yeah haven't got there yet I am it's a beautiful day it's a beautiful day in
the Fraser a beautiful day in the Fraser hood won't you be mine no everyone we're
back on the Fraser something a little bit different today though because we're
we abandoned Pinkerton just for a day because we need to try something new and
we come back here to one of my bedrock claims that's been treating us well and
we're trying a new spot on it doing some investigation we got Mike, Pete, Mark and
myself today and we're checking out some new spots
you may have seen this claim on a few of my other videos because we've been here
lots before and taking lots of videos if you'd like to see some of those other
videos I'll leave a link leave a link right here click on that and I'll take
you off to some of the other videos of this claim you can see what we've done
over the years here today we're gonna see if there's other spots in this claim
that treat us as well as the first big crevasse we found well let's hope
well I found myself a nice little a crevice here for train noise in the
background get train go by nice little crevice I'm gonna clear out the bottom
and see what has deposited fair amount of sand but I could shovel that away
access to the water beautiful spot a bit of a climb down it in that come
down that to get into it because the other option is that and I'm not coming
down that nice let's but yeah start prospecting here and seeing what I can
find in that stuff hopefully it washed down gold from above
dropped into there swirled up in stuck somewhere so the place I'm working right
now is giving me not bad pans you can see there's what 30 pieces in that pan
they're small some of them are okay size flakes but still hoping for the Pickers
down here on bedrock I'm gonna continue in this spot hoping I get down into some
Pickers but if I get three or four of our pans like that I'm gonna move on
looking for bigger stuff it's not a bad pan there's nothing wrong with that pan
I just want something big today
I don't know how the other guys are doing I'm stuck in the crevice I can
even go over and see them there's the brain Sutton I'm working way up tonight
crevice up there the next pan seems to be about the same about twenty or thirty
pieces some okay size but mostly small no Pickers it'll continue so I'm digging
down in this stuff right now and I'm rocking every pan every pan I have
thirty or more pieces however they're not big just scraped all the way down
from the top scraping scraping scraping scraping and it does seem to be getting
more and more so maybe yes I get lower I'll get bigger pieces I'm gonna get
more pieces maybe a little bit beer a nice thing about this is it's a real
quick walk right down to the water's edge pan it really easy let's see if I
can flip that big rock out of the way so I'm about to abandon this one spot here
I'm doing really well there's gold here I'll come back to it someday
probably maybe but I want to go around and show you where else on this claim I
would look on a bedrock claim on a big river like this where I would look to
find good gold I'm gonna show you some of the spots that we found good goal in
the past I'll show you where the guys are working and what they're getting
here rocks being thrown in the water here well who's maybe someone found one
anyhow I'm gonna show you around show you what I would look for on a bedrock
claim like this and how to look for gold where you would find gold on bedrock or
where you would look for gold at least but before I leave this button to show
you what I got my pan here now I don't remember sucking up any mercury while I was
here but I see a bunch of gold is covered in mercury now so there must
have been some mercury in one of one of those pieces or one of the little suck
ups I did because my gold is trying to get covered in mercury you can see lots
of mercury in there there's that Sun Sun no it's bear for
the camera Sun or no Sun but there we go we probably have a quarter gram of gold
after what was a there an hour wait maybe two I don't know
having keeping track of time call the mercury I hate that oh well and a whole
bunch of those like there's dozens of those lead fishing weights there I think
their fishing weight led L the same but there we go
that's what was in that little crack I'm gonna go and leave this crack alone now
you'll see what else I can find and show you where L said look on this claim for
gold gold gold mercury you so we have Mike over here head down ass up in the
hole what you find in Mike oh yeah you're working the crack oh yeah yeah
that looks good no I would think though that that crack goes a long ways down
and you know the big pieces might be a meter or two down yeah that's the right
idea for sure just sneak by you there you go exactly now officially goes four
ways this one down here looks really good too this one looks really good yeah
you know digging out all that shale right there get down the bottom of that
it might not be so deep that one or oh I could stand corrected that might be a
mile deep yep it might be
got some mercury on my gold it's all getting covered in silver yeah I didn't
see it go in but I just checked my bottle and got a lot of silver in there
you go check on the other guys and see how they're doing now coming up on this
Fisher here this has treated us very well over the years we have pulled a lot
of gold out of here including some pretty big Pickers big crack
lots of Riverrun cobble in it that little dark spot right there
I pulled probably a gram out of about two square feet right there water just
swirled in behind that rock and deposited lots of gold might be washing
down from above down the hall Fisher and then hitting down into the swirl of
water and just swirling around behind and depositing in there that's kind of
what we're looking for on this claim is those spots where it's sitting flat on
bedrock that shale bedrock and possibly having material from above washing down
over it there's another crevasse you can't see it it's running right through
here you can sort see the bottom of it which is almost identical to this one
and then the third one you see the ridge of the top ridge there a third one over
there those two didn't treat us as well but they still had good gold I'd like to
get over to the point over there because there is actually a nice-looking spot
over there but you can't get around the base you'd have to go over the top and
we haven't made that hike yet okay let's go back and look at other
spots I'll try now we have tried many many many of these shale crevices filled
with moss every one of them shows us gold some better than others for sure
but you start digging in those getting down in there the screwdriver picking it
out and you always get gold in the bottom of these in fact that one right
there looks really good really really really good get Mike over here for this
one you can see it basically starts right here it runs and ends right there
it's only about four feet long and you can see gravels in the bottom but you
also see that shale up on edge which is gonna catch and hold the gold that's
what you're looking for just showing Mikey this spot right now cuz this looks
really good nice crevice going all the way down there's a spot that has been
jammed up so anything running down the crevice will get sort of blocked up for
a second and possibly any gold will be falling out underneath that all blocked
up and it's a nice looking crevice underneath there it doesn't look like
it's gonna be that deep because you can see even down here it terminates yeah
put up under there there's life I can see the gravels see these and they look
like heavy gravels right in here too right underneath that I like the look of
the cracks are going up from it as well
there's a spot possibly hmm try that next you go find the other two no
they're not up there just so you can see where I was working sort of from above
this is the crack I was in I was mostly working up there but I also worked down
at the very bottom and found bigger pieces at the
so if I were to come back with the guys I'd roll that big rock
that one out of the way and just work the bottom part of it because I was
getting bigger pieces down there and again it looks like this whole crack has
been fed from this old river gravel that's way up high I have a feeling in
in this bedrock claim all of our gold is actually coming from above washing down
from these old gravels gold doesn't like to jump up onto bedrock from a low creek
so I think it's actually washing down from above I would love to test the
gravels up here under these cobbles the problem is getting it down to the river
when the river is so low would be very difficult I hear the guys let's go find
them and there's some pretty nice catches up high here you see there's
those river gravels I was talking about when they get washed down they get
washed down into this fall in bedrock and lots of catches down in here I won't
even bother with this stuff gets washed too thoroughly by the river but up
underneath here where it's packed in that can cast gold as it washes from
that through here wash this by there I can see it getting caught underneath
this edge up in there I hear them they're down here somewhere
here they are we found them oh we found the Sun oh
it's break okay here's where mark and Pete were working they bowled me away
but you're down cleaning bedrock nicely and actually breaking it up I can see
getting all the sand in between them nice but no I like to look yes you
you're sort of right below all these rich old River gravels here so anything
that was in that could have washed down past this chunk of bedrock and settled
there I like the looks of it right I think I'm gonna move back to her hot
spot from before and just you know spend an hour there so I just heard hooting
and hollering from Mike either he fell in the river it's not a big piece of
gold one or the other I think he found big piece of gold so making my way back
over to him I just left him making my baby back let's go see what he has found
and now I don't see him anywhere so maybe he did fall in the river
where are you oh there you are yes I'm show me of course I want to see it so
Mikey started cleaning out underneath where we were just talking about here on
that crack and that's where he's found something good he's not letting on how
good it is is it good good or just
another nice one give nice Mikey oh yeah that's better
than anything I've been finding all right you bet
okay pick it up pick it up it's a picker
does it make a sound that was older wider oh yeah it makes a sound there's
what Mike's got so far today he's going after the big stuff I went after the
small stuff I'm going for big stuff now yeah sure so the next spot I'm working
here just another crack coming down just shoveling off into or scraping off into
my shovel down into my pan I just pulled a little picker out of here I didn't get
it on video but one low picker you'll see if I can play another one but again
just up in one of these big crevices where some of the plasma Tyrael is
flowing down from above catching in that slate bedrock so Mike and Pete left
without us they started go up the hill without us which normally I wouldn't
care too much about except for the fact that Mike's driving today and he's got
the keys so we're packing up real quick and Mark and I are packing up real quick
gonna head up the hill and catch them Mike me up for a Mikey's he did the best
today
Mertz over here oh yeah and Pete got nothing
Pete did very well today have you liked America no good day good day excellent
I'd like to apologize all the youtubers out there for having my poopy pants on
the last video I had no idea I looked that miserable or sounded I'm miserable
but you always look miserable I hope you enjoyed the video I hope you're able to
learn a little bit about sort of how I look for gold on a bedrock claim like
this I hope you enjoyed the scenery we love coming to this claim is like the
most peaceful oh it's amazing spending the afternoon the day here in the canyon
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