This Vermont Stream is FULL of Gold & Gemstones!!
This Vermont Stream is FULL of Gold & Gemstones!!
Scott Washburn of ‘802 Outdoor Adventures’ invites me to pan for gold and garnets in a small Vermont stream!
Scott’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA4U-eEg5pp2HyLJC5bXvLg
Original music by Brad Martin
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Brad some of your music reminds me of the "Days of the New" 2nd and 3rd CDs it is very cool music buddy
Brad this were nice finds and I hope you have more luck finding gold.👍👍👍👍👍❤🇺🇸
I’m late! But wouldn’t miss it.. love the intro tunes, so here we go… Yay
Garnets are my birthstone, as well. I love the Drone shots. Thanks for taking me to such beautiful places.
Most all mountain streams have gold and gemstones
Such beautiful scenery. A pleasure to watch and listen to your comments.
Intro music was sweet. Reminiscent of Stone Pony. Love that sound. Garnets by the handful. Love that rich, warm color.
Brad, I work directly with the folks Scott mentioned, two of them any way! Jeff Slade & Wayne Thornton. Guess you could say I’m a student!
Scott is correct on both Lode and Glacial deposits. However, Mount Ascutney has never blown. It has however gotten hot enough to send activity through it’s breather pipes called Berecha tubes, spelling may be off there!
Thanks to the glaciers and where they stalled, evidence can be seen of that in the area you were at here as well as the area I have worked.
As for winter prospecting, don’t blame ya for saying probably not!
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Brad – if you’re primarily interested in the garnets or other gems, you should look into getting a gem sieve (aka a saruka). If you ever decide to grab one, I can see you becoming a pro and grabbing lots of garnets.
Quick question – what spurred the fascination/desire to focus primarily on the garnets?
Do you know any areas around Chittenden County that would be good for panning? I’ve heard the river running through my town might be good but I have no idea where to start…Vermont has barely any resources for rockhounding
Interesting!
Brad- Beautiful river area to find treasures and have fun! 😎😎
Super Exciting 💜
Those so called nuggets are actually in the prospecting world more commonly called flour gold or larger flakes/small chunks are pickers…!! But good job none the less….Keep at it I’m sure there are nuggets somewhere around the area….
Have you ever encountered Sasquatch or heard them in your backwoods travels in Vermont?
Wow ,the garnets ,the gold .
I was told that in New York if you find Gold the state owns all mineral rights ?
You need to watch vogus prospecting so you can learn the proper way to use your pan. He is a super nice guy and makes very good videos. It WILL help you get more gold I. The end.
I found this channel a few weeks ago and I’m hooked!! Not only am I fascinated by Brad’s finds (especially the old coins, buckles, buttons and other everyday items used by the pioneers) but Brad seems like such a nice, cool dude!!!
Love it!!!!!! Thank you
Nice garnets! Looks fun.
What do people do with garnets and can you sell them and if so where
You messed up! When you get tired you take your fishpole and catch lunch. It’s fun either way. Great video.
Can the garnets be polished and turned into jewellery?
Wait a minute I think I know right where you guys are
Brad, I’m going to need you to go home, carefully take off your pants that carried the gold, then again carefully grab the pocket from inside the pants, cut it right off the pants, then carefully clean it out and find those little tiny pieces of gold. 😂 I mean, why not ruin a $100 pair of pants for $10 worth of gold? 😂
Gold in Vermont streams has two possible sources, one being glacial gravel deposits, and the second is the Moretown complex, a carboniferous shale widely distributed in Vermont. Gold in hydrothermic solutions crystalizes when it contacts carbon. When hydrothermic solutions containing gold permeated Vermont’s Moretown complex strata, particles of gold were formed in the rock matrix. Therefore, anywhere a watercourse intersects Moretown complex materials could be a good location to pan for gold. Geology maps are available from the State of Vermont. Be aware that gold panning can become an addiction, and in Vermont, though some very beautiful nuggets have been found, the majority of gold panning efforts return no more gold than Brad found. The real treasure is the experience of being in beautiful streams spending time with friends!
Brad, you have both impeccable tastes in friends and obvious, the ability to attract and keep them as friends. Your son has much to learn from you to be his own successful gentleman and class act. Bravo!
It never fails to amaze me how beautiful it is there! You found a lot of garnets that is so cool.. the gold too! As always love being a part of your adventures.
You should have been digging the devil on the upside stream of the rock that has the three rocks stacked on top of it if he would have been digging in front of it the Upstream side of that he would have found gold
Nice adventure!
Nice adventure guys awesome fines for you young man 👍
I panned a bit in the area you are in over 30 years ago. ( I won’t tell where !) I didn’t find a lot of gold, but did find some garnets too. The People I was with panned a lot and found pretty significant gold.
Been watching for years, thought I was subscribed but I was not . I did . Really enjoy your channel.
We love watching your videos and “dig” the music! 😎😎
Bridgewater Vermont is also good for gold
Hey Brad,
Enjoy seeing gold in VT. On the video, the pan looks like it could use roughing up the bottom surface using gravel or steel wool. I find it helps to hold that micro gold better so you can snuffer it up before it slides in with the cons.
Oh you have to do at least one winter dig . That would be so interesting to see the challenge of the elements.
Awesome gold & garnets.
Those garnets are just dirty and scuffed, they should polish up nicely. Could you run a sluice? then pick the garnets as you wash the material.
The garnets are isolated or formed in Schist. Often times the stream that has Schist become exposed in layers and free gold is trapped in those layers. Perhaps check out Dan Hurd and his great videos.
Have you done or made anything with the garnets found previously ?
thanks for the treasure hunt looks hard but nice to find garnets and gold
Cool. Must be ok to dig in a trout stream there.
That was enjoyable; nice mixup with your routine 😎
This would be a great adventure for your treasure hunting partner, Bentley – when he gets a bit older…
We used to hike up Mt. Ascutney every summer, I was born and raised in Windsor, actually born at the base of Ascutney on the Windsor side of the mountain.
Another good video. Appreciated! Keep up the good work, Brad!
Love your videos Brad (and friends). I am new to this whole "panning for gold in Vermont" thing, and have learned quite a bit from your videos.Your insights about the process to prospecting have been particularly helpful. So much so, that following your methods, I found something under a big rock in my stream last weekend ("undisclosed location in Vermont") I have previously recovered both flour gold and garnets from my stream, but this new find is different and I’m not sure what to make of it. I don’t know any geologists in Vermont (yet) and was wondering if it is possible to send you a picture, and get your thoughts on what this thing could be. Thanks again for making your videos – they have been a big source of information and inspiration for me.