More GOLD than Home Depot and Lowes sand??? PART 2 epic conclusion!

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Ай бұрын

Sit back relax and enjoy the epic conclusion to this prospecting adventure!
Apparently, according to Pioneer Pauly and Jeff Williams you can actually find gold in Home Depot and Lowe's bags of play sand right from the hardware store. I'm going to test this discovery on a whole new level and purchase 2 CUBIC YARDS of crushed concrete sand to process for gold!
If you missed part 1 of this adventure you can find it here:
• More GOLD than Home De...
If you haven't seen them before here are some awesome videos from other KZfaqrs like Pioneer Pauly (PioneerPauly) and Jeff Williams' (Askjeffwilliams) on finding gold in hardware store bags of sand.
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@captainawasome8985 Ай бұрын

Buy a whole mountain of sand, remove the gold and sell the sand at a premium because it is washed sand safe for kids to play with when all heavy metals are removed.

@fwiffo Ай бұрын

It still wouldn't come close to paying the labor, fuel or material costs. It's a fun experiment, but if it were possible to make a profit this way, gold miners wouldn't bother being so selective about what material they processed.

@dirkdiggler1242 Ай бұрын

Cons from an old timers processing plant or even a mine would be the way to waste your time.

@JoSeeFuss Ай бұрын

No lie. Japanese swordsmiths use the black sands to make their Samurai swords. It's their tradition. So the black sands that everyone throws away can be turned into some of the best metal in the world. I'd love to see the Forged in Fire show use this technique

@paranoidzkitszo Ай бұрын

"free range", "organic", "vegan", "non dairy", "carb free", "hypoallergenic"... Why buy that contaminated sand from the other guy!? Buy our dirt for 500% the price... Next thing you know, you start seeing this kinda thing in Whole Foods stores all across the country...and boutique stores...

@rickclarke6608 Ай бұрын

No kidding, but you'll have to remove all the mercury to avoid lawsuits, Great Idea, I posted a similar post before I saw yours. 👌🇺🇸🙏👍

@paulslund1 Ай бұрын

1.33gm/2 yards equals 2 troy ounces per 100 yards of sand! The Gold Rush folks would tell you to set up a small washplant, run it, and then sell the sand after wards..

@randr10 25 күн бұрын

You do a job like this where you shovel the whole thing by hand really makes you appreciate the heavy equipment you have. We are so lucky to live in a time when we have access to it.

@GreenMountainGoldTrap Ай бұрын

Ah yes! The pain of the traditional sluice. They are so slow! Now, if you had a Green Mountain Gold Trap in a diy troth (man made river) and ran a large pump as the water source, you would have chewed through two yards in maybe two hours time! Wish you would have added the tailings back into the bucked before running it on the shaker table. Bet you would have had more! 👏🏻 Great Job!

@user-nq8sk3os5g Ай бұрын

2 yards of sand is 540 shovels full. Attaboy!

@jaycoug Ай бұрын

if you think about it. you set up a proper gold catcher on the property, get a dump trailer and on your way home each day, pick up a couple yards.

@professionalhuman4429 28 күн бұрын

And work for $60 dollars a day. AWESOME 👍

@glennbrymer4065 28 күн бұрын

😅😅😅😅😅@@professionalhuman4429

@jaycoug 28 күн бұрын

@@professionalhuman4429 "On your way home". Did I say do this everyday, good way to make money on the weekend or spare time.

@jaycoug 27 күн бұрын

@@professionalhuman4429 are you working 24/7 , no spare time at all?

@anythingmotorized6157 22 күн бұрын

just needs to add a filter to the end of the intake of the hose and raise it to just the top level of water so then it will go till the sand displaces the water instead of fully recirculating

@explodedstarmonkey Ай бұрын

Just need to park the trailer up a little higher and wash all the sand down the sluice, save the shoveling

@greenspiraldragon Ай бұрын

Thousands of dollars worth of equipment, 8 hours back breaking labor for 100 dollars minus 30 dollars for the sand. This is why most of the gold mines closed down. The payout for the gold has to be more than the cost to extract it.

@adammonahan687 Ай бұрын

Has to be FAR more like 4 times minimum to be able to live and make a profit

@Mr.Grumbdy Ай бұрын

He has more time than brains . Especially with the dumb background music .

@markbrown8097 23 күн бұрын

Not to mention electricity, water, and propane costs.

@Gold17 Ай бұрын

I’m going to start selling sand after I process the gold out. lol good job

@TechGorilla1987 Ай бұрын

@3:52 - I paused to comment here. The first thing that popped in to my mind seeing this setup is "Cool." The second thing that popped in to my head was "Displacement is going to come in to play here."

@robriot6882 Ай бұрын

The property where I live is all old river bed. I dug swimming pool size holes with a back hoe to bury some junk and it was sand all the way down to the bottom. I was sand blasting a car body using sand that I baked from the yard. I built a fire and put a large enameled pan full of sand in the fire. When I dumped out the pan there was a dime sized spot of gold melted to the bottom of the pan. So we are talking about an acre sized lot of sand deep as you can dig. I figured it would be too hard to process, so not worth the trouble. Maybe I was wrong about that

@CplSkiUSMC 28 күн бұрын

You have to be in Arizona or California to find that much gold in quarry sand. Be nice if we had that around here.

@lonniethompson4929 21 күн бұрын

Anywhere just south of the greatlakes too. Glaciers left a lot of gold behind when they receded.

@user-mb4or6hp8r Ай бұрын

Now that's paydirt! That was freaking awesome! If you had fun, that's even better.

@rastaralph7154 Ай бұрын

Great stuff 👍 been waiting for this 💚💛❤️

@snug40pip 23 күн бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed that video. Thank you for all the time and effort you put in you have a great sense of humor and a great work ethic! God bless love from Colorado.

@dustinhults5679 Ай бұрын

Way to much water with that pump

@themusicman-ij7op Ай бұрын

Not enough o’s in ‘to much’…………too much

@nickkerinklio8239 Ай бұрын

Pretty sure the pump recirculates the same water. It’s mostly electricity cost.

@mishmash9397 Ай бұрын

@@nickkerinklio8239he is losing most of the gold, that’s the issue

@josephyarbrough9316 27 күн бұрын

@@nickkerinklio8239volume

@UncleJimmyOutWest 20 күн бұрын

I agree. Slower water flow might help him catch a little more to up that total.

@rastaralph7154 Ай бұрын

I hope you ran the stuff from your panning bucket to see what you missed 💚💛❤️

@betweenbrain Ай бұрын

Where are you located? I’m sure that factors into this, but this is exciting.

@pileofstuff 9 күн бұрын

I'd say that's the biggest factor in this

@rnrjukespot 24 күн бұрын

Volume of gold is surprising. If not economical it's revealing

@David-sw3on 27 күн бұрын

Great Experiment! Good Job, It Even Surprised Me👍😉🇨🇦

@williammc3183 Ай бұрын

It appears that Darrell has his table angle pitching towards the catch bucket. Water flow should be down and away from the bucket, to carry the lighter material to the discard , and the table movement will cause the heavies to climb the riffles into the bucket . This is how Jason with mbmm describes his setup. Not sure why Darrell has it that way, maybe he knows more about his machine than I do. Hopefully.

@StaceNyourFace Ай бұрын

I thought about Jason's setup too as I was watching him and Darrell using his. 😉

@jamesculver829 Ай бұрын

Wow! I am really surprised. Good job!

@mattkissmyasstyrants8676 Ай бұрын

7:36 that's what plumbers call a belly.. if a drain pipe gets a low spot or sag all the grease and stuff starts building up there and you'll have clog after clog until it's fixed.

@prophez23 29 күн бұрын

If you used a solar panel and batteries to power the sluice making your electric cost free and you get truck loads of that sand and run it on your off time then sell the sand as "play sand" that's been washed then you could make a good bit of money as a side project. I didn't think you would have gotten half of what you did so it is definitely something I would look into getting going. Great job!

@barrengeorge 7 күн бұрын

Your improvised sluice box is genius, but what came to mind is inserting a separator in the bucket to block the sand from getting to the pump intake hose...

@TheJakesdad2403 24 күн бұрын

I think you should have checked if you were getting any gold after the 1st round. Because, if there's nothing or very little gold in the sand you could've saved yourself a lot of work.

@stephenfowler4115 Ай бұрын

Classification really helps with panning

@Calife-xt8jm Ай бұрын

You must have not got that far in the vid 😂

@MrDazP1adv3ntures 25 күн бұрын

Well done and such a down to earth way of telling the story, Far better than Pioneer Pauly's video my friend

@prospectingpom8090 22 күн бұрын

Very impressive. Well done 👏

@SergioGarcia-ly2ir Ай бұрын

You earn my like What a great video Greetings all the way from Mexico

@goldnoob Ай бұрын

Wow! That's seriously impressive though! Great video!

@garriemchale5788 Ай бұрын

Thats what i call fun sand

@OUSurf2 Ай бұрын

That's the last time they sell unwashed gravel jk lol. Maybe open up a "wash plant!"

@PioneerPauly Ай бұрын

Home Depot should pay us!

@StaceNyourFace Ай бұрын

I see you there. 👀👍😉🤩♥️

@wildernesseric Ай бұрын

@PioneerPauly Yeah, I wonder if they know they are professional fly poop dealers? 💩

@mambripapuabiak6379 Ай бұрын

Thank you for making this Amazing Video.. I am watching from my Gold Mine in the counrty of INDONESIA Sir.. BRAVO

@shawnsparkman7916 Ай бұрын

Have you considered getting a blue bowl or gold wheel?

@georgelemoine7402 Ай бұрын

Good job. A couple of suggestions if you put the flared box at the top and the wider box on the end the water will slow down just a little to allow the smaller partials of gold to settle and you did mention about cleaning up after each run. Adjust water flow to fine tune.

@stephenfowler4115 Ай бұрын

You forgot the dirt on the wheel cover

@wethepeople4762 Ай бұрын

What these prospectors channels have started is epic. Good luck sir and I’m here to add to this videos views. Will maybe sub just because seeing others succeed brings me joy.

@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb Ай бұрын

That sand pit needs to install a washplant and sluice...

@reefsroost696 Ай бұрын

Yes, I was thinking the same. @ $50 a yard it wouldn't take long to start making money.

@anned8634 27 күн бұрын

under the laws in the US you can not mine the gold and sell the sand at the same time unless you meet the right rules. i know as i am in the mining business and have tried to get the rights to do it.

@reefsroost696 27 күн бұрын

@@anned8634 That sounds about right.

@ferdburphel2076 Ай бұрын

Great job! Im amazed🍻

@wildernesseric Ай бұрын

Thank you.

@rickthelian2215 Ай бұрын

Great experiment 😊

@doreennacht Ай бұрын

Did you pan what was in the bucket to see what was left over? The biggest problem I saw was putting the sand into your recirculating water. The dirt embeds in the rifles and winds up letting everything ride on top and right out the sluice, which makes me wonder how much was really in there. That's why you always see a settling pond and a clean water pond.

@imagearchy4782 28 күн бұрын

Next time you do this pot a 5 gallon bucket in the backhoe bucket to put your pickup hose in and for water to drop in and keep Out the sand. You may need to drill a few holes to get the right water level

@ehrenkrause9861 Ай бұрын

7:34 I wonder when you were going to get that middle braced. I would have took my gussets from the center of your plywood all the way to the bottom of my feet, two things I would have stabilized the legs from shifting and support at the middle of the plywood at the same time. 😉👍

@wildernesseric Ай бұрын

Yeah, that would have been the better way to build it. I thought the board was stronger.

@lancegouvan1653 Ай бұрын

Like I said before the sand pits around my area were Shaker deck at the old sandpits

@sassyjintheuk 24 күн бұрын

Well done that. Look really hard work, but really worth it excellent.❤

@bigbadjohn8207 29 күн бұрын

Nice work!!

@xraycam3709 Ай бұрын

Old buddy years ago told me that the old timers would separate the gold/mercury by slicing a potato in half, then cut an indented hole in flat side...put the mercury mixture on something that's heated from underside. Put potato (hole side) over top of mercury. Now when you heat it the mercury and fumes will burn off...and stay in the potato. Take your gold off hot metal - and you can recycle your mercury that is now in the potato. *Still beware of the mercury fumes that can escape during burn off.

@wildernesseric Ай бұрын

And some of them used to eat the potato afterwards!

@travismiller5548 Ай бұрын

Fun experiment! Thanks for sharing. There's little to no gold in my area for panning... or is there?!? How wrong would it be to invest in a bag sealer and return the sand? 😂

@wildernesseric Ай бұрын

Haha, there you go then you are guaranteed to find enough gold to pay for it... unless you didn't find any at all.

@lastofthebest5102 Ай бұрын

@@wildernesseric Not much of a "guarantee" then is it?

@juicewrld5884 Ай бұрын

@wildernesseric uhh yea it is is your not paying anything for the sand lol

@screwthecabal6453 Ай бұрын

Good for you!!!

@catfisher420 Ай бұрын

I would think that you would want the water pressure up a little bit higher on that shaking table to keep the gold below the bolts.

@johnnypalughi1192 Ай бұрын

Great video 😊

@ardusesonnier3304 Ай бұрын

I'm glad you showed everybody the wrong way to remove Mercury from your gold.

@me5768 Ай бұрын

Absolutely correct there are way better ways to remove it then to turn it into a gas and pollute the air

@zachcarney3910 Ай бұрын

I'm sure you're right but I've only ever seen mercury be burned off. What's a better way to deal with it?

@CanadianArchaeologist Ай бұрын

Why is that wrong?

@ardusesonnier3304 Ай бұрын

There are videos out there that can show you how to properly remove Mercury from your gold, that will help prevent you from causing damage to yourself and the environment

@CanadianArchaeologist Ай бұрын

@@ardusesonnier3304 so you're saying vaporizing the mercury off works it's just toxic.

@michaelliebig8273 Ай бұрын

Good job!

@mikewolter7829 Ай бұрын

Nice haul. But grab another 2 yards and see if your buddy will let you use the shaker table again run thru it quicker.

@rodmckim5991 24 күн бұрын

Hey Eric do you have any advice on how to go about buy a gold claim? Any help would be greatly appreciated...... loved your video and effort to run all that sand😂

@johndias6614 Ай бұрын

The gravel pit near me in the lower elevation of the mother lode Sierra foot hills runs their sand through a gold reclamation system before they sell it.

@Sauspreme Ай бұрын

If you ever do this again, might want to try and put a rock in a plastic bucket and then your pump intake in the bucket and set that at the end of your tailings bucket and I would think you'd be able to get a lot more sand through before the unsuspended sand starts making it into the pump. Although I'm sure the breaks were very much needed haha

@TarmanTheChampion Ай бұрын

1:33 DAMN thats cold!! Hahaha, imagine it actually happening to you back during the wild west days!?

@Eagle_Eye_PROSPECTOR Ай бұрын

Wow what awesome job GOLD

@danielhughes9556 Ай бұрын

Keep the cons, and get a blue bowl. This is pretty neat.

@MOFOsJackpotSlots-ws3bk508 Ай бұрын

I'm curious. I live on 2 acres south of San Antonio, on about 5-6' of sand, apparently a million or so years ago this was a beach, several sand companies in our area, might have to dig up the yard and give it a try!

@benstradling7615 Ай бұрын

Fair play that's next level procrastination 👍

@1topskyrocket 10 күн бұрын

That's pretty good return on your money. What happened to all the fine gold you were talking about? Do they get lost in this loose or on the table?

@oudonbail 24 күн бұрын

You can buy crushed quartzite at landscape suppliers , im in Australia but should only cost the same or less than the sand

@driverjamescopeland Ай бұрын

Just imagine if you had a little 3kw rig... even if your retention was just 75% of what you got here. 3kw sand rig can usually run just shy of a ton an hour. You could be pullin' over $200 a day in your sleep with about $10 electricity a day, few bottles of Jet Dry, and a tube of grease every month.

@armadilllo 28 күн бұрын

A friend used to work at Granite construction gravel pit/rock plant and said that place used to make about 3 million a year in gold and that was in the 80's

@cgtprospectingadventures922 Ай бұрын

The water is pretty fast, but great idea

@carlburgs2543 Ай бұрын

Love how you have a whole house to build,but there’s always time for prospecting.you have my respect,,i would do the same,,those bricks and stuff aren’t going anywhere.👍

@projectdelta50 Күн бұрын

Im kinda worried about how much gold mightve gone out the end of the tailings, the few times i saw the box, the riffles looked a bit clogged. Hope you panned the tailings. As for the black sand, buy a big magnet and stick it to the side of the bucket full of water and keep feed sand next to it till all the black sand sticks to the side of the bucket. Basically a low budget magnetic seperator for black sand.

@JonDoe-sx3qd Ай бұрын

Good find

@steveunknown8407 3 күн бұрын

If you didn't have water I guess you could use a 55 gallon metal drum with the bottom and top cut out with holes drilled through it, a ebike to rotate it and a attached to a solar panel, and an air compressor, for a dry recovery

@chir0pter Ай бұрын

Be interesting to look at the black sand under a microscope- are there any silvery fine metals as well?

@ChrisHill-iv2ux Ай бұрын

Yeah, just make sure you're run that stuff again. Because you'll find even 300 probably mesh gold.

@josephyarbrough9316 27 күн бұрын

$100 in gold. 8 hrs work. fast forwarding your video, priceless.

@RexSkittles Ай бұрын

Where did you buy that sand? What state, town, or region of the country are you in?

@ScotlandsGold Ай бұрын

Great watch, thats actually profitable here 🍻😎

@user-rk1bf4eh2p Ай бұрын

My father used to use a dry sleuth and it worked pretty well it was Dusty though

@Joseph-tx1hl Ай бұрын

Great job Man . That was Awesome. Next time make sure to use some jet-dry to break up the surface tension of the water and your gold won't float.

@johnp8727 25 күн бұрын

what state are you buying sand from that will be a big factor to think about. I would appreciate an answer do not want to know your secret spot just what state you bought sand in. Was it on the East or Western US,. You do make great videos my friend. I subscribed and liked you earned it. Looking forward to more you have a steady viewer,

@connieeveritt5704 Ай бұрын

Thank you for doing THE Experiment. lol You did pretty good. I didn't think you would find that much gold. You are making me think I should do the same lol. I am finding it hard to get around so that might be the plan pretty soon since I can not get out to prospect at the moment. I still miss at least panning. Thank you again for sharing.

@dmc1501 Ай бұрын

That was a profitable experiment!

@wildernesseric Ай бұрын

Yes it was. Who knows maybe I'll do it again someday when gold prices are even higher.

@toddwhite3217 Ай бұрын

@@wildernesseric Well that's 50 per yard and sand is still worth 17 per... think big... Buy the the whole pit sluce the gold and then sell the sand ... If one can believe the gold rush show they would be all over 67$ per yard... Real mines work on way less.than that...

@hypnotherapycw Ай бұрын

on what planet was it profitable? it was nearly 15 hours of work and he pulled out 102 in gold. do you do maths? ROFLMAO

@baitbuckets9844 Ай бұрын

How much does yt pay for 140k views? @@hypnotherapycw

@matthewschreiber2421 Ай бұрын

The flour fold wizard has water flow heads for sluces .

@coles999 Ай бұрын

you always have a big smile on your face no matter hiw shit the task

@tommybell 22 күн бұрын

I will say this…. You have me subscribed That is golden

@TerryCristopher 29 күн бұрын

Very interesting! Once you subtract the cost of the sand from your profit you were working for way less the minimum wage! $8.25 an hour plus your fuel! But still a cool idea

@mattkissmyasstyrants8676 Ай бұрын

Ha! Love it Eric!! I did a bag of quick Crete sand and actually found a good little smile of micros.. Great way to learn to pan for any newbies out there.

@wildernesseric Ай бұрын

Nice!

@briankennedy5578 Ай бұрын

Should learn to use the tare function on your scale

@SPHYNX99752 Ай бұрын

Could you have used a magnet on that black sand? To free up that fine powder gold?

@bybeneficiarydaniel-jonath7848 20 күн бұрын

I don’t think you’re supposed to stick your hands in the the pan because the oil from your hands sticks to it and could bind the gold or allowed to wash out. Also, I’ve seen where they put a drop of Dan dish soap in there to cut down any oils from your hand if you do stick it in there.

@alancurrie4216 Ай бұрын

Good watch mate.

@heliumhubcryptocollective9337 16 күн бұрын

your water flow for using just sand was probably a little too fast, but considering the length of your "wash plant" even with that flow speed u were getting almost everything u could. And what would help is if u put a water tub in the backhoes shovel. top of the bason would come to the water level in the backhoes bucket, allowing water to flow without clogging it with sand. but otherwise awesome job

@MW-nOttawa Ай бұрын

tip: point your hose the other way at the top, so its blowing backwards. You want the flow of water to naturally pass down the sluice, not be forced down it - the whole top section of sluice is wasted. Having the hose pointed back up towards the back wall won't clog anything as the constant flow of water will displace the dirt. You can shovel it in directly between the hose and back wall of the sluice.

@nathanegbert977 Ай бұрын

I've seen experiments where guys break all the rules while feeding a known amount of gold through a sluice just to see how important the details are. Too steep, leaning, too much water, not enough water, infrequent cleaning. The result? None of it matters much as long as you aren't overloading the feed rate.

@ledenhimeganidleshitz144 Ай бұрын

Could the pit add a wash plant with a slice stage and make money?

@chrisbrent7487 Ай бұрын

You could build a retort fairly easily which would recover the mercury so it didn't just vaporise into the atmosphere.

@2HighNoon 18 күн бұрын

A tin can, a weed burner and a brick went into a bar and met a stoner with no pipe… It was love at first sight.. 😅✌️

@hardnoxgrad5763 Ай бұрын

Too much eddy viscosity in that narrow box. Experiment with water flow in that narrow/short run. Interesting experiment 👍🏻

@prophetrob Ай бұрын

LMAO the digger bucket just dropping in the montage at 7:00

@wildernesseric Ай бұрын

Haha yeah I need to replace a leaky hydraulic valve. I kept having to start up the tractor and pull the bucket back up as I went.

@LostMurf 28 күн бұрын

I believe it’s the piston seals in the lift cylinders more so then the valve block. Tho it wouldn’t hurt if you did both since it’s just o-rings in the valve. Also be sure to check out the safety check valves.