$8000 Opal Mining Opportunity!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- $8000 Opal Mining Opportunity!
It’s not ever day you are given the opportunity to mine in one of the most profitable opal mines on the field.
This week we where allowed to set up a small operation in an area of a friends opal mine and do some work on the jackhammers that he has been putting off for years.
We only had a limited amount of space to dig as the passage we where backfilling with our kanga loader didn’t have much room.
Still we managed to move several tons of dirt and break onto a nice pocket of primarily blue green opals!
We decided to cut the material and value add, turning our $3000 find into $8000 worth of cut gems!
Some of them I will sell on our Etsy store and others I will further value add and actually set into jewellery!
I hope you all enjoy the video please leave us a comment and tell us what you would like to see more or less of.
If you wish to support us by purchasing Opal including the opals seen in this video feel free to check out our Etsy store, simply click on the link below.
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About Us:
Our names are Jaymin Sullivan, James Caruana and Noah Mcdonough we are the ‘Young Guns’ Opal Mining Crew from Discovery Channel tv show ‘Outback Opal Hunters.’
Our love for treasure hunting led us to quit our jobs and move to the desert in search of precious Australian Opal!
It’s a bad day to be a rock!
I am a fan for the underdog. You guys have come a long way. Good job men, and remember that beer is proof that God loves man. (Benjamin Franklin). Good luck
Hahahaha that is a good one!
Hopefully one day is underdogs will hit the motherload but until then it’s a bloody good journey!
Awesome find always enjoy your content.Good luck be safe and get that Opal!
Thank you for watching !
Glad you gave Justin a plug…I’m in the uk and watch him every night even on repeat! Well done good finds xx
He’s made an awesome channel!
Justin's the Man👍👍👍
I bought a ring off of these young men maybe two years ago now and it still remains my favorite piece of jewelry next to my wedding ring and it is always on my finger. Gotten so many compliments for it, where I live in the States you just don't see opal, especially not like this. Most don't even realize that it IS opal due to it not being the white milky opal you usually see around here. So, if you get a chance, buy from these guys, they do good work and produce some beautiful pieces.
Thanks for the support and the kind words :) ❤️🤠⛏
Great job here guys!
Mined it, cut it and polished it.
From beginning to end and documented almost the entire process.
Great to see!
Hey thanks for watching Roy! Gotta love the process :)
@@younggunsopalhunters I just hope it helps people appreciate the blood sweat and tears that go into it.
Amazing, Just love watching you guys.
Thanks for checking it out!
I love you guys,your awesome nice opal's as well and I've been subscribed to Justin's BOD for a couple years now and I don't miss an episode✌️ Napa California
He’s definitely a great cutter and character :)
Cheers!!! That was a great day in the mine! Congrats fellas!!! 🖤🏴☠️🖤
Thanks for watching!
Congrets from Europe. Good job guys!!!!
Sad we dont have opal in EU :-(
Thanks for watching and shareing in the adventure!
You guys should make videos more often I really enjoy watching from the U.S.
We will do our best to bring more content asap!
Thanks guys, hard working and down to earth. Great to see how you have progressed since series one.👍
Down to earth, under the earth as long as there’s earth to dig and gems to find well be there 😂🤠⛏ thanks for watching!
@@younggunsopalhunters hay keen to come work with you guys I would travel to meet you and I have a motor home that I live in so ever need a new guy I'm here
where are Jamy and Noah? you n2 are my favorites. Please make more videos.
Amazing finds! Mining opal is only a dream for me but its so good to see some guys actually doing well, plus providing us with some great entertainment!
Thank you for watching :)
So rad boys! It’s seriously awesome seeing them come from the wall to being cut and finished of with a fire and some beers! Yewwwwwww!
It’s magic getting to pull it from the earth yourself and then watch it transform in your own hands into a beautiful finished gem!
@@younggunsopalhunters I can only imagine brother. You boys work hard for it! So it’s so rad to see you enjoy the pay off. Let’s go!
Man one day. When I pull my finger out, organise myself better, I wanna just come and experience the dig out there. Just to witness it would be nuts! Keep diggin like the legends you are guys!!!!
@@Rookie_Rockounding if you ever make it over this way come have a look and we’ll show you down the mine :)
@@younggunsopalhunters man absolutely would love that. It’d be a dream brother. Thank you!
Great video loved playing Minecraft with the kids when they were little then outback opal hunters hit the tv,it started my opal fever !!! learned how to cut and polish opal by hand during lockdown using a dremel and sandpaper. Love BOD videos as well. Keep up the good work.
We haven’t grown up just upgraded console Minecraft for real life Minecraft 😂
Oh nice love cutting but I have to say you have more dedication then I, wouldn’t have the patience to learned to cut by dremel! Keep up the good work and thanks for watching!
@@younggunsopalhunters hope you have a successful year hunting opal, opal fever has come to Scotland!!!
You guys are my favorite of the Opal Hunters.
I keep waiting to see the title “ Young Guns strike it rich “
Hahaha thanks for the support! We cannot wait for the day we can post that title!
keep up the good work guys so want to see you succeed
Thank you for watching!
so cool to be able to watch you guys on youtube in addition to the series
Thanks for being apart of the journey!
Best opal hunters on TH-cam. Congrats on the nice finds.
Legend! Thanks for taking the time to comment!
Some sick looking crystals there, sweet!!
Always a good day when you find shiny rocks!
Best blue I’ve seen. Such a beautiful shade!
Ocean opal we like to call it!
Great work. Years ago, while living in Bali, I bought a large Boulder Opal from an Australian miner who spent half the year underground mining for opal. I had no idea what that really meant, until now. Thanks for the video and congrats on such beautiful opals.
Thanks for watching, Boulder opal is one of my favourite kinds of opal I hope to mine it again some time this year :)
So happy you guys made a youtube channel. And awesome job mate mentioning Justin #1 Good Channel for cutting and a great teacher.
Hey thanks for watching! Best job in the world 🤠⛏ Justin is a gun!
Chilling and drilling rock with you mates would be a freaking dream come true nothing like slinging dirt and beers cheers fellas and family !
You do a great great job cutting stones. CHEERS TO YOU!. Wonderful pieces of work your part.
Thank you they it’s always wonderful when they turn out well :)
Congratulations good to see you guys . Watching from Houston Texas
Thanks for watching!
You guys are so lucky! Opal is so pretty and living in Australia must be awesome 😊
Definitely a privilege to be able to do this job!
You guys must have popped up on my feed because of Black Opals Direct ✨ and I’m so glad that you have!
Thanks for watching so glad we came up! Justin is an awesome character!
you guys should make more videos... greets from Croatia
Definitely planning on making as many as possible this year!
Pozdrav!
@@ivek255 brate jel idemo rovat hahahah
Awesome results 👏 👌 😎
Thank you 🙏
Well done lads you put in the graft and reap the rewards fairvplay to you
Great to see noah so confident he looks really nervous on the opal shows great to see him loving it so much
Thanks for watching, we definitely enjoy making our own content outside of the show.
Great find guys!! Hope you're able to find more than you can carry out in one trip. Very glad to see you posting again here on TH-cam!!!
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
That is the ultimate dream can’t wait to upload that video one day 😂 thanks for liking and taking the time to comment!
Para ser novatos les va bien con esos ópalos. Felicidades chicos
Thank you :)
Cheers fellas from Gulf Shores Alabama,love what you guys are doing! Really look forward to seeing more videos in future! Stay safe guys and happy digging!
Thanks for watching! Hopping to post more soon :)
Favorite team from the show!
Legend!
Great find
Not a bad day at all!
You guys are smarter than getting stiffed by local buyers , good going boys
Very cool, boys well done
Thank you for watching!
Awesome job boys ! Doing the whole process is the best $$$$$$. Good on ya, thanks eh
Thanks for the support!
Very nice guys, love those cuts.
Thank you :)
24👍's up thanks for sharing
24 thank yous for watching 🤠⛏
You boys should try a netherite pickaxe! Slightly more durability than diamond, plus fire resistance.
Hahahahahaha
Keep it up, fellas!
😁👍🏻
Thanks for the post and the work
You make it easy for me to be an arm chair opal miner
Love you three
Great job boy’s
Thanks for watching!
Love seeing the real content!
Plenty more to come!
Nice Job.
Thanks for watching :)
Good on ya boys.
Great stuff
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This is what I'm talking about! Great content!! I'd love to dig with you guys some day!
If you ever make it out this way come say hello 👋🏻
Amazing. I hope you find something extremely valuable.
Aww.you do such a fantastic video, it’s such a shame you can’t do more… you don’t have to fine edit etc,you can voice over etc there all sorts of ways and means.
🥰💙🙌👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks for the compliment we hope to post more regularly :)
Dude please upload more content. I can't get enough
Hahahah thanks we will honestly do our best and try to get one out in another couple weeks :)
Hey, great video some nice gems there😍 hope you are in the next season of Outback Opal Hunters. Have watched every video Justin at BOD has made. 😍. 👍 and have a couple of nice gems myself. 🤫
Thanks for watching the show and our TH-cam channel!
I’m honestly not even sure what season the show is up to 😂 we finished filming season 8 last year.
I always get excited when I see you guys find opal. Living vicariously through you guys opal mining. Would love to do it myself one day with my bf.
If you ever make it up this way come and say hello :)
Absolutely. We live in Perth but we plan to come to the opal fields one day to have a fossick. Long drive but would be a fossicking holiday of a lifetime. Would love to meet you guys.
@@elliceneaves5193 oh nice white cliffs is the best field to fossick :)
Been working with my cab king for almost a year now, but you've got a great nack for sanding those opals. Great job as usual boys!
I’ve always wanted to try a cabking they look fun, though I do like a bit more spacing between the wheel.
Thanks for watching :)
Good on ya,thats Great Work
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Thanks for watching!
@@younggunsopalhunters No Worries
Well I may be coming to Australia for the next opal season look forward to seeing you guys out
Make sure to swing past and say hello 🍺
I will let me know if you guys are looking for any new miners I don't mind working I know how to operate heavy machinery drive big trucks I'm looking for a crew to take me in I might have another idiot or two who might sell down there with me on a boat
You guys should check out and get some of the new sds+ Attachments that are offered from Milwaukee Tool 🔧! There are some that would definitely make the removal easier and more efficient!
I’ve used the Milwaukee battery jackhammer before it was heaps of fun! Would love to get one down the track!
Nice to see you found some but there was more in the wall you didn’t get on while filming but hopefully you got it after filming was over.
When you think you’ve searched it all take a break and then search it again. One piece can make your day. Good luck.
Thanks for the support and for watching!
That million is coming lad's 👍
Lots of dirt in between us and the million but she’s out there waiting!
Great work Young Guns. Been watching you guys since the beginning. Keep up the good work 👏 🤙🤙🤙😎
Thank you for watching and the support!
Keep it up lads
Just keep digggiiiiiinnnnn 😂🤠⛏
Love it, great work.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!
Good to see ya's pulling out some nice colour again fella's. Good episode
Thanks for tuning in again!
Amazing job mate from Ontario Canada great show . Great 📷 work
Great works boys love to get to the fields for a chance to get some experience one day I'm only couple hours from lightning ridge 😊👍 great to see some fella young fella having a good crack
Doesn’t even feel like work that’s the beauty of doing somthing you love I guess! If you make it out to our corner of the world come say hello
Love the videos guys, great footage and beautiful finds. Lots of common opal out here where I am, on the border of Nevada and Utah, but no fire in the stuff we find. It's amazing to see how much dirt you move for the return you get. Can't wait for more videos.
Thanks for watching would love to visit some American opal mines some day!
Definitely a lot of dirt to be shifted to find the good stuff
Great video, keep it up!
Thanks for watching!
Well done mates,,,
Mining and cutting in the same vid, ripper boys!
Gotta get that money to keep on diggin 🤙🏻 honestly tho love the cutting process!
Nice Work Boi's 👍👍
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love it
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These look great, awesome work boys
Good to see you don't stop when the camera's turn off
When the camera is off that’s when we get the majority of it done! Much harder to film and work but love being able to share the adventure with you all
Nice that you mention justin from Black opal direct. He has fantastic content, especially now with his new setup.
Also great video from you guys. Found some killer gems. Keep going the good work!
Legends - hope you strike mega opal soon
That will be the day can’t wait to post that video!
Woooow Minecraft irl love it
Hahahaha yeww
Awsome stuff guys iam taking my boys to lightning ridge and grawin next week to have a poke around
Yeah the boys
Yewww 🤙🏻🍻
Great job boys...really enjoyed that episode, keep them coming
Will do 🤠⛏
great job boys go get your self a cold snack or three you deserve it for all the hard work
Beers where definitely had 😂
@@younggunsopalhunters good job not to many hangovers suck
You put the hard work in and you get the rewards great video and hi from the uk
Thanks for watching will keep digging till we hit the motherload 🔥
I wish you young guns hit the mother load of opal and strike it rich God bless you young men I love your content and I'm pretty sure I'm your number one fan from Youngstown Ohio
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!
Awesome video fellas, cheers 👍
Thank you 🙏
Flip yea boyz
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awesome work guys!
Thanks for watching!
You Young Guns have got skills
Love a good dig :)
Well worth the polish my lord lol 😂
Orvile would have been happy
So awesome to see an upload from the young Guns
Really love and appreciate this content guys,you RockStars.
BTW.I think it’s so humbling and awesome Jayman gave props to Justin BOD..salute&respect guys💙
..is JC still with the crew?
Thanks for checking out the video!
Love Justin’s channel he is fantastic :) hopefully we can work together on something in the future!
Yes JC is still part of the business
9:40 o yea theyre some beauties
Definitely some good ones
Awesome work guys!! I am enjoying every minute of your content nice to see that there is more opal enthousiast in my age bracket. :) Would love one day to help you guys out for a weekend :) just live all the way in the fnq 😅👍 keep it up!
Hey thanks for checking out our video! If you do ever make it out to our small corner of the world give us a yell!
Go the Boyzzzzz, 🍺boys are doing well, I see theres a few houses and dug outs for sale in the region, your adventures are getting the kiwis keen, old mate here in nz has friends in Leanora who prospect every year, a few of us are thinking of going ways in a property and trying our luck , Any tips on.life in the opal.fields outside of what we see online etc would be greatly appreciated, Good luck as always ,Stay safe and hopefully the boys stay on the Colour ✌
I will have to do a video that talks more about the life on the opal fields as well as mining that’s a great idea!
10/10 recommend the job best we have ever had. Only suggestion would be to do some traveling and check it all out in person :)
Thanks for watching!
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Watched you guys on discovery then tappen in and subscribed to your channel. Good on you. "Young Dawgs"
Looking at your sales pages to buy and will be in touch soon
Cheers, Gene
I'm an instant fan and a sub
please make more content, even if its on your own!!!
Excellent video ! Congratulation for finding some awesome opal ! Hey would please give the link to your store or website where you sell your opal ? Thanks for sharing ! Good luck and best wishes in the future !
Hey thank you for watching and taking the time to comment :) here is a link to our Etsy store:
etsy.me/3mSG7uI
@@younggunsopalhunters Thank you ! I probably can`t afford to buy any of your opal but if i ever do, i will know where to go and i love opal .
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Okay, geologist here, but not an opal miner at all, so forgive the question.
Opal forms as low temperature silica rich water sits in pockets in the sandstone/mudstone. Given this shouldn't you be able to follow a seam that has produced opal (even if that seam doesn't have any opal) further and further along? Like how one would follow a quartz vein?
If I’ve learnt anything from opal mining it’s that opal forms all over the place 😂 where and when it likes.
I’ve seen it from a few foot below the surface to around 50ft.
Sometimes it forms nice seams to follow sometimes you get small pockets sometimes very stop and start. In this case noah actually dug through the majority of the seam without realising and then pulled what remained of it out of the wall before blacklighting the rubble pile and finding what we had missed. We would love to keep digging here in the future but the space we where backfilling into is now full.
We may return to this spot at some point in the future :)
Just a quick one!! Great videos BTW!! But when was that skateboard last used?!.. 🤣🤣 Nothing but desert surrounding you guys that made me chuckle
i like your channel way better + 1 sub cheers!
Thanks for watching and subscribing, legend!