GTAO Vlogs

December 6 2023,
Been too long friends...
Firstly, we want to thank our Patreon Patrons, our buyers on our website and our Etsy shop, our Subscribestar Members, and our other financial supporters. Every bit of help is very much appreciated, THANK YOU ALL!! As well, we are thankful for your visit, our viewers, subscribers, and any potential sponsors!



Well friends first of all we hope you all and yours are doing well or great, improving here and there, and or at least hanging in there!! In these last few years our trips and video creating has necessarily taken a back seat. Very sadly, we have had friends, friends of friends, neighbors, and family members killed by Covid__19, hosp__italizations due to it, and or from the effects of “treat__ments” of it. Troubling times regarding all aspects of our “modern” society which some would say is completely perverse and corrupt and in particular regarding “health care” and who can we trust for health information. Objectively I think we all would agree that no corporate media is trustworthy (including all aspects of Hollywood, print, TV, magazines, the W__oke and C__ancel culture, etc.), our entire political system is broken, ineffective, and absolutely c__orrupt, and the public in general is highly divided and very far from united. With all that said, where to we go from here? Forward, as best as we can, is the answer. Forward we go!!



In the beginning with GTAO VLOGS my goal was to share online what I was already doing with prospecting for gold, some metal detecting and camping and make a few bucks with YouTube and selling some authentic paydirts to our viewers to help pay for our trip expenses, gear, and more trips to come. The whole project has worked partially and we are very thankful to our product buyers, Patreon patrons, and Subscribestar members!! Our most popular products are the 1/4lb Paydirt bags with gold added and the Dry Washing Concentrates followed by our Raw Bulk Quantity Unsalted & Unwashed Paydirts. Admittedly though due to my own lack of expertise on film making/editing, other challenges, and limited funds for trips, gear, and the cost of time away from work, the “revenue” from YouTube or other platforms has been actually non existent. YouTube in particular is always changing with their algorithm, ads on or off the videos, the way they promote or demote videos, etc. When we start again with videos we shall do so with more understanding of these realities for low budget video production and our videos will be uploaded to multiple platforms.

We wanted you, our viewers and friends, to know that we are thankful for our supporters and the opportunity to share these adventures and that as best we can we plan to move forward with our trips and video creation. If you have questions or suggestions for us please email us at your convenience.

Once again thank you all!! Take care out there friends and Happy Hunting. Aaron

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It’s been pretty quiet on our channel friends as we have been occupied with a few other priorities. Big thanks to our viewers and supporters and warm wishes to you and yours always and especially in these tough times for most of us. United we stand friends and together we succeed. I’ll be getting back out for more videos and trips and looking forward to it! Stay strong, safe, and Happy Hunting! Aaron

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Hey friends, hope y’all are great! Here’s a photo taken of the collected minerals we are trying to identify under a regular entry level Ultra Violet flashlight. We came across the trail on these minerals while on a mountain metal-meteor detecting hike recently and had no idea they were fluorescent until a friend suggested that they may be Amber and fluorescent. We checked and sure enough they lit up like crazy under the UV light! Orange, yellow, and a cool neon green are the main colors of the rocks. We plan to get back out there soon…. Thanks for your feedback, questions, and suggestions!
Best wishes and Happy Hunting!
Aaron email: gtao@protonmail.com
Website: www.gtaovlogs.com

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Hey what’s good treasure hunting and gold mining friends? Thanks for your feedback and participation in all the recent short videos! They are a handy way to convey a lot of information with only a little production time and I kind of like the format! Thanks again always to our active viewers and financial supporters. Many of our videos are made possible with the help of our supporters. Here’s another more closeup photo of the GOLD from the recent Liberty River trip. By the way, we will be making regular format videos again and we have a question come up for some of you about a recent gemstone prospect I discovered!!! Coming soon! Take care out there and HH. Aaron

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We had a real nice trip to the Liberty River Claims and liberated some placer GOLD from the old river bottom! It was a bunch of planning, driving, digging, and such and everything went great! We had some family join us for the first time and we celebrated Dad’s birthday! Dad ended up with the whole vial of gold we recovered from the trip to have and show off from our efforts. We moved a lot of material through the recirculating sluice, removed a lot of trash left from others there before us so the area was cleaner than when we arrived. Right after getting the larger cobbles out we used a 1/4 inch classifier and some sand bags to gather our Liberty River pay dirt material from the dig for our 1/4 pounder pay dirts and our “Bulk Raw Unsearched, Unwashed, and Unsalted larger quantity pay dirt items in the website store (www.gtaovlogs.com/store). Also we hiked around checking corners and conditions, relaxed, ate, and shared some good times! All in all the trip was a super success and we all enjoyed the natural area, the wildlife, the work, the GOLD (next time maybe more!!!), and the memories! Thanks and always wishing you and yours the very best. HH, Aaron

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Howdy y’all, we just returned from a river camping trip celebrating my dad’s birthday. We did some gold mining too, bagged some quality raw pay dirt, recovered some pretty GOLD, & we have a fun time together! Patreon shipments are going out today friends. Thank you supporters!! Our Liberty River bulk raw pay dirt material will be in stock soon on our website and we have a series of short videos coming from the trip. Take care and have fun out there. Aaron

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Hey what’s good friends? In mineral prospecting terminology “float” is a specimen of rock found that has traveled a short or a long distance from the source (vein) or deposit. We will be looking more into this piece of rock Float that we wrote about recently. Here is a photo of the beauty!!! You can read more on the blog and we’ll be posting there more information as we can. Always wishing you and yours the best! Aaron

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Our “Lost Silver Ledge” story, search, and upcoming trips and videos have been on my mind for some years now. Years ago now, I was out there, way out there, hiking away from our vehicle and searching for a small meteorite impact crater and any meteor bits with my dad for a search he had been on for years on and off. My dad alone, my dad and my Uncle, and my dad and me had already been out on many trips to this area and other areas looking for evidence of the meteorite’s impact and possible path as it collided with the earth. We had maps printed from Google Earth, GPS units, and as many interesting places to search as there are facets to the treasure tale about the meteorite! On this trip, the crater we thought we saw on google earth was not a crater after inspection yet we did find the location a few miles from the road’s end in the very rocky mountains of this low desert place. We hiked in with minimal tools, camera, and supplies and I think I had a small pack and my dad may have had his full external frame pack on. After all there was a possibility that we would chip off parts of the meteorite if needed! Although my dad believed it would have already been located and removed long ago according to the tale. We were looking for the evidence of the Space Rock’s impact to connect to another part of the story he and me with him had been following for years.

Fortunately for this hike and search I had carried along my fairly new metal detector and I was detecting around wherever I could just for the heck of it. Nearby to our destination area, in a small shallow and sloped rocky gully (close to the top of this hill we were on) I hit a screamer of a hot rock! The rock sounded off on my machine like a silver dollar or something really strong and not like a typical “hot rock” which is a softer signal and the rock was good sized, flat and pretty long about 12 inches, and white and gray with blackish material in the cracks and seams of the rock. At first I moved the rock to detect beneath it yet the signal was gone and I realized the signal was INSIDE or on this natural stone and most exciting the signal was not a piece of iron trash or the random lead bullet slug from a hunter long ago. So, I turned over the large flattened stone and ran my detector over it and the signal was even LOUDER! My dad came to where I was and we both were excited about the signal coming from the rock. Looking closer at the rock and only really being familiar with how minerals form in quartz in veins from reading and stories we were intrigued by the spackle-like blackish material in the seams and cracks of the rocks. Also, the rock was large enough that with the detector we could tell that the rock definitely had HOT SPOTS where the signal went crazy and places where it was much less strong or not at all! All this is an interesting story, something to ponder, and maybe think about returning to investigate if the rock would be still there.

However, at the time I hadn’t metal detected that long yet I knew this was a special rock or at least thought it could be and to my dad’s surprise I carried the eighteen pound plus stone the few miles out to the vehicle and we still have it! Before leaving the spot if I recall correctly I put a nickel or quarter from my pocket under another rock right from the same spot to help me find the place if we dd and do return. I’m not positive about the leaving the coin but I think I do remember that yet it’s been a lot of years now… I haven’t crushed it or done anything to the stone yet. It’s a white-gray quartz rock about 12X10 inches and 4 inches thick. On the rock you can see thick black material in the cracks, sides, and edges and I’m guessing it’s mostly an epithermal Silver with other trace metals. With a loop we can see flecks that look like gold too! In prospecting and mining stories you often read about a piece of “float”, a part of the vein material being transported “floated” away from the source, being discovered and sometimes and hopefully leading back to the source for the prospector. Also, with great floods or glaciation for example this float can travel miles and miles making retracing to the source impossible and even driving the prospector crazy or causing them to go broke and probably crazy trying to find the source. Well, this is my first piece of genuine “Float” material like this and because we were near the top of the hill I know it didn’t travel far from the source!! Anyway, we haven’t been back out there, it’s always on my mind, and we want to make a series of videos about the whole story and hopefully we will end up chipping out Silver vein out of the bedrock with sledges and chisels, carrying buckets of it out, and then do the refining, smelting, and pouring down the road! I’m hoping to get out there, follow up, and try to locate the Silver Ledge/Vein and make a series of videos about all the details, what we learn, and what come of it all. We will be adding a photo or two of the float here or in a short video or on our website news blog. If you are familiar with small scale silver processing and separating the other metals please let us know. We need to learn about it and get some small scale equipment together for the processing of the ore HOPEFULLY! Also. let us know if you have other questions or suggestions? We welcome your help and feedback. Best wishes, have fun, and happy hunting out there friends! Aaron email: gtao@protonmail.com

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To those who were lost, to the heroes, and those who have now for 20 years been destroyed, plundered, and defiled, we shall not forget you nor forgive those culpable. May we unite as world citizens and expose the truths and consequences. Take care out there and think for yourselves. Best wishes to y’all, Aaron

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So, the next trip will be soon and an over-nighter in the desert like I wrote about before.  My Nissan needs a bit more TLC and then we should be good to go for the upcoming trip and at least one overnight and until it gets too hot the next day. Thanks to our Patreon Patrons we need more Concentrates, THANK YOU! We wrote more about upcoming plans and things on the website blog. Take care out there! Visit the link here and please add your feedback: gtaovlogs.com/next-upcoming-desert-trip-soon-and-m…

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