New TV Series - America's Backyard Gold With Dave Turin

[GhostMiner]

1 minute ago, jasong said:

Eh, I bet you could find better. I think that's just a part of an old channel that probably pops up other places too. Though, looking at that big nugget - if it really did come out of there - it seems likely to be locally derived, not nearly as water worn as I woulda guess and bears crystalline structure remanants. 

It's just basically this little chunk of gravel up on a hill. It'd be mined out quick IMO. 

My wife thinks they use the same pans of gold over & over on the Gold Rush shows LOL.

[jasong]

Could be hah! Hard to know. I'd guess that nugget in specific came from the general area though at some point. That whole area is detected to death about like Rye Patch though these days I think. Especially now if they put a big map on Discovery channel haha, I didn't know that. 

*Wait, I just looked at that map. Hahaha never mind. ?

[phrunt]

If you can pick out which episode it is let me know.

Episodes | Gold Rush: Dave Turin's Lost Mine | Discovery

You can click where it says Season 4 to go back through the older seasons episode lists.

 

 

[RONS DETECTORS MINELAB]

I used to live in Warren, Idaho. Here’s a couple pictures of the dredge. The creek they tested is opposite of where they started dredging now and where they stopped dredging after losing the pay streak. Probably why no gold there.

[jasong]

6 minutes ago, phrunt said:

If you can pick out which episode it is let me know.

Episodes | Gold Rush: Dave Turin's Lost Mine | Discovery

You can click where it says Season 4 to go back through the older seasons episode lists.

 

It might have been a few of those first season ones? Definitely E1 and E102 from the thumbnails. I'm way disconnected from TV these days. I must have seen their operation out there after they were already done, which means they probably didn't get very far on it. 

[Aureous]

A real SMH moment with Dave being the 'host', my understanding was that he was never a prospector anyway, just a quarry owner/earthmover...everything he learned about gold mining was since he joined Gold Rush. The real-deal guy to do this sorta thing would be Freddy Dodge methinks.

[GhostMiner]

2 hours ago, jasong said:

It might have been a few of those first season ones? Definitely E1 and E102 from the thumbnails. I'm way disconnected from TV these days. I must have seen their operation out there after they were already done, which means they probably didn't get very far on it. 

I think there were 6 shows where he visited possible mine sites.

[GhostMiner]

37 minutes ago, Aureous said:

A real SMH moment with Dave being the 'host', my understanding was that he was never a prospector anyway, just a quarry owner/earthmover...everything he learned about gold mining was since he joined Gold Rush. The real-deal guy to do this sorta thing would be Freddy Dodge methinks.

These shows are quite manipulated by the producers I think. I don't know if you remember way back in Gold Rush when Todd Hoffman moved his crew to the High Bar mine in Oregon. I talked with the head of a group that was trying to sell it. Just a small part of the acreage was permitted. He told me that when Todd & Dave & rest of crew got there they only spent a few hours actually mining for the show before they moved to Fred Dodge's claim in Colorado. 

[Gold Seeker]

If I recall correctly Dave never did anything at Jason's claim because as mentioned the lack of water.

Jason however joined up with Dave as a crew member on the show.