hey guys my name is Jason and last night I got a text from a friend said hey you want to go up and
get some gold on the Fraser and I just couldn't turn it down so in today's video we're going to
go up to Canada try and find some gold and of course as I left home it was pouring down rain
once through the Border I headed up the Fraser once I got to Hope BC I headed north up river
and through some absolutely beautiful country I've made it to the Fraser we got to get down to this
little bar down here see if we can find some gold we made it down to the bar and here's Dan herd
hello everyone hey Dan you brought me all the way down to the Fraser this is your first time pan on
the Fraser is it first time so you got to show me how to do it and make sure we find some good gold
absolutely the water is way lower than I expected it is like dead low right now these rocks that I'm
digging behind right now are usually underwater even at low water so we're going to try some new
spots today see if we can find some new gold if we don't find any way down here we'll go back up a
bit where I know there's good gold so you can kind of get the lay of the land here we're working this
little Bedrock shelf the river like Dan said is very very low but it's exposed all these cracks
that maybe haven't been worked real hard in the past so I think I might work in here Dan's been
talking about under some of these big boulders they've had really good luck all right well let
me get to digging see what I can find I'm working this little crack right here and Dan says the
trick is to get to the very very very bottom of the crack we got to get all these little Pebbles
and rocks out of here cuz the gold will migrate all the way down to the bottom so this is where
I'm going to try my first pan and see what we can recover Dan's got his first pan and I I can see
the gold from here you got a nice little flake right in the middle of Black Sands though yeah
yeah I think there's one that went back into the back there there's maybe five or six good flakes
but this is kind of subpar for you we can do way better than that here way better than that way
better than that okay I like it and that was only half a pan well I've got my crack here kind of
work down to the bottom of Bedrock it's awfully hard to get all the fine stuff into the pan it
it's just my fingers are too fat or something but then just threw a brush at me so I'm supposed to
use this to sweep out the cracks which is way better than your fingers it's like he's done
this before here goes my first pan and plaster gold is a little bit different than hard rock
gold you've seen me pan the Hard Rock cons and I go very very very slowly the gold is extremely
fine whereas this plaster stuff on the freeer is a little bit coarser and so I can go a little bit
faster without worrying about losing any one of the things that Dan just showed me in his first
pan was the flakes are very very flat though and sometimes that has a tendency to kind of skate on
the black sand a little bit so you still got to be careful but in this this first pan it'll take
me 30 seconds to a minute rather than couple two 3 4 5 minutes like when you're panning out the
Shaker table concentrates with the super heavy ptite and sulfides and all the golds mixed up in
it my first Real Canadian gold look at there two nice little flakes there's also some really fine
stuff down in here kind of mixed in with the black sand there we go let it let me get them
in my Snuffer bottle all right let's see what Dan things here Dan what do you think of my first pan
your first pan my first pan look at that two really nice flakes nothing wrong with that
at all not bad huh not bad all right okay one and two all right my second pan I was trying a little
bit different spot there was some moss and stuff I got a lot of times that moss on the rocks will
act as Miner moss and capture some of that fine flaky gold here's my three kind of mediumsized
flakes from that moss and stuff and a bunch of little tiny fine stuff down there right at the
Leading Edge I'll get those three with Snuffer for bottle Dan you weren't happy with the gold we were
finding down below you went up above a little bit Yeah down low we've been doing really well sort
of the halfway down the bar uh thinking that the low water may have given us stuff that was even
better lower I don't think it's actually working out for us because you know three four flakes in
a pan it's not what this place is known for well what's what's a good pan what would be a good pan
uh 20 to 30 20 to 30 like I just had in my pan yep 20 to 30 yeah that'd be a good spot but you
know 15 is kind of common do you know where the gold is coming from on this site here I think
it's being washed out of old gravels that have uh been deposited billions of years ago up on the the
sides of the valley up on a bench above because because we're so high up on a Bedrock shelf I
don't think there's any hope that the current Fraser can bring gold up and deposit it there
and we seem to find the best gold deposits right below those gravel deposits that are up high and
are there hard rock gold mines all up and down the Fraser here no actually not no uh this gold
has traveled a long ways um there's all sorts of gold bearing creeks that feed into the Fraser okay
all up and down but there's a couple of really big ones like the quenel river is one of the big big
ones okay and we're right below the Thompson River here which which is another one that deposits gold
into the Fraser and it's traveled a long ways that's why we're finding these really flat flaky
pieces it's been beat all the way down the river yeah we we got six or seven okay yep yeah still
not great though we'll find a good spot we will all right it is a beautiful River from hope all
the way North driving up the canyon it's just this huge steep sided V Valley with the Fraser running
right down the middle middle of it and like Dan was mentioning earlier he thinks the gold
is coming out of the ancient gravels up on some of these benches now what you see here is the Bedrock
and that's there's very little gravel on it very little Boulders it's just pretty much exposed we
are probably 15 ft maybe 20 ft above the level of the river but I want to go up and look at
this see these white rocks up here this is more of those gravels that Dan was talking about there's
a little bench right up above the Bedrock here and those gravels are kind of washing down onto
this Bedrock shelf and Dan thinks that's where the Gold's coming from I've moved higher up I'm going
to work right at the edge of where these Boulders meet the Bedrock here I've got a little spot right
under here I'm going to work that little pile of gravel I'm going to get it worked all the way down
to bedrock and hopefully we can find some good gold there well here's a good sign I don't know
what it is but it's a piece of iron all rusty and that was right down in there so where the iron
collects that's where the dense material collects well here's some of that clay mud stuff Dan was
talking about I've gotten some of it out of the bottom here I think there's still some I can get
but I've got real high hopes for this one cuz I got down to that clay but Dan just brought up a
good point we're looking for a spot that hasn't been worked before hasn't been touched and it's
going to take a little while we got to prospect it we got look but once you find that spot that
little honey hole if you will that hasn't been worked and we identify it then we can just
kind of work all around that and we'll find some really good gold this might be my best pan so far
there's maybe 10 or 12 little pieces there kind of medium medium little flakes not bad there we go
one picker maybe eight good size flakes oops all right that's what they need to look like that's
what they need to look like you go find that okay go find that you find the oddest stuff when you're
digging under rocks I don't know where that came from weird my first golf ball find Dan you found a
good spot I found a good spot and I found a piece of gold sitting on Bedrock oh show me I broke up a
bunch of Bedrock back there and was starting to pull out pieces like this and one of the pieces
came out with a piece of gold sitting on it oh yeah look at that wow and this is the face up was
that was just sitting on top of that piece oh cool all right well I might have to dig a pan here and
see what I can find huh you bet you're more than welcome to if we can move this rock over we can
get access to it a lot easier okay but that goes in my pan all right Dan's got the best pan of the
day so far oh yeah that's a lot of gold in there for one pan all right I got to go find my own spot
I got to go find a spot where I can find gold see if you can find that Bedrock breaking up yeah I'm
going to try another crevice I got a crevice I I think I like well Dan got a nice pan again but
he led me to a spot and I got a really nice pan lots of big pieces in there I must have 20 pieces
I'm finally we we broke the ice on a good pan so now you just stay on that spot I'm excited
to get back there well I've had some really good results right in this hole right here I've got
four or five more pans that I can probably do without doing moving Boulders and stuff so I'm
going to work right here well another nice pan and probably my biggest flake of the day right
there and here we go starting on one edge of the pan nice gold there all the flakes are mostly up
here and then all the way around big pieces of magnetite this might be one of my best pans
so far look at all that gold well it's just pan after pan after pan get good gold out of that one
spot Dan's working our spot here and look what he just found right there sticking on the Rock old on
Bedrock it's a good spot huh it is yes another pan and some more nice gold well Dan and I have agreed
this is going to be our last pan I did really well under this big rock here I came out I had a really
good pan in front of the rock I moved over a little bit farther lost it so my last Pan's
going to be back kind of under the front of this big rock here this is probably one of the richest
plaster deposits I've ever been on I don't know how much gold we have today but it's more than
I've gotten anywhere else that I've worked for a day and we've only been paned we haven't been
high Bank we haven't been slle we haven't been doing anything but panning and I probably have
a dozen pans 15 at the most and so much gold we have is from 15 pans it's just amazing to me
there's this is a really really rich spot here's my last pan of the day right in front of that big
rock I showed you earlier not too bad there's I don't know maybe 20 pieces there none of them
are huge but there's a bunch so not bad for the end of the day we've been saving our Black Sands
and I'm pretty excited about taking this back to my shop and smelting it so I'm going to see if I
can get this through the border and turn it into a little gold bead Dan I'll let you know how much
gold I recover for your Black Sands awesome for those of you who are interested in how much gold
Dan got you see the Snuffer bottle around his neck he dumped that out you're going to have to check
out his channel and his video and it was it was quite a bit I was impressed it was a good day it
day good day for the claim oh yeah yeah well I'm going to end this video here I had a great time
Dan thank you so much for bringing me out to your claim you're welcome this is probably the richest
plaster claim I've ever been on I think we got more gold today and 15 pans and I've gotten
anywhere else the Fraser River you can't beat the Fraser River there's gold everywhere there's Gold
Everywhere on the Fraser so this is going to be part one of a two-part series I've got my Snuffer
bottle here full of gold and on part two we'll see how much is in there but also Dan and I have
been saving all of our Black Sands so I'm going to take that back to my shop and smelt it see if we
can recover any more gold so thanks everybody for watching we'll see you on the next video