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Cinnibar hut could use some more candles if anyone is going in the near future.

Fair dinkum enjoyed this luke thanks mate

Great video mate

Interesting. In New Zealand gold was a big thing back in the day. I got shown how to do it but always got confused between real gold and ‘fools gold’ . Your videos are awesome. Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas 🇦🇺 🇳🇿

Are them tanks filled from a borehole

I love these videos but . The following !!! YOU PUT UR SELF DANGER . GREEN GRASS BEHIND YOU AND NO SNOW WIND BREAKERS FROM SMALL TREES THAT WILL NOT FALL DOWN COMING FROM A TREE SURGEON AND ALSO JUST BUILDING FIRE ON EDGE OF SNOW YOU MADE LIFE SO HARD FOR URSELF BUT CHOSE TO CUT WOOD THAT DIDN'T NEED CUTTING TAKE AWAY THE FIRE TREES GREEN GRASS NO SNOW WOULD SAVE YOU ❤

I miss the days I spent in rhe bush when I was young, but I am disabled now and can't go bush anymore, so I love videos like yours, they are the only means left to me that allows me to explore the bush and other places all over the world.

Where did you get the water

Chinese merchants were out there too. Helped with food supplies.

Very Curious. What nationality is your wife? I am guessing dark Indian. I don't mean to be offending. But red heads EDIT: "Don't" seem to overtake the darker skinned with kids. My mother is red haired. and out of the 6 kids, only one sister got the red hair. 1 our of 6 for us Aussies. If this is a bad comment I apologuise. I am just curious. When I was born I had blond hair and then it went to brown. I am a triplet. My sisters are all older than me. 10, 9, 5 years older.

Watching on from a cold, miserable winters day here in the UK. Am I envious? Absolutely 😂

Looks like a great spot Where is it

Very Nice video. Greatly enjoyed Thank you. Have a merry Christmas and prosperous times ahead.

an excellent adventure Luke! spent many a day out on the rivers with my father doing exactly what you were doing here. for a boy those trips were golden, nothing better imo. while it’s been ages since I was out prospecting with my father I’d like to offer a few tips if I may: less gravel per pan at the start (a quarter to a third of a pan full), more swirling during the initial wash (getting rid of the big stuff), and gently gently at the final stages - lots of swirling and slowly refining down to black sand and your fines. oh, last thing, the “cradles” you saw in the old pictures are called “sluices”, rhymes with “juices”. “leave no trace” is fine panning etiquette btw, good on you. 👍🏼✌🏼🖖🏼

Good to see you sharing with your young fella. You need to 'blacken' that tin dish by placing it face down on your fire for a bit. Try not to camp in the bottom of a creek, I have seen a Toyota Hi-Lux get picked up and rolled due to a flash flood coming down from distant rainfall. Be Safe

I know it’s easier said than done mate, but don’t focus up on the very very few in the minority making negative comments. Focus on all of us here who do love what you do, are eager for more and wish you truly nothing but the best and hope you succeed cause these videos truly are something special! There’s always gonna be hateful people with hate filled loves who spew nothing but hate. Ignore em lad. Let em be miserable by themselves. There’s plenty of us around the fire with ya. Keep it up Luke. You’re a Fkn legend mate.

Great video mate! On the prospecting side, filling your holes is perfect prospecting etiquette...well done, on finding gold, digging where you did was spot on, but as the saying goes... ' gold is where you find it ' , obvious spots increase your chances, lastly.... Go a bit easier on the volume of water washing your dirt, especially in that old school pan. Cheers

That roo stew brought back memories of cooking that in grade 5 when we were learning about the gold rush.

Done well legend. Taking your young one out wilth you makes it a much greater adventure .much enjoyed.

Much braver man than i, especially being in vic with all the RBB's and tiger snakes around lmao

Awesome episode mate 👌

Snakes are protected Aust wide. I still hear people kill them. Sad....

Certainly a tough life. I've read a bit about the mining up here in North Queensland and it was brutal especially on the Palmerstone. A good book is "River of Gold" by Hector Holthouse. Certainly different country down there. It's great that Ethan enjoys going out with you. He looks like he sucks up your knowledge.

Thanks for the uploads it’s always nice watching the videos brings some peace after a long day

Ahh cherish the moments they grow to fast, Nice to see a color in the pan.

Great stuff mate. If you come up to NSW, Hill End is well worth a visit, so much gold mining history there, such beautiful and interesting place to visit.

Great history Luke, I never knew about Hargraves and Orange I live near orange and there is town in this region named "Hargraves" the Cadia east underground mine in orange is among the largest in Australia. Thanks, mate!

Loved it again , mate you are doing brilliant work. Merry Christmas to you and yours and look forward to more in 25

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You want to walk in history. Google maps, Rushworth, nine mile track, you see stumpy dam label. You see two tracks together. Head towards the doctors dam. Stop a look. You see diggings, puddlers, mines, quartz like snow where a battery was. Find gully runs, the dig and pan in dam. It was the whitehill mining company. You see on geovic.

Very wholesome seeing you out with your son having a boys trip, great stuff.

Tap, tap your pan. Snuffer. Find in $2.00 shops, sauce bottle, and aluminium straw. Look for big rocks in a row. Then move and dig. Normally, they reduce down and put cons in a bucket. Then, use a smaller pan.

Great video. Can’t wait to see more.

Legendary

I prospect and I would dig where you dug

roast on coals only, and rabbit makes a great stew, all his chicks, the male Emu nurtures the young, mum buggers off, glad ya found your knife

Really nice video, out camping on the river with Dad. Of course, the all important question came up ... what's for dinner?

Love it ❤another ripper

Wow. What amazing scenery. Do you mind sharing what river you were camping on? Going to get the kids out on some day hikes this year

Love these videos mate, I'm in the south west of WA and I'm hoping to go out and do some old school camping just like you do. Its interesting to think how incredible and hard it would have been for the bush rangers all those years ago.

Thanks again for a great vid. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Make sure you keep the channel busy in 2025 with your exceptional content!

That’s as good or better than we do sometimes up here in Alaska. Just keep going and adding flakes to your bottle! Good job Mate!

Awesome video-thanks luke- scraping the sediment from between cracks and crevices in bedrock might help you get more gold. Digging down to the surface of a clay layer also helps. Putting the gold pan on an open fire to blacken it also helps the gold to stand out in the pan, called bluing the pan, something the oldtimers always did with new pans to remove protective oil coating or to just darken the metal. Any gold history videos would be great - some of those tiny valleys and rivers were hit by gigantic 3 story dredges, also used hydraulic sluicing and tunnels to bypass river bends. Modern prospectors today always find evidence of oldtimers getting most of the gold. They were amazing at what they did. Keep up the great work - prospectors always fill in their holes - regards

It certainly was a tough life back then. Like you said it’s tough for us now but back then, wow they were resilient powerful people.

#Vo-gus prospecting help a fellow ruben out. Your boy does your fire when your out. You can tell and he does it the same. Mam taught him well.

Another great video mate! Great to see Ethan tagging along! There really is so much to learn when prospecting. It would have taken those old diggers a while to work out the tricks of the trade. If i dont see you. I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year and i hope to catch up with you soon brother.

Oh I also forgot this top , never camp in a creek bed. Fash floods can happen very quickly. Even if it is not raining where you are, rain or a cloud burst thunder storm up stream many miles away can really wreck your day

The term "diggers" would have carried over to the ANZACs from the miners because the diggers who built the mines under the enemy lines and those who maned the listening shafts in the trenches of WW1 had mining backgrounds. Even though any & all soldiers dug the trenches basically any soldier who played a major part in digging the trenches, tunnel systems & mines were recruited to do those jobs because of their background in mining & Earth moving, far cry from todays army where they really don't care about your previous background and they train you up in what ever job is available, that been said there are still a few jobs in the ADF that require existing civilian qualifications before joining but when there's a war on and they need bodies and don't have the time to train new people up they will put you in the same job you did in civi life.

Excellent mate ,good to see you take the young fella on an adventure Merry Christmas

I enjoyed that one Luke, not something I am familiar with but loved the history. Went fossilising just the once with the brother of the guy who taught me sea fishing in the Pilbara and let’s just say I was about as good at one as I was the other and thank god my livelihood did not depend on either.