Gold & Garnets | Finding Vermont's Best Kept Secret!!
Gold & Garnets | Finding Vermont's Best Kept Secret!!
We met up with Scott from the Youtube channel “802 Outdoor Adventures” and spent the day in the river searching for gold and Vermont’s state gemstone!
Scott’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA4U-eEg5pp2HyLJC5bXvLg
Original music by Brad Martin
https://www.GMMD.us
https://www.Facebook.com/GreenMountainMetalDetecting
https://www.Instagram.com/Green.Mountain.Metal.Detecting
I’m digging Eddie’s Dr. Daniel Jackson Stargate outfit 😆😍💪
Why you dont have like a million subscribers is beyond me!!!!!
Nice job boys!!! I was chilly just watching, I’ve been in streams in Vermont, very cold🥶
i see u got a little bit but u never know what u will get out of the water sorry u lost the garnet i bit it was beautiful God bless all of u
Losing that garnet would have spoilt my day. I hate losing stuff. I’d rather give away £100 than lose a £1 coin, so it’s not the value that bugs me. I would still be digging back there where you dropped it.😁 It certainly looked like a fun way to spend the day and it’s a nice wee change from the detecting, for you *and* us.👍
Hello fellow Vermonters any suggestions on gold pans
Surely one of the greatest 👌 channels on the tube.
Just discovered your channel. I love it. Binge watching now! Thanks !!
I live 5 miles from Bartons mines in the Adirondacks, one of the biggest garnett mines in the country
The gold bug will bite you careful! My buddy and I are hoping to get several grams this weekend. Purchase pay dirt or pan smashed shot gun pellets. There is a skill to panning! Also take a look at the banjo pan while in the river it works awesome! Also the real gold is the friends you make!
No more Brookies in that stream.
I find garnets and gold also. But my garnets are 30+ carats. Happy hunting. 🤠👍
Good luck. Have fun and enjoy the adventure. What l always told my kids.
Great change of pace.
Keep your eyes pealed for amethyst, and many other crystals. Jet, tormaline, rutilated quartz! I can’t wait for warmer weather to get back to rockhounding here in Vermont.
Garnets are crystals 😉
Sweet intro music!!!
Great video as always! Definitely something on my bucket list to go find some “ wild” gold of my own.
Prospecting and mining are a critical right. Thanks for doing your part.
I know Scott. Glad to see he is still into it. I’m so happy to have randomly stumbled on this channel.
your eye for the nature shots is great…editing…great job..surely has to be time consuming…
Garnets and gold that’s was so cool to bad you drop that one. Love the video
I can name all the rivers that are gold bearing in VERMONT. I have been doing this since the mid 80’s I have found gold at all of them!!
I saw a video where you threw back tiny garnets. My birthstone is garnet. I want to buy some of your garnets that you usually throw away. I have some tiny clear bottles with cork stoppers. I want to make window sparklers like stain glass in bottles. Please sell me flawed and tiny ones.
You should camp there and pan all day
What awesome countryside….g’day from Perth, Western Australia
When you lost your garnet, it reminded me of Gollum, when he lost the ring. Preciousss.
Just different qualities!!
i have a spot that has some serious potential in vermont. ive panned maybe 15 yards and got 1.2grams. and vermont only produces 23.5 karat gold so its top dollar gold
Buddy gold panning looks to be more fun than profitable and the garnets were cool also. The next time I make it up to Vermont I’ll try to pan a little gold and garnets. I would rather metal detect there I have a couple friends that own big farms. Great video
you ever pan around the route 100 byway? looks like a lot of good spots there.
You should make panning vids more often
They are crystal
Cold and wet but sooo much fun! Thanks for allowing us to come along and always enjoy your videos, Brad! Mike
Here in Alaska, if we can pick it out of the pan, we call those baby Nugs “pickers” and the bring a little bit more when you sell as many pieces of jewelry are made from them….. The fines and such are smelted down into ingots. Nice day on the Creek you guys had, good times👍. And thanks for sharing!!
Hey Folks! A few links for my other sites:
My website: http://www.GMMD.us
Facebook: Facebook.com/GreenMountainMetalDetecting
Instagram: @Green.Mountain.Metal.Detecting
Recommended Gear: Amazon.com/shop/greenmountainmetaldetecting
Your garnet just needed to go back and grow some more. It’s all good.
So what did you say the GPS coordinates are sir? 😂
Awesome video. Very exciting. In the early 1970’s I panned gold near the headwaters of the Connecticut River near the Connecticut Lakes in New Hampshire. Hard work but thrilling.
Love your choice of music. Can’t say I envy you driving home in wet underwear.
friggin knew vermont has gold! i been holding off on the time to get my pans out since i moved here
Dropped my Garnet Darn it.
Wow! I would love to try what you guys are doing! NICE FINDS!!
Do you really understand the geology of what your looking at? Just asking. Doesn’t seem that is your specialty.
You shoulda said "darn it i lost my garnet".
love that bass!
I know where to go for garnet all day up there.. Car sized boulders that are polka-dotted with so many and only 1/2 mile walk from the road. I love exploring VT!!!!
On my way there now to do some prospecting. Wish me luck.
We’ve got old abandoned Garnet mines here in the NC mountains. Historically, Garnet was mined to make sand paper. This practice went away with the introduction of Using aluminum oxide or silicon carbide. Sand and glass were also sometimes used. They come in different sizes, and can be regular old garnet, or gem quality.
Gosh Garnet!!