Brilliant video, very informative ! Thanks for making these, I have become hugely interested and passionate about prospecting and gem fossicking over the last few years, your vids are very useful and professionaly done. Thanks mate 👍

Great video! Please share more of your knowledge about old alluvial workings in future clips. 😊

Here in the western US I"ve seen a lot of alluvial workings over the years. The only ones that weren't gold related (we don't have alluvial tin in the west US) were for, oddly enough, blue agate. Found near Ellensburg, WA, the ridiculously valuable blue agate is known as Ellensburg blue.

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WOW! This is both interesting and helpful!

There is a chapter in Ion Idriess book 'prospecting for gold' on wet season claims where he mentions the technique of mounding up the paydirt on a platform above the dry creek bed or on some fallen trees and branches, and when the rain fell it would be sluiced down the creek

It doesn’t matter how remote I am, some bugger with a mule and a gold pan has been there before.

Thanks mate great vid Hope to see you out there one day !

theres alot of good knowledge in this one, thank you! subscribed

Where i live in the US we also have to look for hydraulically mined alluvium on hillsides.

In areas of more available water, old timers here in California would ground sluice. Storing water up and turning it on the ground they wanted to sluice. Kinda like hydralicking the ground but without the force of a nozzle and using just the erosive forces of water across a flat surface.

Really Good video Nick

Interesting !

Another marker that I would see occasionally in Malaysia where the Touraine was quite mountainous and you would find lots of waterfalls were channels leading from the tops of the waterfalls to areas that at first glance just seemed like they were covered in fern or smaller shrubbery Which onece was burnt away would usually contain softer oxidised rocks in zones that had been dug out. even entire hillsides could be hidden in such a manner and it was always useful to check for channels perpendicular to the hillside on each side of the oxidised zones Which had undergone ancient mining as on occasion Small tracks following the same topography would occasionally lead you to other sites further away, I believe the furthest one I found was around 200 m. I also recall seeing large round boulder that resembled retaining walls on the outside of corners Mostly on narrow rivers with steep banks that looks like they may have even been to metres tall which I always used wondered whether they were there to Fortify the external corners in some of these narrow rivers Or prevent erosion and mudslides as the rocks looked out of place in the area’s. Have you come across ancient formations such as the ones I’ve described?

Was placer activity associated with explosives? I having a hard time thinking about getting thru tree stumps and roots, even with modern carbide faced machinery. Were placer deposits serviced by roads or were they narrow and unrefined like modern hiking trails? Shaded relief on a GIS app can reveal quite a few roads in my area. I'm thinking that most of it was after 1880 and before WWII, but people have been mining here since the 17th Century. Did they have a secondary goal of providing lumber for construction, or was that left to a separate industry?

thanks sir, wow

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In the area where I live, there are mountains and valleys with ancient mines from the Roman era. What is the best way to work?

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Is there a way to tell how deep the alluvial diggings were?

Good One Mr Nick, in Laos, we just follow the Vietnamese Excavators to the aluvial pits? No problem> One suggestion on your Video Production> More Dirt Bikes, please :)