You’ll Never Look at Trees the Same Way After He Shows How They Reveal Hidden Gold

Discover how the landscape is hiding gold — and how vegetation can tell you where to look. Join Bruce, the Part-Time Prospector, as he walks you through a photo from north of Coolgardie (near Kalgoorlie, WA) and reveals how spinifex, saltbush and lines of trees can point to faults, shear zones, groundwater and supergene gold enrichment. This is practical, field-tested prospecting advice you can use the next time you’re out in the Goldfields or scanning satellite images.

What you’ll learn in this video:
How to “read” vegetation (spinifex, saltbush, gums) to infer changes in soil and rock
Why narrow lines of bigger trees often mark fault/shear zones and deeper soil/aquifers
The link between iron-rich saprolite, ultra-mafic rocks, quartz veins and gold
What supergene enrichment is and why it can create exceptionally rich, shallow gold zones
How surface weathering and groundwater chemistry can mobilize and re-deposit gold
Practical tips: what to look for on Google Maps, satellite imagery and when walking the ground

Why this matters:
If you want to find gold nuggets, good outcrop, or target areas for metal detecting or sampling — learning to read the bush can save you hours of blind searching. Bruce shows simple visual clues that point to subsurface geology: faults, shear zones, transported cover, regolith profiles (iron cap / pale zone / saprolite) and potential quartz reef locations. Whether you’re a beginner prospector or an experienced detectorist, this video gives field-hardened insight into how vegetation and terrain mask the geology that controls gold.

Watch now to stop missing obvious targets and start seeing the bush like a prospector.

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00:00 Introduction and Overview
00:41 Analyzing the Photo
02:07 Understanding Vegetation and Soil Types
04:38 Geological Implications of Vegetation Patterns
06:49 Cross-Section Analysis
10:54 Supergene Enrichment and Gold Formation
18:52 Practical Applications and Conclusion