good afternoon everybody oh sorry I so
say hello everyone aren't they I don't
know everybody today I want to give you
guys a bit of a lesson a lesson on how
to work shale a bedrock shale bedrock is
one of the best bed rocks out there for
catching gold it's amazing it's like the
natural sluice but it is very hard to
work and many many people the majority
of the people that work bet she'll
bedrock are going to miss most of their
gold if not all of their gold because of
how they work in so today a bit of a
lesson on how to work this stuff it's
nasty
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so she'll like this is a beautiful catch
for gold the shell in this claim is
perfectly up on edge straight up and
down lots of big open gaps places for
the gold to fall down into not quite
ideal on this claim is that the shale is
perfectly in line with the flow of water
so water going through could flush stuff
through but because it's so open the
Gold's gonna find places to hide in
there and we'll be fine
now if you are working shale like this
and are just using a shovel or your
hands and just rubbing the surface and
cleaning off the surface of this stuff
you might as well go home
and not even try you will not find the
gold that's hiding there you have to get
down into those cracks a wire brush
right down into those cracks there's a
good start but really that wire brush is
still only penetrating down into those
cracks probably quarter inch and that
gold could be falling down in there an
inch two inches even more so you have to
get down into there even farther
I really like my clawed hammer because I
can get down in there I can grab that
shale and I can pull up pieces you'll
see that piece there's an inch and a
half slide and you can see there's sand
still attached to it down an inch and a
half down into there if there's gold it
will travel down at least that far so I
get down in there with my claw pull
those pieces of shale get them loose
pull them up look at those pieces and
there's still sand and mud attached to
those all the way down in there oh look
at that piece I just pulled out all of
that sand that's where the gold goes in
highest
camera falling over all of that sand
that's where they get the gold goes in
hides
that's what I want to keep let's pull my
pan pull my hand over here so we can
start filling it up with this good stuff
using the arbor fabrication classifier
right now
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oh yeah getting way down in there
look at that stuff that stuff that's
where the gold pull that shale up pull
it up as long as you see sand and mud
attach the shale down there gold could
have traveled down that far
now I'm in the shadow of that crevice
right now you're not to be able to see
any more thing go down deeper into there
so let's work this little area so you
guys can see what I'm doing and this is
a nice little area here too because this
block of shale came to an abrupt end
here and then left all this stuff up on
edge
perfect acts like a big boulder or
something water would swirl it behind
drop the gold the shale would catch it
perfect spot to get good stuff
now first thing I would do is clear all
the surface stuff I can just by hand
before I start attacking with the bigger
tools really gotta get down in there Oh
perfect pull out that piece of shale all
of that stuff attached to it couldn't
have golden
yeah almost pull there let's get pan
this out and see what's got what's got
in it well there we go
three good sized pieces one of them's
really nice little picker it's got some
thickness to it that one really nice
well let's go deeper and see what else
we have there make sure you stick around
to the end of this video for a chance to
win a gold nugget or two so another
fantastic tool for breaking up this
bedrock is this little jackhammer here
gets right down those cracks breaks up
those last pieces beautifully look at
all that material I went to be able to
get otherwise oh yeah right into the
bottom of that crack so for working the
shell like this you're going to want to
have screwdrivers dental picks anything
that it's sharp and pointy they can get
into the bottom of these cracks because
the last little bit of the gold is going
to be sitting in the lowest possible
point where the sharpest tool can
actually only get to your finger not a
hope I have a sharp point in the back of
my wire brush and work it hard don't
leave any little bit left down there
because the pieces there are less that's
where the gold is going to be
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hmm one big piece bunch of small stuff a
lot of small stuff pick that up
I'm not sure continue try to get this
rock out of here this looks like it's
holding lots of good stuff oh yeah loose
oh yeah
keep it all down pieces any gold
attached to it he'll be in the crack
where I'm cleaning still let's see
what's in here very important to get the
walls when you do stuff like this
because all of that mud on the wall
could have caught lots of gold
especially if there's a big piece that
fell in there that got wedged partway
down
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oh good
I'm intrigued to see what's in this one
overloaded look at that look at all that
gold in there including a coarse piece
that will piece there is like it's never
been run in the river it like it's
dissolved at a quartz itself but never
been running the river I'll take a
close-up of that and put it in this
video so you can see but tons tons of
fine gold no Pickers but one little
micro nugget of course piece so there we
go
quick little lesson on dealing with
shale bedrock work it hard get down in
there deep don't just rub the surface
otherwise you will get nothing from it
if you go down deep you will get the
gold some shale will only open up for a
few inches letting gold down and in some
shale will open up four feet letting
gold down and in it really depends on
the geology and the shale itself some of
these cracks here you can really see and
tell that they've gone down feet before
they sort of closed off
luckily down the bottom here it's only a
few inches before you can really tell
where the bottom anyhow
in my last pan I found a very nice piece
so this is where I'm gonna end this
video off the Sun is gone over the hill
but I think I still have a few pans left
in me I'm gonna stop this video here
because of where is he
that's right there look at him
there it is look at that piece that's a
nice little nugget picker nugget I don't
know if that's I'm gonna guess wait
forever Graham
another course one
beautiful little piece a go big piece of
gold so that is where I'm gonna end off
the video because I doubt I'm gonna find
another one today so may as well end off
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