Hi Chris, love your videos. I have been watching them for some years now. This is all new too me and I have now taken up gold fossicking since I retired from the Army after serving for 40 years. This is my retirement hobby and I have learnt so much from your videos. Keep up the great work mate. Cheers Dave
Thank you so much for this particular subject. Lots of channels like Jeff Williams and 911mining have shown the smaller veins between mines and I always wondered if a prospector from today would do alright where as it probably wasn’t worth the old timers time. I wonder the same thing about diggers holes. A hill can be riddled with holes, but say only 40% of the hill has actually got holes. Could you dig down in between holes in an area they worked really hard and have it produce? I always wondered why they put a hole where they did and not 1-2 meters in any other direction. You got a whole bunch of new chisels and wedges, maybe dig a new hole and run the material? Great video as always!
Sure wouldn't mind owning a Minelab Gold Monster 1000 if I could only win one I'd have it sooner.The work super to find the smallest gold left by our miners of yesteryear.Great video David out
Dont ya just love the "chirp" of the gold moster.. nice species guys.. thanx 4 the top notch entertainment, ill never get bored watching your vids Chris.. thanx 😊🇦🇺
Nice one Chris and Mick and Grizzly and Zach! Some sweet goodies were found, the specimens were nice but those old picks stole the show ; D. Chris look into an account with Parler, I think it is going to be real big, real soon.
Another great video Chris. The picture quality is very good. It sure looked like a beautiful area. I wish it would cool off enough here to ware a coat prospecting.
I was thinking the same thing. Sort of like when you find a stone tool, like a scraper. You are holding in your hand something that someone long gone and forgotten trusted to carry them through another day of tasks to survive. That's shaking hands with History.
As always you and Mick together makes a great video it's about more than gold these are videos the youngsters need to watch it really shows them to be good to everyone extremely Proud of ya'll friends are so extremely hard to have/find or even allow again proud of you Thumbs Up My Friends
We had our first day out metal detecting and gold panning. We didn't find anything, but damn it was good to go bush! Love your channel Chris! Keep going strong mate! You're an inspiration!
Chris & Mick well done. My son won a ATX a few years ago and I am yet to find gold with it but is good for detecting championships. Wish I could get back over there but SA / VIC is a no go!
Quality video 🍻. Have you thought about dissolving some of the host rock to expose the gold better and create a beautiful specimen? Species are easier to remember the "find", interesting to look at, draw in a premium price, and once you crush it .....it's "just" gold lol. Now having said that it's whatever floats your boat and...... gets views. Ok now i have to go here......mick is good at finding wedges but can he pick one🙃😁
Excellent video. I've been contemplating getting a gold monster but need to convince the wife it's a need and not a want. I have a Minelabs XT17000 and a Tesoro Lobo Supertrac. Unfortunately they both aren't working very well so I need to look into a new detector. Love your videos! Keep them coming. Greetings from sunny Arizona!
I really like the previews you have been putting at the end of these last few videos it's definitely enough bait to keep person coming back not that I need the bait I'm watching all your videos thank you vo- Gus prosptecting. Hi grizzly.
Morning Chris, Micks' gourmet chisel collection looks interesting. That one with the arc that looks like it fell out of an ancient Tyrannosaurus Transformer is very similar to one i picked up near Bathurst last year. The little stubby pointed one however, looks a lot like a blacksmiths punch which is held in a pair of tongs. The other one just looks like any old lost cold chisel. Maybe a blacksmiths' was set up with the mine to keep up with the on going demand for tools? Who knows, I found it interesting just the same. Thanks Mick, thanks Chris.
Outstanding video! I need a PI machine, have a GM1000 and love it (still learning after a full year of detecting and prospecting) but often get fooled by super mineralized ground, lead, brass and awful amount trash left behind by the old timers. Spent a whole day on a 20’ x 20’ area just digging up trash the GM1000 shows as non ferrous or bounces around between ferrous and non ferrous. Can be super frustrating but must keep the persistence. I did find my first piece of gold and the fever is now firmly engrained. Keep at it sir! I enjoy your videos. Thank you 🙏
I bet you guys would have a lot of Luck if you ever went on a trip and tried out the superstition mountains!!! That's one of my life's bucket list is to pan and look for gold up in those mountains. As a prospector I'm sure you already know the story about the largest gold find ever to go missing and being lost up there.
@@VoGusProspecting they say 100s of millions lol if anything you know the area up there should have a lot higher chance of finding a fat nug and or vein. Or any other other countless artifacts that could have been lost out there since the 14th century
When you scoop up some material and wave it over the metal detector. You pour some into your hand and wave it again if you get a signal you dump what you have in your hand. And repeat what if you have more than one piece in the scooper? 7:50 minutes into vid
This is 100% possible! Normally you can hear double targets before you start scooping. However this is an oversight on my behalf and I'll change it up a bit.
Bullitt county Kentucky. I got a Garrett metal detector the at pro gold. I'm having a tough time learning how to use it. Looking forward to mastering it getting in the field. What are the best ones out there
Would be interested in your thoughts on the GM1000 compared to the Equinox 800 and even the older X-Terra 705 for prospecting and coins or relics and what plus minus points each detector has in each situation?
MATE LOVE YA VIDS Have lernt so much,finally got a chance to leg'it from th house and try my skills and yer got me some yella shiny stuff So big thankyou for you efforts and hard work your bloody Legend...
Me and grizzly think you are about to find the mother load on that hill , that rich quartz vein is coming we can feel it ! Great vid , grizzly rules , peace ✌️ 💀🌴
I know people that just throw out the Hot Rocks.. they say they've busted em up for nothing.. but they didnt really crush em good to see if there is any fine gold. No VGold they dump it.. lol looking forward to the hot rock n speci crushin vid!
Nice info, will sell some older dectector's to get a ml goldmonsrer 1k. The ATX gets some trash for sure tho I have found nice silver at 3 feet (past the trash) with one. ✌️
I found my first gold with the Garrett ATX, a 0.8g piece. The second a week later was 35g. The problem I had with the ATX is that it couldn't find very small gold.
hey guy's what trouble with the ATX were you having? i have the large mono coil and have found the very edge of the coil is where the targets are and they are normally allot deeper than you would think i am very impressed with the ATX but it does cause a lot of digging ! so so many hours digging especially on a beach 6ft hole no problems at all . I would love to win the gold monster to make my life easier! love your video's mate
hi, Chris glad to see a way to enter the give away without facebook. I closed my account 5 years back, owing to having to fight a legal battle for workers comp. I just wanted to tell you I was out detecting behind Oberon NSW 3 weeks back, as I was driving back through the forestry, I was looking across a creek at the ground looking for quartz blows for a different day. When I noticed a large black feral cat stalking across a clearing. I thought to myself shit that's the biggest feral cat I have ever seen so i stopped the ute and was watching it, it then occurred to me that i was a good 800 m to maybe a k away and the cat i was looking at was larger than a German Shepherd dog. I know this sounds like crap mate but I have bow hunted for over 40 years and bagged some huge feral's over the years the biggest I got weighed 32 kg and was as big as a Labrador but it was a tabby like cat. Anyway's back to it, I could see a road on the other side further down where the cat was headed, so I quickly drove down and over the creek and parked the ute. I didn't have my bow with me but I figured I would just go and check this thing out, I was down wind so I started working my way towards where I thought the cat was coming. I entered an open glade area and was about 15 m in when on the other side of the Glade about 30 to 50 m away the cat entered the glade, it was a !@@#$ panther!, It stopped and looked at me, we both froze for a few seconds then it slunk off down along the creek in the blackberry and tree's and scrub. I am 6'3 and 90 kilos and this cat was as long in the body as me and at least as heavy maybe more, Massive head jet black it was slightly higher in the shoulder than the back and more heavily muscled in the front it didn't have a externally long tail but it was thick to the end. I didn't follow as I was unarmed and I did not want to get any closer to this thing in an ambush scenario. Both myself and my second son went back out there last Friday and took our bow's, (not to kill it, just for protection) and some plaster of paris to cast prints or track it and get some definitive proof, but we got nothing. Saw some scratches on the ground and some tree marking's but they could of been anything, maybe deer or cocky's nothing definitive. I even had my phone on me the day I saw the bloody thing but I was so gobsmacked, that I didn't even get a shot or footage, feel like an idiot. I had heard the stories but I just thought it was all crap, but not now!. I packed a big blade into my prospecting gear now cause I go out alone and I wouldn't want to come across this thing without something to defend myself with. Oh and after searching about we went back to a favored bedrock corner so the young bloke could get a nap and wait for the afternoon trout bite (no luck there, drought has broken but the fish are not on the bite) so I did some crevassing. This corner was picked clean by the old timers but it yields gold as it is still washing down the creek from a reef near by, That's what I am looking for with SDC. I was getting really nice chunky gold but it was only in a 6 inch steak, so I was looking at the bedrock closely I need glasses nowadays, anyway got a sunbaker in a dimple on the rock, only small about 10th of g, put me back on the line of flood gold too so that was nice. Cheers champ keep an eye out when your remote, but then again you got Grizzly so he would let you know!.
@@VoGusProspecting I've thought about it a lot since seeing it, and my theory is that they come from the gold rush days, not from escaped circus animals or mascots from army units. There would need to be a few for a viable population and they only live around 15 years. I reckon they are from illicit exotic animal trade possibly by Chinese, diggers as they are known to trade in those kind of animals and there was little or no regulation back then.
I bought an sdc2300 due to the amount of hot rocks around here, sometimes it still goes off on a rock with no visible gold, but in most cases when crushed there will be specs of gold. I can't imagine the sdc could detect such tiny gold, but lm not going to argue with it.
Really liked this one Chris well done good seeing the monster and sdc finding different targets
Hi Chris, love your videos. I have been watching them for some years now. This is all new too me and I have now taken up gold fossicking since I retired from the Army after serving for 40 years. This is my retirement hobby and I have learnt so much from your videos. Keep up the great work mate. Cheers Dave
Nice tip on keeping hot rocks i got a bucket started of them. That gold monster sure would be nice.
Thank you so much for this particular subject. Lots of channels like Jeff Williams and 911mining have shown the smaller veins between mines and I always wondered if a prospector from today would do alright where as it probably wasn’t worth the old timers time.
I wonder the same thing about diggers holes. A hill can be riddled with holes, but say only 40% of the hill has actually got holes. Could you dig down in between holes in an area they worked really hard and have it produce? I always wondered why they put a hole where they did and not 1-2 meters in any other direction. You got a whole bunch of new chisels and wedges, maybe dig a new hole and run the material?
Great video as always!
I really hope you get a great answer Chris!!!! Im wondering the same exact thing!!!!
What great specimens from a gorgeous location. The fog was a pretty start to the day!
Sure wouldn't mind owning a Minelab Gold Monster 1000 if I could only win one I'd have it sooner.The work super to find the smallest gold left by our miners of yesteryear.Great video David out
Always happy to see you guys on the gold!
Won't be long before you Grizzly and Mick are throwing parties on your own private island!
Dont ya just love the "chirp" of the gold moster.. nice species guys.. thanx 4 the top notch entertainment, ill never get bored watching your vids Chris.. thanx 😊🇦🇺
Oops typo lol * gold monster😃😃😃
Awesome job Chris & crew! Really dig that piece of quartz with gold chunk. Found one similar in New Mexico mountains. Keep grooving
Nice one Chris and Mick and Grizzly and Zach! Some sweet goodies were found, the specimens were nice but those old picks stole the show ; D. Chris look into an account with Parler, I think it is going to be real big, real soon.
Another great video Chris. The picture quality is very good. It sure looked like a beautiful area.
I wish it would cool off enough here to ware a coat prospecting.
If that little worn out chisel could talk! (Besides OUCH every 10 seconds). From old workings and people long gone. Good stuff again!
I was thinking the same thing. Sort of like when you find a stone tool, like a scraper. You are holding in your hand something that someone long gone and forgotten trusted to carry them through another day of tasks to survive. That's shaking hands with History.
I learn something new every time I watch your videos well done mate wish there was gold near me brisbane
Better be careful of those wild Mick's! They'll follow you home n drink half ya beer😉
Great video mate!
Or Bourbon
Or all your beer : D glug glug!
Thanks chris your insight and advice are spot on. Just started prospecting and did quite well over here in the little rockies USA
Glad to hear that mate!
Another great job in the Bush !
Thank You Chris&Grizz👍🤠🇦🇺. And Mick😎
As always you and Mick together makes a great video it's about more than gold these are videos the youngsters need to watch it really shows them to be good to everyone extremely Proud of ya'll friends are so extremely hard to have/find or even allow again proud of you Thumbs Up My Friends
We had our first day out metal detecting and gold panning. We didn't find anything, but damn it was good to go bush! Love your channel Chris! Keep going strong mate! You're an inspiration!
Everyone needs a Mick for a mate.
Micks are good luck.
As a man of Irish decent I take offense to that
As a man also of Irish descent, I think that's hilarious! Kiss Me I'm Irish.
@@Seeds-Of-The-Wayside I forgot the "lol". Now I feel like a mick.🍀😂
@@heavymeadowdetective192 🤪
Nice adventure that was some cool finds you guys got , finding that reef is going to be awesome , stay safe. TANK
Hahaha Mick the human drone 😂
Nice boys yew
Cheers crouch
@ crouch best wishes on your journeys, and for speedy recoup and return 👍🏻👊🏻we will be here
Chris & Mick well done. My son won a ATX a few years ago and I am yet to find gold with it but is good for detecting championships. Wish I could get back over there but SA / VIC is a no go!
Quality video 🍻. Have you thought about dissolving some of the host rock to expose the gold better and create a beautiful specimen? Species are easier to remember the "find", interesting to look at, draw in a premium price, and once you crush it .....it's "just" gold lol. Now having said that it's whatever floats your boat and...... gets views. Ok now i have to go here......mick is good at finding wedges but can he pick one🙃😁
Awesome video Chris. Thank you for sharing I hope you stay safe and healthy.
Excellent video. I've been contemplating getting a gold monster but need to convince the wife it's a need and not a want. I have a Minelabs XT17000 and a Tesoro Lobo Supertrac. Unfortunately they both aren't working very well so I need to look into a new detector. Love your videos! Keep them coming. Greetings from sunny Arizona!
That was wicked mate good to see u and mick havin fun cheers
I really like the previews you have been putting at the end of these last few videos it's definitely enough bait to keep person coming back not that I need the bait I'm watching all your videos thank you vo- Gus prosptecting. Hi grizzly.
Great specimens! The dogs were 3/4 mountain goat on that day.
Morning Chris, Micks' gourmet chisel collection looks interesting. That one with the arc that looks like it fell out of an ancient Tyrannosaurus Transformer is very similar to one i picked up near Bathurst last year. The little stubby pointed one however, looks a lot like a blacksmiths punch which is held in a pair of tongs. The other one just looks like any old lost cold chisel. Maybe a blacksmiths' was set up with the mine to keep up with the on going demand for tools? Who knows, I found it interesting just the same. Thanks Mick, thanks Chris.
Good stuff mate!
Quite a slope to be working all day!
TY for all your informative videos!
My 2 yr old Labrador/Shepherd loves to watch your videos with Grizzly in them!
Outstanding video! I need a PI machine, have a GM1000 and love it (still learning after a full year of detecting and prospecting) but often get fooled by super mineralized ground, lead, brass and awful amount trash left behind by the old timers. Spent a whole day on a 20’ x 20’ area just digging up trash the GM1000 shows as non ferrous or bounces around between ferrous and non ferrous. Can be super frustrating but must keep the persistence. I did find my first piece of gold and the fever is now firmly engrained. Keep at it sir! I enjoy your videos. Thank you 🙏
Keep up the good work bro
Great Video!! Love those specimens!!
I bet you guys would have a lot of Luck if you ever went on a trip and tried out the superstition mountains!!! That's one of my life's bucket list is to pan and look for gold up in those mountains. As a prospector I'm sure you already know the story about the largest gold find ever to go missing and being lost up there.
Would be a fun trip to do. Imagine finding the lost booty!
@@VoGusProspecting they say 100s of millions lol if anything you know the area up there should have a lot higher chance of finding a fat nug and or vein. Or any other other countless artifacts that could have been lost out there since the 14th century
Hi Chris, love your videos an£ I love to check in to see how Grizzly is getting along. Watching from the UK. All the best Graham🇬🇧🇬🇧🌟🌟
Nice video Chris. Very entertaining keep up the great work bro😎👍
Oooh yer saturday night beers and a new vo-gus vid
Watch all shows, some multiple times...love seeing Australia's scenery
Thanks for the video Chris. I always enjoy watching you find Gold! Say hi to Mick and Grizzly for me.
Thanks! Will do!
When you scoop up some material and wave it over the metal detector. You pour some into your hand and wave it again if you get a signal you dump what you have in your hand. And repeat what if you have more than one piece in the scooper? 7:50 minutes into vid
This is 100% possible!
Normally you can hear double targets before you start scooping. However this is an oversight on my behalf and I'll change it up a bit.
Nice episode mate, looking forward to the crushing 🔨👍
Great show put me in for the drawing on the detector.
Grizzly is cool.
Bullitt county Kentucky. I got a Garrett metal detector the at pro gold. I'm having a tough time learning how to use it. Looking forward to mastering it getting in the field. What are the best ones out there
I Wandered where Mick Dundee had gone, well done guys on finding that shiny'😁👋🍀
Awesome as always mate
Would be interested in your thoughts on the GM1000 compared to the Equinox 800 and even the older X-Terra 705 for prospecting and coins or relics and what plus minus points each detector has in each situation?
MATE LOVE YA VIDS
Have lernt so much,finally got a chance to leg'it from th house and try my skills and yer got me some yella shiny stuff
So big thankyou for you efforts and hard work your bloody
Legend...
Very interesting video Chris,
spam, ham or bacon? 😂 I know I know. Keep up the good work my friend.
Awesome finds yet again!! Well done fellas
Great video and a great hunt...
Good stuff again thank you from England
Awesome video, again!
Me and grizzly think you are about to find the mother load on that hill , that rich quartz vein is coming we can feel it ! Great vid , grizzly rules , peace ✌️ 💀🌴
We're trying real hard to narrow it down mate.
I know people that just throw out the Hot Rocks.. they say they've busted em up for nothing.. but they didnt really crush em good to see if there is any fine gold. No VGold they dump it.. lol looking forward to the hot rock n speci crushin vid!
I can't wait to film that one hey!
Please don’t be that one, haha know the feeling Chris. Nice finds brother.
Nice info, will sell some older dectector's to get a ml goldmonsrer 1k. The ATX gets some trash for sure tho I have found nice silver at 3 feet (past the trash) with one. ✌️
Boa noite amigo Deus abençoe você e sua família gostei muito do seu vídeo parabéns amigo Deus abençoe você
Has the video of crushing the ore been made yet?
New store name "Mick's historical picks and wedges"
I found my first gold with the Garrett ATX, a 0.8g piece. The second a week later was 35g. The problem I had with the ATX is that it couldn't find very small gold.
Nice work Brother
Cheers Bruce
Great movie keep it up
Great vid mate nice little find a pleasure to watch as always and plz give grizz a scratch for me
Please leave the speaker on for us, great vids thank you.
Grizzly get his ideas from those "clever old sticks" he eats
The at pro Garrett metal detector are they any count
Nice edit man great video
Another good video. I look forward to seeing the crushing video.
As a possible future idea for a video, perhaps show us the difference between Micks ATX vs your GM1000.
Good detecting secession!! Nice gold!!
Out here in Arizona we put hot rocks in our chili,yummie,
Great job guys.....but, why don’t you get a head mounted go pro?
I have audio is terrible
can you crush down the hot rocks and smelt them down for the iron?
where can i get one of those cool towels you wear on your head
Beautiful video thanks mate
I love that quartz gold!
Just entered in the give away abit late I have been so busy with work lol love the video some nice gold 👌
Can you do a video of the difference between gold monster 1000 and the SDC
i love the quartz with gold in it
Nice video, thanks.
REALLY NEAT SPECIMENS. LOVED THE HUNT...
Hey Chris how you been mate hope all is well , videos looking good,! Thank You 🙏 Blessings , Cheers .
Hey, thanks
I always thought Grizzly was the real brains of the outfit.
bro i just planing to buy a metal detecton your detector, they can detec one meter
Oh ok. You did make it to Dad's claim. Nice job on the detecting ! Might be an organized vein just under the surface.
Haha we did!
Where’s link for competition ?
Have you used the gold bug 2? I'm going to get myself either the gold bug or the gold monster. Im stuck between the two.
cool hunt fam. keep up the work. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!
hey guy's what trouble with the ATX were you having? i have the large mono coil and have found the very edge of the coil is where the targets are and they are normally allot deeper than you would think i am very impressed with the ATX but it does cause a lot of digging ! so so many hours digging especially on a beach 6ft hole no problems at all . I would love to win the gold monster to make my life easier! love your video's mate
hi, Chris glad to see a way to enter the give away without facebook. I closed my account 5 years back, owing to having to fight a legal battle for workers comp. I just wanted to tell you I was out detecting behind Oberon NSW 3 weeks back, as I was driving back through the forestry, I was looking across a creek at the ground looking for quartz blows for a different day. When I noticed a large black feral cat stalking across a clearing. I thought to myself shit that's the biggest feral cat I have ever seen so i stopped the ute and was watching it, it then occurred to me that i was a good 800 m to maybe a k away and the cat i was looking at was larger than a German Shepherd dog. I know this sounds like crap mate but I have bow hunted for over 40 years and bagged some huge feral's over the years the biggest I got weighed 32 kg and was as big as a Labrador but it was a tabby like cat. Anyway's back to it, I could see a road on the other side further down where the cat was headed, so I quickly drove down and over the creek and parked the ute. I didn't have my bow with me but I figured I would just go and check this thing out, I was down wind so I started working my way towards where I thought the cat was coming. I entered an open glade area and was about 15 m in when on the other side of the Glade about 30 to 50 m away the cat entered the glade, it was a !@@#$ panther!, It stopped and looked at me, we both froze for a few seconds then it slunk off down along the creek in the blackberry and tree's and scrub. I am 6'3 and 90 kilos and this cat was as long in the body as me and at least as heavy maybe more, Massive head jet black it was slightly higher in the shoulder than the back and more heavily muscled in the front it didn't have a externally long tail but it was thick to the end. I didn't follow as I was unarmed and I did not want to get any closer to this thing in an ambush scenario. Both myself and my second son went back out there last Friday and took our bow's, (not to kill it, just for protection) and some plaster of paris to cast prints or track it and get some definitive proof, but we got nothing. Saw some scratches on the ground and some tree marking's but they could of been anything, maybe deer or cocky's nothing definitive. I even had my phone on me the day I saw the bloody thing but I was so gobsmacked, that I didn't even get a shot or footage, feel like an idiot. I had heard the stories but I just thought it was all crap, but not now!. I packed a big blade into my prospecting gear now cause I go out alone and I wouldn't want to come across this thing without something to defend myself with. Oh and after searching about we went back to a favored bedrock corner so the young bloke could get a nap and wait for the afternoon trout bite (no luck there, drought has broken but the fish are not on the bite) so I did some crevassing. This corner was picked clean by the old timers but it yields gold as it is still washing down the creek from a reef near by, That's what I am looking for with SDC. I was getting really nice chunky gold but it was only in a 6 inch steak, so I was looking at the bedrock closely I need glasses nowadays, anyway got a sunbaker in a dimple on the rock, only small about 10th of g, put me back on the line of flood gold too so that was nice. Cheers champ keep an eye out when your remote, but then again you got Grizzly so he would let you know!.
I swear I've seen one too. Way back when I was hunting.
@@VoGusProspecting I've thought about it a lot since seeing it, and my theory is that they come from the gold rush days, not from escaped circus animals or mascots from army units. There would need to be a few for a viable population and they only live around 15 years. I reckon they are from illicit exotic animal trade possibly by Chinese, diggers as they are known to trade in those kind of animals and there was little or no regulation back then.
Pls tell the type of the gold detector you are using? Thanks
I did, right at the start. Gold Monster 1000
I lived next door to the Spaldings when I lived in Sydney
They where a pain in the arse everytime you bumped into them
I bought an sdc2300 due to the amount of hot rocks around here, sometimes it still goes off on a rock with no visible gold, but in most cases when crushed there will be specs of gold. I can't imagine the sdc could detect such tiny gold, but lm not going to argue with it.
Hi. Great show!
Well done, do you prefer using auto 1 or do you use manual settings once on the gold with the monster.
I always use auto 1
Nice gold 👍
hmmm a man of two hats one says onamihs and the other says shimano great vid thanks mate
great adventure mate
Cheers buddy
Would be a great update from my Ace 150.