Gold prospecting uses the principle of density to separate gold from lighter sediment. Gold is significantly denser than sand, silt, and other materials, so when a pan of water and sediment is shaken, the heavier gold particles sink to the bottom while lighter materials float to the top. This natural separation allows prospectors to collect gold by carefully removing the lighter material and shaking the pan to concentrate the gold at the bottom.
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My Toddler Found Real GOLD Treasure Hunting!Added:
Zaza and I went to find $1,000 in a day.
Every year dozens of people strike [music] it rich by finding valuables in the most unlikely places. So, Zaza and I thought we'd give it a try because we want to be rich, too. You won't believe what we found.
He might have found something. He might have found something.
Zaza, you found the Let daddy see. Okay, let daddy see. Hey, don't run from me. Let me see the chain.
Okay, Zaza has found a gold chain. Zaza, you found this? You [music] are golden, my friend.
Since we were having such good luck, we decided to keep searching our neighborhood.
Son, we're not playing basketball right now. We're trying to find something valuable. Something shiny.
Right.
It's a rock.
Took us a while to find something else valuable, but we finally did. Zaza, what did you find?
You found a diamond earring. This has to be worth something. Where are you going?
Maybe we should look around the neighborhood. Come on, let's see what else we can find. Look what we just found. Look at that.
>> [screaming] >> Okay, guys, I'm not going to lie. It's looking like a bunch of rocks, but we're going to find something. We just got to keep looking. We don't stop. Okay, Zaza is determined, as you can see.
Okay, he's determined to touch those bars. I don't know why, but we're going to keep looking. Come on.
What is it?
Oh.
We found treasure.
Here, look. You can wear it like a chain.
Don't go anywhere because the last place we're going to search for has turned everyday people into millionaires.
>> Millionaires.
>> Zaza, what did you find?
No. All right.
Oh, he might have have something.
Hey, just paper. Yeah. What is that shining? Oh my.
A diamond ring that's shaped like a heart. Look, it's a diamond ring.
Look the way it's glistening. We found something amazing here. You like this?
He didn't say no. We found three things around the neighborhood, which is amazing. Guys, so the diamond ring that we found, we're going to say that this is already worth roughly about $600 to $700, which I'm sure it is.
This doesn't feel real, not going to lie. Feels like metal. $50 or so. This looks real, I'm just kidding. This I'm going to put around $100. [music] Now we just need $200 more. We're going to go into this thrift store. You will be surprised on how many people leave things and how much valuable it [music] can be. Let's go inside.
All right, you guys. So we're in a thrift store right now. We're going to see if we can find anything valuable.
Comment treasure if you guys want us to win this challenge. I think we can. We can get over $1,000. Like I said, wait until the last location so you guys can see what we find.
Okay, you guys. So I found this. This is worth $6, [music] but I looked online and this is actually worth about $20.
This one is going for $5, but this one is actually worth about $10 online.
Okay, guys. We found this and I just found out that it's worth $60 here. They have it worth for $3, but it's worth $60 if brand new. So we found we're stacking up. My stash going.
Look at that. It's probably about $20, $20, so we're just going to get it just because he likes it. But all right, you guys.
Those are about the coolest things we're going to find here. I still have one more location to go to. This is the one I'm excited about. I can't wait. Let's go. The thrift store had some great finds, but we needed something better.
We needed real treasure. And what better place than somewhere literally covered in gold. You can see we're out here to find gold. So we're going to have a gold prospector [music] come out and he's going to help us find some.
San Domingo Wash is a gold hunter's dream and this is where we're at. And nobody knows that better than Mike Slater. So, we're about to meet him.
He's about to pull up soon. Hey, where are you going? We're here with Mike Slater.
About to be here looking for some gold.
>> Well, we're going to scrape a little bit and get a sample here out of the ground.
You can get gold out of there, but you got to dig. [music] You got to move a lot of dirt. If you find gold, that's great, we keep going. If we don't, we just move on and [music] go to the next spot. That's how you do it. What do you think? Is it good enough for now?
>> Oh, it's good enough. We're excited.
>> See how it's right down next to the bedrock?
>> Yeah.
>> Hold that so high.
>> Ah. [snorts] >> Keep the bucket from falling over.
>> OH, I SEE.
>> SO, I GOT TO BREAK UP A LITTLE BIT. I'm going to throw this down a little bit and dig at it.
See these chunks like that?
>> Yeah.
>> Break all that up.
Ain't that cool?
And we got to get our hands right in here. [music] So, that silt starting to come out.
As you're doing [music] this, all that heavier material, the gold, the black sands, >> [music] >> heavy from bullets and all of that stuff will sink down. And so, then we start shaking cuz it liquefies everything.
And we tilt it slightly cuz we want all the material down here at the bottom.
See, let the lighter stuff roll over the top.
See that? [music] >> Yeah.
>> And get some bigger rocks out of here.
[music] >> Yeah.
>> It sops up all the clays, all the lighter material. [music] See how it floats at the top? That's silt.
Get that all out.
>> [music] >> And last, I start to shake it around.
>> [music] >> So, as I'm doing that, I start shaking back and forth a little more and let the lighter stuff forward the top of the pan again.
>> 2 hours later.
>> The water pans better than I thought.
So, I'll take those off. Use just some of the heavies in there, too.
Yeah, I ain't seen the guy [music] yet.
Hey, ready for the big reveal? Shake it back a little Oops, see, it's starting to peek. Look at that.
>> There's gold.
There's gold.
>> Bunch of gold in that little pan.
>> Wow.
>> Ain't cool?
As I tap it, watch the gold climb out.
Ain't cool?
>> We have [music] struck gold.
>> [music] >> Guys, now I'm about to do it and hopefully I can find gold.
>> Oh, that's right. Get those things out of there. Reach down in there. We're going to get started up here. See all your material? You got to be lined up on these riffles here. Reach in there and just mix all that stuff up. All right, go ahead.
Now you get serious. I'll be the honorary shaker.
There you go. You're getting there, buddy.
I'll reach it down in my finger. See if it's deeper down in there a little bit more.
This all comes with feel, too, buddy.
Look at that.
See, that's how I stir up there.
Oh, yeah.
Pretty cool, huh?
>> Striking gold.
>> See how much clearer it is? You can see.
>> Yeah.
>> Come on, is there anything yet?
I got to go.
Starting to show up. Look at that.
One right here, and one over there.
Let's get these guys out of here.
>> [music] >> Oh, more showing up. Look at that.
I'll bring them up here. Pretty cool, huh?
>> No, for sure.
>> [music] >> We're going to see how much gold we have found.
>> Look at all of that.
>> Look at all that gold.
Wow.
Pretty cool, huh?
Guys, we have found something [music] and that's all that matters and that's what we came out here to do.
>> That bunch I'm going to get sent home with you.
>> Oh, okay. Cool. We're going to take home some gold.
>> [music] >> This is yours. Look. All right, cool.
We're taking home some gold. We are taking home some gold. Up, cuz Zaza wants to take it. We came out here and we found some gold. I know it's kind of hard to see, but look, this is what we could find. This is something. [music] Is this something?
Okay, you guys, we have made it to the very end of everything. By the way, you guys, I had to switch off the massage gun for this. I checked it out. This is a um it's a KTSI [music] camera. It was over $100. That's That's how much that is. So, that's That's $100 there. This says $5, but it was actually worth $10.
So, $10, $20, $100, uh $60, this one here, $100.
$600 in here.
The one thing that we went out there for was this gold.
This is definitely worth a little over $100. So, we found something, [music] which was cool. The whole experience was cool. And Zaza had fun, right?
>> Yeah.
>> Okay. WE REACHED OUR GOAL!
BUT, IF YOU GUYS ENJOYED this video, please leave a like, comment, and subscribe to the channel, you guys.
[music] We will see you guys next time.
Please be ready for more videos coming out soon. As you guys can tell, he's going to be ready for the next one. It's going to be absolutely amazing. All these adventures with Zaza and everything that we do is going to be absolutely epic. All right, you guys.
We'll see you guys next time.
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