@@VoGusProspecting Well, we are both colorblind, and we both live in Gold Capitals of the world (I reside in Sacramento, CA); if we ever cross paths we'll have to make the collab ⛏️ 🪙 ⛏️
So happy you make these videos. My inner archaeologist loves getting lost in a good site exploration. You can learn so much from an old rubbish heap or firepit
Did a lot of caving in my youth and would have loved to explore that mine. I'm WV, USA, so limestone, no gold. We located cave likely areas from Topo maps and geology. We opened never before been found. There are parts of caves I'm sure I have been the only person to see it. Great video.
Love this so freaking much!! You and Mick look like 2 boys , so excited to go into the creepy mine! So happy that you found some goodies and some gold. Can hardly wait for you to go back again! ❤👍😁
My father worked a bipper for 12yrs successfully, his advice on working old mine workings was if you don't find rubbish in the heap don't bother staying - it's been done. Bipper was his name for gold detector 😅
Great adventure Chris! Great to see Mick again! Lots of interesting stuff. That original Vegemite jar was a great find and a great way to time period the mine. Mark from Melbourne Australia
That’s sick. I went out for my first day yesterday. Absolutely failed, the creek had no water, just full of sticks and leafs, got a flat tire in the car as well. But it was fun even if I made every mistake possible. 😂
Really really cool video!! Thank you for sharing! I live in Washington State and am jealous that you have so much cool stuff to explore and prospect in your back yard! I am sooo hooked on your channel!
Cheers Chris 🍻 I’ve seen some of this footage before but it’s nice to wake up in chilly Ballarat to see a fresh upload from Vo-Gus prospecting 😂 Get some Saturday into ya 🇦🇺🍻😜
2 poke max. If it's like other rules of curiosity I've heard of 3 would have been playing with it. Not a big deal but sometime not appropriate in public or on video. Great job as always bud. Keep them comming.
I'd like to see what you can find on the floor of the mine. Either with the metal detector or by sweeping it up and running it through your crusher. I can imagine them losing bits here and there. Thanks for taking us along on your journey.
Wow! very cool mine! Also, Cave Man Era Tip: If you forget your scoop, you can easily make one from a piece of very dry wood lying about. Just need your trusty pocketknife. What? you forgot your pocketknife? Chris!!!!
thanks for having this vid out on a friday fella. also not many people understand the full danger of mines, even being at the entrance its wanting to harm the lungs 4:27, i know you had mad a vid about this alrady, but just wanted to point out a good example of how close the danger is in mines
Cool video! Love that you waited for backup before heading in! You could give each dog a stick that is exactly the same as the other one and they will fight over one of them. LOL
Yep...that notched wooden thing is definitely a rail gauge. There's a Welsh TH-camr called Lost Mines who finds items like that quite regularly. If you send him some measurements, he may be able to tell you the likelihood as to where the guys mining that vein may have come from in the UK...assuming of course that they were from the UK that is. There are various gauge's of rail which were used by the different regions of the UK at different times throughout history. Tonne fair, he has a really interesting channel and I'm sure he'd love to hear from you!
Thanks for the info. Sounds like a great channel to visit and given how many of the miners came from the UK to Australia, a very interesting resource. Mark from Melbourne Australia
Found the one of the old adits and stope on Norton Gold Field years ago. The adit went in some 20 metres below the ridge line to intersect the ore body at right angles. They then cut the orebody out vertically to ground level by caving the roof. Ore was removed via the adit by a minimal tramline. The stope was some 100 metres long. At the top of the ridge line were some tiny holes that dropped into the stope. Was dangerous ground to walk around on.
Looks a bit similar to one I found down the valley from Wandilligong though it was a much longer open stope and I never found an adit running into it. The one I found still had ore pillars holding the two sides appart and lots of old timbers. It would have been older than 100 years though. I have all the old survey maps for that area with a bunch of holes I found that were not on it already.
Great video buds! Most people nowadays would be disappointed with the end results due to short term tik tok instant gratification brains...but this is what prospecting really is! You guys look like you're having a blast! Cheers 🍻.
You could be on the motherlode 😮 I hope that the vein gets richer😅 gold lots of gold now it's your turn to chase the vein😅 and by the way that dog is so cute love seeing that dog in the videos but I hope you're onto something big that will make really good videos thank you for the video give all your friends are scratch behind your ear give your dog a bone thank you🇳🇿🇭🇲🇸🇭😌
The 3 sided stacked rock was probably a fireplace to roast harder rock before crushing. In the process it would also have done some conversion of Iron sulphides into Iron oxides. Iron sulphides tend to be low magnetic but the oxides can be picked up easily with a magnet. Why its always worthwhile to toast some samples and concentrates and hit them with a magnet before panning .
Very educational gentlemen I thought the first vegemite jars were the white ones. They were definately camping there my Grandpa and great uncle had a camp at the entrance to their mine. That candle Mick found is choice and the busted stampmill pad. Cant wait to see what comes out of that working face once you deal with that young wombat. On a side note they eat really well well so Im told. To bring in a stampmill it must have been up around an oz or two per tonne. Time to fire up the forge fire and custom make some doors to keep out the wombats.
@@VoGusProspecting The first one I saw I was about 13. My Dad told me it was from during the great depression. When my Great Grandpa had put his son in law, my Grandpa and my great Uncle onto some alluvial gold in a dry creekbed in northern SA. My Great Grandpa was good friends with a local publican and spent most of his time there while my Grandpa was blowing flour gold out of bedrock 5ft under the dry creekbed. The story goes Great Grandpa was full of advice and dissapointment that they needed to find more gold because he had already invested too much of his money. Grandpa said maybe spend more on food for us to eat instead of whiskey so my Grandpa threw the empty white vegemite jar at him and told him not to come back until it was full, that would cover his bar tab and some more food for the tuckerbox. Basically shut up and piss off. 6hrs later he came back singing some Irish ditty juggling the once empty vegemite jar in his hands which he threw infront of my Grandpa who was on his hands n knees snuffing gold dust. Great Grandpa managed to fill it with nuggets and more putting them in their place saying that will fill your tuckerbox get back to work and headed back to the pub. My Dad ended up with the empty jar and the story when he was 12 Around 1938 and gave it to me empty in 1988. Wow thats the long way to say yeah white vegemite jars are from the thirtys hahaha
I'm curious, cause I've been following for a bit now, but in your outings, how much gold do you wind up with at a year's end?, ,I know prospecting is hit or miss and some do it for fun in their off time, but do you usually wind up with a good amount?
I'm not an expert, I don't even prospect or mine. I'm interested and I'd like to, so I've versed myself in the hobby/profession. So I just want to say this. A mine is NOT like surface gold. You may not find a bit here and a bit there. In a mine you have a chance to get on some serious Gold. This is just my ammature view, I could be totally wrong but that's what I feel.
I'd like to clarify my credentials I pan for gold one time when I was 10 on a family vacation and I watch some TH-cam videos I'm practically a professional but as far as the lead in the metal in the dirt couldn't you take like a sluice pan and put heavy-duty magnets on the bottom side to pull it out of the dirt I would think that would be the quickest way to get large amounts of that slag metal out of your soiled to get back to the job of metal detecting just curious
Hi Chris. I'm a big fan. My daughter is in the Canadian Navy and rumour has it that she will be porting in Australia. If she lands near your area, would you be able to take her out panning?
Colorblind Gold Crew 🔥
Now that's a channel name
@@VoGusProspecting Well, we are both colorblind, and we both live in Gold Capitals of the world (I reside in Sacramento, CA); if we ever cross paths we'll have to make the collab ⛏️ 🪙 ⛏️
Awesome lil adventure with Mick the relics are so cool and the mother lodes on its way I can feel it
So happy you make these videos. My inner archaeologist loves getting lost in a good site exploration. You can learn so much from an old rubbish heap or firepit
12:17 FLAT TRACK!! So cool!! 🙂🙂
Did a lot of caving in my youth and would have loved to explore that mine. I'm WV, USA, so limestone, no gold. We located cave likely areas from Topo maps and geology. We opened never before been found. There are parts of caves I'm sure I have been the only person to see it. Great video.
So much fun watching you guys! Hi Fern
Really interested in what you find at this site.
Another great video, Chris. Thanx so much for bringing us along. Give Fernie a thorough spankin’ for me!
Love this so freaking much!! You and Mick look like 2 boys , so excited to go into the creepy mine! So happy that you found some goodies and some gold. Can hardly wait for you to go back again! ❤👍😁
The wobble my friend and nice
My father worked a bipper for 12yrs successfully, his advice on working old mine workings was if you don't find rubbish in the heap don't bother staying - it's been done. Bipper was his name for gold detector 😅
Lovin the tie-dye Mick!
Enjoyed watching you explore that old mine! Can't wait to see what you find there in the future!
Great video Chris - what an awesome mine
I really was interested in this. Thank you for sharing about this mine. I wish I could find a mine like that
really cool video, love the change of direction you decided to take!
Cool artifacts to find and hammer drill time
really like your excitement that you bring to your videos
Nice job Detective Chris!! Good Luck buddy!! JJ
Have you ever been to combinebar. Will be the new triangle that still all massive hills. Shhh😂got some digs out that🎉👍
Nice one making the news with that little black nugget.
Great vid, The mine was awesome with the old rails still in place
Great adventure Chris! Great to see Mick again! Lots of interesting stuff. That original Vegemite jar was a great find and a great way to time period the mine.
Mark from Melbourne Australia
That’s sick. I went out for my first day yesterday. Absolutely failed, the creek had no water, just full of sticks and leafs, got a flat tire in the car as well. But it was fun even if I made every mistake possible. 😂
Really really cool video!! Thank you for sharing! I live in Washington State and am jealous that you have so much cool stuff to explore and prospect in your back yard! I am sooo hooked on your channel!
Cheers Chris 🍻
I’ve seen some of this footage before but it’s nice to wake up in chilly Ballarat to see a fresh upload from Vo-Gus prospecting 😂
Get some Saturday into ya 🇦🇺🍻😜
you have got to love it when mick lets himelf go and becomes a kid again.
That Vegemite lid find was the real gold in this video. Can't even think of a good parallel for the Canadian mines! Beaut
Ferny: "I can't eat that!" @ 6:12
Love these longer adventures
12:06 strap rail!
How cool, can't wait to see how much you can get
Thanks for the video Chris 👍🤓✌️
Hopefully a little bit mate
Awesome, looks so fun
it was a lot of fun
I love this mone so much work done, that strike plate is freakin awesome
Love the new videos Chris can't wait to see more mines
Great find, hope you go back soon.
It's true counter clockwise in Australia when you made the circles in your Pan. It was counter Clockwise.
Are you sure that was a wombat and not a money box full of gold? You should have poked it
😂😅 Like poking a bear 😂
@@gavinhogg6552 or lighting a fuse one a a cannon ball
2 poke max. If it's like other rules of curiosity I've heard of 3 would have been playing with it. Not a big deal but sometime not appropriate in public or on video. Great job as always bud. Keep them comming.
@@seanelliott7796 🤣 more than 3 pokes and you run the risk of it exploding
@@seanelliott7796 it's mine, so I'll wash it as fast and often as I want.
Ooo Can't what to see what you find there next WOW . SKK .
Awesome adventure and some great finds!
I'd like to see what you can find on the floor of the mine. Either with the metal detector or by sweeping it up and running it through your crusher. I can imagine them losing bits here and there. Thanks for taking us along on your journey.
That would be interesting to do. But I fear very dangerous
@@VoGusProspecting ....why dangerous??
@@ssnerd583 \Asbestos
@@VoGusProspecting .....aaaaHHHHHhhhhh...that really IS bad news....too bad for that.
I wish you well, M8!!!
it looks like a sluce box type of ground setup.
What a great new find,look forward to seeing more of that little mine,ears back tail wagging
Wow! very cool mine! Also, Cave Man Era Tip: If you forget your scoop, you can easily make one from a piece of very dry wood lying about. Just need your trusty pocketknife. What? you forgot your pocketknife? Chris!!!!
Thank you for taking us along on that adventure ... can't wait to see what those other veins pop out
thanks for having this vid out on a friday fella. also not many people understand the full danger of mines, even being at the entrance its wanting to harm the lungs 4:27, i know you had mad a vid about this alrady, but just wanted to point out a good example of how close the danger is in mines
Yeah bro, I got pretty serious about it after this day.
You need a hard hat with miners torch and feather wedges for taking samples out those mines and watch mbmm
That was fun especially when you two turned about face after seeing that wombat lol.......
I'm looking forward to more episodes from this mine.
Great channel
Awesome find with that mine and working area, too cool indeed, hopefully it gives you loads of gold 😁👍
just an idea mate ever thought to process the top dirt layer near the working faces or the veins in the mine ? just a thought
Hahah looming sacks! You means coles shopping bags 🤣
Cool video! Love that you waited for backup before heading in! You could give each dog a stick that is exactly the same as the other one and they will fight over one of them. LOL
What's yours is mine is a dog's motto
One of your best videos collectively. I'm painfully trying hardrock on my own. I endeer your effort and journey. Thanks Chris. Onya Mick.
It's a painful learning curve
Wow, there were some tasty looking veins you showed @15:50.
What’s you do with the candle ?
Yep...that notched wooden thing is definitely a rail gauge.
There's a Welsh TH-camr called Lost Mines who finds items like that quite regularly.
If you send him some measurements, he may be able to tell you the likelihood as to where the guys mining that vein may have come from in the UK...assuming of course that they were from the UK that is.
There are various gauge's of rail which were used by the different regions of the UK at different times throughout history.
Tonne fair, he has a really interesting channel and I'm sure he'd love to hear from you!
Thanks for the info. Sounds like a great channel to visit and given how many of the miners came from the UK to Australia, a very interesting resource.
Mark from Melbourne Australia
@@markfryer9880 it is a most excellent channel.
The chap(s) who present the channel even do tours of some of the mines that they explore as well.
Black pan has always worked well for me , as I am also colourblind. Pain in the ass 😂
Hope u get bags of gold Chris
I'd settle for a single bag
That's a bloody good day out 👍
I know that hill 😮 you need to see the Adit on the other side.
Jeff Williams would like exploring that mine boys
Found the one of the old adits and stope on Norton Gold Field years ago. The adit went in some 20 metres below the ridge line to intersect the ore body at right angles. They then cut the orebody out vertically to ground level by caving the roof. Ore was removed via the adit by a minimal tramline. The stope was some 100 metres long. At the top of the ridge line were some tiny holes that dropped into the stope. Was dangerous ground to walk around on.
Such a cool looking mine, you need to have a detect in there
Already did, no nugs this time.
i feel like the missed opportunity here is failing to train your dog to sniff for gold.
Gold has no smell
lol i honestly thought you guys were joking about the wombats and then you actually find one
It's not the first time finding them in there either
Looks a bit similar to one I found down the valley from Wandilligong though it was a much longer open stope and I never found an adit running into it. The one I found still had ore pillars holding the two sides appart and lots of old timbers. It would have been older than 100 years though. I have all the old survey maps for that area with a bunch of holes I found that were not on it already.
All I could think about when you looked in that first hole was “snakes”!
Great video buds! Most people nowadays would be disappointed with the end results due to short term tik tok instant gratification brains...but this is what prospecting really is! You guys look like you're having a blast! Cheers 🍻.
So what was that iridescent rock? Was it actually poison?
You could be on the motherlode 😮 I hope that the vein gets richer😅 gold lots of gold now it's your turn to chase the vein😅 and by the way that dog is so cute love seeing that dog in the videos but I hope you're onto something big that will make really good videos thank you for the video give all your friends are scratch behind your ear give your dog a bone thank you🇳🇿🇭🇲🇸🇭😌
Awesome
Bud
Thanks ✌️
The 3 sided stacked rock was probably a fireplace to roast harder rock before crushing. In the process it would also have done some conversion of Iron sulphides into Iron oxides. Iron sulphides tend to be low magnetic but the oxides can be picked up easily with a magnet. Why its always worthwhile to toast some samples and concentrates and hit them with a magnet before panning .
So frikkin cool!
Wombat at 13:30
I absolutely love your channel, just one question.. you don't sign off anymore. The video just stops. It leaves me hanging. How come it changed?
Ahhh, yes. That is actually the point. Makes you want more and increases my whatch time.
That mine is friggin amazing guys!
es algo realmente antiguo amigo
Up above the addit and below it, the vein may come back to the surface and widen out.
13:30 Your party encounters WOMBAT!
•FIGHT
•RUN
You escaped!
XP + 0
Great vid Criss however my wife says I have to stop watching your vids or at least remove the pick from the bed😂
Maybe you need a geiger counter glowing Rock could that have been uranium no whiskey lots and lots of red wine lol 💥💥
Let go get the job done
Depending on your touch, if a rock glows it could very well be uranium, not harmful at all unless you lick it or eat it.
Where
Salve salve guerreiro 💎⛏️🇧🇷
Very educational gentlemen I thought the first vegemite jars were the white ones. They were definately camping there my Grandpa and great uncle had a camp at the entrance to their mine. That candle Mick found is choice and the busted stampmill pad. Cant wait to see what comes out of that working face once you deal with that young wombat. On a side note they eat really well well so Im told. To bring in a stampmill it must have been up around an oz or two per tonne. Time to fire up the forge fire and custom make some doors to keep out the wombats.
I believe the white ones were from the 30s. Could be wrong. I've found one of those a few years back
@@VoGusProspecting The first one I saw I was about 13. My Dad told me it was from during the great depression. When my Great Grandpa had put his son in law, my Grandpa and my great Uncle onto some alluvial gold in a dry creekbed in northern SA. My Great Grandpa was good friends with a local publican and spent most of his time there while my Grandpa was blowing flour gold out of bedrock 5ft under the dry creekbed. The story goes Great Grandpa was full of advice and dissapointment that they needed to find more gold because he had already invested too much of his money. Grandpa said maybe spend more on food for us to eat instead of whiskey so my Grandpa threw the empty white vegemite jar at him and told him not to come back until it was full, that would cover his bar tab and some more food for the tuckerbox. Basically shut up and piss off. 6hrs later he came back singing some Irish ditty juggling the once empty vegemite jar in his hands which he threw infront of my Grandpa who was on his hands n knees snuffing gold dust. Great Grandpa managed to fill it with nuggets and more putting them in their place saying that will fill your tuckerbox get back to work and headed back to the pub. My Dad ended up with the empty jar and the story when he was 12 Around 1938 and gave it to me empty in 1988. Wow thats the long way to say yeah white vegemite jars are from the thirtys hahaha
I'm curious, cause I've been following for a bit now, but in your outings, how much gold do you wind up with at a year's end?, ,I know prospecting is hit or miss and some do it for fun in their off time, but do you usually wind up with a good amount?
Depends on the year, between 3 to 5 ounces usually. None of its mining, all just loking
I'm not an expert, I don't even prospect or mine. I'm interested and I'd like to, so I've versed myself in the hobby/profession. So I just want to say this. A mine is NOT like surface gold. You may not find a bit here and a bit there. In a mine you have a chance to get on some serious Gold. This is just my ammature view, I could be totally wrong but that's what I feel.
In my experience you're right. You strike out more in hard rock but when you don't it, it's usually very good!
I’m just here for the Fern clips. 😘
Haha that was very Blair Witch when you turned the camera and the light and bam, wombat! Did he not even notice you?
He was asleep luckily
I'd like to clarify my credentials I pan for gold one time when I was 10 on a family vacation and I watch some TH-cam videos I'm practically a professional but as far as the lead in the metal in the dirt couldn't you take like a sluice pan and put heavy-duty magnets on the bottom side to pull it out of the dirt I would think that would be the quickest way to get large amounts of that slag metal out of your soiled to get back to the job of metal detecting just curious
That's actually the plan, we have a 500kg magnet to take there
Oh wow, that's amazing!
I don't why I thought this was in like Arizona or Nevada when halfway through I noticed the Australian accent 😂 I'm like what the hell is a wombat! 😂
I find it interesting that when called out everything with your content changed 🤔
You mean after making 700 panning videos I made a change because with was bord AF
Hi Chris. I'm a big fan. My daughter is in the Canadian Navy and rumour has it that she will be porting in Australia. If she lands near your area, would you be able to take her out panning?
If he is where I think he is
It no where near the ocean or a port
@@rabbitrabbit1243 thank u for that info. Still waiting for his reply
Pioneer Pauly refused to take her out when she was stationed on Victoria Island
Getting down that slope is easy if not comfortable. Getting up the hill again is what I do not like.
maybe the structure was a cabin
Yes!!!!