Ancient Sea Fossils Uncovered In The Aquarium Opal Mine!
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2022
- Did you know a large part of Australian was once an inland sea ?
Today we had the amazing opportunity to go down the Aquarium Opal mine and help our good friend Warren.
His mine is one of few on the field where ancient opal fossils can be found regularly!
Noah and I climbed down the ladder into the mine and found him working away at the face. He had been finding trace opal and a few good stones here and there.
He handed us the tools and Noah got straight to work using a mini air jackhammer for the very first time!
It became apparent pretty quickly that we where going to have a good day, the colour showed up and went straight in the pocket!
We had some trouble with the blower getting blocked but Warren solved it without a worry. We have to get ourselves one of these!
After a relatively short day we had enough opal in the pocket and enough dirt that had good fossil potential to warrant heading back to camp and putting a load through the tumbler.
We left the tumbler going for a few hours, washing away any clay stone and together tailed out!
We got an amazing surprise finding the shells and we where very well satisfied with the seam opal!
Opal is a treasure in and of itself however having found fossils of creatures a hundred million years old replaced by opal was even more of an incredible find!
It truely doesn’t get much better then this!
I hope you all enjoy the video please leave us a comment and tell us what you would like to see more or less of.
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Our names are Jaymin Sullivan, James Caruana and Noah Mcdonough we are the ‘Young Guns’ Opal Mining Crew from Discovery Channel tv show ‘Outback Opal Hunters.’
Our love for treasure hunting led us to quit our jobs and move to the desert in search of precious Australian Opal!
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I lived in Coober Pedy for 2 years as a child and I would find all these crazy shells everywhere in the red dirt, some looked opalized. Infact opal could be found just sifting through the dirt, a lot was potch mixed with opal. Fascinating place and many supernatural events when I was there. Hope to go back one day.
Coober is awesome I’ve only been there once and can’t wait to go back! Definitely cool things to be found!
When I visited Cairns and the Great Barrier a reef 20 years ago I drooled over the opals at one shop but really fell in love with the chocolate colored potch.
Supernatural!!!! That sounds so interesting!!!!
@@nuiwai5402 Yes! Got followed by 3 bright lights in the sky one night on a drive on a dark road in Coober Pedy. Also plenty of restless spirits there as the cabin we lived in at the caravan park was haunted and my mothers perfumes kept smashing to the ground every night while we were asleep yet my dads aftershaves were perfectly fine and once were broken. We also met a strange man that lived in the same caravan park that used to hold his hands up all the time like a dog when it begs and he could actually speak to dogs. One day he made all these crying noises in a certain way to our dog and our dog howled all day and night non stop. We couldnt understand what happened so the time we saw him we told him what happened and asked him what he said to our dog? He said he told our dog 'it's a hard life being a dog' so obviously our dog agreed lol Not long after the guy moved on but never forgot. Such a strange place with so much mystery attached to it. I could go on for hours about that place lol
@@nuiwai5402 I meant not once were broken about my dads aftershaves only my mothers
Those are absolutely amazing! I don't care if they are pitted! They are millions of years old so the fact that they have opalized and survived, not to mention you finding those tiny things, is just mind blowing to me! Great video, men!
Thank you for watching and for commenting a fantastic adventure with an awesome payoff :)
That's why I love buying and helping the beauty already there. Getting to help bringing something so old to light and all its splendor is quite a cool hobby that one day will be proof of the life I've lived and a few gems I'm happy to have brought to light in a way only opal can do. Why I love doing it something that took so long to form and has uts beauty in each piece. And you let it teach you how to shape and anticipate what's there and then get behind the wheel I started buying opal in 2020 the year that shall not be spoken of the year the world broke and the mind control machine the TV tried to take everything away from us lol to mid 2022 and I feel I'm no where near 20 or even 30 years will teach you but I am somewhat confident that if a simply stellar stone was in front of me that I could unearth some type of beauty but I would consider myself so junior novice if any title as an opal or gemstone facetetor of stones very junior novice at best lol let me know where to seriously look for your opals and I'm there. Love the young guns cause I'm 33 and probably get laughed at for doing things I want to seriously I've spend thousands on a few parcels and always looking for good opal from time to time. I have a theory most of the best opal doesn't ever leave the country without at least being cut or really examined prove me wrong by selling me some of what you guys haul in. We can be great business aquantiants I'm sure we can be every know and again life let's me save a few dollars and love gambling on opal at least there's something to show years later from saying I've been gambling lol
I love the idea of those creatures having been crawling around living their gastropodic best life, and then they come back as a beautiful gem.
Not a bad after life if only we where so lucky to have our skeletons become gems in 100 million years or so :)
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Oh yeah, that would be amazing. To stumble across an opalised skeleton the size of a human or even the size of a cat. I can certainly see why some of you guys get so excited over belemnites. I've got what appears to be a (small) opalised ammonite shell. I remember Roy on Roy's Rocks had a really nice opalised mussel shell. Amazing that they come from a time when the planet landmasses looked scarcely like they do today.
This is so much better than the tv show! You and black opal direct are awesome to watch!
I’ve only recently been subbed to your channel. I love opals and am fascinated by your mining and the opals you find. I’ve never heard of nor seen opalised fossils! They are amazing! Much love from the USA!
Thanks for joining the adventure! I’m pretty sure opalised animal fossils have only ever been found in here in Australia!
Definitely a rare and unique find!
I loved outback opal hunters. Cool that you're still at it🤘🤘🤘
Been a few years and will be a few more still before we have had enough of this job 😂🤠⛏
what a great find my friend, congratulations on the find
Thank you for taking the time to watch!
Great to see you young fellas living the life! It’s the Nozz and Wazz show. Well done boy’s keep going with the hard work and you’ll become outback legends. 👍🏻
Thanks for watching! Definitely a fun time working with the Wazz man 🤠🤙🏻
Yay!! We got another one!!! Mahalo for sharing always enjoy watching
Thank you for watching!
Hey , you bunch of wild critters , good seeing a video from you.
Thank you for watching!
Oh wow.....my two favourite things in one beautiful package!!! Congrats guys 👏💜🇦🇺💜👏
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Wow very cool on the opal shells! Nice job ya alls
Thanks an awesome find!
Would love to see more from that mine! I've never seen opal like that before! Keep up the good ole hard! And thanks for what ya alls do!
Eureka Yeee Haaa
Well done guys.
Cheers Famo59 👍🍻⛏🤓🔥
Hey thanks for watching!
Yous have came along way since your first started
Respect for sticking it out & good luck in further search's 🍀
Thanks we will keep at it for a while yet still and hope for the big find!
I'll always be amazed by all the stones you find out there. And I can imagine the pleasure of sipping a cool beer next to the fire after a long day of hard working !! Love what you guys do !!
Nothing like a cold beer after a hard rewarding days work! Thanks for watching!
That little jackhammer is sweet, good luck as always bois!
Thank you! Definitely fun using those and makes it so easy to dig the roof 😂
Your videos are always top quality and so inspiring to many! Love how your pal was so passionate about the joys of opal mining, makes you want to explore mines with him! Keep it up & good day!
Thank you it means a lot! Still learning how to do it but hopefully getting a little better with each new video!
You Guys are Absolute Legends Working hard Good on All of You!!!!!
Thank you for watching!
Absolutely Beautiful, so glad I found you guys on here. Thanks for sharing !!!!
That is absolutely awesome boys. Great to watch. Opal is a miracle in themselves let aloan, finding shells that are opalised
some nice colour in that parcel looking forward to you finding something big and chunky
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Awesome setup. You guys are living the dream!
Livin the dreams finding the seashells and seam! 😂🤠⛏
That`s awesome! My friend from Australia sent me some small chips of very pretty opal. She also sent me a jar of vegemite. My friends in America hated it but I`ve been buying it since online. Love the stuff!
Hahahaha Definitely an acquired taste!
Wow! Great Haul!! 🦀
Yewww
Awesome content fullas love watching the videos gets me so excited! Seen yas today near Khan's in the ridge was a great shock! Hope to see you blokes around again keep up the hard work!
8👍's up thanks for sharing
8 thank you’s for watching legend!
Man those opalized fossils are about as cool as it gets! Nice work guys
I 💯 agree they are the coolest!
Wow thats the best Video by far Awesome Mine set up "More Please"
Hahaha more coming soon!
The shells are beautiful!
They are amazing 🙌🏻
Stumbled onto your channel and I'm loving it ! Can't wait for more episodes !
Glad you found us! New videos out soon :)
Great vid. Boy did he have the good gear. You guys will get there. Go the young guns👊🏽🍻🙂
Keep on keeping on till we find ourselves something as cool as this in our mine!
How cool is that!!!!
great job! just keep digging and i hope you had a great July 4th
Thank you and you as well!
Stunning material boys! Keep up the good work,stay safe
Thanks for watching!
All in a day's work ....nice one!
Not a bad day at all!
That’s pretty cool there brother
Thanks you legend! Definitely an awesome day first time I’ve seen that many fossils found in one go! I have opal mine envy 😂
Wow I spent a lot of time up at the ridge and grawin when I was a kid 30ish years ago, in and out of the mine sharts and the technology has changed so much makes life way easier to remove the excess clay
THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙
Yeww 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
Great job guys!
Thanks for watching!
Here's a tip from a former construction worker... When climbing a ladder never hold the rails, always hold the rungs. To easily find out why stand three rungs from the bottom and try and support your whole body weight with one hand holding the rail. Then repeat with just one hand holding the rung and you'll see why.
Hmmm good tip I can see your point thanks for lookin out 🤠⛏
Love the vids! keep it up!
Will do thanks for watching!
Great job!
Thank you!
Awesome Fossils! Beautiful stuff, keep it coming
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!
You guys make me want to fly out to Australia and become an opal miners
Hahahah best job in Australia that’s for sure!
Beautiful looking stones boys well done. 🇦🇺👍👍👍👍
Thank you for watching!
Killer material guys, keep it up!
Thanks for your reply. It's just gone one '0'clock here it's OK I was awake I don't go to bed until it's nearly sun up that's about 3:30 am to 4 am anyway. I'm enjoying the show and a few newbies in these episodes I haven't seen any of the boys at dragonfly claim they were working for two brothers. Hope your well and you find the millions of dollars of shell's and pineapples or some multi coloured black opal. It must be your winter there, as your man said on the news the other day, "australia is a land and country of fires and floods", keep looking for each other , bye
Thanks for watching. Here it is 12:44pm and winter :)
We will keep on digging till we hit the million dollar find and can share that with you all :)
Very cool to watch. I watch Black Opal Direct and was wondering if you know him. He sometimes works with seam opal and does beautiful work. I love the fossilized shells of opal, those are just amazingly gorgeous. Cheers and thanks for the education.
We have spoken before Justin does amazing work we hope to collab with him in the future!
Great another episode, well done guys. Keep it up. Nice results, love it. 🚀
Thank you 🤠🤙🏻
Man I would love to dig for Opal.. Looks fun !
Fantastic
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New sub here!! Looks I'll be hooked to your channel, love the content !
Hahaha thanks for watching legend!
That Was AWESOME 👍
Thank you for watching legend!
You guys are putting out great content lately! Keep it up, much love from usa. Also if I ever make it to the land down under, would work for free just to learn and for the experience.
Thank you very much means a lot and comments like this are what is keeping us creating new videos! Thanks for the support!
@@younggunsopalhunters you guys are producing better content than I ever saw on the show!
@@imdrunken Still learning and having fun with it!
So stunning
Well done!!
Nice work boys well done 👍
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Way too much fun Dudes.
Love your channel, keep putting out more vids in the future. Good luck from the USA!
Thanks for watching well keep ‘em coming
Nice find! 👍🏽
Man I would love to come to Australia as free labor aka Intern just to learn how to do what u guys do. Love you brother stay safe out there.
We hope one day to be able to offer this to our friends and followers! Thanks for the support!
Absolutely love the content
Thank you!
Beautiful finds
The earth makes some magic!
On ya fellas, great vid
Thank you for watching!
That's is so awesome 🤩
Great video!
Thank you for watching!
Is Outback Opal Hunters still going? Are you guys still going to be on it if it is? I really really want more content. I loved the show and I love seeing you guys work! If the show isn't still going maybe hire someone to film and edit? Idk just a thought! Love y'all! Thank you for your hard work and the content!
Thanks for watching we love being able to share the adventure and hope to continue to do so!
If we could afford to do just that we would maybe done the track for now though will just have to film it and edit as well as mine 😂
@@younggunsopalhunters It's a pleasure to see behind the scenes that we don't get to see on telly in England, Wish I was 21 again to emigrate down under and get into Mining.
Congrats guys, and nice job responding to every single comment, that's a job in itself!
Hahah thanks for watching, it’s a bit of an effort but we love to connect with everyone who helps us by watching the videos!
With my vacuum sometimes I have to go over the same crumbs 3 times...
Pretty sure this vacuum could suck up those crumbs and the nails in the floor!
Hahahaha
Hello from bald hill Lightning ridge nice fossils indeed
Thanks for watching hope to get back to LR for the opal festival!
I first saw you guys on Discovery channel but I must tell you that i prefer your UA-cam channel. I’m hooked!!! From Portugal , I wish you find your 1000000 $ pineapple!!!
hey bro! I'm a trucker from America, what kind of truck was behind yall when you were checking out the shells? it's neat to see such a old looking truck with double steer axles
It's a Foden
Yes it is an old foden 1950 something I believe :)
@@younggunsopalhunters thanks brother! I've never heard of them, guess I got some reading to do!
@@thepostman69hi mate, yes the old Foden, nice looking old girl hey! Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺
@Kingofrestrrooms666 a year later and Foden is now at the top of my list for favorite foreign trucks. By far Scanias are my favorite, but Foden is my favorite classic foreign truck now.
He dropped so many awesome pieces. I'd LOVE to have a go at the heap at night using blacklight and find all of what he dropped unnoticed.
That a good job guys 👍🏿🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Well done boys
Thanks for watching!
Ohhhh wow 🙌👌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
About time for another epi.... you should look into a film school for an intern from a college so you can produce more episodes and also help some film school major to learn their trade. Also 20 minutes is better time for an episode. Cheers Geno
Thanks for watching! Here a fun fact before we started the YT channel and even before Outback Opal Hunters noah spent 3 years studying at university for film school 😂 not sure how I Jaymin ended up on the other end of the camera but it’s good fun!
If we can keep growing we will do our best to make more videos!
@@younggunsopalhunters put more and more content out ur channel will grow massively
@@bobbyhoward9672 can only make as many eps as the opal shows up 😂 if we found it every week we’d post it 😂 have heaps of videos of us just digging but it’s not too fun just watching dirt move 😂
She better be a cute intern
@@younggunsopalhunters you dont need to find opel to make vlogs...
I suggest you film the ups and the downs boys! heaps more realistic to show what its really like and the costs involved etc,you can film and teach how to grade opel,
how to cut opel
how to sell opel,
But what im really interested in is how to use satellite imagery to find geological formations where opel should or could be present....
If i was you guys id be making the most of col duff to learn his expertise in satelite mapping while you still can! the guy is a bloody wizard...
Im not far from you boys n would love the opportunity to come out for a few days and work for free for some experience....
How can we get in touch with you?
You could Even use your channel to showcase live opel auction sales kind of like the blacklighters do...
You made a subscriber out of me - good job guys
Awesome, never in a million years did i ever think that there is fossil shell opals
Sounds like he has a good luck opal system with keeping the opal in his mouth all day. Keeps him focused at the task.
Hahaha yes definitely a special technique 😂
Nice👍
I've watched a number of your videos on here and on TV and I think Noz has a high strike rate for opal. Nice stones fron the aquarium.
Thanks for watching we have hundreds of hours of cottage that’s just finding nothing but way more fun to actually find stuff and they are the videos we post :)
the snail opals are so cool
Definitely some of the cooler things that can be found out here!
What a champ Wazza is 🍻🍻⛏⛏🇦🇺🇦🇺👍👍
He’s a true blue Australian legend!
@@younggunsopalhunters Yeah 💯, can't wait for the next video. The best of luck for the future and godbless 🙏⛏👍🇦🇺🍻
Great video
Thanks 🙏
HEY MATE, I'M FROM U.S. THOSE PIECES ARE NICE.
very nice
Sounds like my vacuum cleaner when I do my bedroom.
sick, sick, sick, SICK!
Yeww
Big Fan
Shiny 👍🏆❤️
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WAAUUUW !♥
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@@younggunsopalhunters to bad i live in Denmark when it comes to this , we can´t finde stuff like this here :(
Taste the rainbow!!! Amazing color
The rainbow provides!
That old Foden tipper in the background looks to have a few years behind it.
She’s beat up but still running, we actually sold it a few weeks ago and it’s working day is done, off to a museum now 😂
@@younggunsopalhunters Glad to see she has a good home now. Good luck and keep digging.
I see my boi also a man of culture! Nice touch with the One Piece Flag!!
What is a treasure hunter without a straw hat flag 🤙🏻
No safety glasses boyos? Chip the eye will severely impact your opal hunting you know! Nice take!
reasons not to where them. Are you online safetypolice?😉🙈
They dont need stupid comments like this.. you think they dont know? I can sum up multiple r
Thanks for the concern :) we are mostly working in claystone which is very soft muddy sort of ground when we get onto the hard stuff we put on safety glasses :)
jackpot!
Yewww 🤠⛏
I love to see theise young guns working hard like I did in my day, would love too come and help😎😎😎
Magnifique 🤩thank you merci beaucoup.👋👋👋👋👍💪💪💪🙏🙏🙏🙏
Good haul mates…..