The Search for Gold Bearing Ore: Following the Trail of Alluvial Gold to the Hills!!
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- I recently discovered the richest gold deposit of my prospecting career, but what made this discovery so unique was the size of the gold found. Half ounce chunks of alluvial gold nuggets. It's taken me years to unlock a location like this, but it turns out I wasn't the first one on the scene, perhaps in modern times but after finding an alluvial drift mine on the very same corner that I'd found ounces of gold it became apparent that the miners of old had been there and got me thinking more seriously about the source of this gold.
From my experience large gold doesn't travel far in the rivers and creeks never more than a few hundred metres and with some of the gold being more crystalline in nature it was time to head for the hills to see what's hiding in the surrounding area. With old hard rock mines in the area I had to go in and test some of the ore using a dolly pot and pan and perhaps just maybe we can find where all this gold is coming from.
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I know I’ll get a bit of flack on this one, I’m new to this stuff so go easy on me I’m looking forward to learning together so any feedback on this one will be much appreciated. A big thank you also to you all helping me reach a new little milestone for the channel of 200k subscribers I’m blown away thank you ❤
Levi, I've been watching you for a few years now and love what you do. I'm glad you're finally trying to find the source.
There are three things I'd like to mention.
1. Stop filming. It's obvious to me that you're on the west coast near old diggings and, although I've been to tassie ( I asked you once if you want to go detecting, you never replied), I don't think your spot would be hard to find given all the available footage.
2. "The monster". It's a VLF and will go off on anything. I doubt you're hearing gold, more like ironstone.... which leads me to number 3
3. Have you noticed how much gold youve found containing ironstone? If I were you, I'd be looking for an ironstone reef rather than quartz for the possible source.
I know you probably won't like this idea, I'd take a 7000 and give both sides of the gully a good swing.
And rmember, its the little stuff that makes it to the river. Nature is just like a highbanker.
Love your work mate! Inspirational stuff, cheers
I'm not sure why you would get flack for this video. Personally I think you did a great job. Prospecting is different from mining and honestly I'd give my left nut to spend some time prospecting and learning with you. Best of luck mate.
Edit omg I almost forgot. Congrats on 200k, you deserve much more.
Congratulations Levi on reaching 200k subscribers
Most miners would be delighted with that much gold!
As a geologist my approach would be the following: 1) in the location where you found the highest gold concentration measure the strike of the bedrock around it. 2) on a geographic map draw the bedrock strike and see if the lateral extension matches up with the mine. That would tell you if the mine is likely related to the same gold veins or not.
Well said.
The old timers did the work for you .All you need to do is detect between the mine working and the river for nuggets that are hung up on the banks and didn't make it to the river. THANKS for a great video.
yep yep...find the good trace on the bank and track it home...
Gold is in hydrothermal systems, ironstone is often a replacement mineral when weathering has dissolved the silica in the quartz veining. Use the river to look for alteration features, olive green can indicate hot fluids carrying gold interacting with mafic rocks near by. Find a vein in this environment and you will do well, look in the oxidised zones for supergene enrichment, once you see primary sulphides exclusively generally the amount of gold you will find drops tenfold. Being nuggety also precludes a lot of fine gold, so use of a detector on veins will likely yield greater results.
Good luck
Ty Levi I always enjoy your adventure I'm disabled and can't do what my heart desires I hardly walk thanks to a drunk driver thank you for your sharing GOD BLESS
Love your music choices Levi, particularly when you were exploring the old mine areas. Very atmospheric!
Love the idea of following those quartz stringers and crushing some of that. You need to get together with that mount baker miner. You two young guys are bringing back mining with all these wonderful videos.
At the ripe old age of 64 there's no way I could do what you guys do anymore. Years of construction work has destroyed my body. I love watching your videos and vicariously living through your adventures! LOL. Keep up the great job of making videos. You're filming is above and beyond.
Nice one Levi 👍👌🇦🇺 Congratulations on the 200K subs
The sand you crushed at the 25 minute mark is the type of material some of the more experienced hard rock prospectors reduce their rock down to before washing it in a pan. So much looking forward to you having success.
That decayed quartz stringers in that river bed need much more attention if you’re pulling gold from them, the same goes for any that are above and below that area and out on the dry ground. It’s very likely the gold was formed in those stringers and over time, as it’s broken down the gold has been allowed to move and worn it making it look water worn. Definitely take the gold monster with you next time. Some of that ore looks amazing, but the old fellas were usually pretty thorough in what they took.
Dude put the rocks in the fire then quench them, they will make you dolly pot so much easier
So happy every time a new episode drops. keep up the amazing work
Take Magnesium tabs for the cramps or those sports hydration tabs work well too.
The gold might have been in ironstone reefs adjacent to the quartz.
Take the GPX up that hill next time mate 🇦🇺😎
We need a video with Dan Hud and Tassie Boys Prospecting and Vo-Gus Prospecting on Tassie Island.
I love the history looking at oldtimer work- those guys were hard men. More like this pls. Thanks for all your hard work.
No flack here Levi. I love what you do! Keep on doing what you do, under water, above the water on the banks, in the hills or over the mountains, it's the adventure of being in nature looking for what mother nature has to offer! It's there for the taking, none more worthy than you to find it! Keep on sniping, never give up!✌️😊
The burning of the ore is what the old timers did. I've tried it it really works a treat. Oh yeah Levi I really enjoy videos, the bush journeys are just as enjoyable as the prospecting. Thankyou
Congrats on 200k Subs Levi. Awesome work and well deserved. :) Great Vid
Hey there, I’m no Miner, but I have worked with an anvil. The more solid the base, the more energy can be transferred into the rock to crush it, and less energy is needed to do the same work. Totally love your channel!
You’re a legend Levi! Keep up the unreal work
The fungus - Aseroe Rubra - Anenome Stinkhorn.
Thanks! That was a crazy one! Any idea about the golden ones he showed, near by? The underside looked a bit like a Chanterelle.
Really sweet hearing them being sucked with the snuffer 14:06. Right on Levi, a ripper of an adventure you’ve shared with us. Brilliant work mate 👊✌️🇺🇸⚒️⚒️⚒️⚒️⚒️❤️
I'd love to make a necklace out of one of those nuggets with all the discolorment. I think it really adds character to the gold.
2:15 am in Arizona. Can't get back to sleep. Yo, Lookie here! Tassy Boys has a new video!!! I'm thumbs up #74!!! 1:40 1:40
Congratulations on 200K 😃🙌 Well deserved with awesome content like this and the effort you go to is next level 😂💪🙌 I don't wanna make your backpack heavier but it would be good to head up that hill with a detector. Really enjoyed it. 😃🤙
Thanks mate appreciate it, yes now that the dolly is on sight I’ll be able to get those detectors in 👍🏼
Hope you find the source and get some big nuggets with the detector 😃💪
Good to see another great video of beautiful Tassie Gold.
If you wrap that dolly pot with carpet or cloth (or rope) it will cut down the ringing and clanking. Good stuff sir!
😆 Was thinking the same! Or some of the sound deadening mat they use in cars. Hate to see others discover his spot and muscling in on it because they hear the dinner bell ringing from a few klick's away!!!
I might suggest you dolly up many of the quartz stringers you are finding on the creek and banks and check also the rock they are in. Look for sulphides and other minerals like magnetite and as well to see if the hydrothermal quartz brought up anything. Gold rides an iron horse which suggests you might be closer than you think. I doubt the iron/magnetite on the gold is a concretion; more likely it was deposited with the gold. Complex chemistry with this stuff, mate. Not all quartz is gold bearing so it's a process of elimination. Not all gold is naked eye visible either. Great work and videos btw.
yep yep...
I am not an expert but to me it does not look to be hard rock mining. The areas of mounds (holes were dug to get down to the deposited AU). The area where that soil had been removed from below the cap rock reminds me of a site just out of Dunolly Victoria known as “Hard Hills”. An ancient river had run through the area and had deposited gold on what was then the floor of the river. Subsequent deposits of rocks, pebbles mud and fine sand closed over the these deposits and turned into a cap rock sealing the other levels in place. Hard Hills had a second gold bearing layer. Over time, erosion washed away the surrounding land leaving Hard Hills and several other places on the ancient river bed as a raised or bench deposit. Where the land was washed away gold is to be found on bedrock and in the soil along the course of the ancient river. Of course I could be completely wrong, it has happened once before.
Damn dude, that is so beautiful where you are..
I recently did a trek an hour into no where (1 hour in 2 hours back, damn hill) to unsuccessfully pan a creek in NSW..
And just being even that far away from everything was amazing, where you are is next level.
Congratulations on 200k! Well deserved!
Love ya work Levi! It’s always a great adventure and we’re learning along with you. Congratulations on 200K. Subs!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Great to tag along with you again on your adventures. Keep up the search!
Woohoo Levi, 200,000 subs! So well deserved!! 👏
always great adventures!
Good to keep in mind that when the Gold monster says "gold", it means non ferrous metallic element! there are quite few things matching the description...
VLF are sensitive things in mineralized areas...
the prospector has to find the gold, the metal detector helps to pin point and retrieve the target....
this is an (the) essential reminder.
You Certainly live up to the Triffitt name, not afraid of the hard Yakka. Mad like most of us T's but not afraid to have a go. Best of luck and thank you for the videos that I can only dream of.
Hell ya Levi! I love to see the passion you have for your trade/craft. The way you can come up with new videos for us to enjoy, thank you, my friend. I hope everything outside of the videos is going well, you deserve it man. Thanks again
Brecciated quartz (smashed up and recemented) sample you showed us. Promising for gold etc.
There's gold in dem dar hills lol well done Levi you should have taken your detector with you and watched Chris from Vogus how he searches those old mines lol. Still an epic walk in & out did you take any magnesium tablets for cramps?. Great video great collection of gold so you did very well. Stay safe mate & see you on the next one.
Hay Levi, as my old man used to tell me, you don't know until you give it a go. It's there you just have to find it.
Congratulations on the epic 200 K 👊👊✌️🇦🇺⚒️⚒️⚒️⚒️
You are an absolute beast...you deserve every gram you find with that work ethic.
You do the hard yard thank you for taking us through on your journey 🙏🙏🙏
Tip for Levi. Put your rocks 8n your camp fire that makes it far more friendly to the dolly pot. Hide your dolly pot so you dob,t need to port it in.
yep yep...just like the old timers...
yay...ive been waiting for this vid for 2 years...knew levi was smart and would be getting curious about lodes....
Hey Levi ! Love Your Channel ! You're one of those guys where
The Harder You Work, The Luckier You Get ! Apologize for Nothing.
Gold is most often found IN Quartz, so it's probably shedding FROM those stringers. Although, a lot of that looks like it's shedding from ironstone.
Great time watching you.Lots of fun.
Hey, love watching you make your fortune, always waiting for you to find that huge nugget. I don’t know a thing about gold prospecting other than watching people like you. What I can’t understand, is why you go off up to the top of a hill a kilometre from the river. Surely, all the gold you’ve ever found in the river comes from the river banks when torrents of water during the winter or rainy season breaks away rocks and debris from the edges of the river. Would it not make more sense to explore the river banks rather than a mile away ?
Anyway…keep up the great videos as they are far better than the crap we have on the normal TV channels here in the UK. Stay safe and all the very best of luck ! Des and Shirley.
The source of the gold can usually be up in the hills but I will most certainly be looking around the banks aswell which I have done a couple of times now with a detector
@@officialtassieboysprospecting yep yep...the pay seam can run from the stream all the way to the top...even up the other side also...keep eyes open and watch for any crazy clues...King Gold sits where he pleases!
Always love your stuff! Thanks for everything!
That's a great haul for the time you spend, Levi.
The chunks you are prying out from the bedrock underwater seem like good candidates for crushing
Nice one Levi👊
SHALOM 🔥
Hello my friend another awesome video. Thank you for bringing me along. Happy father's day be safe my friend 🙏. Congratulations on the 200k.
Good Luck Brother, You will track it down!! Thank you for the good content/information, take care my friend, Happy Hunting!!
Congrats on 200k!!!!! Really enjoy your adventures!
You’re gold! A fantastic journey once again!❤️❤️
Awesome video Levi!! Don't give up searching for that motherlode😊
Yaay another great vid man. Keep up the good work.
Great work, another fabulous video.. 💛
Levi you are a bloody legend for king and country😅 thanks mate for sharing your hard yards👍👍
Hiya Levi, awesome video mate, and congrats on 200k.
Great stuff.
Thanks Levi.
Andy
Always a great adventure. Thanks for sharing
Keep on looking Levi and you will find it. If the ones who came before you didn't already get it first.
Yes certainly will take the detectors in it was just a matter of weight now that the dolly’s in I’ll go back with detectors I have actually done a couple of trips with detectors early on but it’s time to try again
I love your content. Well done Levi.
Watching you from Sheffield in south Yorkshire England ❤️🇬🇧👍🏻 love gold prospecting
the adventure outweighs the gold imo . looks so fun . nothing like that anywhere even remotely close to me
Some times the best to sample isn't the rusty stuff as it means it's oxidized. yes good but also has the potential sulfides that carry the gold have also rusted out and have fallen out into the river already.. not telling you how to mine at all.. I love your videos!!
Just in my area in northern Canada we have ore that is quartz with green and black sulfides in it that carry the gold. Or surgar quartz or so its not necessarily always the rusty stuff or the peacock ore like most typical mines might have ..
Practice makes perfect Levi , I believe you will have great luck next time with your metal detector. Thanks for an amazing video mate cheers🍻
Oh yeah I've been waiting for this one.
Never seen you so tired mate! Wicked vid tho, cheers 🍻🍻
Bring a mesh/net bag, and your hand held metal detector. Knock off chunks of that quartz in the river that is holding gold. bring it up in the mesh bag and test crush it. Also the bag is small doesn't take up space can be used for multi purposes (wood gathering, wet clothes holder) Using the hand held you'll be able to find hot stones on the hills to bring back. I'd also make a hidey hole spot to put all your (I don't want to carry this in and out all the time) stuff.
Good luck hope to see you in this spot again.
p.s. don't show the gps terrain map, I and bad actors could easily snap shot that and find the location using that. I'd hate for your spots to be found. Also a trail cam or 2 wouldn't hurt either. lol
As always thank you for your videos, they bring me to wonderful adventures through your lens.
Cheer Audrey
Bout bloody time bro there’s multiple sources down there but tracking them downs the long game test a bit each trip you’ll narrow it down and learn heaps as ya go the dollypot don’t lie cheers
Most rich people stay rich by spending like the poor and investing without stopping then most poor people stay poor by spending like the rich yet not investing like the rich but impressing them
Exactly! My grandparents were so frugal but they had a TON of money on both sides. I remember my grandfather telling me "you want to make money while you sleep." And I guess that attitude passed down to my dad (RIP), because I remember going to his house one day and I had bought something I really liked, so I wanted to show it to him. So I said "Look at this!
Isn't it cute? It was on sale...I saved 50%!" My dad replied "Well, if you're spending, you're not saving." Obviously I had no retort, and that has always stuck with me.
Saving and investing wisely while prioritizing necessities and a few small luxuries in relation to one's total assets is a great approach. It helps ensure financial stability and I my for the enjoyment of life's little pleasures without compromising long-term financial goals. It's all about finding a balance that works for you!
very true, a huge part of my portfolio growth has come during this bear market. I've been able to scale from $180K to $572K in a short period of time.
How do you do that? I'm interested
Thanks to my co-worker (Alex) who suggested
Mr Stephen Milne Ebert.
Do a cook up of the ironstone gold nuggies in an acid, or bi carb. It will clean up grouse. Another cracking adventure, awesome and exciting ❤it 😊
I hope you’re able to get technology more involved with your search for gold there. A 6” dredge would be epic for those deeper areas too. There has to be tons of gold hiding under those gravels and deep pools.
The quartz at 5:06 looks really good. Notice how it has the green margins. That's likely chlorite alteration adjacent to the quartz vein, which is a good sign he that the fluids that brought the quartz were out of equilibrium with the host rocks, meaning they came from somewhere else and could transport metals into the rock. That's something you want to see. Quartz veins that are in equilibrium with the host rock would not have these green margins, and would likely not be bringing anything exotic to the rocks.
Hi Levi, big fan of your work. Came across this info and thought you might be interested regarding ironstone and gold. Sounds like the source may be deep underneath your spot.
Ironstone is something that still fascinates me every time I come across it. I dont just mean the occasional little pea-sized piece you see kicking around on the surface at times, but the stuff that exists in more serious quantities. As a relative newbie to the hobby (Ive been swinging the GPX 5000 for just over a year now), it still quite often stops me in my tracks in wonder when I come across it.
I should have taken some photos of examples that have fascinated me from time to time, but as Im already loaded up with a pick, pinpointer, scoop, sP-01 enhancer, drink bottle, Snake Bandages & Camelbak as well as my detector with harness, theres really no room for a decent camera, and once Ive put my phone away safely in a back pocket to keep it away from my 25 coil, Ironstone seems hardly worth the effort of stopping and getting it out for a snap or two.
In some places as Im sure many members have seen, broken pieces of Ironstone can be found in huge chunks, and in one particular detecting session at Kingower some months ago I came across a grapefruit sized chunk that had a side where it hung down in festoons. I had assumed at the time that this was the result of some molten upsurge from within the earth, until only recently when learning that Ironstone is in fact sedimentary. Now in the absence of any Geological training, this revelation completely turned my understanding of things upside down. Upon further reading I came across something that member Goldierocks had written..
In Post # 57 under the Thread heading Gold Beyond The Workings in the Metal Detecting for Gold forum www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=518855#p518855
Goldierocks states the following-
(i) the nuggets found in the laterites are usually secondary, not primary. Primary nuggets (that were deposited with quartz veins etc) usually have at least 3% silver (up to more than 50% silver). Secondary nuggets that grow in laterites usually have no detectable silver (e.g. they are 99.7% gold, the 0.3% commonly being copper).
(ii) any nuggets found within the laterite are usually above or only offset horizontally at most tens of metres from the source at depth (but that can be as much as 30 m below, often with white clay lacking gold in the intervening interval). The nuggets actually grow in the iron-rich ferricrete at the top of the laterite (the gold gets dissolved from the primary ore at depth and re-deposited where there is iron near surface - they actually require the iron for the gold to be re-deposited). For those chemically inclined the gold is dissolved in cold, oxygen-rich, highly salty water at depth as a gold chloride ion, and has to be reduced again to metallic gold by encountering iron (oxidation state +2) that reduces it to metallic gold. Nuggets of this type sometimes have ironstone inside them, completely enclosed by gold. Since we know the ironstone formed by weathering, the gold must also have deposited in the weathering zone because it includes ironstone inside it. When the gold dissolves from silver-rich gold at depth, the silver and gold separate from each other and re-deposit separately (sometimes the silver simply stays in the groundwater and washes away), giving the high purity of secondary gold nuggets.
So my question is this- Im assuming that here in Victoria we dont have the laterite soils of Western Australia? But is it possible that a similar process still takes place in some Victorian goldfields whereby primary gold, or particles of gold in the soil in general, gets dissolved by surface water mixing with the high salt content in the soil of areas affected by naturally occurring Dryland Salinity, and the readily available oxygen of the atmosphere at the surface? Im intrigued by the whole thing because a number of times now I have seen photos of, or read about a decent sized gold nugget found here in Victoria that is associated with Ironstone that is nowhere near a reef or other obvious primary gold origin. And my other question is this- When such nuggets are found, if formed by a similar process as mentioned above by Goldierocks, would they exhibit a different grain/crystalline structure inside when cut in half compared to gold that is primary gold? Or, wouldnt their purity also be much higher than any reef gold nearby that might be suspected of being the primary source?
I love reading the contributions of Goldierocks, Swright and other Geologists on the forum and Id appreciate if someone could enlighten me further please on gold when it is associated with Ironstone.
Thanks in advance
D.S.
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How gold is actually formed is still theory a mystery. Lots of quartz is 20 percent moisture with all the properties of gold in it. Another theory i have read is gold possibly can be formed when under intense pressure. Than like a huge like plate slips causing a hit so hard on quartz that it is vaporized leaving just the gold behind. I don't know. Who really does. But what you say can make sense also.
Good video as always keep up the good work
Vogus Prospecting has a portable crusher which works really well (angle grinder + portable crusher). I know it would possibly be heavier, but faster and far more effective. Not sure if it would be more weighty than what you've quoted for the dolly pot and hammer...
Osmium is a couple hundred an ounce do thats still a good valuable mineral to take note of. If you start finding it regularly or bigger quantities make sure to take a note where.
and the iridium(40% of the osmiridium) is worth 4750 an oz...worth working for, baby...
@@oldenyoung8024 or sell the location for one quick money..after pulling as much of the surface gold that can be found of course.
Good looking leopard print gold there. Congrats on 200k! That locale looks very promising. Hopefully all the hard work leads to the lode. You're doing the real work and bringing us all along for the adventure. What a ride!
Awesome content mate
Jesus you are amazing your back with that behemoth backpack damn! I really feel like i am traveling with an old prospector!
Sat night can turn off shit TV and enjoy a classy video thanks for sharing Levi you deserve your success what great scenery over there congrats on 200k more to come
Sat morning here. Isn't it something that personal videos make better entertainment. The obscene amount of money they spend making unwatchable crap is insane. Take care out there.
Instead of bringing the rocks from the mullock heaps back, bags of fines are much easier to pan. They are also more likely to be 'average'.
I was expecting Gandalf to appear in those woods considering the music playing in the background
as an indicator of the mineralization of the area you are in is the different color of the water from the pannings, that stuff looked great to me, I'm afraid that all of my time in such a place would be taken just looking at the rock...Ha! Thanks for another great adventure! Cheers!
Love it mate
Absolutely amazing.
Love ya vids mate 👌
You lost but we won! Nice vid Levi, thank you.
Hello Levi, in this situation,having only dolly pot, You should try to find quartz with visible gold, and start from there,regards George
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Keep doing what you are doing beautiful country 😊
Nice work and beautiful gold! I think you made me more nervous on this one then any of your other crazy adventures. Catching a chip of quartz in the eye out in the bush is the stuff of nightmares. Ive had an eye injury and a coworker just had one. Its not fun. Stay safe and as always, thank you for the adventure!
Mate great to see you struggle with something new and have a good go too
I’ll struggle as well so it was good to get an idea of what it’s like
small highbanker and scoop all those gravel on the side where you snipe have fun im loving it