Ants Pile Gold on Top of Their Nests — And the Men Who Know This Never Tell Anyone

👉 The Second Pan — what your own box is handing back to the river: https://thesecondpan.com An anthill is a core sample somebody else already dug for you. Those ants haul material up from well below the surface and pile it where you can see it, and what's in that pile is what's in the ground underneath — which is why geologists have used anthills for mineral sampling for decades, and why the men who work ground seriously stop and look at every mound they walk past. In this video I go through what the ants are actually bringing up and how deep it comes from, what to look for in the mound besides colour, how to sample one without wrecking it, and what it means when the gravel in the pile doesn't match the ground you're standing on. I also cover the places where a mound tells you nothing, so you're not reading meaning into every hill in the woods. Good luck out there, gold hunter.