Hey guys welcome back to another video today. I'm out here on a mountain
Above Golden Colorado here
I'm actually on my way to the river to do some magnet fishing for gold believe it or not
Stay tuned to see what that's all about, but yeah, I had a pit stop here
there's a geocache up here, so I wanted to find it and
You can see here
So hopefully you guys can see that says I'm 38 feet away a little orange thing in the middle
There's telling me which way to go, so I have to go this way
Says this cache is hidden under some rocks camping out under a large formation
Alright
So let's start looking around here
Maybe up here
no
up there possibly
Possibly not there's another rock formation down below closer to where this is pointing whoa
Sandals and High Desert I
don't recommend it that
Is the sign of a geocache being close right there?
found a pen
got to be close, so
I checked the recent logs on this geocache and
The last person couldn't find it. So I think this is the only thing left
I checked the hint for the cache. It said if you're sitting down at ground zero and you look over you'll see the profile on
The rocks of a face you can see the big nose there and stuff
Or maybe they mean over there
But either way, no geocache, but I got a nice little hike up here. Got me a green pen and
Yeah, I think this cache is missing guy hopefully I
Posted that did not find on geocaching. Hopefully you're here watching my video
Hopefully, I was looking on the right spot - I looked all over the place man all underneath these rocks I looked
down in those rocks and and everything so
Yeah, I got to go get my gopro. It's down there doing the time-lapse all right. I'll see you at the river
I got my magnet tied off to a carabiner on my belt. Loop. I got my bucket right there and
I'm using my gopro strap as suspenders because I don't have a belt on
Wow
I'm just going to bounce the magnet up and down here behind these bigger Rocks I
Mean of course it's not going to pick up all the any bigger pieces of gold
But you know what I never find anything bigger than little flakes of gold in here anyway
so
Theoretically this should work
After I run a sluice box this is what I'm after this black sand and the gold is in with the black sand I
Don't know if anybody else has ever tried this
There is please let me know who did it I also want to give some shoutouts here while I'm at it one two relic digger
He actually did a shout out video
Specifically for my channel which I thought was pretty awesome pile with a lot black sand
Is all from right behind these folders?
Look at that
I also want to give a shout out to s jays mixed adventures
She's always the coin collecting and metal detecting and everything
So check out all their channels
coin collecting Hobby
His channel. He does that kind of stuff. He has a nice coin collection and everything
Hey look at this
weird to hyoeun
And of course you guys know who aqua chigger is check him out. Shout out to one pug light
Pretty hilarious the Red band in Green Band Channel check them out
Getting a lot of black sand out of here. This is fun. I can't wait to see if I get anything out of it
Jere Holdridge
Southwestern, Pennsylvania detecting
Pennsylvania coin Hunter check out his channel. He does a lot of coin roll hunting on his channel
He's from, Pennsylvania
He's a good guy. Yeah
Let's keep keep going here. I had to take a little break. This is what I got so far
That's a lot of black sand right there. There's got to be some gold in it, and I just started
This is going to be fun
All right, let's keep going
nice view
And move upstream a little bit
Now we're using a magnet picking up flat hand. This is what I got here
Are you going to melt?
It's probably
Maybe about five pounds of black spam
Was a good amount in there
And I'm going to go ahead and start handing it out here at the river
I'm not going to go home and do it
I'll just do it right here, and I can't wait to see what I get if anything. What do you guys think?
It's possible to get gold out of there or not leave me a comment in the comment section and look at all your things
All right, this is a lot of black sand and I don't really want to sit here and rigorous
I usually I'll do this at home. You know a teaspoonful at a time
But I have an idea. I think I'm going to go to my prospecting store
Over there in Golden and see what they they have to say about this
maybe they have some kind of machine that I can run this through or a
Better way to process all this black, sand
So I don't know if he's going to let me film in here
But this is the prospecting stolen golden. It's called Golden Detectors. Make sure you stop here ever um
If you guys ever are in the area he has everything in stock here
It's a great little store. I'm going to ask see if he'll let me film in that
Alright, so she said I can come in and take a look around
However, she said that the best option
Would be to just use the little little blue pan here
But they do have other options. This is called a water table
She said this would work, but it's very slow
But it would work
And there's also
This machine over here, but it only works
with
With sluice material she said that black sand is too heavy so it's not a good idea
But those are the options I have and take a look at this store. It's like a museum in here look at this
all those stuff
all kind of stuff for your detector pics
Digging stuff I have one of these
Call your classifiers pans everything you need books all kind of good stuff
Rock Tumblers
I know some people were asking in my videos about the crevice room tool. This is already got mine right here
And they have a good selection of metal detectors here
Look at this Old Civil War bullets
Yeah, so um. I already have one of those small blue pans. So we're going to go home and spend the rest of the night
Pannon, so thanks a lot. Okay, take care
Yep, I'll let you know how that turns out that
Okay, bye
Certain rain I got out of there just in time. I guess it doesn't matter. I was already soaking wet all right. Let's go home
All right guys. It's the next day. I panned for about a half hour yesterday and
Wasn't even making a dent in all that black sand so what I decided to do to make it a lot more efficient
And a little bit more fun
Was to go ahead and dry everything out first
separate the magnetic stuff and
Then pan it out. So what I did is I took it all I put it in this pan. This is my
My crusty rusty. I filled it up with all the blacks and I threw in the oven
450 degrees for
While
dried it out and
now I'm going to be able to separate the magnet like the
95% of the magnetic stuff out of here and
Then I can just pan out everything else including the gold so what's the view this is what we do
I have this this tool here that I I constructed pretty simply it is a large
Neodymium Magnet
All right, I don't want to get that close to any
anything metal unless it's
Highly controlled because this will break fingers so what I'm going to do is I have a nut driver here
I'm using this as a handle. I'm taking the magnet
I'm setting it on there like that
And then this is it just happens to fit this exactly it's a silver dollar
Coin Tube you can get them at a coin store or on Amazon or something
And it just set it in there like that
all right, so this is going to be my
My tool to separate the magnetic stuff obviously all right so the first thing we have to do
We take some of this stuff here
The wooden Spoon, I'm trying to keep as much metal away out of here as possible. I think a little spoonful and spread it around
in
in a separate phone
and then I just take my a tool here and
back and Forth
allow The
metallic
magnetite and Iron and
all the non gold
magnetic stuff to jump up to
your magnet
in that code
see that I
Have it jumping up. I'm not setting it down in the air because then you'll they'll get the gold with it
but this is everything that I yanked up from
The bottom of that creek with a magnet all that stuff. That's not coming to the magnet now
Did stick yesterday when it was wet? That's what it's a lot easier to separate this stuff when it's
when it's dry, so that's
It's a good amount right there
so then why do
Take this
and
Put it in there like that it all falls in and I start over
I'll go through this hub about twice. You just go a lot of magnetic stuff in there
Even these bigger rocks some of them are magnetic. That's a piece of metal and
So it was left over with this
That is where the gold and anything that's non-magnetic is going to be something. It's a lot easier to
Pen this out
in the black sand itself
So yeah, let's keep going
Alright guys. This is it. This is the end of it
I'm going to show you what we're left with
This is the end of it right here
So we have instead of five gallons five pounds of Black sand to
Tan
This is all we have so let's do it. Let's see. What kind of goal. We got water in our pan
I'm going to add a little bit get dry to this you see
Alright guys, so here. We go looks like we got some gold good amount of gold
You can see it up there at the top
Let me tap it this must all be garnets or something because it is pretty heavy the gold is moving right with it
You can see it all hidden there on the left
There's a good amount in there. I think I
mean there's at least as much as when I go sluicing and
All I did was go out with a magnet. I didn't have to shovel one thing I
Did all this with a mag but yeah there it is guys
Magnet fishing for gold it does work I?
Would doubt that we would be able to get anything bigger
Than these pieces right here like these little flakes
Anything bigger than that. I think it might be doubtful to pick up with a magnet
but a magnet can get at least that and
It only took me about two or three hours of work
To get this stuff that includes
the actual process of Magnet fishing drawing it out and
Separating it and then panning it out. I'd say maybe three hours
so
Compared to you know eight hours of sluicing or something like that, and I think it's a much better
Much more efficient way, so if anybody has ever tried doing it this way let me know
I've never heard of anyone else doing it with at all let alone with or without success, so I
Hope you guys enjoyed the video. Hope you enjoyed this new way of
prospecting far as I know
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