Bring back the ‘Start with Nothing’ series (a water bottle and bowl and buy better equipment with the gold you get, working your way up to a sluice box w/petrol pump. I enjoyed the 1st and only episode you did.

@reallife7375

2 ай бұрын

Yes do this!!

@joshuajackson6442

2 ай бұрын

Amen! That series was amazing, however I would rather you protect your health so we can enjoy your content longer. Please, take care of yourself

Ive used a plastic christmas sweet box, that worked quite well although its only got one riffle as such and theyre a bit fragile If you had a bit of carpet and a plastic rubble bag or dog food bag to go underneath that would catch any fines that went through This is a great little how to start from nothing video...certainly got me thinking

Liked, shared and commented. I found my first gold with no investment. Now I have invested about $50. But I’ve found many times that value in gold. I’m poor n can’t spent much. But this hobby costs very little. And it’s easy to make a profit if u do t spend much to begin with 🤴🏻🍻🗽

I appreciate your knowledge and especially your honesty, you have excelled in teaching myself and a lot of people how to not just find gold but how to appreciate the time in the outdoors to relax /chill and enjoy life. Respect Gippy

Absolutely! If you have little money (or are just a cheap bastard like me) you can make prospecting equipment out of just about anything! Dumpsters, dumps, things folks put out for rubbish pickup, yard sales, etc. are all good sources.

Great points. I’d add that the difference between then and now it that most the easy gold’s been found. A modern prospector’s toolkit is an attempt to handle increasingly worked over deposits. The obvious example is detectorists who often upgrade the machines/coils. Add increasing regulations and decreasing areas that aren’t off limits, it’s understandable why prospectors are looking for an edge. Still, I get what you’re saying. Reminds me of a book, “Bacon and Beans from a Gold Pan.” About a couple who lost everything during the Great Depression and moved up to the Sierra foothills to eke out a living with a pick and shovel.

I totally agree My first sluice was made out of a metal 6” framing stud and an 18 wheeler mud flap with v riffles on one side I cut down to fit inside the metal stud that I found in a construction dumpster…it didn’t cost me a penny and it catches 98% of the flour gold I put into it sure I’ve purchased a few fancy expensive sluices since then but I still like my homemade one better than those go figure lol. Thanks for sharing see you on the next one👍🏼👊🏼

That episode was so inspiring I’m wanting to go down to a creek less than a mile from me. And we don’t have any gold in this area. 😂

Dollar stores are a GREAT place to find things for classifying.

You forget that the ancients were able to pick up the elemental gold by fingers and there was a bunch of it naturally concentrated in selected areas near where they lived. Most of that resource has been already picked up. We now have to used different methods to get far less gold and far more time to do it.

well now i wanna see you use all those things! would also like to see you make a home made dry washer to go with the other diy gear you've built

The buckets can also be used as a drum set with your bowl symbols lol if the gold doesn’t show up, go panhandle for change with your bucket drums

Well, let's see! Now that we have the Container Deposit Scheme in Victoria, you can go around and collect empty softdrink cans and plastic bottles that have the 10 cent symbol. While you are collecting your bags of containers you will probably find a bucket or two to help you with your quest. A couple of years ago Chris even made a simple little ripple sluice using a plastic water bottle. Depending on what you have available you can join several water bottles together to make a longer and wider sluice. Cashing in your containers will give you a small amount of cash to buy a small shovel and possibly a classifier. It would depend upon what was available at your local hardware store. Don't forget to buy a loaf of bread 🥪 and some spread as you are going to need energy to prospect for your gold. Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺 PS Chris how do I get in touch:with you privately?

One thing you DO need is a place that HAS gold - enough to separate with what ever tools you're using. At Sutter's Mill you could just pick up exposed chunks in the stream. Play sand? probably has some. My back yard doesn't have enough to see/separate though there probably IS some. After all sea water has SOME (and probably sea salt has some, too) - just not very much.

Oh man you have no idea what a disastrous shed looks like

@whosaidthat5236

2 ай бұрын

lol I know right! I can see the floor so to me that’s a well cleaned shed

@MickH60

2 ай бұрын

I'm hearing you Trev !!!!!

The M1 Princess Freeway Geelong to Melbourne or vise versa is a gold mine for Burnings Buckets.. Gyprock buckets .. Dulux paint Buckets & cheap supermarket buckets sometimes you'll even see the odd mop bucket

It has been my driving force to make alot of my own gear. Yes , I have bought mats , bunnings moss, dream mat, etc . But essentially boxes , sluices, trommel. I just like making stuff. I've made sluices out of rubbish, builders waste. I look at stuff and can see an alternative use. Great content as per usual, thought provoking. ❤it 😊

Hi Chris, you are spot on with this story. I was very priveleged to visit the old Panguna Mine site in Bougainville. There are guys up there who have made a miller table from a sheet of plywood and a garden hose that they kink to regulate water flow. Maybe the lesson is to not go into debt for gold?

Gold/Fry pan works for me cheers Chris

Tarp sluice, shovel and pan🎉

Cheers from Canada.. thats a well organized mess. 🙄

I still remember the story about the old timer that found ounces and ounces with nothing more than a pannikin ( coffee mug)😂 it's the ground more than anything if you know what your doing

I think I luv you , sometimes we over think everything ,,, sometimes simple is better

SIR! A disaster??? You can walk around and nothing in there actively wants to hurt you. It's at worst, cluttered.

@TheBrubaker2

2 ай бұрын

Cluttered? I reckon its that neat that Chris might have an ocd issue.

Sometimes, I just paint rocks yellow. It's the same

Same applies to home-brewing beer. You don't need to spend thousands, or even hundreds, on shiny stainless steel gear. You can make a kit yourself from other people's left-over junk basically for free.

A wok works really well. Or a frying pan.

I have used a frisbee.

Well said bud 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚒️

Step one,carve skull pan Aztec style,step two steal some fence wire,step three bring far to many tools to the creek anyway

Thank you

Thanks!

@SpudEngineering

2 ай бұрын

Welcome! Thank you!

I like your garage door.

I didn't see you using those metal pans anymore from which you obtained a lot of gold; even at first glance it seemed to be more than you obtained from the plastic pans.

The original gold mat/sluice mat, sheep skin. From sciencenews article "Golden Fleece myth was based on real events, geologists contend" November 25, 2014 "Mountain streams in the Svaneti region of Georgia carry bits of gold and gold-specked gravel that erode out of bordering rock formations, say geologist Avtandil Okrostsvaridze of Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia, and his colleagues. Local villagers put sheepskins in these streams to catch floating gold, a technique that goes back thousands of years - suggesting that the region is the province of the ancient Colchis Kingdom." "Present-day miners place entire sheepskins in streambeds within 100 to 500 meters of gold deposits, Okrostsvaridze says. Rocks and ropes hold down each sheepskin. Pieces of gold erode out of rocky deposits, wash downstream and get trapped in the animals’ coats"

@RICDirector

2 ай бұрын

The only priblem with that tbeory is that sheeps wool is loaded with oil...grease, actually...called lanolin. Witbout modern detergents very hard to remove enough to allow gold to be caught, Id think.... Signed, spinner/fibre fan

Yeah but the toys are fun. A good spade shovel pan bucket and classifier. Drop riffle sluice if water permits. Less than 100 bucks

Respect

G’day, mate, from the USA. I really enjoy your videos and great knowledge of gold prospecting. Where did you find that round, nearly flat, gold pan with concentric rings? It looks similar to, but smaller than the Super Champ Competition pans made by Ken Karlsson in Sweden.

Some engineering genius, should make a shovel/pan hybrid. So you can scoop and classify each scoop.

@RICDirector

2 ай бұрын

Pioneer Paulys SCHLOOVEL!

Just get a good pan and shovel. I started with a sluice and it hurt my self education.

I’ve hand panned before. It’s possible, but so slow.

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imagine mining a beard made of pure gold

^5!

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Thru the years, humans have used the most modern tools of their times. We just have more stuff now.

Sausepan Lid

Winnowing I've done here in the dry desert 🏜 Chris, in a pinch