Hey everyone welcome back to another episode of gold prospecting at home, this is
episode number 74, and you may have remembered from about a year ago I did a
fan mail unboxing, I think it was my sixth or seventh fan mail unboxing video..
and in that video I opened up a package from a company that actually shipped me
a pay dirt called "Whiskey Dicks Pay Dirt" that's an eBay vendor and he sent me a
pay dirt.. the return on investment on that bag was about 39%... I didn't purchase
it but if I would have, it was $15 free shipping. Now that vendor, mountain rocks,
he actually sells another pay dirt called "Apache gold gold and gem pay dirt
concentrate 2.5 ounces". Now these two pay dirts are exactly the same price except
this one here he charges shipping the Apache gold he does not. So it's almost
exactly the same price ...less than 50 cents difference so this pay dirt is 2.5
ounces real American pay dirt.. you can buy one for $14.95 each, two for $14.20
each three for less, four for even less. But I only purchased one through my
decoy. My decoy is another person that lives in a different state, that way these
pay dirt vendors wouldn't recognize my name and ship me a bag with "more gold" in
it... I've had trouble with that in the past and this way we know for sure that
this is a 100% unbiased bag of pay dirt, and this is what you can expect to get
from this product here, if you even buy it after this review we'll have
to see ...so let's go ahead and take a look at the description.. so right here is the
description ..you can go ahead and pause this and read it for yourself, if you
want to read all the details.. however I already did that for you ..there's only
one thing we're really looking for in here, and that is "guaranteed gold amount".
There's no actual amount of gold guaranteed in this product ...it does say
there is "guaranteed gold and gems inside", but it doesn't guarantee an amount which
means he can get away with giving us one or two little crumbs
gold worth 50 cents or less, and still be covered because he "guaranteed gold" and
we got it. So that's why I like making these videos to kind of ...I'm not saying
this guy's a scammer... but that's why I'm doing these videos so
we can weed them out if we find them. We'll take this down to the Panning station,
we'll open it up, we'll go through it, find some gems and we're guaranteed some
gold ...we'll see how much is actually in there ..alright I hope you guys enjoy the
video. Okay so here's the letter that came with this pay dirt "Dear Mr. Decoy"...
thank you for your order of Apache gold pay dirt we take pride in providing
quality gold and jim concentrates from america in your pan you will find gold
Apaches tears pyrite rose quartz and turquoise
be sure to pen a toy so you don't miss any fine gold adding a drop of soap will
greatly aid in fine gold capture your purchase supports local prospectors and
helps keep the American dream alive if you have any questions concerns or
comments please don't hesitate to reach out sincerely Stuart Smith geologist and
prospector. Now when I read his name and "geologist and prospector" that's how I
knew that "whiskey dicks" was the same seller, so that's why I mentioned that
and here's what the bag looks like, a very small Apache gold gold and gem
panning dirt
just a very small, heat sealed bag. Let's take a look at it in a pan.
Nice.
Okay so there's no where to actually like rip it there's no little
notch there yeah maybe there is
Let's see what's inside here... looks to me like there's some sort of larger gemstone in
there...whatever that is ....let's go ahead and pour it out... oh yeah tons of
gemstones just like the whiskey dicks. It's actually kind of cool to see that
but I mean really it looks just like playsand. That's playsand right there.
...and he threw in a handful of little gems... so why don't we go ahead and we're gonna
classify this just to get the bigger gems and stones out of it and we'll take
a closer look at those. I'm just going to use an arbor fabricating kitchen
strainer
And here we have our plus and minus kitchen strainer, I want to take a look
at these gemstones maybe we can identify a couple of them..
looks like we have a piece of lapis lazuli there, that blue stone right here..
it looks like a piece of pyrite in quartz.. this one here looks like
turquoise I would guess that's a turquoise chip right there... that is a
piece of quartz crystal a chip of quartz crystal... that one I'm not too sure about
it's kind of like limestone with little black chunks in it... I think these are the
Apache tears, four of those... and there's a few more pieces of pyrite and quartz in
there so we do have a nice little collection of gemstones here but that's
not what we're interested in.... what we're interested in is this right here ...look at
this ...I think we actually got a nice little flake of gold right there ..real
thin, it's probably almost weightless. worth maybe a buck or two, we will weigh
that up separately at the end of the show once we determine that it is
actually gold, I'm pretty sure it is.. so that's awesome actually
it's very light though.. next we have our "minus" kitchen strainer the play sand looking
stuff. Now just because we can only see the play sand doesn't mean that's only
play sand, so in order to find out, we're gonna go ahead and take a magnet to this
and that's gonna bring any of the magnetite and hematite up with the
magnet and that way we'll see what kind of heavies are in here, and it'll
also remove the magnetite for us to make it easier to pan. So the best way to
remove magnetic stuff from pay dirt like this is to use a very strong neodymium
magnet I just put in a dollar tube there and if there's any magnetite you'll hear
it clicking against the plastic.
Nope I don't think there's anything in there so
we have absolutely no magnetite in here so that's going to make it really easy
to pan that's actually not a bad thing it just makes the pay dirt very easy to
pan out when you have a lot of black sand that makes it difficult to pan for
the gold, because once you get to the very end, the only thing that's gonna be
left is black sand, hematite, magnetite and the gold and since there's no black
sand to worry about. it'll just be gold. Alright so now we're
going to start panning this stuff out but first I want to take that real thin
piece of gold and we'll set it in there along with this smaller stuff just so
when we pan it out you'll be able to see that this is actually a piece of gold
okay so let's bring over crusty rusty here we're gonna add water and some
surfactant that's gonna break the surface tension of the water so that
real thin piece of gold and any smaller gold cannot float away on the surface
tension alright let's see what kind of gold we get
stuff is really easy to pan all the light stuff just floats right off the
top as you can see all the heavy gold is going to be trapped down in here
okay so we're at the very end here let's go ahead and spin this back we're gonna
swirl it back leaving all the heavy stuff at the top and all the light stuff
is going to float down to the bottom that is a piece of pyrite just in case
you're wondering and there's that big piece of gold there's a few other flakes
in there too yeah you know what this I mean I'll tell you right now that's only
gonna be maybe five bucks worth of gold but there's a big flat piece in there
there's some chunkier pieces in here even though it costs us $15 and we're
getting $5 worth of gold it's still pretty cool I mean there's some big gold
there to find there's nothing really really small it's not difficult it's a
good beginner is Paydirt I would say, let's actually take this well dry it out we'll
take it up to the DSLR camera and we'll get some high-definition footage of this
gold to see how chunky it really is, but I mean that looks pretty good I'm
guessing we got about a 30 to 40 percent return on investment there
all right now the easy part of the video all we have to do is enter in the weight
so we had 0.06 three grams of gold this part here allows us to choose the purity
from 24kt all the way down to 8kt, but since its natural placer gold
I've been using 24kt purity as the actual value because you can resell this
kind of exact gold back to pay dirt vendors usually for 23 or 24 karat value
so let's see the value I said maybe five bucks... I think it's gonna be less ..yeah so
$3.34 let's check the ROI. So here's a
percentage calculator we got $3.34 and we paid $15
free shipping let's see what our... 22.... alright so he sent me a bag in a fan
mail, and I got 39% return on investment..this one
that I purchased through a third-party I only got like nearly
half of that, so is that shady? I mean he does not promise an
amount in the description, it just says guaranteed gold and gems inside.. we got
the gems.. if you guys were wondering what the gems are valued at.. you can go to any
Rock shop or anything and probably get all those little chips of gems and stuff
for like 2 bucks or something so I mean was it fun that's really what these
products are all about yeah was I mean it was fun now was it $11 or $12 worth
of fun? That's up to you to decide, however, if you're looking for gold
amounts, I would not suggest this place. Check out my gold pay dirt playlist.. I've
got 70+ other videos over there you can check them out,
people always ask me "what's the best pay dirt to buy?"... that's why I make these
videos so you guys can decide for yourself. So I hope you guys enjoyed this
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