Finding Epithermal Gold And Silver BONANZAS Around The World

hey I'm Chris Ralph the professional prospector and today I'm coming to talk to you about epithermal gold and silver deposits these are the bonanzas that are spread over a lot of the western US but they're actually found worldwide there was Bonanza gold and silver in Germany in in Turkey there's places like this in in Peru and South America there's even some epithermal deposits in Australia and some other places so it's not every deposit falls into this category but a lot of them do and some of the grades and some of these kinds of deposits were amazingly high today I'm coming to you from Virginia City Nevada and we're at the spot that some hundred and sixty years ago roughly an amazing find was made there was a couple of guys a couple of prospectors they were down on their luck and and they really you know we're basically they were fed up with this whole area and and they thought now we're gonna we're gonna move on we got to find someplace better to go and so they were looking around for some place that they could get together a grubstake so they could leave the area right and they came just about right here and within a few hundred feet of where I'm standing and there was there's a tanyon up behind me that you can probably see there I'll get out of the way a little bit you can see the canyon behind me and there had been snow and it was springtime and and they wanted to have water so they could process some gravel that they had and so they dug into a little spring here and they dug into the spring to get some more water and there was some crazy black blue kind of clay mud stuff but amazingly that stuff had a lot of gold in it and it was like nothing that was just amazingly rich I mean they were getting you know a like a regular bucket fall that we think they were getting 20 and 30 bucks out of a bucketful and and that was like an ounce of gold okay 20 to 30 bucks 160 years ago that was huge money and and the stuff that they found was a lot like this I'm showing you this