Watch this to get you started looking for gold in Washington state. Let me know in the comments how this helps you find more gold. Enjoy!

I live in a town called Gold Bar not far from the mine you spoke of...on a small river...why am I not panning gold instead watching freakin KZfaq all the damn time lol

I live near the Similkameen River, Eastern Wa. Next Sunday I am going to check if I can get to one of my favorite panning spots yet. I still have several inches of snow in the mts. where I live. I have been watching you for a few days now. I think you are a very good teacher.

Mt.St.Helens, day in my life I shall never forget.I am so glad to hear it. I tired panning for gold did not get none,but it was fun.

Vancouver, WA here; I've been thinking about learning how to Gold pan. I think it would be a fantastic hobby to learn. Great video!!

I always enjoy your thumbs up videos. Thank you for sharing.

Adding geo thermo maps to your presentation would be great. Mylandmatters has a easy layout for these maps. Looking over the geo thermo deposit maps really helped me understand why there isn't gold in some areas like Portland and it's surrounding areas as well as not much in southern Washington while there is in abundance in north east Washington

i'm starting to explore the glacial gravels around the Puget sound. these gravels were deposited during the last glacial advance, both down from the Fraser river and the Cascade Range

One very significant mine in the area not mentioned is the liberty mine. They pulled out some insane nuggets out of their drift mine!

When the Condit dam (White Salmon river, Washington) was taken away, there was a centuries long buildup of sediment behind the dam. When is was first blown open, all that sediment went down stream in a huge torrent, and probably deposited gold for miles below the dam and 3.3 miles to the Columbia river, and around that horn of confluence; on both sides of the Columbia/Salmon river meeting. Good time to give it a try, aye? Highway 141 off of Highway 14 ... and the sediment from upriver of the dam since 1913 that is still deposited there ....

I'm going to try my luck finding crevice gold in Ingles creek on Blewitt pass. Wish me luck and thanks for the video

Yakima river had lots of gold taken out of it back in the early days still some there I live close to Carson and yes the same county st Hellen’s in there a old gold mine on wind river it’s been there for years they try to get a permit to process it but no they don’t let them if you had big money you could haul the Ore off and process it near Portland or Vancouver in a safe spot and resell the rock and get the gold also, I think it would be affordable to do because gravel is so valuable in the Portland area

Just ran across this video and not boring, and considering you cover such a broad spectrum of area it is an interesting overview. The one thing about Mt. Rainer is, that it almost sticks up like a sore thumb without a lot of geological rift close around it. And then right after you mentioned how rugged it is around the Monte Cristo. That's also much like the Mount Baker Mining District, a lot of rugged terrain in a relatively localized area where there is numerous old mines. And some barely accessible. Just suggesting that might be part of the reason not a lot of mines around Rainer, Not a lot of surrounding or peripheral upheaval?

I love the video. But wished you would have gone further west past Seattle

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Liberty area the best place for gold in Wa. st.

Nice 👍 ty Jess

Hello from Colorado brother. !!

14:44 me: _Looks slowly out window at Mt. Baker_

Cannon mine in Wenatchee WA 1.25 million oz. Of gold. One of the biggest gold producers in the us.

Monte Cristo up by Arlington Wa way North of Seattle. Still a prospecting town there. Ghost town, but a popular trail.

Check out the Liberty gold mine, in Washington potato patch gold nuggets made of wire gold.

I was hoping you would mention Republic!!! We have a Grabin

Great video in going to try clear creek can u look and tell me if i might have luck there. Fist year prospecting

You were so close. I live in Lake Stevens. SR92 to Mountain Loop Hwy. The trail head is where it turns into dirt road that is closed during the winter...although talks of paving may happen soon. Easy hile and most of that area is claimed. But joining local clubs like in Gold Bar, will get you rights to many claims around the state. Good gold north west of Winthrop too. You actually touched on Mount Baker. You just hit of the peaks on it...lol. Anywhere along why 2 west side is good. Sultan basin off hwy 2. Hwy 97 blewit pass is great...potato fields. Called that for the potato sized nuggets found their.

I believe the lost Spaniards mine was located in a part of st Helens that no longer exists . I think his gold came out of the big wash above the lake it was naturally processing a F ton of material. Thanks again for this vid 👍 and I can say as a WA resident 2018 was a bad year to invest in a bigger dredge 🤣 but it looks cool hanging from the rafters in the shop 👍

Geez, if I close my eyes I could swear that it’s Alan Alda giving a presentation! Even crazier, Jess; you kinda look like him! (I apologize ahead of time if you’re related and I’m just a doofus). Cheers! 🖖😎👍

That was mount Baker you clicked on, but your map gave it a different name, lol.

Hey mount saint Helens erupted in 1980. The image is 1982 and NOT right after it erupted. It often had small burps of ash but the real growth inside the crater occurred after 2000

You definitely would make a good mentor I wish I could have Then around someone like you

Just found my first flakes on the shores of lake Roosevelt

They tightened the rules in Washington state to prospect for gold in 2022. You need to download a new rules, it is not friendly

Montecito active clames and mines . Lots of placer aroind serounding aireas

Jess Great video I live in prineville, or It is a proven yellow stone hot spot caldera. All around here are cinnabar mines Howard mining district. There are a few gold ocurances in the are but maybe 3 areas . My question is how often is gold found in veins with cinnabar? This is a curiosity question. What happens in the oxidized zone. Such as what happens when it hits the water table? I'm aware of the mercury scare I won't be messing with it. I'm looking at gold and vein knowledge. And why no gold around new berry caldera? By bend Oregon

Yakama Tribe!

St Helens is an odd volcano because it's west of the normal line of the High Cascades -- because there's a large cluster of crystallized magma chambers, a 'batholith', to the east of it, which has forced magma back to the west, where it comes up through some more permeable metasedimentary rock. Look how it's almost straight to the west of Mt Adams. That ain't normal. -- -- That batholith is from much older, _Ancestral Cascades_ volcanism. You've got the Ancestral Cascades (called "Western Cascades" in Oregon), and you've got the much, much younger High Cascades, with all the more-or-less active stratovolcanoes. So St Helens intruded (and then extruded :) up through much older mountains -- so the geology is different than it is right around Mt Hood, for example (there's no gold of note in the immediate vicinity of Mt Hood -- just a lot of tuff and barren basalt and andesite and such). -- -- In Oregon this is all quite clear-cut -- the Ancestral Cascades are to the west of the High Cascades. The High Cascades are fresh and rounded on a topo map (with volcanoes poking up here and there), and the Ancestral Cascades are deeply cut by rivers and weathered. The situation is more complex in Washington, where the Ancestral Cascades are actually to the east of the High Cascades up in the north (because the old range was rotated clockwise before the High Cascades started forming along the new volcanic arc line). -- -- But anyhow, any sort of gold associated with High Cascades volcanism is mostly going to be buried _way_ underground. Gold is accessible in the older Cascades range that started forming like, oh, 40 million years ago, some millions of years after the Siletzia terrane (a giant-arse pile of basalt called a 'large igneous province') jammed up the old subduction zone that was much farther to the east than it is presently -- maybe more like along I5, or roughly thereabouts. The subduction that formed to the west is where it is currently located, and that's what initiated the Cascades arc. -- -- Gold in the Ancestral Cascades (the "Northern Segment" -- there's a Southern Segment also, that goes down through California and western Nevada, and it has *A LOT* more gold) is generally associated with granitoid intrusions -- so you have some sparse gold epithermal and copper porphyry deposits. None of them were too impressive, with maybe the exception of the Bohemia district near Cottage Grove, Oregon. -- -- That one mine that was noted, the Maybee mine, is associated with the Silver Star pluton (granodiorite, IIRC) -- and so there's some copper and a _little_ gold mineralization in the area. -- -- The High Cascades got started when the angle of subduction changed like 7 million years ago? Don't quote me on that -- it's definitely much more recent. And you have all sorts of _young_ basalt and andesite dumped everywhere, and tuff, and scoria, and whatnot. Not gold country -- at least from Shasta to Mt Rainier. The Northern Cascades of Washington are way more complex; the Ancestral Cascades and High Cascades are more jumbled up, and there's gold from different processes/sources. -- -- (sorry for the weird formatting -- KZfaq seems to have disabled line breaks, and I don't want people to have to read a wall of text)

Thanks for the info. Would small creeks in the mountains be a good spot for panning. Or would a gold deteccter be better?

Mt. Adams has few mines because on the east side its all reservation and the west side is wilderness protected land.

The volcano range he is talking about goes into British Columbia Also

I had to get rescued off st. Helens. Went for a hike after fishing and got lost

How do you do the thing on Google earth were you can show all the mine and prospect sites like you were doing for this video

Anyone ever find anything in/around Walla Walla?

what about Coastal gold. Heard about "salt and pepper", blue hue blackish sand.

Any good spots in yelm ??

Republic has gold and of course Liberty mine.

Just wondering about sluicing some of the rivers here in Washington is there any like rules and regulations for sluicing? I actually lived up in Washougal wa for along time and I lived like 10-15 from mabea mine road and if I recall right there’s like a river/ creak that runs around there that I would love to sluice I just am not sure about permits if I need any.

@prospectorJess I’m trying to use this map. How can I find it?! I tried to pay on your website for access but it’s very confusing and not very user-friendly. Please help!

St. Helens is gonna blow again soon?

Have you found any gold around Wenatchee river on the map?

I can make more money collecting pop bottles than I can panning for gold in Washington. It costs me 10 times as much to get "there and back" than the value of any gold I've found.

thaanks for the video. Where do i find the map you are using in this video? ive been looking on the usgs site and have had no luck. Thanks

Has anyone found any by walla walla area

I'm in wa. Let me know if you need another hand. Need to learn and don't want to go myself yet. If you plan on going. Let me know. Thanks much

"Where do you find gold in Washington" In Olimpia inside the capital State building..

Are talking about Robe canyon

Where is gold in Wyoming?

He said the gold is just in California, Oregon , and Washington State what does the border stop Gold from being in British Columbia ?

I want to try gold panning so bad. I live in edmonds Washington. About 30 minutes north of Seattle on the Puget sound. Im juat scared of breaking the law or claim jumping without knowing. I would love to pan for gold but dont want to step on any toes or take gold from peoples claims

Live in Vancouver wa, recommend any good spots within a 50 mile radius to check out ? Appreciate it !

Sorry but Amethyst is too soft to have made it though the surf. If you did find Amethyst it is because someone dropped it there. My wife and I have spent hundreds of hours on the beaches here in Washington. We have found lots Agate, Jade, etc..

Everything on the east side of Mt Adam's is on the Yakima Nation Reservation, that's why there are no claims on it. You can't prospect there.

It blew up on may 18th not the 19th cool video but check your facts before making a post . Western wa native that watched it go off.

thats squatches gold by st hellens no thanks

Youve never been to washington dont lie...you skipped half the state. Ever heard of the olympic mountains? Or the coast line with shipwrecks of bullion? Thx for nothing

What’s a young man to do these days? Anywhere there is good gold is off limits or claimed. Government regulation. People that won’t show you or tell you anything of value. All the good jobs gone. Inflated value on all products. I can hardly even afford healthy food… land values astronomical? Anyone