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Mates and Gold
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'Mates & Gold' is an Outback Adventure channel based in the goldfields of Western Australia.
Matt and Cam have been professional gold prospectors for over 35 years. In thier quest they enjoy the magic of Australia's vast wilderness, the wildlife, the starry, meteor-streaked night skies, chat around the flickering campfire and above all finding gold!
Matt and Cam have been professional gold prospectors for over 35 years. In thier quest they enjoy the magic of Australia's vast wilderness, the wildlife, the starry, meteor-streaked night skies, chat around the flickering campfire and above all finding gold!
Mates and Gold - Searching for small gold using the Garrett ATX with large coil
Testing the Garrett ATX in 2013
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Відео
Mates and Gold - Finding Nuggets 2019
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The Mates and Gold team go on a hunt for elusive Outback nuggets. And guess what? - the literally strike gold, lots of it. Sit back, enjoy and don't get too envious. Many seek and don't find. Those who do often go for months without any success.
Mates and Gold - Outback snippets
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A few short video clips taken whilst gold prospecting in the remote outback of Western Australia. Featuring gold prospecting legends and good mates Matt, Cam, Stevo, Tim (USA) and Chris (UK).
Mates and Gold in Scotland - panning in Sutherland
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Matt and Cam find gold in a Highland burn near the small town of Helmsdale.
Camp Life in the Western Australian Outback (re-mix)
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Mates and Gold - Matt, Cam, Stevo, Tim and Chris show that they can live well in the bush. All cooking is done on an open fire using dry wood collected in the surrounding bush. Evenings are spent around the campfire enjoying a few tinnies and food preparation is part of the evening ritual. It's a good but simple life where the guys can share stories and have a laugh. The days are spent detectin...
Aussie Video Trial for possible TV series
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Video test of Matt and Cam for possible TV series..... which we declined because the TC company wanted to run to a pre-determined storyline. Far better to film and just let things happen without a script and contrived, implausible events.
Mates and Gold - Detecting Western Australia Part 2
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Part 2 of a trip we made in 2019. The video has been on hold for security reasons! Enjoy. Filmed and edited by Tim Glidewell
Mates and Gold - Detecting Western Australia Part 1
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Part 1 of a trip we made in 2019. The video has been on hold for security reasons! Enjoy. Filmed and edited by Tim Glidewell
Steveo's spot near Cue in Western Australia
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The Mates and Gold Team is joined by Stevo, a very experienced outback prospector, as they search for a long-lost area of gold nugget patches. (Advisory - contains technical mining expressions - aka 'swearing') A short video by Tim 'Timbo' Glidewell.
Gold extraction using an improvised cement mixer as a ball mill.
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Mates & Gold show how to process paydirt and reef gold in a home-made ball mill.
Fine Gold Recovery using ball-mill, gold spiral, amalgam and mercury retort
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We normally hunt for nuggets but there are times when we find gold in matrix and even gold nuggets containing matrix. The gold needs to be separated from this matrix. This video shows how we process the material using an improvised ball-mill (cement mixer), mercury, a gold spiral and finally a mercury retort/condenser.
Outback Travel - getting to where the gold is....then all you have to do is find it!
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You cannot catch a bus or a train into the remote outback but need reliable 4x4 transport. This short video describes what you might expect on a 4x4 trip to the middle of woop-woop.
Smelting a pile of big nuggets to make a half kilo ingot of gold
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After our last detecting trip we needed to settle some bills and do a split. So we melted some really nice nuggets. A pity as they usually sell for a premium.
Outback cooking with Mates & Gold
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We spend a lot of time away from home deep in the outback of Western Australia. Apart from finding lots of nice gold nuggets, we enjoy eating well. All of our cooking is done on an open fire and in this short video we give you a taste of how we prepare food.
Mates and Gold - Trailer for new videos in 2020
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Matt and Cam are back on the hunt for gold nuggets deep in the Outback of Western Australia. This short video is a taste for what is to come and was filmed on location by our prospecting cameraman Tim Glidewell in 2019. The Mates and Gold team have take a break for the last few months. We have been in discussions with a couple of TV film companies about proposed documentary series but we find m...
Trip to the Pilbara - First stop "Paynes Find"
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Trip to the Pilbara - First stop "Paynes Find"
Gold mine in Western Australia - Wet Production plant
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Gold mine in Western Australia - Wet Production plant
Matt finds gold near Sandstone. Drone filming
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Matt finds gold near Sandstone. Drone filming
Mates & Gold in the remote outback. A taste of what we do, where we go
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Mates & Gold in the remote outback. A taste of what we do, where we go
Prospector's 1,100 ounce loss (AU$2 million)
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Prospector's 1,100 ounce loss (AU$2 million)
Mates and Gold attend the Royal Braemar Highland Gathering 2015
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Mates and Gold attend the Royal Braemar Highland Gathering 2015
Scottish Tour 2015 - Beeping for gold and coins
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Scottish Tour 2015 - Beeping for gold and coins
Impressive gold nuggets from Western Australia
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Impressive gold nuggets from Western Australia
In search of the lost Wild Stallion goldfield - Episode 3 (Version 2)
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In search of the lost Wild Stallion goldfield - Episode 3 (Version 2)
In search of the lost Wild Stallion goldfield - Episode 3
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In search of the lost Wild Stallion goldfield - Episode 3
In search of the lost Wild Stallion goldfield - Episode 2
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In search of the lost Wild Stallion goldfield - Episode 2
Good job. I have also worked with Hg a lot, but I hedge my bets by simply wearing a pair of good rubber gloves.
IL be looking for dave if i get up there great video
Very interesting I actually learn something good thanks for that!
The ATX is a very heavy machine!
Loved it
Hey mate, is the ATX still worth buying you reckon? I’ve got my heart set in one
Looks like a barramundi
Can you go closer so we can see it properly please :-) great find and well done:-) .
Nice work fellas, gets the itch going again.
G'Day Matt, Thanks for sharing your prospecting adventures Matt and good to see you back on UA-cam👍 It would be cool if you could go back and find the "Wild Stallion Gold" We are still waiting for episode 4. Cheers Kev P.S Hey just finished watching the video, WOW that patch is amazing. Have you got any more video's on the big nugs Matt?
Good friends out in the bush! Dosen't get much better than that❤
Made my day & I'm over the moon seeing you all out having fun! Thank you for sharing this! I miss being out exploring with you.
Thanks Joy, We still have many hours of videos and will try to edit up some more soon. X
Id love to join yas some day
For various reasons, it's been sometime since we were out in the goldfields. No recent videos but I have plenty of unpublished video, so might put some new online soon.
Bad news for this process!
I really had to do the demographics on this adventure. I signed up on tengraph. Hoping to do some study for the dangerous trip in the outback. Western Australia in comparison to the United States. WA has 2.7 million inhabitants and is 3.5 times the size of the US state Texas, in comparison Texas has 30 million inhabitants and looks like a barren no man's land. So I honestly don't think the odds are against you if you can survive the WA.
ah these are the guys with no fear of mercury.
no ppe, no breathing gear so as not to breathe in the mercury, extracting mercury by hand is not wise.
Classic! Love it
thanx for sharing this.
It always amazes me how many shotty pellets you guys find out there.. in all my days I am still to come across my second .22 or even my first lump of shot.. Seems there could be a market in scrap lead at that rate, HAHA! love that plant!
Interesting but I'd have liked to seen abit more of the process and the who/what/where/whys you know? And.... some of the pretty yellow results? :)) I mean I'm just curious like if you're like crushing hardrock ore in it to pan or whatever later? Or when you say "paydirt" you mean you're putting actual dirt and gravels in it that you got crevicing or dredging or whatever (or concentrates?) through it to "process" like as one would in a highbanker somehow? That's kinda the part that's got me confused haha. And you say to wash out the mercury? You mean you're putting mercury in the "ball mill" with the paydirt/ore? 😐 If so, why? And isn't that dangerous? Or its to help pull out the superfine gold from crushed ore and help separate it from sulphides etc? Or just from paydirt? (Or idk maybe you got a bunch of paydirt from a creek or something that had gold already covered in mercury in it?) Anyway Interesting idea bro, but as you can see think I got more questions than answers lol. 😄
Many thanks for your comments and questions. Unfortunately I don't have time to write a book today but will try to point you in the right direction for answers to your many questions.
Great process but SOOO toxic!! You literally carved days of your lifespan doing this
Bloody awesome.
Love your content. Coolest channel on UA-cam.
yyyy mercury is quite toxic
Greate
Should be wearing rubber gloves.dispossible.
Yeh, you made me think I gotta start working smarter not harder lol. Great video guys !
There is still gold in the mercury pool after filtering. It only resists filtering when the gold level is above a certain concentration
hellp everyone nice nugget.. can i join u find the gold
Awesome slugs, well done fellas
Mantap 👍
Crown land?
If you would like information on Vacant Crown Land, the best place to check is: www.dmp.wa.gov.au/Minerals/Where-you-can-go-prospecting-2426.aspx
My pal klondike dave, 👍😁
Super effort boys , well done .
Gooday campers. Good to see your ripping through the gold and like true Aussie champions your taking all those pesky metallic targets with you as well. I've nearly broken my back clearing every bit that I find from dickheads leaving all for the next Aussie to find not to mention tripping over those unfilled holes. Great to see fellas. Your a legend! 🇭🇲🤗
G'day Robbie. Thanks for your comments. Leaving holes is simply lazy, ignorant and bad etiquette. It is also indicates an area that's worth scanning again because the lazy and ignorant are usually people who also don't have the skill or thoroughness to find all of the elusive nuggets!
@@matesandgold5712 Thanks heaps for your reply AND you ought to be a psychologist! You've changed my thinking of those naughty prospectors I mentioned from annoyance to almost feeling sorry for them 😁 Almost! Thanks fellow diggers, maybe our paths will cross one day before they put us away. Cya! 🇭🇲🤗
Penis lol great to see your mate ship , off on a paid tour in lenora in a couple of months to see if I’m a future prospect tor ....Skip
Those were chunks! Small boulders
Well done boys. A paying holiday, what a way to go.
is it like some real dumb aussie rule you have to wear the hi vis because your a miner, i realy do think your politicians are wacked out which is why i get the feeling it is
Good question. Have you ever spent time in the outback? Probably not. The main reason is for visibility/safety. The outback is vast and it is easy to get lost. Finding someone is a lot easier if they contrast against the red dirt.
You know how to make the good tucker :D
Being out in the bush means living without home comforts. Food is an important part of the daily ritual. It is quite amazing what can be cooked on an open camp fire.
Hey , can I move to Australia , and become a citizen? The US is Bullshit
Australia is not an easy place to migrate to unless you have the required skills to get onto the immigration priority list. Like everywhere, it has its plusses and minuses. Generally good climate, high standard of living and an excellent lifestyle. The people are nice and unlike the United Mistakes of America, they don't kill each other with guns.
That’s me soon hopefully, top job lads
You guys are the best.old machines but a life time of knowledge great combo.Hope to see more videos Cheers Greg
Thanks WD Greg. One factor you omitted is time - many believe that you can spend a few hours beeping in the outback and find a fortune. Unfortunately, it does not work like that. Unless you are jammy lucky, you have to put in the long, hard hours in the heat and flies. Even that may not guarantee success. As they say, the harder you work, the luckier you get! We have lots more videos to come.
when your trying to hide tracks......don't swipe swipe...... dab dab...old bush trick.
ditch da stupid noys
Exercise your right not to listen - as you evidently did during your brief time in school.
Good spot that. Pulled a few ounces there meself.😉👍
Was enjoying you video mate until you threw the wire back in the hole for someone else to find ya wanka!
Hello, I have a new technological invention, which is to process tons of stones that have been crushed and extract gold from them in less than half an hour. This invention will increase the number of gold mining companies. I hope for help in obtaining a patent certificate from Australia or America,
Barefoot monkey in the shoot!! Ha! Is that bread burnt enough? Ha! Where is your scoop - fingers? Love the Video!