Twelve prospecting mistakes that stop you from finding gold – successful gold prospecting techniques

"EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE A COPY OF CHRIS'S BOOK"FIST'S FULL OF GOLD, HE'S TRUELY HELPED ME FIND A FIST'S FULL OF GOLD LITERALLY 👍

After three months watching YouTube videos on gold prospecting I have concluded.....You are the best channel for information coming from a educated, experienced and intelligent point of view. The second channel to watch is Dan Hurd And the only other channel I student needs is....Jeff Williams. Excellent job Chris 👍

I am a part time prospector, and agree with what is being said here. A quick summary would be: know the land, go where gold has been found, explore, and test test test. There is no set rule of where you will find gold. Gold is where gold is. And even then, and with decades of experience, there are times where you will be wrong. There is a massive multitude of tools at your disposal so you can start prospecting an area days, weeks, or even months before you ever set a single boot on the ground. But the most important thing is to test continually. Even if you are in a high grade hot spot, keep testing. And keep everything. When I first started prospecting I would dump the little bits of “fly poop” flour gold if there wasn’t a lot of it. I focused on the flakes and pickers. A friend of mine would collect everything. After a year of 2-3 days a week, 5-6 hours a day of panning and sluicing he had almost 2 ounces of just flour gold saved up. Since we invariably worked the same areas all I could think after that was “I dumped 2 ounces of gold out of my pans, on purpose.”

Great video Dont forget streams and rivers are alway changing paths and moving tons of rocks and dirt especially during storms, revealing areas of earth that has never been touched or prospected by anyone

Thank you for guiding us. You're too kind and spent a lot of time on this video to give us something honest and genuine.

Great solid realistic advice from an honest working prospector. This was like a tutorial from a professor drawing from vast experience and knowledge, excellent list of tips and clear explanation!

Thank you Chris. Great reality check. I found illustrative examples very much more helpful to enable a context understanding. Going after that book too!

This is great advice. I used to walk all over the place and found nothing. Thanks to people like you, I don't do that anymore. I learned the hard way.

Dude, you are awesome! Love it how real you are about this whole deal! You’re a breath of fresh air , sir! Learning from you things I didn’t know, even with 20+years of experience(about half of yours) I’m learning something new from each video you make. Thank you, Ralph. Seriously. True Knowledge is very precious but when you give it out for FREE, it becomes priceless and invaluable and you sir, have and give it in spades!

I have your book and love it. Also happened across Handbook For Prospectors, Von Bernewitz, circa 1943. It's cool to read about accepted methods used before MSHA, as well as other info. We don't realize how much easier, and likely to succeed because of the available tools at our disposal than they had. But they were pretty abvanced for their time. So much work went into those old publications. The glossary of terms with page refs is over 50 pages long.

Thank you Mr Ralph for all of your experience put into this and other videos. Always to watch and learn from. Thank You.

You are the best teacher in the world. Thank you! Greetings from Australia.

Thankyou Chris, some excellent, straight talking advice. Cheers from Michael. Australia.

Man, do I know my country! When I saw that shot from my home state - Western Australia and before I knew where it was, I thought to myself that it looked a lot like the eastern goldfields! And I was right. Most of my family, on both sides, come from the eastern and north eastern and Murchison goldfields, ( they moved around a lot! ) with my mother being born in Meekatharra and spent a lot of time in Mt Magnet and my father born in the now ghost town of Nannine. After my grandmother died, my grandfather bought a small caravan and spent a lot of his time back in the gold fields, with his picks and shovels and trusty old dry blower, stopping and prospecting where ever he wanted to. As a young teenager, I thought he was just a cranky, anti-social old fart, but now that I'm closer to his age now and have lived in three state capitol cities and numerous provincial ones, the urge to just "go bush" and get away to the deafening silence of the outback is becoming too strong to resist in recent times. And win, lose or draw, doing a bit of prospecting along the way won't do me any harm either. It's hard, harsh country out there, but for some odd reason, it holds no fear for me. Just look for the little cloud of red dust from my dry blower! Thanks for your very informative video.

Thank you Chris! It was a pleasure watching this video. You are very knowledgeable. Good video for beginners .

I’ve never prospected nor found a single flake of gold yet but I’m tickled to death to have found ur channel. I totally agree with ur logic and advice, thank you for sharing. I’m only interested in finding a small amount for my personal satisfaction and the sense of adventure. Thanks again

Thankyou Chris for your wonderful vids Chris! The real nuggets of gold, I think, are your wisdom, truth , seemingly an altruistic person! I think of you as a very trustworthy college professor perhaps, or just a heck of a nice guy! Anyhow, you are very helpful., perhaps it isn’t the gold we all are seekingbut something non material such as knowledge?

Great advice Ralph ! All excellent points ! Best concentration of gold on my desert claim is near the surface, like you said. Bedrock yields little, however, on occasion will find a nice nugget down there, which makes up for finer specimens near the top ! Also find an occasional picker on the surface ! Thanks for sharing ! Watching your subscriber list grow. Excellent ! 🤠

Thank you for your information. Keep up the good work!

I have learned so much from this guy about all I need to know about prospecting. Im glad he doesn't keep his knowledge to himself. This is a very useful video here