hey guys my name is Jason with Mountain Baker Mining and metals and on today's video I'm up
on Vancouver Island in Canada I'm here with Andy th mining Pioneer Paulie we're going to try and
go find some gold today so today I'm going to learn how to snipe and Paul and Andy are going
to teach me some tricks and tips and hopefully we can find some nice Canadian gold today we're just
getting ready to go we got all our tools wet suit got my metal detector we're going to go
down here and see if we can find any gold today well here's a little spot we picked out the the
whole river comes down through this little goalie right here and washes down and then
down river from us it opens up into this nice big pool and Andy's standing over there andy tell us
what what you were just talking about we got this kind of crack here you're really interested under
these Boulders so like Jason said the main flow is coming through here but then we got
these perpendicular cracks which we know the Gold's going to drop into but what we really
want to look for is when those perpendicular cracks start to head out of the main current
of the river and that's exactly what you get as as you follow this this way we're we're protected
by this giant wall right here and we know that this is a dead zone you can see the buildup of
sand and gravel and this is just a really premium Zone to check because uh it's the perpendicular
crack it's on the side where the flow would be pushing it off and then it's protected by these
big boulders in this wall this is an excellent spot to look it's got very high prot I and we
can see the Bedrock is close uh and that helps us know that the gravel's just not too deep and
the crevices aren't too deep to work all right the pressure's on now yeah we got to find some
gold today that's right not letting you leave empty handed let's get in the water we're getting
suited up Andy's ahead of me he's going to jump in and we're going to get some of these big boulders
moved out of the way I think first he's going to work the crack maybe from this side uh that way
and I'm going to work over from the bank towards him and we'll see if we can get some nice gold
today Andy's working down there getting the rocks out we moved the majority of the
boulders and so this this little Bedrock pothole is where we're going to be looking and it's just
hard work it's a lot of work Andy's working this spot under these Boulders where we have
been working and I found this new crack right over here it's really just a continuation the one
Andy's working but I'm going to try and Chase it over to where it hits this little Bedrock 90 here
and the Bedrock starts to go up and everything from the river you're looking up River it's coming
at you is going to swirl around this big rock Bedrock protrusion it's going to swirl around
and just suck right into my crack hopefully so let me get that cleaned out and see if I got any
gold
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well Andy told me he just found some gold in this crack he was working
so we're going to go down and check it out it'll be our first gold of the day
all right we got a sign of our first biggest piece of gold yet check this
out you got to hold it out
there
go there nice little rolly pull holy piece mhm which is just a great sign
that that that crevice could be leading into more awesome that's a nice little
piece yeah quite three-dimensional yeah good stuff very cool and we're
just getting started now the now the real work begins cuz it's getting deeper yeah
that's right cool hopefully there's more yeah we'll put her somewhere safe awesome
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well the man is here I'm just here monitoring him making sure everything's going to plan so
far so good he knows what he's doing he's finding candy we're getting a little bit
yeah a little bit Yeah so we're trying we're going to follow our crack up the stream here
hopefully you're a good luck charm hopefully yeah yeah it's worked for you in the past so
yeah Andy what do you think you want to you want to get this crack going up the towards
the bank he busy drinking milk yeah i' say that's our best bet right now yeah
we got two nice little pieces out of it it's looking so perfect we'll just keep following
it up qu yeah yeah let's go get a pizza give up it's easier that's way easier yeah I got to
get this shot definitely don't want to break a sweat yeah yeah the water's wet it's got to be
dry hopefully we can get this out of here cuz we were we were finding gold in this crack we
didn't even ask it yet oh yeah can we move rock yeah hey help us out a little bit yeah
that's a that's a big rock got this one oh you got that little guy here I got it oh you don't
jab my fingers oh you broke it in half look at you nice there we go now I'm tired yeah you
lost your leverage too it looks like maybe huh that was that was a bad idea yeah we'll get it
we'll get it we're at the bottom of a really nice spot spot we're just about to clean it
out we found a big old nail let's see what do I got got a big old nail Spike here and finding a
lot of stuff like this so we have really really high hopes there's some nice gold
down at the bottom there kind of little pot hole at the bottom of a crack let's go take a
look
Andy's having a one quick last look but we didn't find any gold in there oh yeah little lead lead is
a good signs it could be lead around yeah there's lead that means there's that's where the Heavies
go hold that five nugget one not
that's not a good sound I thought for sure there'd be something in there but there is actually two
kind of nice crevices heading this way now okay that's all we can do is keep following it or or
look around I know yeah everywhere else but keep looking proom yeah there's gold in the river
somewhere well this is my old old whites GMT detector I found a lot of gold with this thing
in the past so I'm going to give it a try here again and the idea is is I can just go along
this crack with the detector and if I get a signal I can snipe right where the signal is
but if I don't I don't have to spend all my time sweeping out this crack and uh finding
nothing so I'm I'm limiting Myself by doing this to only bigger gold cuz this thing won't go down
it'll it'll get down to about oh a third of a gram maybe if I'm real close to it so I'm
I'm limiting myself to bigger gold but maybe I can identify some targets and not move so many
Boulders I've got my first little Target right here it's right right there under those couple
of rocks and I would never be able to snipe this thing cuz the water's pretty stagnant but now I've
got a spot in this crack I can move a couple big rocks and uh sweep the detector again and
see if I can pin point that Target all right guys well we've tried pretty much everything
we have in our hand today we've sniped we moved Boulders we've detected uh pioner ply was here
made a little cameo in the video and we did find some gold so I want to show you what we
found well we're going to do our our final cleanup for the day the little snuffers got the fine fine
gold that one okay there we go too big pie two big
pieces that's actually a little more than I thought yeah you know what there might have
been a piece in there but I mean we were snuffing up those little fines yeah yeah and I I got some
up in the cracks above the oh good good yeah so that's not a bad little showing there that one
how much how much would you guess that weighs all that together I'm thinking like uh 2 maybe
025 okay yeah I don't know if that's close but that little BB is going to have something good
for weight yeah let's see if we can get that I mean that's yeah that's that's a nice little
piece let's see if I can get it focused yeah I mean that's a nice I got to hold over the pan so
if I drop it it doesn't go on the grass that's a nice little piece yeah it's neat you can actually
see the character in it mhm cool that was our that was our sniping day cleanup any day that
you don't leave with nothing is a really great day that's right we didn't get skunked that's
what counts you always hope for more gold but I am satisfied with my Canadian gold for the day yeah
yeah it was so fun having you man well that does it for us today I wanted to give a special thanks
to Andy from Andy THX mining thanks for having me out man my pleasure man so good meeting you
yeah I really appreciate it you showed me the ropes uh pioner came and and gave us a little
cameo in the video so that was fun um if you haven't checked out Andy's Channel check it out
I will leave a link in the description below and a link here on the end screens so he's got some
really cool stuff he's got a really really sweet little plaster operation he's running
here on the other side of the creek and that just might show up in one of my other videos
so stay tuned for that otherwise thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next video