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ColoradoOutdoorProspects
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This channel is for content related to the Colorado outdoors, including Gardening, Hiking, Camping, Outdoor Survival, and especially Prospecting/Mining minerals (crystal digging, rockhounding, goldpanning). We also publish "indoor" content that is related to these outdoor activities (such as cooking garden food, indoor growing, and rock/mineral identification, etc..)
4K Drone - Pawnee Buttes and Grasslands, Weld County, Colorado - Raw Footage to music.
Some raw drone footage at the Pawnee Buttes and Grasslands, Weld County, Colorado U.S.A. 8-12-2024. The morning was foggy, but the fog started to lift, so I took flight as soon as I could. Eventually the Buttes could be seen through the fog.
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Geneva Creek Iron Fens - A new contender for Colorado's most unique and strange landscape? Wow!
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Some film of my first trip to Geneva Creek Iron Fens, Clear Creek County, Colorado U.S.A. August 6th, 2024 [ I only found out about this place a week ago, I did not know what a fen was.] Fen - A wetland with low acid (High Ph, Alkaline) causing slow decomposition of organic matter. Usually fed by mineral rich groundwater, Fens have unique plants and animals. Fens take thousands of years to deve...
A visit to North Clear Creek Falls, and the Slumgullion Earthflow. Hinsdale County, Colorado U.S.A.
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Some raw footage, and timelapse of some Hinsdale County, Colorado locations 2024. - North Clear Creek Falls - and - The Slumgullion Earthflow... a flow of rock, earth and water saturation. The earthflow currently flows at a rate of around 20 feet per year (1.6 feet per month). The flow has been flowing almost uninterrupted for over 700 years (with a slight pause 300 years ago). It is one of the...
Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. Colorado. Timelapse. Driving. Hiking Medano Creek barefoot.
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My first visit to Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve. Early June, 2024. Some raw footage (and audio), and some timelapse. Driving across the San Luis valley up to the dunes - hiking Medano Creek barefoot for almost a mile - hiking a "shorter" dune (200 ft climb) - timelapse of the strange pulsing flow of Medano Creek (caused by shifting sands in the creek) - and me trying to make the sand du...
Pawnee Buttes and Grasslands Area Colorado - Time Lapse and Raw footage.
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Raw footage and Timelapse of a trip to the Pawnee Buttes in Weld County, Colorado U.S.A. Driving and Hiking footage. Layers of volcanic ash (now clay layers) and sandstone, help cause this interesting landscape on Colorado's Eastern Plains. Buttes and Badlands.
Commanche Grasslands - Raw Footage - Dinosaur Footprints !!
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A Montage of raw footage, time lapse, photos and some amateur drone footage (my first drone flights in the field). 2 Locations within Commanche Grasslands. Location #1 Septarian Nodules/Calcite crystals and Goethite pseudomorph after Marcasite Nodules. Also fossilized sea shell/clams from about 70 million years ago. Location #2 Picketwire Canyon - Worlds Largest Dinosaur tracksite (over 1,300 p...
A day at the Paint Mines Park (Calhan Badlands). Colorado's strangest and most unique landscape?
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A beautiful, relaxing, and windy day at the Paint Mines Interpretive Park (Calhan Badlands). On the plains of Colorado, near the town of Calhan, in El Paso County. (North East of Colorado Springs) No narration... mostly just nature and wind for the audio...
Peridot Gemstones in Colorado!
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Prospecting basalt lava rock for beautiful Peridot (olivine) gemstones. Near the county line of Park County and Fremont County, Colorado, U.S.A. June 2023
Garlic 2022, Harvesting and 1 year old stock.
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Showing that hard neck garlic can stay fresh for 1 year or more if cured properly. Variety "German Extra Hardy". Plus, me digging and harvesting this year's harvest, as I explain my curing and storage process. Zone 6A Arvada (Denver Metro), Colorado.
Prospecting Big Bertha Pegmatite 2022
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Digging for Rare-Earth minerals at the Big Bertha Pegmatite, Jefferson County, Colorado, U.S.A. We found some Fluorite chunks and one nice Zircon Crystal (variety Cyrtolite).
Panning/Sluicing Clear Creek Spring 2021
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Probably my best payout per bucket, while panning Clear Creek in Denver!
Garden Update 4 25 21
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Re-publishing the Hi def version of this video. (Learning to properly upload with my new Camera) Garden Update!
Spring Gardening Update 3-27-21 Pear Tree!
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Getting ready for 2021 season. HoneySweet Pear tree! Bristol Black-Rasberries!
My best pan from the Denver Metro Area!
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Panning back on May 3rd, in north Denver Metro Area. My personal best 3 buckets worth of 1/2 inch classified material. Including my biggest picker/flake from Denver metro so far.
Homemade Sluice, getting Gold in Denver Metro.
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Homemade Sluice, getting Gold in Denver Metro.
Nice pan of gold for a day in Denver Metro!
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Nice pan of gold for a day in Denver Metro!
Gold panning/sluicing in Denver Metro, and a Redtail Hawk.
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Gold panning/sluicing in Denver Metro, and a Redtail Hawk.
Gold panning (sluicing) in Denver Area (unincorporated Adams County).
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Gold panning (sluicing) in Denver Area (unincorporated Adams County).
Melting pure Silver into 1 troy ounce bars
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Melting pure Silver into 1 troy ounce bars
Classifier sluice demo on my claim. Chaffee county, Colorado
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Classifier sluice demo on my claim. Chaffee county, Colorado
Woohoo. wow, how epic drone. 🙌
Turbo Pan Can Stratify Better Than Regular Pan. Turbo Pan Can Handle Quite a bit More Material Than Gold Claw. Turbo Pan Cant Be Beat, Turbo Pan is Best Pan! Turbo Pan Likes To Hear Own Name, This Why Turbo Pan Say Own Name Alot!
*100% wrong motion!!! You have to get the material moving CLOCKWISE to keep the gold moving towards the center during 'Swirling'.*
Stellar video, I dig your narration and knowledge of what you're getting into. ( :
Came here after watching measuring SG of silver and gold coins. Coin guys use a square tank and a BASKET suspended into the water. The basket is easier to use than the string. Would be nice to see an experiment that shows how much results change if you drop the rock lower (more wet string). Rig a suspension over the cup to make it more stable, and don't dangle it from your wavy hand. Great video.
Mount the camera/phone. Handheld shooting like this, is annoying. The viewer can't look at something interesting because of all the shaking and continuous left to right panning. Otherwise, somewhat interesting.
Most of the "shaky" footage was captured by my camera sunglasses, they are "mounted to my head". It is a hands free way to record. I am getting better at keeping my head steady while recording with the camera sunglasses. 😀 Sorry if it is annoying, that was the best footage I had of the trip.....
I BOUGHT A SET OF TURBO PANS AN MY BROTHER RECKONS THERE CRAP HE'D NEVER USE THEM
Ok ... Did you or your brother ever try to use them?
Ahhhhhh😱😱😱😱😱 Hi. I am from Austria and my English is Not the yellow of the Egg😅 sorry😅 I usw the Same Pan . Stop! Stop! At 2.30! Dont Shake so hard. You throw Out the fine,,!
My old stomping grounds. I grew up by the Comanche Grasslands in CO. Did a lot of deer, antelope and dove hunting down there. It is a very special place.
I'm in Canon city. Colorado has alot of black sands
What location is this little dry creek
I'm very proficient with the gold claw and believe me. Nothing gets out of it and you can do Uber a quarter of a 5 gallon bucket with the gold claw. You're just not using it right. Just like most other people that I find that have problems with gold claw. They're not using it right? The gold cloth gold pen is faster and better than my sluice box. I have given up all other Pans even the Turbo Pan that I used to use for the gold claw gold Pan. As well as giving up all of my slow sluice boxs.
Cool, but I have observed people using the Gold Claw just like they show on the Gold Claw YT channel. If the people at gold claw are doing it wrong.... then what is the "right way"? Please link a video that shows the "right way" for my viewers to compare........ 😉
Pyrochlore!
The washing machine agitation before the counter-clockwise motion looks like it gives the smaller gold particles the extra time they need to sink below the wash-out point after starting the counterclockwise motion that keeps dropping the gold and clears the lighter material . If your gold is 1/4 or 1/8 minus... I'm wondering if pre-classifing will be faster and speed up the process or be slower.
I classify to 1/2 inch. I have tried pre-classifying with smaller mesh, but most of the time it is just extra work or time. There are some gravel/clay types that work better if you use fine classification first.
@@paranorml1 for me 1/4 worked better than 1/8 for slucing (because it was faster)... so now I will try my new 1/2" xp classifier next time out and try to best fit the classifier to the pan or boxes I'm using. I bought a hex pan after watching your video from "the prospect channel... haven't used it yet.
@@WardCampbell Sweet, I hope you like the hex pan! 😀
counter clock vise must be wrong
Counter-clockwise first, then clockwise. Here is a video by the man who created the Turbo Pan.... .... czcams.com/video/bRR_n_aYK5o/video.html
Never sern them Great pans
awesome!!!!!!
This is the best video I have seen on the proper use of the TurboPan. Thank you.
Were you able to identify what species the "zircon" crystal is?
Not identified for sure, but my current guess is still Cyrtolite Zircon. The crystal is still attached to matrix, so the Specific Gravity test was inconclusive.
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the only bummer is I had to watch you weigh 2 dozen rocks to finally get to the point which is the division of the dry weight by the water displacement weight.
Thanks
I tried exactly what u did. Thanks for sharing. God bless you brother. Wish you gud luck
Would you please answer a question? It seems nowadays specific gravity is being found by dividing air weight by water weight. Another formula is to subtract water weight from air weight and then divide. Which is most correct? Thank you.
I'm not sure about any other home methods. To get a full scientific Specific Gravity requires special equipment and complex math equations. But the way I do it in the video is the easiest way I know of. Simple with simple equipment......
In my video we are using the "basic calculation" .... ..... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_density
@@paranorml1 the way you do it seems simpler, thanks.
Question. Can I use a kitchen scale for this?
Yes, you can use a kitchen scale. But remember that the more accurate the scale the better. It is very difficult to be accurate with a small stone, unless you have a very accurate scale.
@@paranorml1 thanks for answering, I was weighing a celestite on the kitchen scale and it came out 12 ?grams, then weighed in water and got a 3-4. Does not seem accurate.
@@patriciagonzalez9341 , that is indeed accurate. Specific Gravity of Celestite is about ( 3.96 ).
Here is the Wikipedia information for Celestite. (specific gravity is shown in the right side collum) ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestine_(mineral)
@@paranorml1 I am suspending the stone in water supported on a wire, and I guess that's okay since it does not touch the sides or bottom of the water container.
As already stated, the calculation is incorrect. The difference is used divided into the weight in air, not the weight in water.
Nice! I've been wanting to go out east and look for some of these.
Gostei muito dó seu canal é sou garimpeiro 🙏
are you weighing carats or grams
grams ( in 1/100th gram accuracy)
If are reading these,the hex pan is back in production and in the USA
Nice looking gold.
Thank you.😁
И ничего там нет!
Thanks for the share! I am just learning about SG and have filled my head with a lot today! Your video helped put it all into perspective. A few years ago I purchased several hundred gemstones from someone who was buying jewelry just for the gold. I stopped in one day and for $100 he sold me all of the stones (only a small handful of very small diamonds). You would be AMAZED to know all of the gemstones I’ve found (I went back one more time before he went out of business) some worth over $10,000! A 3mm purple, color changing, oval sapphire! Now, it’s time to test them I’m a silversmith and truly enjoy making jewelry but some of these gemstones are just too special for my style of jewelry. I’m grateful for your video and the knowledge that you’ve shared with me. It will definitely help me in determining if my $200.00 (total of two trips) investment in these stones is going to be a FABULOUS investment!!!!
Glad you enjoyed the video, and glad that you enjoy making jewelry! I can be a fun hobby and even make you some money.
I have several other videos showing me, my twin brother and friends collecting gemstones, crystals, and panning for gold. You should start making videos of your silver work on your channel!
O h yes the last time I panned that river I panned a tributary that feeds into it the people i was wit helped move a boulder half the size of a VW car first shovel full was a 3 and half % nugget and the second was 5 % . I hope you are all having fun
I live in Maine I have a gold claw gold pan. It catches very fine gold below 200 mesh it holds onto the fines and it has an incredible amount of control over the dirt that is in the pan it has a three-step process that actually takes care of all the dirt and separates all your gold from the dirt faster than the turbo pan I also own a turbo pan the gold Clause the most effective plant pan I have ever used just saying prospecting for 15 years
Glad you like the Claw. My issue with it, is it seems to loose a lot of fine gold when used quickly (even though it does catch "some" fine gold). However it might come down to the individual user and how they use each of these products...... I have been prospecting Colorado gold for over 20 years. GET THAT GOLD!...... whichever way works best for you. :)
very nice. looks like you do your homework.
Good stuff man! Hope to see you out there sometime!
In a tight sqweeze a Chinese dinner Togo black plastic food tray works good as it has a grove around all 4 corner's
You should look at your wrist while filming this so we could see the pan you talk of lol
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I never used that kind of pans. But it's good to think out of the box now and than. Hello from a Swiss gold prospector 🤠
Thank you. Hello and welcome, from a Colorado Prospector!
Those are some nice pieces for Clear Creek. Congrats, looks like a fun day. Waiting for the water to go down and I'll be pedaling down from Boulder. 👍⛏
Шляпа полная этот ваш турбопан ! Обычный лоток с алика долавливал всё то, что так легко смывал турбопан.
Great gold for four buckets keep it going! That’s my kind of prospecting!👍
That great color , keep it up 👍
Thank you! (Yes, very good color for Denver Metro panning).
Ive been panning for over forty years and i do not see the benifit of this over a regular pan if you know what you're doing even with fine gold . everybody has a gimmick that works better than everything a panner has been using for the last five thousand years. Keep it simple has gotten me plenty of gold over the years .
Well said Mark
Indeed. Bout like miners moss vs dream mat.
You may be right but the turbo pan eliminates the center problem area of Klondike pans, especially with thick clay sediment... in the middle of a Klondike pan the center of gravity stays pretty stable even when shaking hard... That's why you switch from agitation to dipping so much because in a full pan you cannot agitate the center very deep so you need to remove a little then agitate again... With the turbo pan you can swirl with great effect instead of just forward and back, side to side... The best technique is to get a pan done in under 2 minutes from classifying to the gold, without loosing gold... With the turbo pan when swirling one way you get gold stuck, the other way will quickly dump the lighter material while pushing the gold into the center pit. so instead of dipping off and agitation, you just swirl one-way, then swirl the other way... It makes everything much faster and that's a big deal if you can only use pans and shovel on a creek
Well if ya listen to the video he says he’s a slower panner using the other pan. He’s meticulous i think he said. Someone with ocd or that is extra cautious perhaps would be better off with a different pan then what most use. Just as some people literally think different or have different personalities and tendencies makes sense that might influence how someone also pans for gold.
@@koltoncrane3099 there is only panning quick with more experience and panning slow, over sensitive with less experience.. A pro panner can gold pan from classifying to end of pan within 2 minutes
First you need to go counter-clockwise, so that when you stratify your material... it will be within the circle, then you can go counter-clockwise to spin off all the junk off the top,... then you repeat the whole process again until you're left with nothing but your concentrates, and no you don't need a second pan, if you do it right you can get it all done correctly the first time and you're done!.... by the way nice video thanks for cheering 😀👍
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I also own a TurboPan. It is very difficult to work with. Interesting video. Greetings from Germany
Great information I appreciate it thank brother it's veer helpful
Very easy and interesting method for knowledge.