Solar Powered Opal Mining Leads To Rare Petrified/Opalized Wood Find!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Onwards and upwards! Noah and I decide to mine the barley touched second level of our opal mine, it’s dusty thankless work but the rewards are worth the labour!
The most unique aspect of this weeks work is that we are running solely on Ecoflow River 2 Pros which are power stations charged by solar panels.
Effectively our whole operation has gone green!
I honestly didn’t know it would be possible to run a jackhammer even a little one off a power station and I was surprised by the results!
After a bit of dust and dirt was shifted I found I had blown through a large rock containing opal shotgunned through it! This happens some times in blows and hard cap closer to the surface.
Still a good sign we persisted on until Noah discovered a branch or trunk of an ancient tree that had not only become petrified but also opalized!
It was an amazing find but the best was yet to come! Unfortunately we didn’t have the cameras rolling for the whole process (sometimes you just want to enjoy the moment and not film).
It was a successful opal hunt and we hope you guys enjoy the end results which we took the time to slice and film!
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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!
Just received my pay dirt and small vile with opal chips from you. That paydirt was the star of the show! Reds, greens lovely blues! I was overwhelmed. I put the paydirt in a gold pan and ran water into it. So great to touch dirt from across the world. Talk about a challenging clay body to recover from. I have a whole new appreciation for you opal hunters. But pay dirt, and vial of chips was well worth the money and then some. Thank you!
I for sure need y'all once a week. Seriously. This stuff is so sick.
Thanks for watching !
I'm in the state of Washington in the states. I've been watching you guys. You guys been kicking ass!!!! Cheers!!!
Thanks for watching!
10:08 Duuuuuuuuude! That's baller! I bet someone would really like one of those chunks to use for knife handles. There are some pretty prolific knife makers on TH-cam such as Kyle Royer who might like to use some sturdy opalized wood like that. Kind of a dream material honestly, possibly even worth more than the $400 a chunk if you have a combination of 1. Beauty 2. Sturdiness 3. Brightness.
That’s such a cool idea! I’ll have to look into it!
That stuff was gorgeous! great vid, thanks.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
I hope some other tools and mining equipment companies decide to sponsor 👀👀👀
The wood was dope.
A bit different!
You guys are so cute....lol... I needed something disconnected from world events to watch, and my birth stone is opal, so I clicked on a video and marathoned mining videos for 3 days...lol... you boys are my favorite. Wish your videos were a little longer but I get that you mine for a living not make videos....lol
From your average American city, thank you for reminding us what it is to really WORK for a living...
Be safe, God be with you...
Sending best wishes from the isle of wight
Thank you for checking out the video!
Nice piece of wood 👍
Not bad for 100 million plus years hahah
That opalized wood is awesome!! Great find!!👍👍😁
Was a nice find for sure!
I was just wondering what happened to my mates down under, then you popped up. Sending a hello from the Northern Hemisphere, watching from Panama City Florida, USA. 🇺🇸🦅
nice ecoflow advertising- thanks
The transverse cut petrified wood with the rings still is gorgeous. That’s got to be the best looking Opal pieces on this channel so far. Very nice pieces.
Really nice petrified wood specimens , boys!
We want a whole season of you boys
Hahaha we do our best to find the time to film as much opal hunting as possible! Will have more videos out soon
2👍's up Guys thank you for sharing
Thanks as always for watching mate!
Wow, loved that wood! The slices with the heart are fantastic! Thanks for sharing the work, the fun, and the finds with us. Cheers!
They where definitely something unique!
Good find boys! Good luck digging!
Cheers!
Cheers!
Love the solar powered generators!
I’m sold on them! For small scale digging at least or if we need to save a bit of coin on diesel costs 😂
We use solar generators here in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado when power outages occur! Best thing ever! Saved us from freezing last winter when heavy snow and ice took power lines down.
We use solar generators here in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado when power outages occur! Best thing ever!
Great video and awesome wood opal! dp
Wow that wood with color is amazing..
Love these hard working adventures, your channel is gold .....or opal 😋
Hahaha thank you we have fun with it, don’t take ourselves too serious just dig holes and look for gems!
Great job fellas. Just picked up my own ecoflow about that size and its awesome. Love how you guys always seem to be into something new and different
Heck yeah they actually work so well! Gotta keep trying new things to progress!
10:38 Those slices are fantastic !!!
Solar and Wind Power make perfect sense in the Outback Environment.
Lots of sun lots of wind that’s for sure hahah
heck ya
Yeww
Absolutely beautiful !!!!!!!!!!
Catching pennies in the muck by using a different niche is a smart business. That opalized wood is beautiful.
Remember to pay yourselves by setting some aside in the piggy bank!
Using solar is dam smart in remote areas as well, with no fuel bill, running generators.
Keep up the good work!
Diesel out here can definitely be expensive that’s why we decide it was time to try some solar options
Petrified wood look very cool i had to get some thank you😊
Thank you for the support!
Well done boys. Those wood slices are cool 👍🏻
Nothing like good seam opal but finding ancient trees with opal is still cool hahah
Nothing like good seam opal but finding ancient trees with opal is still cool hahah
@@younggunsopalhunters you guys be at the opal festival?
More of this please!!! Dragging mining kicking and screaming into the 21st century!! Much respect to you guys!! NOAH wear that breathing equipment bro
Magnifique, les morceaux de bois pétrifié🤩👍👍.
👋🥖🇫🇷
"And there's the color inside"...... Brother is chasing color, a man of same coat I see we are. Always trying to find the pot at the end of a rainbow!
Onya lads! Need a live stream from the pub after a few captain morgans lol
The wood slices make killer drink coasters 👍🍻
They are a tiny bit small for that but if they where bigger would be amazing!
Well done guys and good on eco flow.....
Im truly proud of you guys , keep seeking and ye shall surely find . The petrified forest is rare i was amazed at how much opal was in the ironstone way kool indeed gone green brilliant buy another and put an AC unit lol .
Thanks for the support! It’s a privilege to do this job!
Lol that intro, fuck yeah young gunz
Hahahaha like to try and spice things up a bit 😂😂
Stoked 😁
great video! the opal wood slices were pretty cool as were the chunks. glad to see the solar batteries are holding their own.
Hey Don! Yes was a nice little find! An using solar was definitely something new for us!
@@younggunsopalhunters maybe you can get a sponsorship from them? Every dollar counts!
Nice patch buoys
Thanks! We have the Gemfish featuring in one of our videos soon just need to finish editing 😂 hopefully everyone will like the video :)
@@younggunsopalhunters hell yes thank you. 🙏 I’m sure we all will love the video
Bonjour à tous trop cool je les suis depuis le début il se débrouille bien c'est petit peace❤
Thank you for following along on our journey we have come a long way and will stick it out till we hit the millions!
Je suis de tout cœur avec vous vous allez y arriver j'en suis sûr
dam those would make some dope coasters
Just need to find a bigger branch!
Beautiful opalised wood. It's good that you are trying out greener ways of mining, hopefully it can be as productive as burning diesel!
Nothing beats diesel for grunt but it was cool to see what could be done with solar and a charge station! Thanks for watching Dean!
It was 6.5 Celsius and snowing up on the mountain today here in Alaska. Great to see someone else enjoying warm weather. Those slices looked amazing! Good luck selling them all.
Amazing work guys so cool to find opal in petrified wood. And a green operation is better thanks for making good video catch ya later
Loved that fossil wood opal beautiful. Stay safe guys from the UK 🇬🇧
Go the Wood!
Hahah Yeww
When the The young Guns OG upload it’s
No Diggity
No Doubt 🥳
Good vids fellas first of all aways watched ues on TV as well good little solar genie maybe invest in a cordless jackhammer now lol😂
wow. that's amazing guys... I like caves. Maybe there's gold in it.. I like looking for gold🙏👍💝🌷🇲🇨
You boys are so lucky I wish we had something like that here to do. Greetings from somewhat upstate New York. All we've got here is granite & More granite. If you find any gold here you can't even keep it it's property of the state apparently. Land of the Free not so much. Hopefully the company that supplied those power cells is a sponsor of yours!
We are definitely lucky! Tho where we live on the coast it is a 14hr drive to get to this town to do the job hahaha
Who knows maybe one day a proper sponsor for now we are just happy to use the Ecoflow’s they worked great!
@@younggunsopalhunters I would love to come dig with you boys. Spent so many years digging here but it was usually for someone's poop LOL perhaps one of these days when I've got the settlement I'm waiting for. If you ever need another set of hands that can move dirt please let me know. Hope you've got more videos coming up I love the lifestyle of what you do.
@@younggunsopalhunters which one of you was it that answered my questions? Jamin or Noah? Seems like JC is otherwise occupied lol
DEPLOY PAYLOAD!!!! Blahahahahahahahahahaha Awesome to see you guys having some fun!!!
Hahaha thanks for watching once again! We always have fun with it, if we didn’t edit so much out the entire video would be one liners and movie quotes or references 😂
@@younggunsopalhunters 🤘🤪🤘
My mind sizzles trying to think about happened millions of years ago for a tree to buried under countless tons of rock
Dude no way that's fantastic I hoped you find something great 👍🇬🇧🦊🐾🇦🇺
Thank you for watching!
@@younggunsopalhunters np I keep preying you find something really good the mother load 🇦🇺👍🇬🇧🦊🐾
wicked work team. i bought a small pack of opal last year from the team made one into a jewl it was stunning
Thank you so much for watching and for the support!
Thank you so much for watching and for the support!
Man if I had access to gemstone mines like this near me , Id be doing the same as you guys.
More 65 ct COOL SMILES FOR MILES
Smiles for miles!
Holy moly! This channel's been blowing up lately! Congrats on over 100k subs guys!! ✌️
This might sound a little bit out in left field for you. But you might try marketing those petrified wood discs to native American tribes. Those would be a natural as a bolo tie, or a centerpiece in a squash blossom.
That’s an interesting suggestion I’ll have to look into it!
Haha , lost your bit bro. You guys are so funny.
Those wood pieces look awesome!
Aye if I bought a ticket to come out there for a few weeks wld u guys be willing to let me tag along for a bit just wanna experience the excitement in mining don't wanna keep nothing that's yalls business I just wanna learn hands on and enjoy what's looks like an awsome time with yall keep up to good work yall are my favorite
I wish we had a bigger operation so we could take people along maybe one day!
the petrified wood ive seen out in arizona has hardly any fire opal in it. I wonder if it depends on the type of tree. I think the species of tree that turned into stone had hardly any tree sap in them out here in arizona. I think the tree sap and the bugs trapped within the tree bark is what creates opalized petrified wood. Those petrified wood out in Australia is LOADED with opals though!!! lucky!!! IDK about any of this knowledge though i am just an amature.
About time YOUNG GUNS-WE HAVE BEEN WAITING. HOWS ABOUT YOU ALL DO A VIDEO WITH THE BUSHMEN? TEAMING UP JUST MIGHT MAKE YOU ALL MULTI BILLIONAIRES . remember me, I told you so=Rod Manning. Find them BIG AND CHEESY =RIPPERS MATES!!!
Hahaha we always pushed Discovery to do a team up video and they wouldn’t let us even when we went there to buy our digger of them! Hopefully one day I can film a team up with them!
You guys keep doing what you do. 🏆✌️ And definitely team up and do some more videos.
Young guns, bushmen, and boulder boys, are the only teams I really care to watch. Good guys. Everyone else seems to be too focused on giving Discovery their drama content for the show. 😂
That's awesome that you can power your drills via solar; I wish we could do that! I suppose it's technically possible as our compressor is electric but draws around 50kW so a proper solar farm is necessary. As it stands, we use similar solar-charged battery packs at the mine cabin to power our lights, two-way radios, and other small electronics.
I would put some spring steel around that roto hammer bit and make it kick back and forth rather than just kick in a rotary direction. Weld a spring steel with one side higher and it will cause a push and pull, or hammer and strike motion rather than a spin real hard action.
That’s what I say before I unload on my wife’s face. “Deploy payload!!” Hahahaha
Sweet. We went solar at our gold claim. Talk about quiet
*Superb guys,another outstanding upload from you 🙌🫶🏼👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻*
The slices looked beautifully done,show-stopping !
I’m back.
Moved,new iPad and new yt account. Formerly,Glenda dale jones
Catchya on the next one,stay safe live well.
I always stressed for your safety over the gas generators fumes (I'm sure ventilation is one of your primary concerns so it's probably taken care of already) but I'm glad to see batteries getting good enough that y'all don't have to burn gas onsite!
Great video again fellas, love the sliced Wood/Opal! I always look forward to your videos, is JC still part of the Band of Merry Men or have you all moved on. Keep the great videos coming guys. 👍🏻
Still around just taking care of the youngest gun.
That’s right he’s off with the mini gun! But does come and go! He’ll be in a video again soon once I get around to editing!
Just was wondering if you hadn't found Opal in 3 weeks and your video pops up?
Looks like a good find in your video, I'm sure there will be plenty more.
Good luck guys!
Ps: We would like to see more of what your days are about. Just because you don't find Opal doesn't mean you can't put out some content.
Grow your channel and get some of that Utube income💰🤑
I’ve been thinking of doing a day in the life style video to show you guys what the average day is like?
@@younggunsopalhunters I think thats a great idea.
You don't know if you don't try it! I will be looking for it. Good luck!
Hell ya guys fukN awesome!
Love your stuff guys! Keep up the amazing work!
Also, you should get one of the big UV flood lamps off your Chinese marketplace of choice and light up the whole drift with it. I bet the first time you turn it on your find enough opal to pay for it'self
And, Was this sponsored by EcoFlow? I don't care if it was, and I know if you're a big fan of a product it can seem like that, so just a little clip with "_This video was (not) sponsored by EcoFlow" at the beginning would have been nice
Not sponsored they just send us one of the machines to try out! We thought it would be interesting to see if we could run a set up on solar!
solar powered amazing 💄💄💄💄💄💄💄💄
I've always wondered what the structural integrity of a mine like this is. Like do you not need support beams because its super dry or you aren't making a big enough tunnel for it to collapse?
Have you guys tried hydraulic tools like what Colin furze used to dig out his tunnels?
We have a hydraulic digger but it’s currently out of action till we can make a big enough entrance to the mine
What's those opalized wood pieces cost ?? A smaller piece on a necklace maybe ??
Smaller bits start at around $30 bigger ones $100
It's money in your pocket.
Just got to sell it to the right collector now!
Yummy opal cookies
Let us know how many weeks it lasts using the drill in that dust.
Will do a follow up video in a couple months and see how it all goes!
I bet that solar unit ran for just about as long as the video🤣
It actually had over 50% charge when we left. We where honestly surprised with how well it went! Doesn’t have the same power as diesel generator but for odd jobs like this it was perfect!
Too frigging gorgeous for words. Loving those little ecoflow boxes because I just looked up power production in Aussie and it's almost exclusively made by the burning of coal and natural gas. I would've thought Aussie would've been a perfect place for massive solar arrays, wind and wave power generation. Not that I'm being anti-Aus when Aotearoa-New Zealand has been burning stinking coal as well. Considering how dirty a business a lot of mining types in Aussie have and continue to be, good on you guys for doing what you can to go green. You may have to ditch the diesel vehicles next.
If the electricity they are using to charge the ecoflows is from coal and gas-fired plants ...
@@Iamkcs2c It's not. If you go back and read their introductory blurb, they mention solar as their source.
@@annakeye You are right. I missed that.
Hello baby in the rock 💪🤣🇷🇺
Will y’all be doing more seasons with discovery, or have you moved fully to TH-cam? 😊
Forget discovery, let them make their own money!
@@OverMyDadBody that’s why I am asking !
why dont you use more UV light when working underground? would make spotting opal so much easier as it would light up big time. seems like a no brainer to me.
Pats a rapper
Nice work boys. Can I get one of the rings?
Oi!!! Howzit, fellas? I was wondering who you would suggest I get in touch with, to get a $100 chunky bit of potch and color, for carving practice. I want to learn to carve animals, and shapes, and such. But don't want to waste quality opal, and feel like just plain potch would be a little too boring.
Hey fellas...are you guys doing any online opal sales? If so could ya pop us a link when ya get time? Hell, I'd be interested in even some low grade opalish potch. I'd rather fund yr cause than any of the other big shots..cheers from Michigan in the USA
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Great video guys!!!!!! Keep on keeping on!!!!!
Mount a black light to rotary hammer drill?
Why not use the UV light before the jackhammer?
🏴☠️☠️💎🦯WICKED😎💙☠️🏴☠️!
at the price of diesel solar seems the way to go
Are the 'specie' pieces sold on eBay, or do you guys find local buyers for that material? I checked out the store but didn't see anything there. You should clean up those opalized limb cast segments a little and make pendants out of them, put silver bezels around them and make them collector pieces or pendants. They look nice the natural color they are, I hope whoever gets them doesn't "treat" them in any way to darken the stones.
All listed on our Etsy and yes I agree untreated is the way to go. They just need a good polish with tin oxide or cerium :)
etsy.me/3mSG7uI
All listed on our Etsy and yes I agree untreated is the way to go. They just need a good polish with tin oxide or cerium :)
etsy.me/3mSG7uI
Do you guys have a website where you are selling so.e pieces?
Sure thing etsy.me/3mSG7uI
You said your running fully Green so we're u get the energy to charge your green battery pack. From solar, wind or a diesel generator. If u did its not green
From solar panels up the top.