Gold Nuggets found at a Copper Mine, in Tailings!
Dayna and I headed back into the Golconda Copper mine to investigate a huge pile of mine tailings (Mine Ore) that was left behind when the mine shut down almost 100 years ago. We ran this crush material through the new Gold Hog Z3 High Banker. And the results were very surprising in a very good way. GOLD NUGGETS!
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behind every good man is a wife who is tired of his jokes
if he's good enough, she doesn't mind too much.
She might be waiving that shovel for more than one reason? lol.
My x used to tell me how many times she had heard each story. I miss her
Preach it!!!
Boy ain’t that the truth lol
Of all the gold and gems Dan finds, his greatest treasure is still his Dayna. ❤
You’ve already discovered the most precious element on earth Dan… It’s a solid gold wife that puts up with all of your tailings. You’ve been a “Miner For a Heart of Gold”. You most certainly have discovered the most priceless mother load ever.
Mad respect for gold hog sending products to not only test but also improve for everyone to see.
I'm with Dayna. She does all the Work!
I find it relaxing to watch you using the high bankers. It's also fun to see the joy when you find gold and seeing you work the tailings on this place just gets me excited that maybe there's a lot of gold to be found! ☀
Be nice if they had attachments to have one of the spouts spray farther up the first pan.
Looks like running the tailings is worth it. Gold Hog did a great job with the Z! It's a little monster!
XRF them sulphides platinum runs in cube form also,seen people say it's just pyrite when it was running raw platinum
That's a very interesting comment, thank you. I looked at images of native platinum. Gosh how upset would you be if you discarded platinum?
Would definitely love to see what Jason could do with five or ten bags of that stuff. If the free-mill is any indication then there's a lot in that pile, possibly enough to make it worth a small excavator and process rig.
I was thinking the same thing myself. Load up a couple hundred pounds, next time Dan goes south and leave it with Jason to process as he can
So cool seeing Dana out there too. Great episode.
I love that Dan describes the geology of the situation as he is processing material.😊
Thanks for all the videos Dan! You always reignite my gold fever!
Great tuque Dayna! Always a pleasure to stop by, thanks for sharing!
Great video! So relaxing to watch (rather than go out in the cold and do!) Love the King George V dime.
“She’s my gold digger” that was genuinely funny. I hope I’m not the only one who understood the humor. Because as I have stated before, I am jealous that you have found an ideally suited partner.
Amen his family seem to be happy and that’s the important part of life
I hope you get back to this mine now that spring is on the way. Maybe with a small backhoe and highbank this pile en masse. Take Andy and Jason with you or something. That would be a blast to watch.
Thank you always Dan!
Dan the man Teaching us how to pan With all that gold and mineral in his hand Grinding the ore for gold is just grand With all those speciments on rich soil land😊😊😊😊❤
Gold job Dayna. Very nicely done.
It was great to see this video of you and Lady Dayna working 🤣♥️♥️♥️♥️. Thanks for sharing and the smiles.
I always enjoy! Thank you Dan!
I see a Lady bird. Dayyna. Nice to see the family. Thanks for another awesome video. Regards South Africa 🇿🇦.
You two do some great teamwork! Thanks for the video!
Great demo of Gold Hog’s latest innovation, Dayna and Dan. A worthwhile day out in the cold. Glad you got to prove there’s gold.
That looked like a fun day!
Thanks for another interesting video Dan and Dayna. Cool to see so many different minerals all together.
Have you considered roasting the concentrate to burn off the sulfur then run it through your magnetic separator. That should help get more magnetic material out of the concentrate.
Opal miner here down under ,on occasion I go specking on the old mine dumps its amazing what the old timers missed or just threw away back in the old days.
He is a very very knowledgeable person that is one reason I like watching his program there's not too many people that actually explain everything to you as he goes I like that good man
You guys are adorable couple:) quickly becoming my favorite channel:)
Gold Hog did verry well by letting you testrun the sluice! Loved the moment you turned around the raised hose ends part, for compact traveling. That is how neat adjustments are made 😃 Hope Gold Hog puts Dan's feature into the end design♥️
Great video, Dan! You are a great teacher and an inspiration! I'll be starting my first panning soon in a small NC creek.
Only a whole mound to go Dan!
Very nice Dayna makes a good pack mule too. Then again Dayna Blue is the best. Nice video and test.
Heck yeah, great work Dan!
Thanks for video... Nice to meet you Dan and your dad at Port Alberni rock and gem show!... I was shocked of how tall you and your dada are!
Thank you from Berlin New hampshire. I'm really learning about gold mining and whatnot
Another GGGGGREAT Video!! Keep em coming. Well done. Thank you.
Hi Dan, hope the heart is strong, best wishes from Wales take it easy :)
Thank you for sharing ❤️
Good to see you out Dan I'm going out exploring in a few months. Just coming off two strokes last Aug they were mild thank goodness I had a T-car put installed on my neck ,I can still drive and getting better thing are a little slower now but doing ok. I wish you the best.
OH DARN IT...the frickin spring forward clock change got me, missed the premiere.....🤬🤬🤬 lol, Dayna, a literal "gold digger" 😂🤣😂🤣🤣 those pieces of gold are perfect for natural gold jewelry...
Good job, Dan and Dayna. You make a great team. Love it from down under🙃 ❤ it 😊
Dan, Your wife is NOT a GOLD DIGGER, , She's digging gold:) I dig both of you:) Cheers, Rik Spector
Beautiful find Danno
Thank you for a wonderful and enjoyable video six stars brother
"She's my golddigger" 😂 made me chuckle. Always great these episodes with you and Dayna 🫶
Morning Dan and folks
They ore looks very close to Dana Blue picture stone
I am glad you did this review. That highbanker looks like one person could run a significant amount of material per run. Heavy Pans Dan!!!
Arizona doesn't do DST So I go here an hour late... Get Jason to demo one of his truck mounted systems at this site...
I think Jason sold that system and has not created another from the stockpiled parts to which he has access. Vague memory around three years ago?
Gooood morning Dan and friends!!
Great video. Nice to see Dana out with you. Looking forward to seeing if Gold Hog took any of you advise 😀 😉
Is that an 8" wide setup? It honestly looks like a Piglet that's been modified. Not that that's a bad thing. ✌️😎
Thanks for the entertainment!
Nice piece Dan
Beautiful hard rock gold Dan. It is very angular and rough, and hasn't travelled far, if at all. Good stuff!
Dayna is a true gold digger! And she does an amazing job at it 🎉
Cool gold , also, great photography.
Good video Dan.
3", thank you for using freedom units instead of metric for your southern watchers! 😊 joking of course, thank you for the entertainment and information, as always Mr. Hurd. Thank you Mrs. Hurd for your hard work and sharing your husbands time with the rest of us!❤
Thanks for showing us all, the glamorous aspects to mining.
Great video 😊
would love for you to visit these tailings again
Rockn' Out Dan!
Hey Dan you better hang on to that woman she's a good woman Dana she works her you know what off and she's got a beautiful smile and you can't ask for more than better than that her smile and how she is as a person is more worth golden gems in this world you have a beautiful wife and I know that you appreciate it you have two beautiful children what more can a man ask for absolutely nothing😂😂❤❤❤❤😅😅😅
Nice crystaline gold
great boots Dana.
I find your ambition commendable.
Nice pieces of gold
Greetings from the BIG SKY. Good luck!
It would be interesting running a similar amount through a ball or chain mill and then a sluice but I'm sure you've thought that already. Perhaps it's in a future video. Nice find
Are you allowed to make a little temporary dam in the creek to give the pump a bit of depth?
Sweet!!!
"Unbelievable discovery! Gold Nuggets unearthed in the tailings of a Copper Mine. Witness the fascinating intersection of copper and gold in this unexpected treasure find. 🌟🪙
Hello Dan from Michigan,
I hope to try panning this year, hope you are out today Dan, Dayna
Dan, change the water flow from bottom up to top down and get rid of the dam totally. It's a bad choke point.
Good man Dan always the otherr half is the better one 😂😂
Hi Dan, I think it's great that you and Dayna share the same passion for prospecting. It's always nicer to be two people, and being with your partner is probably even nicer. Do you also need a licence to pan for gold as you do in this video, outside a mine (free) or can anyone do it without a licence? Last question: do you refill the holes you make when prospecting, I'm thinking especially of wild animals that can get trapped or even injured by falling into these holes?
QUESTION ❤ So would you have found more possibly if you would have smelted? How does someone know if they have gold in sulfied material? Great video thanks
The water tubes are connected to a piece of metal, and that piece of metal should be connected to the TOP of the chute, not the end, and the plastic piece the drains the water into the top chute can be molded at a slight angle to allow water to hit back of top chute using small grizzly bars that run over the top of the top chute from the bottom of the back of the top- chute to allow the larger rocks to run right off the edge after being washed by the water. By doing this you make the larger rocks go thru the water and be washed of any gold residue and then continue over the top of the chute to fall out to the ground.
The water pressure or jets on that highbanker could use some work, perhaps it's just the water being pumped up hill, whichever there doesn't seem to be a lot of turbulence in the hopper, perhaps adjustable nozzles in the hopper could be attached so you can adjust the jet pressure to suit various conditions
To process that entire crush pile, especially if I were looking for specimens to sell, I would lay out some heavy vinyl tarp along the entire base of the pile [need not be a lot, just enough to catch what washes down] and focus all the material in with a pressure hose [kinda like hydraulic mining, only more of a controlled washing] so I could have a separator table to have somebody sorting the rough crush before it passed along to a better crusher. But then I would not really bother much with too intensive of a gravity separation, and simply let it dewater in big fiber totes, load it onto a truck and run it to a better place to smelt.
Good morning all wish you luck
Up in Michigans UP we sometimes come accross pieces of raw copper.
Mrs. Dan you are a hell of a good digger.
dig a bigger sump for the pump . Utmost makes a better product
Seems like a different spray nozzle might be beneficial to increase the velocity of the spray to better wash the dirt coming in. Seemed like it was backed up a bit.
That's cool gold
Sweet ⛏️⛏️
If the plate with hose nozels were on lift bars like the bars that hold the skuices apart it seems you could direct the water higher up in the distruction chamber
Looks like a great place to grab a sample to run through the mbmm hammer mill and shaker table to see how much you can liberate 😬
Good afternoon from Copperhill Tn. Home of the Fairy Cross,staruilite
Nice silver dime!
very best video❤❤❤❤❤
Well, Dayliughts savings time is to blame for me not being at the premiere today lol......cant wait for the season to start!!
Suggestion, If the water flowing in had adjustable nozzles, it could be run at a lower pressure and wash the entire hopper.
I absolutely love how the 2 of you work together as a team it's very refreshing to see
might be a pain to setup but that would be a nice spot to setup a crusher with a shaker table. you allready got a crushed pile so i feel the hard work is done.It could be profitable with a fine crusher and shaker table i would think .