Great job introducing platinum.

Just started watching your videos, and immediately subscribed; this is exactly the kind of information i have been looking for. I love how rich and informative your videos are, and thank you for taking the time to make such good content for us greenhorns, who want to get into prospecting. : )) And I am looking forward to purchasing you book very soon.

I bought a tea pot at a yard sale, made of platinum in West Germany, worth $2500 on line.

Thanks again Chris. My grandkids and I are loving your videos.

Chris, I figure I would be the luckiest woman on this earth if I could find a gold nugget !!! I would be so busy looking for gold, I would probably overlook anything other than a piece of gold. That’s OK though, I would just be happy taking in The Great Outdoors and coming up with a little or big nugget of gold. As I continue to watch these videos, the countryside is absolutely gorgeous. Everyone of you seem to have a special place (or your claim) to share with us. Water running through a little canyon with clean (litter free) areas that you can just sit and enjoy. Beautiful waterfalls without graffiti sprayed all over the rocks. I just couldn’t think of anything better !!! Truly God’s Country. Thanks a million.

Thank you , I just love your videos and can’t wait to read your book .I really appreciate the time and effort you put into making these videos and explaining everything so clearly . You’re amazing , keep up the great work , we don’t learn enough about our environment and surroundings as we should in school . It’s shocking how little most people really know about basic elements and nature . . Have a great day .

Hi Chris. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Its complicated to find some information about platinum. One more follower!!

One small gold mine in the south end of the Panamint Valley California revised their operation to also recover platinum. People can get so focused looking for gold anything else of value goes unseen.

This is so awesome. I finally had some time to watch it again. Please keep this coming and go even deeper... with the mining- extraction locations just like you are doing..

I found a platinum nugget above Canyon City Oregon with my metal detector.Yes it was a real one it was in a dry creek bed below an old adit dug into serpentine. It was 1 1/4 in. long by 3/8 in thick. Canyon creek has all kinds of green to black serpentine.

Thanks for doing these shows I share them with my friends.

Great video on Platinum, Chris... thanks! I have purchased several copies of your book; for myself and to give to friends who are whan-a-bee Gold Prospectors. You are the best!

Up to 70% of serpentine (California's state mineral) can be asbestos, so crushing this ore for platinum has its risks. In the early days of mining in Russia, platinum was so abundant and resistant to rusting that they made frying pans out of it. Expensive metal detectors with higher frequency ranges will pick up platinum in rock, if the content is high enough. A short distance off Route 80 in the foothills of California, I have found platinum with my Minelab metal detector, set on A/M (all metal), platinum sets off the alarm with a numerical code reading of 32. It's difficult to process this ore, so other than sending in an assay it is simply sitting in a few buckets in my storage locker. Every time I'm in that area I pick up a little more and someday I may have enough to pay someone else to process it. Cheapest processor I have found, so far, has a $2,500 minimum charge. Very interesting video, Chris. Thanks for doing such a great job with it, as usual.

Middle fork American river has some platinum, I've read stories of historical finds and have actually found a small platinum nugget from there as well. Always keeping an eye out for the stuff!

Thanks.for shsring your knowledge .its really great of you.

Absolutely loved this, thank you. definetly subscribing

Hi Chris. Thank you so much for not only sharing your knowledge, but for doing it in a positive, friendly, fun, academic, and joyful way. I stumbled upon your videos in the last month or so and I was wondering as I begin to prospect, what your thoughts are on how drones are used in prospecting. Could you please give suggestions of usage. Thanks

Chris blessed as you are ....you know what ... Many miss all these adventures of enjoying the nature with sense of treasure hunting...money may be might not be an option for me but yes trying out natural vastness as small ant makes me feel blessed with pleasure ...and yes of course with knowledge through your videos makes trip more enthralling.

I liked your presentation! Good information! Thanks. I will probably get your book.

Thank you so much for your info. Great video.

Great video back in the day when they were panning in the creeks, they had no idea what the platinum nuggets were so they would dump them off to the side and leave them.

I grew up in Silverton Colorado. As kids we would sell rock specimens to the tourists who came in on the train. Wonder how much money we lost.

i enjoy your videos they have taught me alot in the last 3 months thank you

Thank you for this wonderful introduction to PGM’s!

Thanks for all the good information. I will purchase your book. I own 1000 acres on Arizona/New Mexico border where gold was mined in the old days but know very little of what to look for. I have many canyons here with black sand and bed rock so I am researching and testing. I will be watch your videos to learn more. Thanks

This is by far, the most in depth explanation of everything I was looking for. I am no geologist but I just like to dig holes in the ground and find cool things plus locate fossils. So today I had went gold panning for the first time. And what I see from my finds look more like platinum where the gold should be sitting in the pan. Now, this area is very interesting because this area was impacted by a meteorite 450+ mil years ago (Rock Elm WI). This area is very unique in ways. It also contains a rare mineral named reidite. This type of thing gets me all interested.

Thanks Chris super educational and great to be educating myself from your videos so love the videos, Thanks for the Geology.

Thank you for the videos I have learned a lot thank you very much

Hello chris! I seen you on discovery channel also! It looked and sounded like you! God bless you for all you do!

I sent you an email with a picture of what I believe is my platinum nugget that I recently found while gold panning in Oregon. Thank you for sharing your information with us all. 💙

Thanks a lot! I learned a lot from this video.

Hey Chris, it was nice talking with you today! See 26:13 for what I was talking about, in the Seattle area... I enjoy your videos when I can't get out (rain/snow) ;)

Hello Chris, writing here o congratulate You for the great work you`re been doing here, teaching or at least enlighting people on how to start prospecting, and I am one of those whom are geting to learn here, my intent is to (soon enough) make an youtube chanel to pass on everything i am learning here with you and also other great prospectors, as I`m from brazil and am living here atm, my goal is to make a chanel in portuguese/english so people from here can learn mining language in english and maybe people from around the world learn the portuguese mining language, I hope you don`t mind the passing on of your knowledge. And once again, Thanks for Your great work here!

Still trying to catch up with your old videos, love 'em! Would love a re-visit on platinum group metals and prospecting for them in the US. I know Northern Cal, SW AZ, and a few places have a little, but it'd be quite interesting to know more about prospecting for it in the regions, how to spot it etc. With the price of platinum, rhodium, etc currently, it's time to go scratch around some hillsides! Keep up the good work! I cannot believe you don't have a lot more subscribers! We need to point more rock geeks at your channel!

Thank You. You Have Been a Big Help.

Great knowledge thank you very much

Hello I just finished watching you video, I enjoyed it btw. Anyway my grandfather past away last year. While cleaning out one of his small barns I found a gray metal bar that he or possibly his father made. My great grandpa was a miner and my grandpa helped him also. The bar is 8” x 3.5” x 1.5” and weighs 10.4 lbs. it was exposed to the weather but has not rust or corrosion on it. I’m curious as to what it could be. It’s similar in color to the platinum nuggets in your video. How might I go about identifying it? I’m located in central California. Thanks

Just double clicked today, although I shamefully admit I’ve been watching and always been learning for a while now. I find quite a bit of serpentine in my area (interior BC) which is often encasing calcite and always has black crystals studding them... chorolite (?) or something I thought.

Great info thanks!

Sir. ... you may have just helped me make my dreams come true! God bless you 🙏 truly. I love you and yours unconditionally.

Thanks for this video not much info out there on wild platinum 😀..I’ve found what I believe to be very small platinum pickers when prospecting in the south west mountains of curry county OR also a bit in the beach sands after a big storm….Im very excited now about the time I found a chunky rock unusually heavy for its size w/ streaks/crystal matrix of grey looking metal found in a creek bed…I’m desperately now searching for that dang rock after watching this video. 😂

I've had a large rock for 30+ years, no one seems to have the same opinion on what it is but many want to buy it. Love to find someone who REALLY knows. Looks like Platinum.

Most enjoyed the educational video...thank you...

Amazing job replying to comments. I have never seen a content creator do that. Lovedtje video

I live close to the gold areas of Prescott and Wickenburg. I've been told that platinum shows up in these areas as well. Any history of that? Thanks for your vids.

@chris ralph, professional prospector thanks for the great video. and been enjoying your book

Thank you very much your video has been very informative I appreciate the information thank you

Thank You Very Much For The Information

Enjoyed a lot, definitly answered a couple ?'s of a claim ive been workin im sure i got a lil plat.nuggie ! It has to be its not mercury i find that too lol! Yeah gonna be gettin that book for x-mas!

I was just doing a little research and was wondering, where would I sell these nuggets if I were to find them? And also seen on eBay where people are selling similar looking nuggets calling them meteorites. Thank you for your time.

Always great !

Great educational video. Subscribed. Thank you

Pgms! I love them! So much! I have pgm flu instead of gold fever.

Hello from Ireland bud. I enjoyed your video. The Irish government are undertaking a massive survey of the country's minerals and have discovered good amounts of platinum in my home county. The survey is called Tellus if your interested in giving it a look. Check out the east coast

Thanks for the video leaning from you❤

Thanks alot. I have platinum in my area so I will go and find out now.

Wanted to thank you for your great videos! I'm a hobbyist prospector and very much enjoy the science. Quick question on the topic of platinum nuggets and magnetism. Certainly, pure platinum is not magnetic. However, I've read that metallic platinum containing iron is at least as common as pure platinum. This information was on the Internet, so it has to accurate, right ? :) Assuming that you agree with the above comments, how would you go about identifying ferrous platinum metal (short of sending suspect metal off for assying)? It's specific gravity will be significantly less than pure platinum (given that it is a mixture of platinum and iron), it can have at least some iron oxide covering it, and it will be attracted to a magnet.

I found a rock recently that resembles a geode but it’s flat and there is a round circle in the center that’s made of metal. I believed it would be iron but it’s not magnetic. Inside is solid metal, outside looks like a regular geode with small crystals. Anyone familiar with anything that sounds like that?

Great job and easy presentation so everyone can pick up on the facts.

Thanks for info!

Where in Alberta Canada is alot of platinum?

I need a hobby when I retire, I guess I'll have to move for the metals I love, I live in N.E. Pa. Lots of rocks, but not the right ones, and laws are not for the people!

Thanks for the video

Thanks so much Chris for all your generosity to teach us . Greetings from Europe 😊

Omg thank you so much!!! What I found was in a wet- weather creek back behind my house where there is over 5000 acres of untouched woods here in the ozark mountains. It wasn't a nugget but more like a smashed mushroom.... small though like a nugget. It had a lot of black and brown in fact that's what color I thought it was but I could see what looked like shiny pencil marks bleeding through it. I noticed it was bumpy and had shiny spots like pencil heads chunked here and there. I thought it was odd that there was litter there cuz I have lived here 50 years and the 2500 acres my house sits on has been in my family since my ancestors settled here during the trail of tears. But I thought it must be a piece of aluminum can. So I had to get in the creek to get it out. But once I did it was obviously not. For one reason it was way too heavy. Well I had a 10 week old puppy that got ahold of that rock one day and chewed and chewed and chewed that rock clean! I had actually washed it with water and soap but that little slobbering puppy got down in those cracks I guess and when I came home and found it all I saw was what looked like a shiny piece of silver with very little of the brown and black left! It was still the same shape as it was before the puppy got ahold of it! The foothills around me have been declared as prehistoric volcanos and we have huge elephant rocks that are suppose to be prehistoric lava. I'm in southeast missouri where quartz limestone and almost every other element and mineral is. In fact there are lead mines, silver mines, copper mines, colbalt mines, all with in thirty miles from my house. There is rumored to be a gold vein going across our county that's over five miles wide. I don't know how to go about finding out what this is but I bet there's more somewhere on that mountain where the water flows down and feeds that creek during our rainy season. There was not a bit of rust and it was in the bottom of the creek bed. We also have several artesian wells all around here. No salt water here though! We are land locked! I live in Madison county missouri. Please give me advice on what I should do now.

There's easier ways. When I was a contractor I was giving the homeowner the rundown on what we contracted for on his home he just purchased and he drove up in a Toyota pickup and parked it in his driveway where I was waiting. We went to the backyard to finalize the expansion plans which took all of maybe 10 minutes and walked back to his vehicle, he gets in and starts it up...loud as hell...in that 10 mins someone had come by and stole his hot catalytic converter.

Thank you.

Another informative video, I hope your book arrives in the mail tomorrow, can't wait to read it. Thanks again, Chris...!

Love your stream!

Great video, wish I would have seen this when it first came out. I spent a couple of years of working in Alaska and this would have been good to know to give me something to look for when I had time off from work

Thank you

I'm a jewelry artist and you have peaked my interest.

very informative ralph

Hi Chris, great video. Rock collecting, Rock hounding, metal detecting and the like are in my blood. My Grandmother taught all of us kids about these activities ever since we were knee high to a Grasshopper. I truly enjoyed your video and have marked your Web site. Thank you.

Very informative 👏

Very informative ,, thank-you

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I loooove platinum!!

Very good

Good stuff Cris.

Best information sir.👍

Talk nerdy to me!!! 😂 I love a good nerdy video!!!

I love all of your videos, Super informative and exciting! I'm a new prospector getting in to this awesome hobby and need all the help I can get ha ha. Have you ever mined in Utah before?

Today I'm about to go out to a B grade placer for platinum and it's group metals out in California. Just wanted to say Thanks for the inspiration to get out and start prospecting, and for the videos and all the helpful advice therein. Keep up the great work!👍 (I Will update this comment after I get back with anything that I find or don't find .) Update, found 1 speck of platinum and a whole lot of black sands with what might be some extra extra small iridium specks. Had lots of fun but lost a pan and classifier to the river. Further prospecting is needed to determine if there is enough platinum to work the area.

Hey Chris! Amazing video! I saw the maps but is there any platinum or Gold nuggets close to San Francisco

Awesome video 👍👍

Great video! Fascinating stuff. A professor once took us on a field trip to nearby Paradise, California, where a bunch of serpentine rock is located, and told us about it being asbestos. It’s a beautiful shade of green.

I've that shirt. I'm expecting THE encyclopedia by mon.thanks for sharing.

good onya mate , following from Australia

Very nice gold.

thanks

Great video Chris some great information had found some platinum nuggets gold panning on the Similkameen river in British Columbia and by nuggets I mean pieces the size of a grain of rice lol .

great explanations. you say sprinkled a lot, and some repetition.

I've noticed in refining preshess metals and e-wast old silver and gold tend to have trace amounts of platnum group metals mixed in .

Nice Done Indeed Sir. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sincerely Tom Weidler in Las Vegas Nevada 😎👍👍

Whilest met at detecting in Lincolnshire England I have found similar in the soils Of farming grounds but it's heavy , possible silver

Liked it my friend!

Hi Chris, thanks for the information glad I subscribed. Do you have any information pertaining to the eastern gold pyrite belt I live in Pittsylvania County, Chatham district in Virginia. Trying to research in everyway thanks again for your help, and for your time God bless!

I was exploration drilling at the Stillwater Complex in MT. back in 1979-80. Very interesting area. We hit it big! I do believe that a South African company is running the operation now. Ps. I live now real close to Duluth and a mining co. named Polymet has been trying to get approval from the environmentalists for about 15 years now. I think they are getting close. I know that they have drilled thousands of holes core sampling and figure that it has 10 times at least the PGM as the Stillwater Complex. I wish them well. We need those rare minerals!! Great presentation on this little known subject!

I like my area of Northern California. Thank you Chris and would enjoying a day of prospecting with you and I could run the camera for you also.