specks of pan don't forget your stuff a bottle and to name it this one is gobble guts Junior because gobble guts is currently in retirement I can already hear some of the seasoned Prospectors say hey Chris that was kind of obvious it's got to get more complicated in here don't worry the creek gets really deep at this point so waiters you're gonna need waders and some short feet which I don't have but we're heading to this bank over here the thing about most creeks and rivers like this one unless you've come out during a major storm you're never actually going to see it in proper flood I'm standing in the creek bed at the moment in Waist Deep Water and I got flood debris way up in the tippy top of that tree there all that means is that the flood waters are so high it's more than likely carrying particulate matter like rocks sand tree branches and gold suspended in the liquid not running against the creek bed when that suspended sediment hits clay just like this it sticks and what that means for us is that we can come along and as long as you keep your eye out for any of that sticky clay either up on the banks or even on just flood Plains or in the riverbed itself you'll find gold almost always sometimes they're really rich because Prospectors just don't check these it doesn't look good to most Prospectors this looks like other crap that you wouldn't check but what they don't know and they don't understand is that Prospectors lose out on a hundred percent of the deposits they don't look for meaning that if you're not willing to test everything you're not going to find it [Music] now obviously we have one or two pieces of gravel scattered throughout this and that is a great indicator that there was some kind of gravel traveling over the top of this during flood but you can see the vast majority of the soil is just made out from the Sandy silt left over from those floods that were suspended in that water and it's sitting on that really sticky clay I didn't go to library you're currently sitting on a whole bunch of tree roots suspended directly above water and I can't afford a new phone so could you just not fall in foreign [Music] [Applause] oh yeah we've got black sand but it's all very similar size so maybe not maybe it isn't a deposit really Creek gold being so fine it quite often ends up on those clay pans oh look at the Gold oh oh no one's checked that in a while yeah man remember we have to times the result by three and there are 15 pieces of flower gold in that pan and I got all of those pieces of flower gold literally scraping mud off clay one of the richest deposits I've ever worked came off a clay pan that had a gravel layer that was only about two and a half inches deep we were getting over 300 specks of gold in every pan because no one had touched it in years a lot of Prospectors out here forget to check above themselves every Cruise there's no dirt out there what do you mean well my buddy new gold prospector Rivers and Creeks like really creaky have been around a lot longer than you and I and they're going to be around a lot longer after we're gone what that means is climbing small mountains in waders oh because there's nothing I love more than putting on a pair of Juicy pants in the hot sun and climbing up hills this here is conglomerate effectively cement made out of river gravels that's a few million years old now it's great it shows you exactly where the river ran but you don't need it you just need Bedrock up high on a bench and the reason is that that Creek at one time used to run all the way up there and well on this side too the same exact Creek we're getting gold out of today used to be transporting gold layered and gravels up here look on those upper bench deposits for Where the River gravels are oozing out of the soil or clear indicators of where heavy water once ran such as polish Bedrock or sediment all right get rid of some of those leaves right off the Bedrock [Music] back down the Steep little hill we go so far we've been pretty damn lucky we got two from two for gold bench deposits are a little bit more tricky because you're trying to read a river that was there a hundred thousand plus years ago which is almost impossible all right most successful prospecting is nothing more than the willingness to try spots and be skunked if you're willing to not find gold ultimately you will run into the deposits that no one else has found and we have got some black sand there that's a great start let's find out if that bench deposit had anything on it maybe we've got black sand that's a good start it's chunky too oh there's a little speck there two or is there more no there's more comparatively this is not a lot of gold to the other two spots and I wouldn't pursue it but it shows that there is gold on that bench so there's probably Rich spots somewhere along there I got one two three four little flakes look I found a lot more than four little flakes today so we're going to put them back in the river to grow that was three different places to check for gold that I don't normally see people check if you found this helpful leave me a comment below and I want to know where do you check for gold tell me your secrets

Channel: Vo-Gus Prospecting

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Length: 9min 7sec (547 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 14 2023