I Bought This Gold Claim With The Gold I Found On It

Today, Lauren and I attempt to buy an entire claim with the gold we find on it. The question is, was it enough? Is this what I think it is? Hello. Today, we're going to be doing something that you've never seen before, which is looking for gold underwater, also known as gold sniping. Now, unfortunately, I don't have the entire day today, so it's not going to be the longest day, but we're going to find enough gold to make it worth it. I don't have a seat belt on. So, because we didn't have all day to be here, I had to hurry up and find some bedrock. Luckily, I knew where some was and we found our first piece of the day. The gold in this area can be pretty big, but like most rivers, the majority of it is going to be small. But I'm okay with that because it all adds up. I found this chunky piece in this little rust pocket, but I didn't want to damage it taking it out. So, I beat it out. After I sucked it up, I didn't find any more gold for the rest of the day. So, instead of giving up, I got permission to hunt on my friend's claim the following day. And I was really excited. la. >> I want to know if I can eat this mushroom. It tastes good. The water is much colder than it was the last time I was here. So, I've been on this particular creek before, but I've never been this far up. I've always wanted to explore this part, but obviously claim jumping is bad. But I have permission today, so hopefully there's going to be a lot of gold here. A piece of gold. So, general rule, when you find gold, that's a good sign that there could be gold around. So, it's best to check the area. I found some rocks that were stuck in this corner here, and that's also a good sign. So, we're going to look. So, I just moved up from that little spot and I found another piece of gold. But this one looks like it's stuck. So, I don't know how big it's going to be, but we'll pull it out. Hopefully, it's bigger than my head. There's actually just a couple pieces in there. >> Very nice. Now, because I am on the bedrock and we are finding gold, I thought I'd move downstream just a little bit and punch a hole through the gravel to see how deep the bedrock was. Sometimes when you do this, you find a crack that leads up to the spot that you were just in. So, I'm sort of in the middle of nowhere, but there is a little trail up here that leads somewhere. And a guy just rode by on his bike. Scared me. Not the biggest piece of gold in the world, but also not the smallest piece in the world. I'll still suck it up. So gold is really heavy and it's going to sit on the bedrock. So anytime you see a hole in the bedrock, it's good to dig it out. I found a hole. I dug it out. I see two pieces of gold. So I'm pretty sure I lost this second piece. When they're really small and there's a lot of cracks in the bedrock, they can easily go missing forever. Luckily, with a little bit of scratching and some patience. Yeah, we lost it. So, I'm not actually on my claim today. I'm on a friend's claim. And because I haven't been here before, I just have to walk around and look for spots that pique my interest. Ah, look what I just found. A mask. What's interesting about this is my friend who owns this claim doesn't snipe for gold. So, unless this came from way upstream, we have a claim jumper on our hands. In fact, I know we have a clean jumper. I just won't make the video yet until I catch him. You heard that right. We do have a clean jumper around, but luckily he didn't take this piece right here. I don't know if you can see it, but I'm working this thin little channel here. I just found some lead AND MORE GOLD. SO, THE GOLD I'M FINDING today is fairly small, and I kind of blame that on not really knowing this claim very well. As a rule I made up, is you got to spend at least 40 hours on a creek before you can understand where the bigger bits are going to be. Now, sometimes the big nuggets are in spots that you wouldn't expect, but most of the time, the river does a good job organizing the heavy stuff from the light stuff. So, in and around 40 hours of looking, you'll just start to see where the bigger stuff will end up. All right. So, what I think I'm going to do is I'm going to ask the claim owner if I can come out for one more day and I'll blame it on on weather or something like that because I am finding gold here, but I feel like we can still do better, especially the more upstream I explore. And if he says yes and I find good gold on it, what I want to do, I want to ask and see if he is willing to sell me the claim. And what I think will be even more fun is if we buy it with the gold that we found on it. I don't know. I just think that would be a fun video idea. Buying a claim with the gold you found on it. I also just found another piece of gold right here. Instead of calling it quits just yet, I poked around for a bit longer and eventually settled in on the spot here that looked a little bit better. All right, it's been about half an hour later. It's actually starting to get dark now. I got here late, too, so I didn't really have a full day. Working along this thin little crack, I see two gold piffs. All right, so this is actually the biggest piece of gold in the entire world. So, please comment how impressed you are. And because we just found the biggest piece of gold in the entire world, there's a chance there could be small gold nearby. So, we're going to follow the crack deeper and see what we find. So, I discovered a quartz vein. And yes, you can find gold in quartz, but that's not why I like this one in particular. It's because quartz is way weaker than the surrounding bedrock. So I often find that as it weakens it turns into a crevice and gold gets stuck in it. So I decided to beat it. The second biggest piece of gold in the world. I apologize in advance for how dark it is. For the remainder of my time here, I really didn't find much except for little pieces of gold, some bits of lead, and maybe one more flake of gold. Ultimately, I decided to leave because I was getting really cold and clumsy and knew that we would probably be able to come back for day two. All right. So, that was day one hopefully of two. Now, we didn't do incredible, but we also didn't do garbage because we found gold. And gold's not garbage at all. But in the time that we had, we did find actually a fair amount of gold. So, I think on day two, hopefully we can do day two, we should be able to find a bit more because we'll have more time in the day. Now, just like the last few videos, I'm not going to weigh this gold yet. I'm going to weigh the gold at the very end of the video. So, you either can skip ahead or you can sit there and watch my video because I appreciate it. But yeah, so in case you guys didn't hear me earlier on the GoPro, I'm going to ask the claim owner if we can do day two and then at the end of that day, hopefully if we do well, I'm going to make him an offer and see if I can buy the claim off them because I am looking for new claims and I've always sort of wanted to buy a claim with the gold I found on it. I don't know. Worth a try. Anyways, hopefully I'll see you in a second. Tada! Day two. We have another day to go look for gold. only this time we brought Lauren the the shovel murderer. And today we're going to be looking for gold like we did yesterday. Only hopefully today we'll find more. All right, so like always, something I don't really show on camera is getting acclimatized to how freaking cold the water is. Takes me a few minutes, but within no time I'll be numb and I'll be good to go. I want to go home. The worst part is your face. Your face gets really cold and Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> So, yesterday where we were sniping was downstream and today we are much further upstream. And the first thing I've noticed is how much exposed bedrock there was, but it was all quite smooth. Smooth is okay when there's crevices around, but I wasn't really seeing anything just yet. I did find this drop off zone here that had some fractured bedrock, which Oh my god, a pine cone. Um, there was fractured bedrock here, which I found interesting. And at the bottom of that, we did find our first piece of gold, which was nice. But after digging around the spot for a little while, I realized we have to keep on moving if we want to find the best spot in the world. So, Polly just found four pieces of gold. He's doing his thing. It's absolutely freezing in the river. >> Should I throw it? So, I just found a whole bunch of lead, which is a good sign that the heavies are dropping there. And you also could find lead around. And I am finding a little bit of gold with that lead. But I'm following this this down slope and just working away trying to get to the very bottom. Hopefully, there'll be something nice at the bottom. But if not, we'll keep looking. So, Polly, are your lips really numb? >> Yeah. >> How numb? >> I'm having trouble holding this. people would pay good money for those. >> Yeah, that was our first piece of gold in like 45 minutes or so. >> Slow day so far. So, I definitely put pressure on myself to find a lot of gold, but the truth is during this time of year, it's just very difficult. Not because of the water temperature, because I'm generally okay with that, but you're working up so high, you're just in spots where the gold doesn't really get trapped. Make sure to turn the camera off. I just scratched out a little rock and there's like four pieces sitting right there. Now, you're not going to really be able to see this, but due to refraction, I can see it really well with my mask. So, just pretend you could see it and it's the most amazing thing ever. And you comment really nice comments and you make me feel better. I wasn't planning on saying this, but the claim owner actually gave us a whole week to go explore this place. So, Lauren and I decided to come back the following day. >> Loser. See you later, nerd. >> I'm coming. >> Now, we would have tried just a little bit harder that day if we only knew how much rain would hit us overnight. We actually got so much rain, towns on the mainland were flooded and I developed a stream in my basement. I tried fleing it, but I didn't find any gold. Luckily, Lauren and I are the type of people who don't get stopped easy. We located a tributary on his claim that might give us one last chance to find enough gold to hopefully buy the entire claim. >> I'm slowly but surely. Okay, the water level is actually really high for this little creek. We're going to have to hike around most of it. The spots where we couldn't hike around, we just had to help each other get through the main flow. So, this little creek was very difficult to work. You would find a spot, get under there, realize it wasn't really a good spot in the first place, and then move on. But because I'm so talented, I was able to find a little bit of gold. However, I had too much trouble trying to film it because of how fast the water was moving. But that's going to have to do. The waters are way too violent right now to safely be doing this. So, I think it's time I pack up and head to New Zealand. What do you think? You dropped me. >> Moving on, Lauren and I slowly made our way upstream where I managed to find a little bit more gold. >> I ended up deciding it's just going to be quicker if I ran upstream to have a peek before bringing Lauren up. And I'm glad I did because otherwise I don't think I would have found this spot. >> I don't really know if you can hear me. But I traveled upstream a ways. Lauren is still downstream. So I can't stay up here for too long. I just found a bunch of gold under this rapid. I can't bring the camera with me because it's just too violent. I mounted the GoPro to this stick here because I thought this would be the best place to put it and it was. This feeder underwater still a nice nugget. So, I'm working right here and there's a crack that goes in there. Unfortunately, I won't be able to work directly under there today. I spent maybe 20 more minutes looking around, but ultimately decided to call it today, tomorrow, the next day. I don't know. I want to go to New Zealand now. >> I think I'm calling it quits. >> Yeah. Okay. Back at the truck. I don't know where my gold pan is. So, I'm going to quickly eat my chicken and then we'll use that to dump my the gold out of there and see what we got today. And when we get home, add it to what we found on the other days. I'm impatient. I just took my chicken out. Okay, that looks good. Yes, there was a couple chunky bits that I found today near the top that uh that were chunky, which is good. Turn on my flash here. I don't know if you can see that, but yeah, we got a rusty bit. A couple nice chunkies with some pieces of chicken. I'm pretty exhausted to be honest. I'm I'm totally done. Uh I'm going to go get Lauren. We're going to go back to the house. I'm going to call the claim owner. I'm going to weigh the gold, call the claim owner, and see if it's enough to get the claim. I have my doubts, but we'll see. All right, so here is them. Their gold we found. Not nearly as much as I was hoping for, but I worked hard for this. It's sort of expected because this time of year there's not a lot of places you could go, but that's okay. We didn't get skunked. There's a few coarser bits in here that tell us there's a vein where the gold is coming from nearby, but maybe that's a summertime mission. This is the smallest piece of gold we found. And if you were to make this a thousand times bigger, it might just make a decent nugget. So, my concern here is that this may not be enough gold to make a respectable offer for the claim. However, with the price of gold being so high, it might just do. Let's wait up, come up with a number, and give our friend a ring. All right, doing this with one hand because I am so special. Put that on there. Make sure I tear it. All right. Moment of 500 ounces. There's some garbage in there, but 2.20 g. So that is4 maybe $450 Canadian. So around $300 American. It's not terrible. It's not the greatest, but let's see if that works. I'm nervous. >> Hello. >> Hey. How you doing? >> Hey, not too bad. How's it going, Paulie? >> Uh, I'm doing all right. Um, yeah. Thanks for letting me work on the claim there for those days. That was really kind of you. I didn't find a lot of gold, but I I found a little bit. You were you saying something about you trying to downsize some of your claims or something? >> Yeah, I'm trying to look at zeroing in on keeping just a few ones I know do really well. And uh but yeah, I'm looking to downsize a little. >> Okay. And is this claim one of those claims you that you do really well on or that you're trying to get rid of? >> Uh it's one that uh I think I would consider letting her go. >> Okay. Um cuz like I I don't know for I don't want to lowball you or anything, but I I do want to make an offer on it. Um I found like roughly $500 worth of gold on it. I know you said I could keep the gold, but I figured like I could give you the gold and maybe I could get the claim. But I mean, if it's if it's too low of an offer, I can always add gold to it or maybe, you know, give you a massage on the river or or something. What do you What do you think? >> Well, that sounds like a pretty good deal. Um, maybe we could throw in a little bit of a a lesson on sniping. >> Okay, the water's cold. I'll say that. >> I I'm used to that. >> Okay. Okay. That was um Do do you mind if your your voice is on video? >> I don't mind at all. >> Good. Okay. I was like that was like my final worry. Okay. Cool. Sweet. Um you sure it's not a huge claim as you know, but it does have that tributary on it too. And I feel like if I spend more time on it, especially in the summertime when the water drops, it could have good potential. And you are welcome to go on that claim anytime you would like. Sounds like a great deal. >> Wow. Okay. I have a toy Lamborghini. Do you want that? >> That's a good throw in. >> Just kidding. It's fine. Cool. All right. Okay. So, I'm just going to finish my edit here and then uh Yeah, maybe you could tour me around the area there and show me where you found gold before. >> I can do that for sure. >> Cool. I'll call you back. >> All right. Thanks, Molly. >> Okay. Okay. See you. Bye. >> Bye. That surprisingly went way better than I thought. I thought I actually had a backup plan. If he said no or something, I would have been like, "Oh, I'm just kidding anyway. What would you say?" You know, and I'll give him a bigger offer and then maybe come back to it and kind of make that into a series. But no, sounds like we have a new claim. But I'm not going there until the water drops because there's no point right now. I will have to phone him back and let him know that I can't give him the gold for the claim until I'm done the year- end video cuz I do that every year and then then I'll give him the gold. But yeah, that's good