The Gold Hunter's Guide to Tracing Hidden Treasures

hey I'm Chris Ralph the professional prospector and I'm here today with my friend Alex Dahl bear and Alex's tell me about a really hot little spot of gold that he found by looming and so I want to talk about taking samples and using the method called low Ming and we're gonna talk about it and Alex was telling me as we were walking over here that he you know has found some gold in this area we're in a gold bearing area and of course we're not gonna say where it is but we're in a gold bearing area and he took some samples of dirt and he got a little bit of gold and he just followed the gold where it led him well using the old as Australians would say low mean right to find the gold yeah I mean basically all you did was you just took a small amount of dirt you screened the rocks out of it right yep Green demand panda and then just panned it with with water and see how much gold and and that's a sample and you can you said you labeled the senior you up little flags out to see where you were yeah I flagged the the area a big broad area and labeled them and then had corresponding and then I would take them and in Panem out and the the dirt doesn't lie the the pans tell you where to go and where to follow the gold to so you just went when you had a sample if you had a sample here that was not so good and maybe a couple samples over here that wasn't so good but you got a couple samples here that were really good you would just kind of follow them up the hill that's exactly right I followed it it was a pretty clear line and I lost it for a little bit but but and not sure why that was but I picked it right back up and and the line was remained on course and I followed it right up to a gold-bearing quartz vein one of the things about roaming is that it if you're following up to a single source it makes like a cone you know the further downhill you are the more spread out it is and lower the grade and as you get closer and closer and closer to the source then it gets better and better grade but it's harder to follow