Big, beautiful North American Placer!! Freakin fantastic!!!

Lanny in AB

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Big, beautiful North American Placer!! Freakin' fantastic!!!

Unbelievable video of big North American gold nuggets + new finds, pics, videos added: a live thread, so please post your gold shots.
I'll add other videos or stills of big nuggety North American gold as I find them.

This video starts slow, but it's shot underground, so give it a while and then watch out that you don't have a freakin' heart attack!!

I hope you love looking at this as much as I did--every placer miner's dream come true. If you're a rookie, you'll get the fever bad watching this one. (To avoid any confusion, this is not my video, nor is it my clean-up, nor was I involved in any way--I found it by mistake after typing in a search word incorrectly [that's why I'd never found it before], but I sure do love it!!)



Almost 3,800 ounces in the last shot--fines are in the large plastic bags. 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle!

All the best,

Lanny

P.S. I posted it with my beginner's thread as well, but it's so great it deserves it's own place too.

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Lanny in AB

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Should be able to see the pictures on the previous page now.

T'was a strange thing indeed that I could see them but none of you could . . .

All the best,

Lanny
 

KevinInColorado

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Beautiful stuff Lanny!
 

63bkpkr

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The tiniest bit of the glow of the sun sneaking silently over the tops of the pines in the early morn of some secluded mountain range or the glow of gold are both spectacular sights, thank you for sharing!.................63bkpkr
 

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The tiniest bit of the glow of the sun sneaking silently over the tops of the pines in the early morn of some secluded mountain range or the glow of gold are both spectacular sights, thank you for sharing!.................63bkpkr

Wow! Waxing poetic today Herb, nicely done, and all the best,

Lanny
 

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Lanny in AB

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Just a reminder to those of you not shy about posting your gold pictures, if you're chasing the gold in North America, I'd love to see some pictures of it posted on this thread!

All the best, and lots of luck,

Lanny
 

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Any new photos? Would love to see them.

Thanks, and all the best,

Lanny
 

KevinInColorado

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Any new photos? Would love to see them.

Thanks, and all the best,

Lanny

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Here’s a small start from Colorado.
 

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Great to see you're still at it Kevin!

That sure is pretty gold.

All the best,

Lanny
 

OwenT

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I go back and watch that video from the beginning of the thread every so often. I found some more great videos out there. Hope everyone enjoys them.

 

arizau

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I go back and watch that video from the beginning of the thread every so often. I found some more great videos out there. Hope everyone enjoys them.



Great videos. Don't know if you noticed but the preview of videos at the end of the first video includes one by our own Reed Lukens. One other video is of a man using a plastic honeycomb frame (looks sort of like punch plate but with closed bottom) used by beekeepers, as a pan to concentrate fine sands and gold from shovelfuls of gravel.....very interesting and a method to quickly clear oversize and other waste materials like silt.
 

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russau

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Feeding a sluice with a bulldozer..............I wonder what kind of gold loss they had ??? BUT it sure took the labor out of it ! I guess they made up for the loss by the quantity of gold !
 

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Some Oregon Gold
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oneguy

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Last week I found 41 pieces in 2 days...here's the biggest, 25+ grams.... I have a BIG one also that I'll post at the end of my season with my totals....

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Lanny in AB

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Last week I found 41 pieces in 2 days...here's the biggest, 25+ grams.... I have a BIG one also that I'll post at the end of my season with my totals....

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That's a great find!

Nicely done, and all the best,

Lanny
 

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Lanny in AB

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I go back and watch that video from the beginning of the thread every so often. I found some more great videos out there. Hope everyone enjoys them.

Thanks for the videos Owen!

All the best,

Lanny
 

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