Here's the video on the relationship between rocks, minerals and gold. Note the few essential mineral types you need to watch for, these include; quartzite (especially dark stained tertiary quartz), magnetite & hematite, pyrite, green stones such as serpentine (California state mineral), red rocks and clays (redder the better.) Take a look at the video and go back to the … [Read more...]
How to find gold, using a few common placer gold rocks and minerals
Know how to find gold easily by watching out for just a handful of gold related rocks and minerals: Where you're hunting for gold; rocks and minerals are one of the most important things you can look at to find gold location clues. Out of the billions of combinations of rock and mineral types, there are only a handful of gold deposit minerals that you really need to keep an … [Read more...]
Panning for the Paystreak! (Short highlight video)
The prospecting connection to panning is especially important in knowing where nuggets, pickers and fine gold come from so you can easily spot more of them while you sleuth out the source. "Panning for the Paystreak (short)" is a short demo video what's inside our full length gold panning & prospecting video. That full length gold panning video, called "Panning for the … [Read more...]
Where does placer gold come from?
Where does placer gold come from - Gold Geology 101 - Finding placer gold sources, video part 2 of 2 (all 3 segments) Our discussion of where does placer gold come from? Gold and geology video picks up with a small review of the last video... (Note: If you need to check - Geology and gold 101 part 1 of 2, that video is found on this post) Let's take a look at important … [Read more...]
Platinum nuggets were thrown out by early miners
Q: Fran asks: Hi Prospector. Jess, I really liked the videos outlining how to track a pay streak in the river curves. I am about one year into prospecting and this revelation really tweaked it in for me. I have a question , I read somewhere that the most valuable Gold is not yellow in color. I believe that it stated that it is black and very dense as well. It is described as … [Read more...]