Hi Cris, A malfunction on my last comment. It had missing bits. This one is better to pin. I do enjoy your channel and your videos. The blue indicator mineral is azurite Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 It is a copper carbonate mineral and like another variant, malachite Cu2CO3(OH)2 is green in colour. The mineralised habits (crystal forms) of both of these from gossan zones can be quite spectacular. I hope this helps. Cheers.
For some reason I am always super excited for these ore crushing videos. They may not be as adventurous and may not have as much natural beauty as your videos on the creeks but they are still super fun to watch.
Hi Cris, I do enjoy your channel and your videos. The blue indicator mineral is azurite Cu(CO)(OH)It is a copper carbonate mineral and like another is green in colour. The mineralised habits of both of these from gossan zones are quite spectacular. I hope this helps. Cheers.
I swear, if I was in Australia I would build you the biggest Rock crushing unit you've ever seen, for nothing! Another great video! Fern smacking that rock with her paw was awesome.
I once heard that old timers would put the quartz in the fire then quenched the hot quartz in cold water , the stone then gets very brittle and break real easy . That could make a good video too ! cheers.
Hi Chris, l live close to Bendigo, and this week l was walking down a track in the bush with the detector and found a small reef in the erosion in the wheel ruts when l put the detector over it it screamed , l have taking about a half bucket of stone home each day and so far 57grams of gold, l back fill the hole each time as l think the area is covered by a mining lease, cheers mate. PS sorry about the rant just had to tell someone.
@@markrouse4514 hi mate, gold is gold and what they can't find is mine, some of the blows of quartz around here have yealded thousands of ounces at a shallow depth, l can't go down much and this is of the top and that's all for me, however it's not going to be easy to find when I'm finished, cheers.
Geez mate if it's under a mining lease (production) you really shouldn't be touching it. Not only could get yourself in alot of trouble but stuff like that ends up giving our damn overbearing government even more excuse to shut us all down! Ps: that does sound like a very rich reef though! (Less you're talking like 100 buckets idk)
Lovely to see what the old timers were on to! Fern was making sure the rock had the boxer seal of approval. Chris, since amethyst and citrine are types of quartz, have you ever looked for some alternative sparkly bits in the hard rock areas? A friend of mine supplements her income making jewelry out of semi-precious stones she finds, which she insists have more character than "boring old diamonds." (I agree with her.) Victoria Australia is such a treasure trove: citrines, sapphires, topaz, tourmaline, rock crystal, even some opals, I hear. A channel I used to watch (but neglected to subscribe to, now I can't remember the name) there was a fellow in your state who would go out and find gems and facet them. Gave my cat a scratch behind the ears, since he thinks he's a dog. Cheers.
Started with Dad's Reef and video ended with Dog Dad's Relief, a tired out and snoozing pupper, nicely into a circle and a fantastic result, can't wait to see more from there.
Hi, blue minerals likely azurite which ,I believe is a copper mineral! Your puppy is a trooper or maybe his dad,lol,boxers ran me ragged many years! Miss everyone!
Hey Chris. Keep it up mate love the videos, Next time try an old miners technique with the quartz and its what I do, super heat the quartz like in a fire and drop it into water. The quartz shatters naturally into smaller pieces and its all contained in a bucket
Chris, a tip! Whenever you want to crush a Stone: put it in a small fire, like the size of a campfire, for 20 minutes. Let it cool after. The Gold will not melt, but the Stone will be brittle like hard sugar. It will save you hours of hard work when it's time for crushing.
Finding out what a rock has hiding in it is fun. Keep in mind about arsenic pyrite that some reefs hold don't let anything drink the water you pan it in. in our area it has it. Cheers Chris great vid. 🍻👍🍀⛏🇦🇺
This is basically what I would do, my 1 acre place is (still) loaded with quartz boulders. When I first started, I was destroying anything iron I used (since quartz has a mohs hardness of 7) so I simply ended up smashing 2 boulders into each other. I found the pure white rocks were the best to use as hammers since the red is iron staining so those red rocks had a lot more fault lines in them - it was bloody hard going tho.
Hey Chris, love watching your videos. Not just for great content but Fern is soooo bloody CUTE... The blue mineral is a copper bearing mineral called Azurite. Over thousands of years It can change into Malachite & if conditions are right can change back to Azurite.
The way I pop open that stuff is I'll wrap the chunk in in a piece of burlap sack put that inside of a pillow slip use my heavy duty bench vise with a cheater bar and you'll be able to pop those open without losing any of the little pieces super easy
hi Chris from beaut downtown tassie i enjoy youre adventures and thank you for taking time to record and share them including youre ones on a more personal note re mental health and the way you presented it with youre heart so raw it must have touched many a lost and wounded soul i have been trying to find a vid you uploaded from memory where you presented some drawiings of different scenarios where gold could have laid to rest in creek beds and one ime interested in where in ancient river bed ypu find layers of rocks from flood times where they appear almost as riffles am a retired support worker where i ran the music program and now enjoying being amongst the prickles and rocks etc cheers Geoffrey winder magicmountainharpist utube
Did someone say cookies? So couple other youtubers from tazzy just put up a vid with a cool tip on crushing quartz they heated it up a bit which opened up the cracks. Is that a rusty beta pan? is it gone or can you season it like a cast iron pot and get it back to its former glory?
I absolutely love ur vids. my mechanical brain goes wild with all the ideas that I could turn ur maual processing ore in to a flick of a switch. hope u have a great one
gidday thats mad what you got. I am going back to a spot i found last time out which had a huge amount of quartz and have a closer look at it thanks chris. p.s give fern a scratch for me cheers
I hear you’re meeting up with the Tessie boys in the next couple weeks looking forward to that. Levi looks like a pretty cool dude man. I hope you guys find lots and lots of golden boogers. May it be a snotty day. LOL
Very nice, now I have a better idea on what to bring home and crush, have a bunch waiting, need to get a jaw crusher next. Like how it's kinda portable.
Mate just a tip from an ex bricklayer/stonemason get some sand and put it on the grass and put the stone on the sand and you wont get that bounce from that cardboard.
Chisels flex when you strike them and vibrate. The shorter the chisel, the more efficient your efforts will be. It’s best to use one whose length is just greater than the width of your hand.
CHRIS dads Reef is always a damn good video YOU AND MICK need to get back up there and do a good day or two up there would really like to see you get more then a half gram of gold so hopefully you guys are planning something soon at dads Reef. SO CHRIS i hear that LEVI and the family might coming to see you thats going to BE FREAKING EPIC 👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦
Bahaha dang it man.....lol. I love your videos and wish I could come to the outback.....! But I'm not fortune enough so I'll keep going in my 1/4 of a states' gold accumulation. Love the vids!!!
High five dad right, if all of it is that rich that looks like retirement to me buddy boy I really wonder what that's going to break down to per ton Glad you made it back there have been waiting for this video
@@VoGusProspecting just looked a little yellow on the lower end. Guess I am always hoping for the super catch for you! I really like the story with this vid. Your pops is certainly smiling down on you!
The camera is set up to film a certain way. To make gold pop I've upped tge yellow saturation and that makes other things look like gold on film. I wish it was a nugget! Lol
Hi Cris,
A malfunction on my last comment. It had missing bits. This one is better to pin.
I do enjoy your channel and your videos.
The blue indicator mineral is azurite Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 It is a copper carbonate mineral and like another variant, malachite Cu2CO3(OH)2 is green in colour. The mineralised habits (crystal forms) of both of these from gossan zones can be quite spectacular. I hope this helps. Cheers.
For some reason I am always super excited for these ore crushing videos. They may not be as adventurous and may not have as much natural beauty as your videos on the creeks but they are still super fun to watch.
Hi Cris,
I do enjoy your channel and your videos.
The blue indicator mineral is azurite Cu(CO)(OH)It is a copper carbonate mineral and like another is green in colour. The mineralised habits of both of these from gossan zones are quite spectacular. I hope this helps. Cheers.
Love how Fern wanted to help. She is adorable.
I swear, if I was in Australia I would build you the biggest Rock crushing unit you've ever seen, for nothing! Another great video! Fern smacking that rock with her paw was awesome.
I once heard that old timers would put the quartz in the fire then quenched the hot quartz in cold water , the stone then gets very brittle and break real easy . That could make a good video too ! cheers.
www.goldfieldsguide.com.au/explore-location/110/grand-junction-quartz-kilns/
Hi Chris, l live close to Bendigo, and this week l was walking down a track in the bush with the detector and found a small reef in the erosion in the wheel ruts when l put the detector over it it screamed , l have taking about a half bucket of stone home each day and so far 57grams of gold, l back fill the hole each time as l think the area is covered by a mining lease, cheers mate. PS sorry about the rant just had to tell someone.
If you think it's under a mining lease, then you are claim jumping and a thief. you should find out if it's claimed or not.
@@markrouse4514 hi mate, gold is gold and what they can't find is mine, some of the blows of quartz around here have yealded thousands of ounces at a shallow depth, l can't go down much and this is of the top and that's all for me, however it's not going to be easy to find when I'm finished, cheers.
Geez mate if it's under a mining lease (production) you really shouldn't be touching it. Not only could get yourself in alot of trouble but stuff like that ends up giving our damn overbearing government even more excuse to shut us all down!
Ps: that does sound like a very rich reef though! (Less you're talking like 100 buckets idk)
Fern is so cute and helping to bust rocks, lol. Dad's reef looks like it might hold quite a lot of candy. Best of luck for your future ventures.
Lovely to see what the old timers were on to! Fern was making sure the rock had the boxer seal of approval.
Chris, since amethyst and citrine are types of quartz, have you ever looked for some alternative sparkly bits in the hard rock areas? A friend of mine supplements her income making jewelry out of semi-precious stones she finds, which she insists have more character than "boring old diamonds." (I agree with her.)
Victoria Australia is such a treasure trove: citrines, sapphires, topaz, tourmaline, rock crystal, even some opals, I hear. A channel I used to watch (but neglected to subscribe to, now I can't remember the name) there was a fellow in your state who would go out and find gems and facet them. Gave my cat a scratch behind the ears, since he thinks he's a dog. Cheers.
Started with Dad's Reef and video ended with Dog Dad's Relief, a tired out and snoozing pupper, nicely into a circle and a fantastic result, can't wait to see more from there.
Fern breaking rocks and melting hearts. The gold was fantastic. Loved the content. Cheers Chris.
Hi, blue minerals likely azurite which ,I believe is a copper mineral! Your puppy is a trooper or maybe his dad,lol,boxers ran me ragged many years! Miss everyone!
Hey Chris.
Keep it up mate love the videos,
Next time try an old miners technique with the quartz and its what I do, super heat the quartz like in a fire and drop it into water.
The quartz shatters naturally into smaller pieces and its all contained in a bucket
Yes that definitely works.
OMG Chris...love this! Fernie, with her paw on the rock...."helping you"! 🤣🤣🤣 Thank you for making me laugh out loud. ❤👍✌
Chris, a tip! Whenever you want to crush a Stone: put it in a small fire, like the size of a campfire, for 20 minutes. Let it cool after. The Gold will not melt, but the Stone will be brittle like hard sugar. It will save you hours of hard work when it's time for crushing.
Many have suggested that. I must try it
Fern and the rock crusher paw 🐾, so cute , loved the vid 😎
Finding out what a rock has hiding in it is fun. Keep in mind about arsenic pyrite that some reefs hold don't let anything drink the water you pan it in. in our area it has it. Cheers Chris great vid. 🍻👍🍀⛏🇦🇺
Nice results! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Fantastic content as always!!
Much appreciated!
Nice ! Good to see your doing well. Your pup looks healthy and happy. Please give her a scratch behind the ears for me. Till next be safe .
This is basically what I would do, my 1 acre place is (still) loaded with quartz boulders. When I first started, I was destroying anything iron I used (since quartz has a mohs hardness of 7) so I simply ended up smashing 2 boulders into each other. I found the pure white rocks were the best to use as hammers since the red is iron staining so those red rocks had a lot more fault lines in them - it was bloody hard going tho.
Thank you, Bro
Well done Chris. Loving your channel and your enthusiasm - wish I was younger and fitter. Great stuff
Dang wish I could spend as much time doing what you love....I don't have that luxury......great job!!!
Nice take Chris, Yes there is still some good gold up in them hills.
Good on ya Chris!
Amazing buddy!love Fern hitting the sample
Chris: Oooo that's a hard one!
Me: THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID! 😂
Lol
That's my line lol
That was a nice bit of gold, for such a small piece of quartz.
Hey Chris, love watching your videos. Not just for great content but Fern is soooo bloody CUTE...
The blue mineral is a copper bearing mineral called Azurite. Over thousands of years It can change into Malachite & if conditions are right can change back to Azurite.
Really enjoy watching you crush stuff!
Glad to hear it!
Thank you thank you
Great again, thanks Chris
The new puppy is just so seriously cute it's hard to replace grizzly but this dog is a real beauty
Nice results. I enjoyed your video. You had me at moldy hat. Lol
Very motivating, thanks Chris...
Any time!
That's a nice little reefy chunk, nice find
Thanks 👍
Ferns paw... The new measuring stick of luck! Cool video too. Looks so interesting to us amateurs who have no clue. Love your work, Sir
Great one, Thanx mate
Gave up on the cat lovers but I just love the channel and furn is a sweetheart I really like her and im happy you guys have her.
The way I pop open that stuff is I'll wrap the chunk in in a piece of burlap sack put that inside of a pillow slip use my heavy duty bench vise with a cheater bar and you'll be able to pop those open without losing any of the little pieces super easy
hi Chris from beaut downtown tassie i enjoy youre adventures and thank you for taking time to record and share them including youre ones on a more personal note re mental health and the way you presented it with youre heart so raw it must have touched many a lost and wounded soul i have been trying to find a vid you uploaded from memory where you presented some drawiings of different scenarios where gold could have laid to rest in creek beds and one ime interested in where in ancient river bed ypu find layers of rocks from flood times where they appear almost as riffles am a retired support worker where i ran the music program and now enjoying being amongst the prickles and rocks etc cheers Geoffrey winder magicmountainharpist utube
Man that's awesome! You should dig down into the reef a bit to see what comes out.
Dude, that's nuts! Rich and chunky😲
Gotta love that reef. Well done Chris.
Always quick to open the new Vo-Gus videos
Did someone say cookies?
So couple other youtubers from tazzy just put up a vid with a cool tip on crushing quartz they heated it up a bit which opened up the cracks.
Is that a rusty beta pan? is it gone or can you season it like a cast iron pot and get it back to its former glory?
That was a good bit of gold and as always love your content. Please keep it coming and both my dogs send love to you for the scratch behind the ear.
That is tremendous. FYI, just got a new puppy, who is also finally taking a nap, and have the tiny hand scars to prove it. Cheers!
Its a hard gig
I absolutely love ur vids. my mechanical brain goes wild with all the ideas that I could turn ur maual processing ore in to a flick of a switch. hope u have a great one
Fern was and is such a cute little puppy!! ;D
Very nice Chris, and fern is sure growing up fast
That was very cool Chris...keep on digging 👍👍
Bud, I can’t wait to see this channel grow and progress! Eagerly following your journey!
When crushing rocks. I smash them up with a hammer and the dolly port, then I use a cheap blender( I got from the op shop) turns it to powder fast.
Interesting idea with the blender
It Just keeps getting better....Way to pick a rock!!
That chunk of ore was a sweet find. Well done! 👍⛏️
Yes it was!
Thank you, made my day.
Hi Chris, so refreshing video... :-)
Glad you enjoyed it
That is a nice BIG bit of gold!
For my area its huge
Been waiting for you to sample some more of your dad’s reef, wow did not disappoint that piece of ore was loaded 👌👍
More to come!
gidday thats mad what you got. I am going back to a spot i found last time out which had a huge amount of quartz and have a closer look at it thanks chris. p.s give fern a scratch for me cheers
was waiting for this one and wasnt disappointed
Glad you liked it mate
Dang bro, that was a nice piece or rock. I hope you have more videos from there coming out soon.
From there no, but from other reefs yes
Wow nice reef gold dad was spot on got to go back for mor eh
Great job carry on👍👍👍
the blue / purple minerals likely magnetite or galena
Great little jaw crusher,does super fine job.Next on my x-mass list to Santa.Great video Vo-Gus Pros. David out
I hear you’re meeting up with the Tessie boys in the next couple weeks looking forward to that. Levi looks like a pretty cool dude man. I hope you guys find lots and lots of golden boogers. May it be a snotty day. LOL
Excellent work 😃😃
Thank you! Cheers!
"It didn't survive". Classic. I have a Husky at my house, no pillows survived.
Don't wake the beast lol. That was a good chunk of ore thanks for sharing!
That doggo is sooo helpful!!!
Hi! To make it easier to break the stone, you need to put it in the oven.
Thanks for the tip!
@@VoGusProspecting Please! Happy finds!
You should get a stone cutter. It will make that process so much easier.
That is some ore'some I bet you will be looking for more ore/quarts like it to run through the ball mill. Loving the fern spam btw.
I hope so man, looking at getting a Keene crusher.
@@VoGusProspecting hell yeah! That would make life much easier! Just need to find bulk ore to feed it.
Very nice, now I have a better idea on what to bring home and crush, have a bunch waiting, need to get a jaw crusher next. Like how it's kinda portable.
Mate just a tip from an ex bricklayer/stonemason get some sand and put it on the grass and put the stone on the sand and you wont get that bounce from that cardboard.
The cardboard was only there to catch the stuff that fell off. In hindsight a sack would have been better.
Enjoyed watching your video nice gold.😀
Chisels flex when you strike them and vibrate. The shorter the chisel, the more efficient your efforts will be. It’s best to use one whose length is just greater than the width of your hand.
Thanks for the tips!
@ 2:37 is that a tiny piece of gold that dropped on your finger ?
Blue mineral possibly cobalt or azurite.
dear vogus, a bearing press or a vice to start with
I bet the ore chunks around that one have the fine gold also but not big enough to set off the detector
That was some good gold from that one rock
Great stuff, I thought you and Mick were already a couple of special units 🤣
Fern's teething. My pup's doing the same thing to the lawn as his adults front teeth all come in.
I lost it when the dog pawed the rock
Shes "helping"
CHRIS dads Reef is always a damn good video YOU AND MICK need to get back up there and do a good day or two up there would really like to see you get more then a half gram of gold so hopefully you guys are planning something soon at dads Reef.
SO CHRIS i hear that LEVI and the family might coming to see you thats going to BE FREAKING EPIC 👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦
Nice findings
That seemed quite a bit quicker than the ball mill.
what good material looks a lot like the one in my region
Bahaha dang it man.....lol. I love your videos and wish I could come to the outback.....! But I'm not fortune enough so I'll keep going in my 1/4 of a states' gold accumulation. Love the vids!!!
Você está em qual país ? No Brasil não encontra essas bateias.
High five dad right, if all of it is that rich that looks like retirement to me buddy boy I really wonder what that's going to break down to per ton Glad you made it back there have been waiting for this video
Its 4.5 ounces per ton. Or there about.
azurite is the blue stuff made from copper in the stone
Nice one chris
Thats how you do it bubba in montana
8:53 looks like a specimen swimming south
Unfortunately not. The camera is lieing to you, specimens that big don't move down like that.
@@VoGusProspecting just looked a little yellow on the lower end. Guess I am always hoping for the super catch for you! I really like the story with this vid. Your pops is certainly smiling down on you!
The camera is set up to film a certain way. To make gold pop I've upped tge yellow saturation and that makes other things look like gold on film.
I wish it was a nugget! Lol
@@VoGusProspecting it doesn’t help I watch from my phone. I will keep that in mind next time I think the heavy stuff can swim.
Probably some good exercise that crushing