Just remember, what you see in this video is a very, tiny, miniscule part of what happens during the day. We do A LOT of mining. We talk with many industry leading manufacturers about equipment tweaking and other miners to get the best possible results with what we have. We don't have every tool, land access or other things at our disposal, we make do. The video is a production based around days or weeks of planning and research, with just the absolute bare minimum important information in it for you. So before leaving a nasty comment that I have to delete or having a knee jerk reaction to something included in the film and wig out in the comments section, just pause. We have probably thought about it already, we have likely taken the thing into account, in all probability we are showing you what matters with the fluff removed. Now I'm all for constructive feedback, that helps us all. Just make sure to keep it clean and to the facts, not personally attacking me or others in the comments. That's a quick way to get yourself the boot. Lots of love. Xoxo
Vo-Gus Prospecting "I am the shipwreck with its scattered and soaked wood littering the ocean like a nest of roaches. The water smothers me patiently, and it waits to feel my body on the ocean floor. I am the captain. I stand on my ship, never leaving its side, for tonight I sleep in a sharks stomach. The tears and rain both hit my face, as I lay on the deck and wait to drown. I am thunder. Hear me roar as I deafen all. I conduct my orchestra as loud as possible and conclude with a violent smash. I am washing the splinters from within my heart and I scream as it pumps. I let my lungs fill with water as the broken bath tub leaks. Let the clouds be Witnesses"
brilliant comment on testing everywhere. building information and comparisons. I think that adds to the knowledge of the whole area which may have included the creek at an earlier time. Awesome dude.
Chris, I’ve been meaning to comment for a long time now in the great music soundtrack to your videos. The bluegrass and roots music fit your channel well.
Very good information from the expert. Great results in the short run you had. Good thing the wind wasn't blowing, it would have blown it all away. Can't wait for your next high banker run. Thanks Chris.
Awesome vid mate love the bankers with pumps flowing we miss big days running a few meters of wash. But i dont hurt as much the next day when i watch you do it lol. Cheers for sharing Alicia & Steve.
@@VoGusProspecting yes it was, the gold fever was strong with this one lol. 2" pump 12" highbanker two big blokes. we would have to move the setup during the day as the tailings pile would get to big to work it. Cheers Steve.
Awesome video dude. I agree totally with miners moss, and especially the remote water draw. Clean water will always work better to get the fines versus recirculating dirty water. ✌️😎
Seems like the water is crashing over those huge riffles. Wonder if it's scooping out the contents. Maybe either shorter riffles for the water flow, or up the flow to ensure the low pressure area behind - then flared out to your exp. metal / mats.. ??
I went out for my first time on the weekend and found a picker using my minelab pan kit. I spent $30 in diesel and found $5 worth of gold. it’s 100% not about the money. I spent a few hours out in nature with my dad and had a absolute blast. My excitement at finding a tiny piece of gold was quite funny haha Already planing my next trip this weekend hehe And the wife likes this new hobby because, well what women doesn’t like gold. Just don’t tell her it’s going to take 10 years to find enough to make a ring 😂🤣 Goto thank you Chris for the tips. I only watched your videos on crevicing and immediately found some likely spots and got some gold.
You might want to consider 1 flap in each sluice section to break the surface tension. It would be an easy, cheap fix to improve your recovery (in addition to pushing dry material into a wet pit to 'wet' it). As you likely know, Gold Hog highbankers use such a flap as do some Gold Rat highbankers. Great recovery of fine stuff either way!
@@VoGusProspecting - for sure. My point was more around adding a rubber flap to your sluices to break surface tension for that ultra fine gold. Wife and I just had a baby, so I have to live vicariously through folks like you for now!
The gold won't float because the surface tension is broken. If it's blowing gold out it may be because of turbulence which doesn't allow the small stuff to settle low enough in the water column to be captured. A solution for this is slick sections & or the use of the "mudflap" to calm the water down 👍🏼
Yep. That is why theory is not enough. You need to back it up with getting out there and washing some rocks. Which is why the experience of experienced prospectors in so valuable. However, theory can inform practice and fast track developing that "intuition". I bang on about theory but its never enough by itself.
@Walk About Prospecting I've only just found you and watched your archaeology one. I like what I'm seeing. Just so long as you don't talk about low pressure zones :)
Well after a hard day at work it's nice to watch an new episode of Vo'Gas prospecting to take me to a happy place thanks man I'm all good now...peace mate
"professional outfit, but clearly -- IT'S NOT" -- hahahahaha love it. Pets for the Griz please sir? Keep the great videos coming, please? Your dog really is best friends with that lab. You could see how excited he was!!
1st 3 minutes of distraction brought to you by the delicious (but a lil expensive) coffee scrolls of beechworth bakery..... Great vid mate will go check out the other channel but 1st i need to fix this sudden onset of hunger🤣
Thanks for the nice video! Carpet testing is an important point, viewers see how to remove the loss of gold, moss works fine on dust if given a chance.
You need to find a mat or box with flat riffles for that fine gold. I use a g2 concentrator and it has different traps for different kinds of gold. I lose less than 1% of what goes thru my sluice, regardless of size or shape :)
Again, this was not about recovery but find out if the gold went back that far. To do that we had to use the only banker with petrol pumped had, otherwise I would have run dream mat
Love the music. That is kind of what I heart in my head when I'm out prospecting. Haven't been out lately though. Anxiety, the weather and a cold have had me down. What is the artist and song please? Love the music. Cheers...
Hi chris I can't say for sure what you can do there but I think with that fine gold you might want to try a long tom high banker like ray rusaw has in his videos for that fine gold and his Alaskan beach sand .it probably would be worth looking into. I know you can't dredge like that but as a high banker goes you might want to check out his videos and the length of the box I don't know about restrictions in your area.just thought I would mention it. Thank you for sharing.
@@VoGusProspecting k On the,up,side you got the gold I was, not sure if it was legal to us,a,long tom where you are .Thank you for the answering g that much appreciated.
LMAO I metal detect and I totally have had times where I try to organize my finds for previous recorded videos snips and get them lost or mixed together with other hunting finds... You're not the only one brother!
Have to say. What you said about going with your gut on picking a spot is very true. I can go to an area and find great gold the first day and when I go back the next time I realized that I somehow found the best spot the first time around. It’s so weird how that happens 😁🤙. 🍻
Dang it Chris that means I have to sit and watch another video you make to see the gold,now let me think about this 4 a second OK SOUNDS DANG GOOD TO ME LOL😎👍🇨🇦😎👍🇨🇦😎👍🇨🇦
i know it would be an expense up front, but would it not be worth getting solar panels and use a small shade tent or something to put them on, you could then run a more powerful bilge pump for free, less noise, also shade the panels would provide from the sun to help keep cool.
This is exciting, can't wait to see you do some high production high banking videos. Hey Chris your video production value is the best out of all my gold prospecting subs when it comes to cinematography and editing. Just wanted you to know we appreciate the work. I was just commenting on another one of my subs who in my opinion has the best footage on TH-cam (cinematography wise). He has 3mil subs, so he has a team of course, and most of his stuff is shot indoors. It's Chris Ramsay he does puzzles and magic. Anyway thought you would appreciate his footage.
Boy I so love these old videos they're freaking awesome you should have removed that food you were saving for later in your mustache though😂😂 I will never stop watching your videos
Nice to see that you are going about testing the ground before digging the whole place up like some do. I suspect that there may well be "double" layers of flood wash & gravel s as you said. I also suspect that you may well start getting those "chunkier" pieces in a second or even a third layer if they are there. Love the music & the beard, mines (pun intended) gone "whitish" sadly, it conjures up a mental picture of "Ned" relieving an aristocrat of his gold.🎩 🔫 💰 😀.
Fabulous video Chris! Really enjoyed it. I would just set up a miners camp and dig away for a few days. I wonder if there might be a layer of bigger gold a bit deeper?? If your ever near Los Angeles, let’s do a collab! . ( using your gear cuz I still use my phone lol) or maybe I’ll have upgraded by then.
If the gold is that fine, why not bring a big plastic tub? place it between your dig and the high banker with some water and jet dry. Dig to the tun and when the tub fills with the dirt & rock to run. Just goto the sluice. It should at least get more of the fine gold to drop if coated with the jet dry first. Just a thought.
The jet dry is misunderstood by many, it's not actually making gold drop out. What is doing is breaking surface tension on the water. Therefore the gold or any other fine powder mineral has to be out of the water then scooped up by water coming back lifting it with tension. If you put dirt in a bucket and then drop the material in water you are dropping the dirt directly in the water which 99.9% of all material is not effected by the tension .
@@VoGusProspecting sorry 😆 I couldn't help myself. I've eaten breakfast and lunch out of my pan while mining and panned rite after to wash it out. Still caught even sub 200 mesh.
Awesome video! Been binge watching lately lol
Just remember, what you see in this video is a very, tiny, miniscule part of what happens during the day.
We do A LOT of mining. We talk with many industry leading manufacturers about equipment tweaking and other miners to get the best possible results with what we have. We don't have every tool, land access or other things at our disposal, we make do.
The video is a production based around days or weeks of planning and research, with just the absolute bare minimum important information in it for you.
So before leaving a nasty comment that I have to delete or having a knee jerk reaction to something included in the film and wig out in the comments section, just pause.
We have probably thought about it already, we have likely taken the thing into account, in all probability we are showing you what matters with the fluff removed.
Now I'm all for constructive feedback, that helps us all. Just make sure to keep it clean and to the facts, not personally attacking me or others in the comments.
That's a quick way to get yourself the boot.
Lots of love.
Xoxo
Chris I will be on this weekend
Vo-Gus Prospecting
"I am the shipwreck with its scattered and soaked wood littering the ocean like a nest of roaches. The water smothers me patiently, and it waits to feel my body on the ocean floor. I am the captain. I stand on my ship, never leaving its side, for tonight I sleep in a sharks stomach. The tears and rain both hit my face, as I lay on the deck and wait to drown. I am thunder. Hear me roar as I deafen all. I conduct my orchestra as loud as possible and conclude with a violent smash. I am washing the splinters from within my heart and I scream as it pumps. I let my lungs fill with water as the broken bath tub leaks. Let the clouds be Witnesses"
brilliant comment on testing everywhere. building information and comparisons. I think that adds to the knowledge of the whole area which may have included the creek at an earlier time. Awesome dude.
man I love all the extra info you include in the videos on how to approach things differently. It's super helpful.
Great Video. Thank you Chris and the Fun you had with this.
Chris, I’ve been meaning to comment for a long time now in the great music soundtrack to your videos. The bluegrass and roots music fit your channel well.
Cheers buddy
Very good information from the expert. Great results in the short run you had. Good thing the wind wasn't blowing, it would have blown it all away. Can't wait for your next high banker run. Thanks Chris.
Awesome vid mate love the bankers with pumps flowing we miss big days running a few meters of wash. But i dont hurt as much the next day when i watch you do it lol. Cheers for sharing Alicia & Steve.
It's hard bloody work doing a few meters of soil
@@VoGusProspecting yes it was, the gold fever was strong with this one lol. 2" pump 12" highbanker two big blokes. we would have to move the setup during the day as the tailings pile would get to big to work it. Cheers Steve.
Man if I could find a spot to produce that much , in that little work, I'd have to bring flashlights because I'm not leaving!!
You and I both! I’d have to bring food for the next few days lol
Everyone says that till they get sore lol
With a pay out like that what are sores lol il literaly move to the bushes
Brilliant! Thank you!
love watching your shows,i am just a learner and catching on fast,keep up the great shows,
Panning here in BC is good for this blind spot. Whenever I walk into a creek I stop frequently and look around, to check for bears.
You've got a nice office. Its coming together well. Thanks for posting
can't stop looking at the crumbs in you're beard XD
I didnt know they were there until the edit haha
Jay. You must. Be hungry.
Awesome video dude. I agree totally with miners moss, and especially the remote water draw. Clean water will always work better to get the fines versus recirculating dirty water. ✌️😎
Seems like the water is crashing over those huge riffles. Wonder if it's scooping out the contents. Maybe either shorter riffles for the water flow, or up the flow to ensure the low pressure area behind - then flared out to your exp. metal / mats.. ??
There 100% improvements we could make to the Sluice including some of these ideas.
I went out for my first time on the weekend and found a picker using my minelab pan kit. I spent $30 in diesel and found $5 worth of gold. it’s 100% not about the money. I spent a few hours out in nature with my dad and had a absolute blast. My excitement at finding a tiny piece of gold was quite funny haha
Already planing my next trip this weekend hehe
And the wife likes this new hobby because, well what women doesn’t like gold. Just don’t tell her it’s going to take 10 years to find enough to make a ring 😂🤣
Goto thank you Chris for the tips. I only watched your videos on crevicing and immediately found some likely spots and got some gold.
I went few times too I loved the experience
Go GET IT Wormy and Iman Lindsey!
I got a flake s nice one
That first little flake , more addictive than meth haha , will ways remember the feeling , happy hunting
Unfortunately I haven't gone again after that flake.
You might want to consider 1 flap in each sluice section to break the surface tension. It would be an easy, cheap fix to improve your recovery (in addition to pushing dry material into a wet pit to 'wet' it). As you likely know, Gold Hog highbankers use such a flap as do some Gold Rat highbankers. Great recovery of fine stuff either way!
If you watch the background you will see such a pit in use. The top layer however had to be run dry to dig the pit.
@@VoGusProspecting - for sure. My point was more around adding a rubber flap to your sluices to break surface tension for that ultra fine gold. Wife and I just had a baby, so I have to live vicariously through folks like you for now!
Awesome well done fellas
The gold won't float because the surface tension is broken.
If it's blowing gold out it may be because of turbulence which doesn't allow the small stuff to settle low enough in the water column to be captured.
A solution for this is slick sections & or the use of the "mudflap" to calm the water down 👍🏼
Nice gold and all gold is good gold I always enjoy tagging along....
Keep those vids coming Chris ... looking forward to them. You’re doing a great job of it.
I was chuckling to myself when you couldn't find your gold....what a problem to have...too much gold laying around. Thanks for the lesson Chris!
Some people see small gold I see rich ground great work .
I see me setting up a miners camp!
See, you get it. Surprising that many more don't
Yep. That is why theory is not enough. You need to back it up with getting out there and washing some rocks. Which is why the experience of experienced prospectors in so valuable. However, theory can inform practice and fast track developing that "intuition".
I bang on about theory but its never enough by itself.
@Walk About Prospecting I've only just found you and watched your archaeology one. I like what I'm seeing. Just so long as you don't talk about low pressure zones :)
@Walk About Prospecting I think I need a better computer before I can join in :(
Exactly, scientist run their experiments to either prove or disprove their theroys. Experiance can give you more robust ones, but not certain
You are lucky here in Queensland we can't use michenery ..ie water pumps
Laws suck
Well after a hard day at work it's nice to watch an new episode of Vo'Gas prospecting to take me to a happy place thanks man I'm all good now...peace mate
"professional outfit, but clearly -- IT'S NOT" -- hahahahaha love it. Pets for the Griz please sir? Keep the great videos coming, please? Your dog really is best friends with that lab. You could see how excited he was!!
1st 3 minutes of distraction brought to you by the delicious (but a lil expensive) coffee scrolls of beechworth bakery.....
Great vid mate will go check out the other channel but 1st i need to fix this sudden onset of hunger🤣
That little blob stucm around didn't it haha
@@MrLung87 it was two in the first few scenes
Thats a big bank go hard and enjoy. cheers Glenno
Exactly my sentiment...I do it to get out, enjoy nature, meeting with friends and family...not for what I may find....that’s just bonus!
Well said!
Awesome thanks for the info, have a wonderful day!
That crumb is what is know as, a 'Point of Interest' **Can't stop staring!**
Thanks for the nice video! Carpet testing is an important point, viewers see how to remove the loss of gold, moss works fine on dust if given a chance.
You need to find a mat or box with flat riffles for that fine gold. I use a g2 concentrator and it has different traps for different kinds of gold. I lose less than 1% of what goes thru my sluice, regardless of size or shape :)
Again, this was not about recovery but find out if the gold went back that far. To do that we had to use the only banker with petrol pumped had, otherwise I would have run dream mat
great work guys , well done
Looks like you made one hell of a mess of that creek!
You have no idea what we have done on that creek. Best not make judgements without full knowledge.
Ahh, had my day blessed by another very informative video from Master Chris ... he who knows dirt ....
so cool what ur able to achieve along those banks
Excellent
Fun to watch.
CHRISSSSS!!!! I appreciate the flower guy!!!
Pans with gold ,you and Ray pans everywhere, my pans like my pocket empty!
Better keep looking bro
Great work man, good on ya. Goodnight from Ontario Canada
Another great video. Thanks.
Whoooooooo!!! ON THAT GOLD DUDE!!!!!!!!
Love the music. That is kind of what I heart in my head when I'm out prospecting. Haven't been out lately though. Anxiety, the weather and a cold have had me down. What is the artist and song please? Love the music. Cheers...
You now have a goal to complete in 2020 :) Great vid as always.
I sure do man
Love the eye brain bit mate, keep em coming mate!
Lol I will have to watch those Tigers and monkeys when I go to the bush now😜😂🤣😂🤣 but it is a very good analogy my friend it's a spidey-sense
It's the monkeys that are the real hassle
Great video Chris !! That broll is on point and it’s so funny you misplaced the gold 😂😂😂 great pro tip too 😉
That coffee 😂😂
Beautiful country! Are you running ribbed matting under your miners Moss?
Hi chris I can't say for sure what you can do there but I think with that fine gold you might want to try a long tom high banker like ray rusaw has in his videos for that fine gold and his Alaskan beach sand .it probably would be worth looking into. I know you can't dredge like that but as a high banker goes you might want to check out his videos and the length of the box I don't know about restrictions in your area.just thought I would mention it. Thank you for sharing.
We run long toms when possible mate, on this day we had to bodge it together for many reasons so we lucked out and couldnt :-/
@@VoGusProspecting k
On the,up,side you got the gold I was, not sure if it was legal to us,a,long tom where you are .Thank you for the answering g that much appreciated.
That definitely makes sense focusing on one thing without taking a break ....you miss the big picture...
LMAO I metal detect and I totally have had times where I try to organize my finds for previous recorded videos snips and get them lost or mixed together with other hunting finds... You're not the only one brother!
Totally Vogus
hey, buddy, great advice test panning is what I do also
Have to say. What you said about going with your gut on picking a spot is very true. I can go to an area and find great gold the first day and when I go back the next time I realized that I somehow found the best spot the first time around. It’s so weird how that happens 😁🤙. 🍻
Dang it Chris that means I have to sit and watch another video you make to see the gold,now let me think about this 4 a second OK SOUNDS DANG GOOD TO ME LOL😎👍🇨🇦😎👍🇨🇦😎👍🇨🇦
Great video Brother! JJ
Nice gold Chris
GRIZZLY THE WONDER HOUND!!!
wow i didn't know you could highbank with a pump in Victoria sucks living in South Australia no pump allowed. love your channel keep up the great work
i know it would be an expense up front, but would it not be worth getting solar panels and use a small shade tent or something to put them on, you could then run a more powerful bilge pump for free, less noise, also shade the panels would provide from the sun to help keep cool.
We already do that, i have featured it in other films :-)
that first wash is grand for just the mos you can say X3 for the over all in t h at first run
Old moldy hat here. Awesome vid as always. Your vids always put a smile on my face and dreams of the next time i get to wash some rocks 😎
This is exciting, can't wait to see you do some high production high banking videos.
Hey Chris your video production value is the best out of all my gold prospecting subs when it comes to cinematography and editing. Just wanted you to know we appreciate the work.
I was just commenting on another one of my subs who in my opinion has the best footage on TH-cam (cinematography wise).
He has 3mil subs, so he has a team of course, and most of his stuff is shot indoors. It's Chris Ramsay he does puzzles and magic.
Anyway thought you would appreciate his footage.
Miners moss aka door mat😂👍
Can’t find the correct pan of gold. Bahaha! What a problem to have!
Great to see Mick and Steve!
It's an annoying one lol
Well done
Boy I so love these old videos they're freaking awesome you should have removed that food you were saving for later in your mustache though😂😂 I will never stop watching your videos
Love your videos awesome job
Need to clean out some of those pans, eventually not gonna have any pans to take to the creek
Nice to see that you are going about testing the ground before digging the whole place up like some do. I suspect that there may well be "double" layers of flood wash & gravel s as you said. I also suspect that you may well start getting those "chunkier" pieces in a second or even a third layer if they are there. Love the music & the beard, mines (pun intended) gone
"whitish" sadly, it conjures up a mental picture of "Ned" relieving an aristocrat of his gold.🎩 🔫 💰 😀.
Whats the stats of the electric pump you use please?
2000gph
@@VoGusProspectingthanks and what Ah battery??
18ah gets about 2.5 hours
Nice one.
Love the video. Great fine gold
Love a good coffee scroll.
Great Video!!
Great video buddy. Good to see you stop spraying sand. And stuck to the gold ;) keep up the good work. ;)
Thanks for stating what that was in your mustache... I was about to lose my mind trying to guess.
Have you thought of trying the Gold Cube on That soil? Wet it and get it if you know what I mean.Keep it Golden Always
Bit too slow to process through a cube I feel.
Good jobl!!!
Always love your " b roll" super cool
Fabulous video Chris! Really enjoyed it. I would just set up a miners camp and dig away for a few days. I wonder if there might be a layer of bigger gold a bit deeper?? If your ever near Los Angeles, let’s do a collab! . ( using your gear cuz I still use my phone lol) or maybe I’ll have upgraded by then.
I dug to bedrock and its the same size the whole way through
So, was the coffee scroll yummy......I’m guessing it was and you were saving some for Ron, laterRON!
I think Grizzly the wonder dog had his eye on your breakfast remnants stored securely in your Mo 😂👌
Gold is Cool!
good one mate.
Great vid , I’m giving my boxer a pat , loving the content 👍⛏🌴🌵
do you burn the clean up carpet when done? I hear that's how you reclaim some of the stuck gold. Its probably not good for the environment.
No, we use moss thats easily cleanable. Unlike carpet that traps it solid.
Can you show a comparison of that super micro flower gold up to and including a very tiny picker for the different sizes, please
already have, watch any of my videos in the last 3 months and they are all filmed in this spot where i show just how small it really is
Sorry, i thought i watch all of them , i guess i missed a few
Hmmm coffee? Yeah right!
Super mustered gold goodies
If the gold is that fine, why not bring a big plastic tub? place it between your dig and the high banker with some water and jet dry. Dig to the tun and when the tub fills with the dirt & rock to run. Just goto the sluice. It should at least get more of the fine gold to drop if coated with the jet dry first. Just a thought.
The jet dry is misunderstood by many, it's not actually making gold drop out. What is doing is breaking surface tension on the water. Therefore the gold or any other fine powder mineral has to be out of the water then scooped up by water coming back lifting it with tension. If you put dirt in a bucket and then drop the material in water you are dropping the dirt directly in the water which 99.9% of all material is not effected by the tension .
what he said
@@VoGusProspecting sorry 😆 I couldn't help myself. I've eaten breakfast and lunch out of my pan while mining and panned rite after to wash it out. Still caught even sub 200 mesh.
Great test for the gold hog
Thank you for teaching me how to prospect even though I’m still young.I am asking for a gold pan for
Xmas!
Petey said hes got some jerky for grizzly ⛰⛏🤘🏼
Great video thumbs up my friends
have ya ever tried them silocone mats ta catch all thet finr GOLD? thanks fer the video/tips
no