Research - The Key To Finding Gold , new video

[paydirt1850]

Here is my latest video,


The members here have been great with suggestions and comments. Please keep the suggestions coming, hopefully it's making my videos better. Thanks all!

 

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[Bodfish Mike]

Nice video thanks.
I'm a little confused as to what your calling coarse gold though.
In the video your calling bigger pieces coarse gold -- My assumption of coarse gold is
that it has not moved far from the source and is not worn and rounded --- Am I wrong.
Thanks Mike

 

[goldenIrishman]

Nice video Gary. Covers the basics pretty well and should be of help to many beginners. For your next one, I'd consider doing something on the basic geology of gold. There's still a lot of untouched areas around and since they haven't been worked, it's through geology that they're found. I'd consider doing a video on this myself but it's often been said that I have a perfect face for RADIO.

 

[OwenT]

Nice video thanks.
I'm a little confused as to what your calling coarse gold though.
In the video your calling bigger pieces coarse gold -- My assumption of coarse gold is
that it has not moved far from the source and is not worn and rounded --- Am I wrong.
Thanks Mike

I've always associated the term "coarse gold" with larger gold, so descriptive of only the size rather than the texture.

 

[Bodfish Mike]

I just googled the word coarse.
1. rough or loose in texture or grain.
2. (of a person or their speech) rude, crude, or vulgar.
Some of my equipment is crude and it catches coarse gold

 

[paydirt1850]

By coarse I was referring to weight. This is why I like the feedback I get here. Something's I don't think about, coarse wasn't a good choice of words, should have said size or weight.
I have a - how gold relates to river dynamites, video in the works. After I started on it I realized there is a lot of information involved to do it right. Fishing and winter put a hold on it, hopefully I will be able to finish it this spring.

 

[Smithsgold]

Another good video !!!

 

[meMiner]

I have heard many experienced miners describe gold as either fine or coarse. Coarse in their vocabulary was flax seed size and larger.

 

[goldenIrishman]

I go by the following scale:

#12 or larger is "Course"
#12 to +70 mesh is fine
-70 mesh and smaller is "Flour" (but it still adds up!)

But that's just me. Your mileage may vary....

 

[paydirt1850]

I like the sound test - if you can hear it when you drop it back in the pan - its coarse.

 

[pczim]

Interesting video........For my location prospecting is very different to the way you guys in America do things. Our mining history and intensity is small compared to yours!!

Don't worry for me also course = larger nuggets / flakes and fine = smaller flakes.....

 

[Jeff95531]

Interesting discussion! In my vocabulary it's been flour, dust, fines, fly poop, flakes, pickers, nuggets. Gold close to it's source is usually coarse (sharper edges) and therefore less rounded than it's siblings downstream.

 

[Laz7777]

everyone got their own definitions.
but i've never had anything i'd call a nugget...14 grain at the biggest, not a nug by my reckonin'.
coarse is coarse, of course of course (talk to Mr. Ed on that)