A winter of rain and mountain snow uncovered a modern day gold rush in California. NBC News’ Steve Patterson joined a team hoping to strike it rich and learned it’s no easy money.
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I got the fever
might want to pan for water instead of gold
Proud to meet someone who values money more than time 😂
Refreshing to hear a good story about cali
I think it’d just be fun to hunt down enough gold so i could make my fiancee a ring
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Mike from Brawl Star!!!!
Perhaps the real gold is in the friends we make along the way 🤔🙂
Love the bearded old dude fully leaning into the prospector look
I didn’t realize this was literal
As if this lie will get people to move to California, lololololololololol! Nice try NBC, lol, don’t be mad because over a million people have moved out of Ca in the last year because your state is trash, the slum of the U.S..
Attempting to lure new residents?😅
There goes another flood water that liberal people think they are running out of in California. Are they just plain unaware of their environment first their river was over flowing varying mass flooding all over northern California now this flood water from southern cal mountains just nonsense democrats.
Instead of reporting how much water they are getting they report gold rush caused by “” excessive water”” it means you liberal country you got waay too much water.
The older guy with the big white beard said gold exactly like how I thought he would😂
Great family trips, especially retired hard working folk💌
🌳 in Canada 🇨🇦 they tag pan allowance to fishing permit for citizens Nationally
How commie-like
The gold before the great break 😅😅😅 tectonic gold
The real treasure is the friends you make along the way. If you want actual money, be someone who sells stuff to the prospectors, they tend to be the ones who get the most (and may be the only ones not to go bust) out of any given gold rush.
Gov newsome will steal it all. Via insane taxes. Soo it doesn’t matter
Don’t give up your day job
Let’s hope the California natives aren’t massacred over this new gold rush like last time.
History repeats itself
-How long have you been in the water?
-All day if you can.
-How much gold you’ve got?
-I don’t know, enough for dinner, I think!
I did a week of panning and scuba diving/dredging for gold in Yosemite a few years ago. Even dived into some abandoned pits that had filled with water, although that was dangerous since the pits usually contained abandoned mining equipment and vis was quite poor. Anyway, after 7 days we took our gold to be weighed. We collected a total of $5 worth of gold, just about enough to pay for one cup of coffee. But we had a blast anyway.
They are destroying the terrain! What if thousands do what they are doing. Quick pass a resolution to stop it unless it’s strictly regulated.
The joke is on ALL of you! I’ve been out there. There is 5 tons of sand on top of all that gold 😉 Gold is the heaviest rock out there, and you won’t believe how much sand has been moved by the flooding. ALL the gold, is under that.
Absolutely love seeing Steve Patterson report. I remember working with him when he was an intern. Great guy.
Watch out with California 32 Billion in the hole newsome will tax you at 100%
Nobody is making money from gold nowadays. If you do you spent months or years at it. Losing your job, relationships and many other things.
I need to get rich somehow ,I just couldent get along with co workers boss,s get own thing going
I’m sure it’s the flooding and not the economy. (Eye roll)
Stupid news
It’s TRUE!!! Those raging waters have unearthed some new ground. The people in this video ain’t in the right area. They don’t wanna show you that!
I’m happy for those who get to find it.❤ I still wouldn’t want to go to California though! 😂😂😂
Your loss. Beautiful and peaceful up here.
Neat ⛏⛏
It’s like we are going back in time.
There’s a you tube channel called: Ask Jeff Williams. He’s super knowledgeable and passionate about gold mining as well as a very educational channel about rocks/gems etc. He’s such a character too so it’s not boring.
YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE PLENTY OF ILLEGALS TO HELP SOON!
I want to try this! 😃
So the actual gold rush is occurring in the hardware store.
They trying to get people move back lol
Gold Rush 2.0
It’s true. Probably enough for dinner. Maybe gas. He spent more on his diving suit than he’ll ever get back.
wish they didn’t make that story.
Na
not even Gold could convince me to go to California
Lol Cali. Is claiming a new gold rush? What they trying to get people to move back? Good luck with that.
Leave the gold alone it belongs to the earth
Time to start selling mining equipment. Samuel Brannan became the first millionaire during the 1800’s gold rush by selling picks and shovels.
Lol everyone trying to get out of California 😂😂😂
I can’t grow a beard.
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We need to hit the quota before we get wiped out.
hoffman still on tv i see
You will need as much gold just to pay the taxes.
The real treasure is the hunt bc this isn’t a gold rush. This isn’t worth the time unless you’re doing it for fun.
I gotta more gold in my 2 back molars than that old timer got in 2 weeks of back breaking work – get a JOB!
Everyone is always out to make a buck smh
LOL THE WORD FOR THE DAY IS JOB J.O.B. GET ONE
The people who got rich during the gold rush was the ones selling supplies
Ya great, to bad you can’t use anything other than a shovel and a gold pan thanks to the enviros creating Commiefornia’s ridiculous small miners regulations. In some places you can’t even use a shovel. Plus there hasn’t been the flooding that’s necessary to move the gold from its source to the rivers.
We hit the mother load in g valley. This vein is a life changer.
Keep digging men keep digging
For those outside of California and always talks down about the state please stay away you are not welcome
I used to do this throughout the winter with a wetsuit but that’s insane lol I still prospect during the summer here in Oregon which is amazing for gold! Have videos on my channel for newcomers. Gold squad out ;p
Yeah, you can try a gold rush. Still nobody wants to go to California.
I see a few posts on here about environment and people digging rocks, dirt, and sand. Do you know what happens every winter and spring up here in the mountains? Mother Nature moves mountains worth of rocks, dirt, and sand.
Yeah… nice try… even if California had gold laying on the ground I wouldn’t step one foot in the worst state in the country. California is a disease to the rest of the country.
They’ll break their backs for like 10 hrs straight just to get $40 of gold 😂
hope those californians set some gold aside to pay reparations to people that were never slaves in a state that joined the union as a free state
Here in So Cal, the San Gabriel National Monument and Wilderness areas are being damaged by illegal prospecting, and the Forest Service does nothing to stop it. Trees undermined in search of ore, native fish redds destroyed in the stream…
The effort they put into it is not worth the find.
If you’re homeless in California this is a “golden” opportunity. It’s not like there is any schedule, let alone a busy one. Dig up !!
Oh You California, Trying to Get People to Move Back.
Now you’ll see all the idiots run to this fake gold rush.
Awesome. Let’s destroy some more environment in the name of greed.🤦♀️
Thank god for weather war machines huh
2018 someone burned Paradise California because of the gold under those homes. they knew about it for decades.
Good maybe they’ll all leave Texas.
I can see turds floating in the water so it must come out of san fran hopefully there’s not to many heroine needles jams this year
Fools gold 😂
There’s gold in them there hills! 🤑
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Gold Rush 2023
Media desperately trying to bring people back to California
What in tarnation!
Sorry folks, we are now out of gold up here. Better try the high desert in SoCal. 😢
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It’s a wonder that the state hasn’t outlawed this like everything else.
Better get it before the illegals get it.
Chasing after metals of the earth. Money is the root of all evil, kills,steals and destroys.
Because careful of desires, for they will rule your life, not all desires should acted on.
End of days are here, Jesus is coming; all signs point in this direction.
A warning for humanity.
Pure greed.
They’ll say anything to get people to go back to California, even if they have to lie and make up a story
So those peoples ancestors are responsible for the genocide of mine over some rocks and minerals???
’23ers, here we come.
I had a dream that there was goin to be a gold strike bigger than sutters mill an the Klondike all in one just when a as ll s goin good the Hawaiian islands is goin to blow up and cause a tsunami that’ll pretty much wipe cali off of map an rest of west coast
Gold everywhere.