I agree. I worked in heavy industry for over 30 years. And I haven't seen anything that can't be moved with the right size portable hydraulic jacks. When you properly rig a 100 ton hydraulic jack against a movable object--something is going to give. It's simple leverage at work.
Wow! That's awesome! Nothing but flower gold by me here in Colorado. Took the kiddo out and we moved some old flood plain rocks and had some success. Nothing close to this!!! Great find!
Chris thanks, that’s great you get the kiddo onto gold, flour gold is fun too, sometimes more rewarding because at least you get some gold in every pan 🙂
@@ANDYTHRAXX all these gold mining vids give me the get up and go feeling to start mining myself . I have about 40 yrs experience in quarrying BUT, I'm from England . We don't have any thing like you guys here regarding gold dredging but we do have metal detecting and sometimes that gets boring when you have found Roman, medieval coins and artifacts for 40 and a bit years . This is the first vid I've seen about you and I'll def be watching more . Good luck with your prospecting and good day sir . Regards from England 🏴👍
How about cutting a score line across the middle of that bolder. Then drilling bore holes and then using feathers and wedges to split that bolder in half. I would think it would be easier to move half of that rock than the hole.
Micro blasters would of made the job a lot easier.if you don't know what they are Dan hurd has a few videos of using them to split big rocks to move them easier.
What area of BC are you working? Just so I have an idea.. I'm new to placer mining and just picked up a claim north of cranbrook, and one south of cranbrook near Moyie Lake. Haven't been there yet, but it would be nice to know if you're not too far from there and maybe I can expect to see some nuggets..? Would be nice
Your doing a great job! Not many people appreciate the effort it takes to mine any mineral, and a bloody damn good effort to tip that huge rock out of the way with a 4 ton excavator, to keep all the ‘greenies’ happy show what a good job you do of reinstating, cheers T
Just subscribed yesterday and love your channel bud! You remind me of a cross between Les Stroud and Winston Rothchild from Red Green 😂. I mean that as a compliment, from the Canada of the States….Minnesota 😊 Prospecting here is tough, but it’s around. Take care. Nice nugget too!
That’s a magnificent looking nug , congrats is due !! Many of us go a lifetime hunting one piece like that and it doesn’t come , well done Andy and Brian !!
1:57 I think it is not empty, as there is a cross mark on the rock. Does it have a historical history? I think the ratio has 2 burials. Because there is water there is probably a living area. The signs on it are not like the supply ...
An actual gold miner mining gold, what has youtube come to!! lol Nice to see a real operation showing real finds, this channel will do well keep it up!
I just came across your stuff today I think your awesome! I hope you've invested in some metal detectors since this video is 2 years old it looked like you missed some gold! Best wishes I'll be here watching and hoping for the best for you, it's fun to live out your dreams through someone when it's just not possible to do it yourself, so thank you it's a Beautiful scenery always. Thanks
HuasoPodrido Hi thanks so much for watching,🙂 good question, yes we go the extra mile putting it back together. I take it so seriously that my very first video shows that process, called “Andy’s reclamation”
GOOD DAY MATE! IN 1979 WE FOUND A 5.5 OUNCE NUGGET IN SNOWS QUARRY, ELDORADO CO. CA IT WAS ROUNDISH, PITED,AND O SO INCREDIBLE. CRUSHING CEMENTED GRAVEL, AT DEEB BLUE LEED, SEEN A LOT OF FULL MASON JARS,WHILE WORKING THERE.
Had to comment. First you should have pinned the thumb up out of the way. How to pry with bucket, get teeth started under rock, then curl bucket in and stick out and boom down all at the same time. Doing it like this you will not even lift the ass of the machine off the ground. If you still need more pry power place a rock or log chunk behind the big rock and then place bucket between the two. The small rock or log chunk will act as a pivot point or fulcrum for your bucket, use same bucket curl, stick out, boom down. You will find this technic very useful. Good luck from a 45 year equipment operator. Nice find.
Do you do restoration? I see many shows where the ground gets chewed up and the crew simply walks away when done. Like most mine operations. But I hint that is wrong.
Yes absolutely we do, reclamation is such an important part of the mining process to us, the mine plan from start to finish incorporates this, and it’s so neat to see it all come back and how quickly It does. I have a video called Andy’s Reclamation, that shows how we store the soil and organics safely for final redistribution, along with refilling and contouring the land to the original shape. I’m documenting the regrowth as we speak, stay tuned 😀 thanks for the question.
In a situation like this, place smaller boulders on top at the back so when you move it a bit they will fall down behind and hold the large one in place. This will eventually allow the larger boulder to topple over. Cheers
I've recently watched a few videos on a Lewis chainsaw winch. They look and seem like they work fantastically! Just need some cable,chains,chain locks and such. Looks inexpensive too!
Missed the adventure this morning, went to work, and now some gold time...let's GO 🍻 Sure bending those 2 points lol. A rope, around the bolder, a come-a-long, and a pully system, and use the mini as a anchor
It really does look like nothing compared to Aussie gold, what do ya do lol. We’re in Canada so $150.00 US dollars is like enough to live for a year here😜
Interesting ppe, I can't see why the manufacturer thought adding camo was a great idea!since it's supposedto be highly visible! I curious about the extra arm attachment, I think ive seen one used it can turn sideways,would I be correct?
Dan Hurd has some explosives he uses to split rocks - drills a hole and puts a cap in preformed, self contained charge and fires it electrically. Scan his videos?
Hey 🙂 thank you for the question, technically placer mining is the least environmentally impacting of the different mining types, we don’t use chemicals or blast mountains apart which changes the earth forever. We really try to disturb as little area as possible, one thing we do is work only where logging has happened before, this particular forest has actually been logged 3 times already in the past, my personal commitment is to have these sites reclaimed to exactly as it was and I will show this in future videos🙂 Check out my very first video titled “Andy’s Reclamation” I’m so proud of this, it was actually the first video I was proud enough to share, it ultimately inspired the channel. I was going to name the channel “Calm Passionate Miner” because I love nature and animals so much, the least I could do was pledge to do better than others environmentally speaking. I very much admire your passion and concern 🙂
@@ANDYTHRAXX Hey bud - thanks for taking the time to reply. I'm really glad to hear that you're not just leaving the site all torn up. I'm all for enjoying the natural resources - and even the bounty it provides. As a fisherman, I often see people leave their sh*t all over the place - trashing it up. Just makes the experience less enjoyable. I will def check out the video you highlighted, and I commend you for making efforts to improve the area. As you mentioned, if you show the reclamation process in the video outtake, it would ease a lot of tree-huggers like me. BTW - you're so right about chemical usage...and I'm glad you haven't gone that route. Thank you.
damn Im out in the prairies i could only dream to go and find gold like that here. I gotta find a job working for you guys out there! looks beautiful !
Next time instead of slowly scratching away at a big rock, get some decent metal like crow bars or some long high tensile steel poles and lever it out I could move that sucker by hand with the right tools
That is so true, I have learned such an incredible amount doing this project it’s opened more doors in my life than I ever could have imagined. 🙂 I love the saying “seize the day”
Damm straight,...keep working buddy..good job! I found a spot, a lucky spot in the redwood forest on this hill.i managed to dig out about 100 pounds of natural or "native" placer platinum nuggets! They all ranged from about 1 to 6 ounces in weight .Also around the spot where I dug, I also pulled out Lava rock....which made sense considering I had heard about platinum and it's geography. Platinum is deep in the Earth's crust, when a volcano erupts it pushes the platinum, which is in a hot liquid form, to the top of the earth . When the platinum hits the top and the air, it cools and hardens. Didn't mean to give you a platinum. 101 schooling ,just was a special thing to me to find all of that, so I thought I'd share it with you. You seem like you could appreciate my story. congratulations on your finds and good luck in the future!
Want to know how we deal with big boulders like that We drill them full of holes about 3/4 way through, fill them with cracking powder and come back the next morning and they are laying there in pieces.
@@ANDYTHRAXX are you in CANADA? I wonder if you're country has any laws against against hobbyists pyrotechnics for personal use? I doubt them micro blasters are gonna do anything to that boulder you were working on lol. What type of rock was that? Granite?
shane stamball yes we’re in BC Canada, I honestly thought the micro might not do it as well, we tried on other boulder roughly that size and they would juts absorb the charge, even with a double charge. This was a granite boulder , which are a bit softer than these hard blue boulders we have. I’ll look into the permitting, I think the only concern would be fire where we are. 😜
@@ANDYTHRAXX ANFO is a low energy option low fire risk,but you would need initiator which really ain't fire friendly. Although a pyrotechnic flash mix would Probably suit ur needs much better, they are potent made on site in very small quantities. And shock n friction sensitive. Depending upon your laws. It is a very cheap n effective method used in small mining operations everywhere. A well placed 1 shot 6 gram charge placed within large boulders is always a fun science project lol. And a hell of a fun way to split fire wood
The question is, how much material did you move to get access to that boulder contained gold and are you going to process it? It's a mystery finding gold.
Such a great video guys👍🏻. It was pure entertainment. I am glad that this giant stone did not tear the excavator into individual parts. Very nice to see your joy in this wonderful find. The hard work was worth it. I look forward to more videos from you. Best greetings from Switzerland✌🏻
Down here in NE Vermont I am using an little device I learned about via one of Dan Hurd's videos. It's called a Micro Blaster. Dan has some great videos of the effectiveness of the wee beast. Knowing well how many traps are on the internet I will not presume to post any links. Thanks for some great videos...My wife has other not quite so polite words describing them. Colorful though...
wow all that work and equipment expense for 5 g. The way he was advertising this vid i was thinking he found one the size of a golf ball or something. ive seen some guys pull 15g out of the river on a days work just scraping and picking . oh well looks fun regardless
Macky1101 thank you for your comment, I appreciate your concern, we really do take restoring the earth back to new again very seriously, within a very short period of time this small area of designated resource land will be replanted and it’s regrowth managed until maturity.🙂
You realise that the device you used to post the comment has gold in it that guys like these get by similar if not more destructive methods? Stop using it and people will stop getting it....
江城银 hi there🙂, I appreciate your concern, we’re being very methodical to disturb as little ground as possible, and I assure you immediately replanting it back to new again.
That little Hitachi digger reminds me of my Fox Terrier Clyde when i was kid, nothing could make him give up what he set his mind to : D Really fun video thanks!
Earned a new sub 🎉 👍 Here in western South Dakota in the Black Hills mountains ive been working the upper benches of ancient tertiaries and man its similar. I tried panning and sluicing in the creek bed itself and had very poor results. Id find gold occasionally but it was miniscule. Since i got wise and woke up one day and realized I was digging the wrong spot things are only getting better. I brong home gold every time I'm out there. When you hold your first $200 gold nugget in your hands after four years of prospecting... King Kong aint got nothing on me! Its an overwhelming feeling to see what youve been reading and researching about all that time. It's Grrrrrreat
Nice nug man , invest in a good chain and or cable and snatch blocks and use your tracks to move boulders like that one . Beats tearing up your equipment.
Thank you so much, you rock!! we really want to show the excitement of real small scale mining, that anyone can do😄 I appreciate you watching and sticking around.
With today's gold prices, that paid for gas ,wages,and a little profit.bout 400 bucks for 2 hours of work and that's without sluicing. He'll probably find half an ounce at least if that was just laying there
I think a 30 ton bottle jack and some cribbing would come in real handy at times.
I agree. I worked in heavy industry for over 30 years. And I haven't seen anything that can't be moved with the right size portable hydraulic jacks. When you properly rig a 100 ton hydraulic jack against a movable object--something is going to give. It's simple leverage at work.
Wow! That's awesome! Nothing but flower gold by me here in Colorado. Took the kiddo out and we moved some old flood plain rocks and had some success. Nothing close to this!!! Great find!
Chris thanks, that’s great you get the kiddo onto gold, flour gold is fun too, sometimes more rewarding because at least you get some gold in every pan 🙂
Nice Bucket! Oh ya that yellow rock was OK too..............😉
Dan Hurd Thanks Dan, this bucket rides in the front seat🤗
you guys inspired me to go up to Canada this summer. i just need to kick this Corona virus. no gold here in Seattle.
i seen that too.i was looking and said to myself that's Dan's bucket.hi from carmichael,ca.
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@@ANDYTHRAXX all these gold mining vids give me the get up and go feeling to start mining myself . I have about 40 yrs experience in quarrying BUT, I'm from England . We don't have any thing like you guys here regarding gold dredging but we do have metal detecting and sometimes that gets boring when you have found Roman, medieval coins and artifacts for 40 and a bit years . This is the first vid I've seen about you and I'll def be watching more . Good luck with your prospecting and good day sir . Regards from England 🏴👍
Hello.. At 12:56 into your video, about 2-3 inches to the left of your Gold Nugget, it's just inside that little indent... Is that another Nugget ?
Joe Mac Donald gosh it sure looks like it, if it was I didn’t find it. After seeing this one I could not stop checking every yellow rock lol
Bloody rippa mate!
Man vs rock, I bet there was an old timer watchig from beyond who was cackling his head off watching this!
Hahaha , I bet there was, thank you very much Chris 😜
How about cutting a score line across the middle of that bolder. Then drilling bore holes and then using feathers and wedges to split that bolder in half. I would think it would be easier to move half of that rock than the hole.
Micro blasters would of made the job a lot easier.if you don't know what they are Dan hurd has a few videos of using them to split big rocks to move them easier.
Hey totally !! If I had another day I really would have liked to try blasting it, sure would be pro
Thanks for sharing. Thinking that next time you might want to use a jack hammer to reduce the size of the boulder.
Wow, I’m surprised to hear that that’s your biggest nugget… For all your digging! Wishing you lots of more success! Miner’s rock!! ❤️💛💚
What area of BC are you working?
Just so I have an idea..
I'm new to placer mining and just picked up a claim north of cranbrook, and one south of cranbrook near Moyie Lake.
Haven't been there yet, but it would be nice to know if you're not too far from there and maybe I can expect to see some nuggets..?
Would be nice
Right on!! 🙂 I hear out your way is amazing!!
I’m sure you’ll have similar or larger gold.
We’re on the coast
@@ANDYTHRAXX - Thanks for the reply.
I suppose I should've known you were on the coast with all the wet weather.
Good luck with the venture!
Your doing a great job! Not many people appreciate the effort it takes to mine any mineral, and a bloody damn good effort to tip that huge rock out of the way with a 4 ton excavator, to keep all the ‘greenies’ happy show what a good job you do of reinstating, cheers T
Thankyou very much😀
And yes totally great idea, I will show it all reinstated after.
Thanks for watchibg
Lean a couple smaller rocks against the back, as you budge it they'll roll/tip in under to get another hold. Repeat process till its on its top.
Kick ass nice find, Hope there is many more in that area!! Keep up the hard work
Thank you very much Tyler 😁
You sure have some great finds too.
Just subscribed yesterday and love your channel bud! You remind me of a cross between Les Stroud and Winston Rothchild from Red Green 😂. I mean that as a compliment, from the Canada of the States….Minnesota 😊 Prospecting here is tough, but it’s around. Take care. Nice nugget too!
That’s a magnificent looking nug , congrats is due !! Many of us go a lifetime hunting one piece like that and it doesn’t come , well done Andy and Brian !!
AUmigo Gold thanks so much, you are so right about that, it’s a nice confirmation to the girlfriend, she said you need a bigger machine😁 haha
ANDYTHRAXX MINING hahaha she’s a keeper lol and I don’t mean just the nugget lol
AUmigo Gold lol
1:57
I think it is not empty, as there is a cross mark on the rock. Does it have a historical history? I think the ratio has 2 burials.
Because there is water there is probably a living area. The signs on it are not like the supply ...
umit gunes I’m not sure actually, there was a gold rush here 150years ago 🙂
An actual gold miner mining gold, what has youtube come to!! lol Nice to see a real operation showing real finds, this channel will do well keep it up!
i got biger one then that like 10 times biger big nug boy
Thankyou very much 🙂 Were having so much fun and just want to share that reality.
agreed...cant wait for our project to start together Andy !!
Hey nice Nugget, at 12:57 is that another piece to the left of the big one almost to the edge of the screen, on left of the biggun.
You know it could have been, if there’s one there has to be some. I just hope we catch it in the sluice 🙂
Thank you Pauly for luring me to this madness. 🔥🍀 great work Andy! Love it.
Lol thankyou
Au-some :)
Good work. Do you use also a metal detector and a gold sluice? Handy to have where you are.
Thanks, yes We detected it all after we moved the boulder and dug all the gravels out for sluicing. That’s the next video 🙂
Hook a chain around those rocks. Save alot of time.
I just came across your stuff today I think your awesome! I hope you've invested in some metal detectors since this video is 2 years old it looked like you missed some gold! Best wishes I'll be here watching and hoping for the best for you, it's fun to live out your dreams through someone when it's just not possible to do it yourself, so thank you it's a Beautiful scenery always. Thanks
Any chance of this guy putting the Woods back together before he leaves
HuasoPodrido Hi thanks so much for watching,🙂 good question, yes we go the extra mile putting it back together.
I take it so seriously that my very first video shows that process, called “Andy’s reclamation”
GOOD DAY MATE! IN 1979 WE FOUND A 5.5 OUNCE NUGGET IN SNOWS QUARRY, ELDORADO CO. CA IT WAS ROUNDISH, PITED,AND O SO INCREDIBLE. CRUSHING CEMENTED GRAVEL, AT DEEB BLUE LEED, SEEN A LOT OF FULL MASON JARS,WHILE WORKING THERE.
The only way to move the rock is to dig a deep hole for it to fall into
its hard to dig a hole when hes on bedrock
Exactly
You're right. He got there in the end
Yo Andy what's that last song u edited with I gotta have it sounds awesome 👌..nice nug..
Had to comment. First you should have pinned the thumb up out of the way. How to pry with bucket, get teeth started under rock, then curl bucket in and stick out and boom down all at the same time. Doing it like this you will not even lift the ass of the machine off the ground. If you still need more pry power place a rock or log chunk behind the big rock and then place bucket between the two. The small rock or log chunk will act as a pivot point or fulcrum for your bucket, use same bucket curl, stick out, boom down. You will find this technic very useful. Good luck from a 45 year equipment operator. Nice find.
Joe Blow yeah that’s a good call, we did eventually pin the thumb out of the way, I will take this advice thank you very much 🙂
He accidentally pryed it at 11:39, moved a fair bit.
Do you do restoration? I see many shows where the ground gets chewed up and the crew simply walks away when done. Like most mine operations. But I hint that is wrong.
Yes absolutely we do, reclamation is such an important part of the mining process to us, the mine plan from start to finish incorporates this, and it’s so neat to see it all come back and how quickly It does.
I have a video called Andy’s Reclamation, that shows how we store the soil and organics safely for final redistribution, along with refilling and contouring the land to the original shape. I’m documenting the regrowth as we speak, stay tuned 😀 thanks for the question.
Are you removing trees to find gold?
We remove trees within the area we’re mining, Nothing older than 15 years.
There are open areas with no trees as well.
Where did you get a Dan hurd bucket? Does he sell them?
I think he does sell them yes, he came prospecting on one of my claims and brought it for me, it made my year for sure!!😀 thanks for asking
Hard work pays off! That's a nice little chub-nuckle of Gold!!
Yogi Demis thank you 😁
In a situation like this, place smaller boulders on top at the back so when you move it a bit they will fall down behind and hold the large one in place. This will eventually allow the larger boulder to topple over. Cheers
Great find guy.
Where im at there are ginormous boulders.
What i plan on doing is learning how to use a block and tackle or two.
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Yes that’s awesome, moving a big boulder gets you really deep really fast and always holds the big pieces 😁
I've recently watched a few videos on a Lewis chainsaw winch. They look and seem like they work fantastically! Just need some cable,chains,chain locks and such. Looks inexpensive too!
Good stuff, great video. Regarding the bolder, I would've got the quick cut out, made about 3 or 4 cuts to fit my wedges and split in in half.
Well done, you earned that after all the work moving that boulder
Lol, Thank you very much 🙂
Where you found that nugget. It looked like there was another just to the left of it.
12:04 surprise*
Goin AWOL wow nice an ad
Play on words "prize" get it?
Missed the adventure this morning, went to work, and now some gold time...let's GO 🍻
Sure bending those 2 points lol. A rope, around the bolder, a come-a-long, and a pully system, and use the mini as a anchor
Heck yeah! I'm happy to see records being broken so close to home!✨💛
PioneerPauly 😝
Hey Pauly
@@triple_A_rockhound Hey hey!!
THAT SURE WAS A DIG FOR HIM
I was wondering if he was in that area of the world.
All that effort paid dividends 👍😄 Awesome find😊 Happy days!
After watching the Aussie gold stuff the piece you found looks like a booger.
Seriously. 3g.... so $150 ish?
@@clemente5677 Yeah our gold in Australia is huge man, especially in Victoria.
It really does look like nothing compared to Aussie gold, what do ya do lol.
We’re in Canada so $150.00 US dollars is like enough to live for a year here😜
Interesting ppe, I can't see why the manufacturer thought adding camo was a great idea!since it's supposedto be highly visible!
I curious about the extra arm attachment, I think ive seen one used it can turn sideways,would I be correct?
Dan Hurd has some explosives he uses to split rocks - drills a hole and puts a cap in preformed, self contained charge and fires it electrically. Scan his videos?
B. James Voorhies yes totally great point, I should have tried that 😄
Man....the woods in that area (was) beautiful. Is there not a less destructive method of extraction?
Hey 🙂 thank you for the question, technically placer mining is the least environmentally impacting of the different mining types, we don’t use chemicals or blast mountains apart which changes the earth forever.
We really try to disturb as little area as possible, one thing we do is work only where logging has happened before, this particular forest has actually been logged 3 times already in the past, my personal commitment is to have these sites reclaimed to exactly as it was and I will show this in future videos🙂
Check out my very first video titled
“Andy’s Reclamation”
I’m so proud of this, it was actually the first video I was proud enough to share, it ultimately inspired the channel.
I was going to name the channel
“Calm Passionate Miner” because I love nature and animals so much, the least I could do was pledge to do better than others environmentally speaking.
I very much admire your passion and concern 🙂
@@ANDYTHRAXX Hey bud - thanks for taking the time to reply. I'm really glad to hear that you're not just leaving the site all torn up. I'm all for enjoying the natural resources - and even the bounty it provides. As a fisherman, I often see people leave their sh*t all over the place - trashing it up. Just makes the experience less enjoyable. I will def check out the video you highlighted, and I commend you for making efforts to improve the area. As you mentioned, if you show the reclamation process in the video outtake, it would ease a lot of tree-huggers like me.
BTW - you're so right about chemical usage...and I'm glad you haven't gone that route. Thank you.
I love watching gold minding
So awesome Andy love it your living the dream being able to mine like that much love from Tassie 👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you so much 😁 gold is great eh!!
I’m loving what you’re doing too
ANDYTHRAXX MINING it sure is thanx man
Hay
How did this get a million views, that was just sad.
clickbait
2.6
Did you put back all the soil you disturbed. and put back all the folge you trashed?.
100 percent, that’s the most important part to me, check out my video “Andy’s Reclamation”
Thanks for asking 🙂
Dude. I saw another nug next to it on the zoom in. On the left!
Arg I’ve lost sleep over that, it sure looks as though🥺
Yes! It was bigger than the one he saw...
U mean on the right
Definitely something there
Old video, I know. Is suction dredging allowed in holes like you dug if you just let the water fill it up?
Yes for sure, it needs to be a part of our mines permit to be allowed but it is totally ok to do in holes or pits that are away from the river.
Seems like it’d be a sure way to ensure you’d get nearly all of the gold from off bedrock
damn Im out in the prairies i could only dream to go and find gold like that here. I gotta find a job working for you guys out there! looks beautiful !
Hard works ,finally you got your gold
Excellent find. Looks like you need to borrow my Minelab GPZ-700. I've found a 1/4 oz nugget 13" deep before.
Next time instead of slowly scratching away at a big rock, get some decent metal like crow bars or some long high tensile steel poles and lever it out I could move that sucker by hand with the right tools
Agreed
I like it...very very real mining....thank you for sharing mate...
I appreciate that very much , thanks
We learn by tryin', not sitting on our butts whinin' LOL I loved watching you try to make that machine work for you! Gold was cool, too.
That is so true, I have learned such an incredible amount doing this project it’s opened more doors in my life than I ever could have imagined. 🙂
I love the saying “seize the day”
Damm straight,...keep working buddy..good job! I found a spot, a lucky spot in the redwood forest on this hill.i managed to dig out about 100 pounds of natural or "native" placer platinum nuggets! They all ranged from about 1 to 6 ounces in weight .Also around the spot where I dug, I also pulled out Lava rock....which made sense considering I had heard about platinum and it's geography. Platinum is deep in the Earth's crust, when a volcano erupts it pushes the platinum, which is in a hot liquid form, to the top of the earth . When the platinum hits the top and the air, it cools and hardens. Didn't mean to give you a platinum. 101 schooling ,just was a special thing to me to find all of that, so I thought I'd share it with you. You seem like you could appreciate my story. congratulations on your finds and good luck in the future!
You Can drill split it
Mark Bach yes, that would be more fun 🙂
Want to know how we deal with big boulders like that We drill them full of holes about 3/4 way through, fill them with cracking powder and come back the next morning and they are laying there in pieces.
Boom ....good idea :) Need special permits and lisenceing here for that
Awesome find! Love seeing small scale mining operations, keep it up.
Thank you very much
Fantastic Mr Thraxx wow! Tenacity and perseverance.
You’re a smart guy the deeper you do the more change of bigger gold. Interesting watch wish this was in the U.K. I’d come give you a hand 😇
Barry The Baker thankyou , I could go for the help 🙂
Where abouts are you? I mean area not location, I’m guessing you’re Canadian? I’m from the U.K. just subscribed I hope you do well buddy 😇
Do you know where Bellingham ,Maple falls WA is
Use a lever on the rock on the hill and lever from the top.
jeff bumbar that’s a great idea thanks very much 😁
Within Sierra blaster you can split that rock many times
I should have tried😕
I will next time 😁
The location is very potential gold, brother...👉💪💪💪
GM 1000 sulawesi yes!! Hoping for bigger pieces too😃 thank you
Whats the model of the scale with the point three digits that you are using?
It’s (Smart Weight GEM50) 50x0.001g
I hope that helps😀 it’s been the best scale so far and gives the extra decimal for accuracy.
Just a 16 minute video of a guy trying to move a rock
Wonder what was in all the dirt around it you moved to make your digger stable 🤔
SIDESLAP1 yes!! Good question, we will be sluicing all of that and it will be in one of my next videos, thanks so much for the comment
Congrats! nice job, and nice gold! Never give up💪
Are you aloud to use blasting agents there? Or get a hoe ram. Because that hand digger under boulder is lunacy
shane stamball I think I can use the micro blaster but not 100 percent sure about permitting.
@@ANDYTHRAXX are you in CANADA? I wonder if you're country has any laws against against hobbyists pyrotechnics for personal use? I doubt them micro blasters are gonna do anything to that boulder you were working on lol. What type of rock was that? Granite?
shane stamball yes we’re in BC Canada, I honestly thought the micro might not do it as well, we tried on other boulder roughly that size and they would juts absorb the charge, even with a double charge.
This was a granite boulder , which are a bit softer than these hard blue boulders we have. I’ll look into the permitting, I think the only concern would be fire where we are. 😜
@@ANDYTHRAXX ANFO is a low energy option low fire risk,but you would need initiator which really ain't fire friendly. Although a pyrotechnic flash mix would Probably suit ur needs much better, they are potent made on site in very small quantities. And shock n friction sensitive. Depending upon your laws. It is a very cheap n effective method used in small mining operations everywhere. A well placed 1 shot 6 gram charge placed within large boulders is always a fun science project lol. And a hell of a fun way to split fire wood
12:12 - Congrats on the find. You deserve it after all that work.
Thanks for letting me watch it from where I wanted to let alone having to watch the whole vid
The question is, how much material did you move to get access to that boulder contained gold and are you going to process it? It's a mystery finding gold.
Such a great video guys👍🏻. It was pure entertainment. I am glad that this giant stone did not tear the excavator into individual parts. Very nice to see your joy in this wonderful find. The hard work was worth it. I look forward to more videos from you. Best greetings from Switzerland✌🏻
THE GOLD BUDDIES 🙂 thanks so much
Down here in NE Vermont I am using an little device I learned about via one of Dan Hurd's videos. It's called a Micro Blaster. Dan has some great videos of the effectiveness of the wee beast. Knowing well how many traps are on the internet I will not presume to post any links. Thanks for some great videos...My wife has other not quite so polite words describing them. Colorful though...
Get yourself a ram-hammer attachment for your trackhoe... make little ones out of the big ones 👍
bill underwood such a great idea, thankyou I’m going to look into that, I imagine if I drilled some relief holes too that would help😁
Hi mate! Why search there? I see a few signs of water rolled stones, do you think it’s an old stream bed?
wow all that work and equipment expense for 5 g. The way he was advertising this vid i was thinking he found one the size of a golf ball or something. ive seen some guys pull 15g out of the river on a days work just scraping and picking . oh well looks fun regardless
Present friends, a very large gold discovery, I am very much looking for gold ,! like in my country Indonesia! success always friend,😱💯👍
I wish you the nest of luck , thanks so much for the kind comments
I can't imagine why you didn't just use a micro blaster and crack it in half. That would have saved your bucket on your loader.
You’re right, I just didn’t think it would be so heavy to move so didn’t have blasted on site that day🙂
@@ANDYTHRAXX Didn't know you had one. Ya they save a lot of time even with some smaller rocks as well.
It's not a loader. It's a mini excavator.
@@howieduin915 Thank you for adding so much to the conversation.
Hi Andy, It was great to meet you today with Lorne. 😎👍
Wow. Look at all the destruction on that hillside. All for gold.
Macky1101 thank you for your comment, I appreciate your concern, we really do take restoring the earth back to new again very seriously, within a very short period of time this small area of designated resource land will be replanted and it’s regrowth managed until maturity.🙂
You realise that the device you used to post the comment has gold in it that guys like these get by similar if not more destructive methods?
Stop using it and people will stop getting it....
Very Nice Andy. Persistent and it pays
Chris Saucier thanks, that’s right we couldn’t give up🙂
Wow, congrats for a couple nuggets of gold from under a boulder...at the cost of the entire hillside tho?
江城银 hi there🙂, I appreciate your concern, we’re being very methodical to disturb as little ground as possible, and I assure you immediately replanting it back to new again.
What happened to the hillside?! Did the entire town slide into the creek? Are you his neighbor or something? Please fill us in.
Congratulations on your awesome discoveries. Best of luck with future digs for color.
Jay Bales thank you so very much 🙂
It’s in the shape of Alaska! Good on ya!
Thiah Doherty indeed it is that’s so cool , thanks very much for watching 😀
Great find brother! Keep ‘em coming!!!
Thank you very much, next video very soon and I so appreciate you watching 😄
That little Hitachi digger reminds me of my Fox Terrier Clyde when i was kid, nothing could make him give up what he set his mind to : D Really fun video thanks!
Hahah that’s great! Thank you so much
What happens if you find gold. Do you get to keep what it's worth for your self. Or do you have to pay tax on it?
Well done mate that's totally worth the effort very nice piece stoked for ya cheers
tazy T thank you so much 😁
Earned a new sub 🎉 👍
Here in western South Dakota in the Black Hills mountains ive been working the upper benches of ancient tertiaries and man its similar. I tried panning and sluicing in the creek bed itself and had very poor results. Id find gold occasionally but it was miniscule.
Since i got wise and woke up one day and realized I was digging the wrong spot things are only getting better. I brong home gold every time I'm out there.
When you hold your first $200 gold nugget in your hands after four years of prospecting... King Kong aint got nothing on me! Its an overwhelming feeling to see what youve been reading and researching about all that time.
It's Grrrrrreat
I wholeheartedly agree and that is so cool what you’re doing too, keep up the great work and thank you so much for taking the time to write.
Feel good vid of the month, right on guys
That’s awesome thank you
Nice nug man , invest in a good chain and or cable and snatch blocks and use your tracks to move boulders like that one . Beats tearing up your equipment.
jetbikes1 100 percent good call on that, going to get a big block and thick cable for onsite at all times. 😁
ANDYTHRAXX MINING and really works for me is a 20’ 4” Choker Strap , seems to grab rock better the the Chain , again nice find man best of luck to ya
jetbikes1 yes I see what you mean there, it tightens as you pull, great idea thanks so much😁
GOOD JOB MAN, 🇬🇧💥🔥👊😎👊🔥💥🇬🇧
Trebor 😜 thanks so much !! Truly appreciate it
Dude ur awesome. Just found ur content. . Subbed an watching it all 4 life
Thank you so much, you rock!! we really want to show the excitement of real small scale mining, that anyone can do😄
I appreciate you watching and sticking around.
god damn you hyped it up like it was the Welcome Stranger
With today's gold prices, that paid for gas ,wages,and a little profit.bout 400 bucks for 2 hours of work and that's without sluicing. He'll probably find half an ounce at least if that was just laying there
@@koalaman9585 Calm down mate, I still think it's cool, I just didn't expect it to look so underwhelming.
How did/do you know there's gold, I never saw you use a metal detector ? and nothing in the panning !
We’re in past gold bearing areas, so we know it’s around but never quite sure until you lay your eyes on it!!
Wow! This is beautiful. Congratulations !
What territory or state are you mining?
This is bc Canada 😁
I like man That Don't Give UP Brother !
Nice one mate 👌👍 need to take a trip over to Australia get on the real big ones 👍