I live in an old gold town in Victoria, Australia. Bought a Mining Right, grabbed a pan kit, watched this video today and went out to a local creek. Inside edge, down in gravel, close to bedrock. First time out picked up a few flakes. It was great fun. Thanks for your videos.

Thank you Dan. You're a wonderful soul. Great teacher. From Provo, UT. God bless.

Evan seemed so happy, what a beautiful soul.

Hey buddy, just found this incredible video after watching you for several years now. I absolutely love this information. Thanks once again for sharing!

One of the best videos I've seen. Very well spoken without all the uhhhhs, and ummms... Lot of good information in a short amount of time. I didn't feel like I wasted my time watching like in alot of videos out there. I also give you an A for the video.

I've watched a fair amount of these "How to" videos on finding gold and I absolutely love this one. Your pleasant delivery is reminiscent of Bob Ross and very easy to understand. Your clear and visually descriptive camera work is awesome. Thank you for sharing this video with us. Keep up the good work!

This is the single most informative gold panning video I've found. Thanks!

I appreciate all these video's you have put up. It's a big help brushing up on the old hobby and clarifying suspicions I have had over the years.

I have been watching your videos for a month since I discovered your channel. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into these and the shared knowledge and experience! My family and I are going camping tomorrow to try our newly gained insights. You're our favorite!

I feel like I've watched your kids grow, as you've grown in popularity, you seriously inspire me to never leave my kids behind. Thank You

Thanx so much for sharing. I'd love to see even more of your "Reading the River" video's!!!

Hey Dan thanks for all the nuggets of info. I was really excited to get started but I was discouraged cuz I had no idea where to look or how to pick a spot. Your videos have really encouraged me to stay encouraged and keep searching!

I'm digging these older episodes! Thank you Dan!!

My man, wearing the Darth Vader shirt, while panning for the beautiful yellow. Darth Vader is my favorite. Him, and Boba Fett is a VERY close second. I have to say the The Empire, Galactic Empire, and the First Order have some AWESOME characters. Well, that being said, I have just started panning for gold here in Southern Az. I love being outdoors, and I heard that Az had quite a bit of gold sti out there. Your videos were some of the very first I watched. Then watched some more, from other channels. Well, I came back around to your videos while watching those. After watching several different channels, yours, BY FAR, were the most informative. The way you explain the workings of panning, the do's/don'ts, make it so easy to learn. There's still a pretty steep learning curve, learning from KZfaq videos. You learn from your mistakes, and push on. I find myself going back to your videos I've saved, and rewatching them to hone my skills. Thank you for your videos!! Since I've found some gold, not a lot, my wife, and son have joined me. It's now a family hobby. You honestly have a big part in that. I was getting frustrated until I came to your videos. You just have a way to simplify everything, and make it enjoyable. Again, thank you, and I look forward to more videos.

i just came from seeing your recent videos (2022) its so cool seeing the quality of your videos quality upgrade. thanks for the info.

Thanks brother! Really thanks Thanks to this guy I found 40 grams of gold inside river Tevere in Italy!

Evan's smile at the start made my day!! great info. Thanks.

this is one of my favorite videos from your channel , your instructions are clear and quite easy to comprehend . thanks again Dan .

Man, I’ve never panned for gold, but listening to you, you’re so enticing I want to go panning for gold like NOW!!!

Just thinking, what a great time to be alive when intellectual people such as yourself share their knowledge. KZfaq truly is a great learning resource. Thank you Dan, thank you youtube.

Thank you for being so straight forward . All these other guys explain the whole science of it and blah blah blah . But just knowing the basics straight forward and clear is 100% esier to remember and to go by . So thanks man . Hope everything is well with you and your family . Take care

Awesome video full of great info. Glad you have your helper along today. 🙂👍

Nice video Dan You moved quickly through the subject matter and illustrated it well. I grade it an A. Keith

Thank you for this VID, i am new to gold hunting working with mostly home made eq, i have found some gold but i need to learn soooo much about where and how deep to look things like that ur vid cover where very good thanks again.

Great video, thank you. These are exactly the kind of shallow streams and creeks that I want to prospect in.

soo cool to see your video from 9 years ago!

I found this creek while on family holidays this year. I was up and at the creek at 5 am Saturday and Sunday to dig before my family got up. Your lucky to live so close to this!

Dang this video is old, but full of gold. Very well explained thank you.

Really fine work, Dan! Would you talk a little about sand deposits. When you find them on benches just above a river what does that all mean, other than the water was traveling slow enough to help form them? Thanks.

Evan with the Starwars shirt. 👍 May the force be with y'all.

Thank you I love that you always speak like a cool teacher ,the one that loves what he does as much as you do. I live in a spot of the last glacier and I'm curious about what I can find

Thank you Dan for the lessons. This will surely help a lot.

You are bang on Dan. Shhh don’t tell anyone. I made a lot of those holes. My house is next to this creek

Great video Dan! Thankyou for the tips))) 🔥💯🔥

Great informative videos, BUT no one that instructs the public about panning or dredging, ever brings up the matter of " sites that are CLAIMED"! Please advise people that are new to this venture, that they could be in violation of someone's claim and be subject to confiscation of gathered minerals(gold etc.) and even violence. Also large corporations seem to stake claims on many areas that aren't necessarily for gold but other minerals. Check you're states Bureau of Land Management for info on what areas are available for prospecting. I hope this helps. I'm not criticizing, I just hadn't heard this subject addressed. EUREKA!!!

Thank you very much for your video I can't wait to get back to the merced River midpines ca

I appreciate all the information you share with us rookies me and a friend of mine this fall or do some prospecting in the upstate of South Carolina there is gold here but there's not enough for Mass mining but as a hobby maybe maybe LOL

I for one am extremely happy I came across this video! Very good info. Keep these kinds of videos coming man great work

Thank you this will help me a lot I made 2 pages of notes with pictures and a legend to study.

Thank you, This was very interesting and informative. Good stuff!

Excellent tips. So enjoying these videos.💯

I do my panning and gold sniping on the Yuba River in Northern California. Similar conditions to your examples. Thanks for the helpful hints. Of course there's plenty of places where gold "should be". As they say, gold is where you find it.

be nice if you could use some type of software that allows you "to point" to where you refer during your commentary throughout the video AND, perhaps, show some physical examples and volume of gold that you recovered from the stated spot(s) ~

A.u I like gold :) I'm bored waiting to head back to California watching you're old videos! Have a great day Dan

Thanks for the informative video!!

This is a great video Dan. Thanks for all of your very informative videos.

Dan I like your videos. I believe you have a tremendous amount of knowledge about gold subject. Thanks so much for this video particularly. it is very good.

Look at Evan on this one ! Awesome

great video Dan! really appreciate these learning vids. can't wait to get back this fall and get some colours

Thx for your information granpa Dan 🙏

Really helpful video thanks!

just rewatching this informational video, thanks again for sharing dan!

Them holes is a bona fife habitat for trout and such. Which is good eatin and a heck of a thrill to cetch

What about above a water fall. We have some private property in northern Maine and has a nice creek/ Brook running through it. It has a nice water fall about 20 ft wide with a 5-8ft drop. I never panned it before but will be going up in Oct.. Being Oct I can't really jump in and get under the falls but above the falls is nice bedrock with some very nice cracks, some over a foot deep. Also above the falls about 200 yards is and bunch of bends with one really sharp bend. Will that effect gold deposits above the falls and would be more concentrated at the bends? Would like to send some aerial pictures of it and see what you think.

Hi Dan i really enjoy watching your informative video's Thx

Found gold in amongst roots along an inside corner of a local creek. One of my best pans ever. Had approximately twenty descent sized flakes in one pan.

Probably will not have time too answer me but... Why search behind the rock when the river is flowing the opposite way of the side we are digging on? I understand gold is heavier but that makes very little sense too me...

If any viewers in the upstate of North Carolina or South Carolina have any suggestions we are all welcome to them thank you

Great video.!!!..Loads of exelent advise! Thankyou for all the videos Dan.

Just what I was looking for. Very informative. Thank you!!

great info on how to find gold :)

Great video. Looking to start looking this summer here on Vancouver island.

That river has moved a long ways. I would be digging up by the tree line and working my way in from there. Heavy stuff drops out first 🤠

Another simple river system 'Reading'. How about something exciting like a steeper river system, boulder strewn and with major side sluffing. Ya know, them rivers where the gravel bars disappear every winter and sometimes reform and sometimes not and the water pushes 15 ton boulders around every 10 years. Maybe throw in some nice / chert or other polished bedrock often found in the Cascades ect.

Thank you, really helpful

Thanks Dan!

Thanks for sharing this video.

Great meat and potatoes video and no nonsense! Liked and subscribed

Great video, thanks!!

so how do we find a river/creek that has gold? do they all have gold ?? great hobby!!

thank you. I wish i had this class in high school. Did geology in college but this would've changed my career outlook. Would you say mining is a hobby or could "pan" out? (pun intended). I live in Northern California.

Well explained Dan, opens folks eyes....

Love this Creek! My dad lives near by. Kelowna, great town.

Great video with good information, and well explained. I'd love to give that a try, but in my area I think gold would be rather scarce - southeast Missouri about 30 miles from Arkansas - and I'm too old and out of shape anyway. LOL But I enjoy watching your videos, enjoy seeing others finding it.

Subscribed and thats rare Great video Dan, In the slow running river there are huge round bolders Did they fall there from the surrounding area/ or,,, was this once a fast running river? MAKING THEM ROUND AND SMOOTH? if so the gold will be up on top the banks where the gold was deposited when the river ran fast , i'm in uk so nothing like that here but i'm a lookin I DO FIND GOLD IN THE UK AND HAVE LOADS OF EQUIPMENT BUT AL;WAYS TAKE SOMEONE WITH YOU ITS A LONG WAY DOWN HERE IF YOU FALL LOL LOVE THIS VID IVE BOOKMARKED IT

probably one of the best videos for the for a new planner to watch. Where the heck was it when I started!!! Lol

Thanks again.😊

I live in Maine and it has been estimated that only 1% of the natural Gold hidden here has actually been found. I got a detector and a pan, and am patiently awaiting summertime! I dont care if I only find flakes.. enough of them is still free Money. Thank you sir!

Great video!

I've fished every kind of water I saw you mine. New knowledge is fun.

Hi Dan. Very new to your channel and am glad to have found you. I dont gold hunt but find what you do fascinating. Was wondering how you know if areas im in would have gold? No body here is talking of it. Do I just try spots and hope to get lucky? Im in US. Wisconsin. Thanks for all you do. My marathon of your videos should last me a few days lol.

Over half a decade later in fact 6 years in three days; Thank you very much.

This is my favorite.

That helped a ton. Thanks sir!

Great video! Great filming and awesome information!

were you in Kelowna BC? I think that the creek right outside my house..

Thanks for the training

Hey Dan. Very useful info. Thanks a lot. But i got a question. Is it similar in India?? Coz i tried few times but failed.

very informative

I much prefer your presentation style here from the early days as opposed to today (2020)

I live in California were the feather river and the Yuba river meet up, which are two rivers that are known for having a lot of gold, but I’m in the valley and all I ever find is very small specs,do you think there could be big pieces of gold or do I need to go up towards the mountains,Just curious what your thoughts are about that. I really enjoy your videos they’re always very good And very informative

Are there any places where the gold gets trapped and typically doesn't move after it's deposited in that special spot?

Very good. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Just getting interested in this and your videos are very helpful

We have a camper on a river and there's quite a few gravel bars but not a lot of big rocks. And most of the big rocks are submerged. Will those bars hold gold or should I just look on the down river side of the bigger rocks?

Nothing better than having fun outhere with the kiddos.

Cool Vader shirt, Evan.

I'm doing this tomorrow. Wish me luck

The inside curve is the opposite side of the river you’re standing on in the beginning of the video?

Learned a lot, thanks for a great video

Great video! Happy digging!