@@scottbilinski5705 thanks mate, I'll be doing a few of the wandering around with a detector ones as well but yeah, this is way more exciting too, every bit out is new ground 😀
Just a note too, all the gold specimens on my website are now sold although the ebay ones are going strong, thank you so much for your support! I'll be adding more on both ebay and the website ASAP
@@philbophilbo4945 thanks mate, hard work and persistence verging on insanity is essential for reef mining 😁 There are a lot of good reefs out there just waiting to be dug...
@billingmetals just to make extraction of the quartz easier, you could always roast it by setting up a larger fire in the trench. Then after a few hours dousing it in cold water to fracture and make the quartz brittle.
@@Robert_Shannon That is really a highly effective way of breaking rock, slow but steady. it's been used for thousands of years too. It makes timbering hard though I'd say ;-) I have the licence to use explosives but need a whole lot of worksafe and mines department approval first.
Rewatching this. Fantastic work Toby. Congratulations on 1k subs! I'm going to shoutout your channel in my community section today or tomorrow so I hope that will bring more views and subs and the video will be up soon too! I'll mention your website and ebay in it too. I love the specimens you got in this. I can't imagine the amount of fine disseminated gold in the quartz.
@@OzGeologyOfficial Thanks heaps mate, I really appreciate your help and support too, it means a lot. I'll be doing a video of running the stone though the crusher and processing it as well at some point, it's had 40mm of rain on it so I'll need to dry it for the impact crusher
Hi, just found your channel, so will be binge watching fora while. Just a suggestion for when you are chipping out a target like at the beginning of this video. I always have a half worn out painters brush that I use to clean off the seam as I chip at it, to help find the target as soon as it is exposed. Great work and video
Thanks for the comment and sub mate, hope you enjoy it. That is very good advice! Very helpful, although as all the gold I miss in this one is going though a crusher and being processed so I'm not as careful with recovery as I would be out in the bush.
i found a lovely piece of granite with gold encrusted on it in the perth cbd. honest! about 40 years ago we had a demolition job stripping everything out of a whole floor of mineral house where the wa department of minerals was based. there were some boxes of rock samples. they went to my place. most of the samples were of the sorts of rock used for gravestones. but there were some other interesting rocks including the piece with gold on it.
there used to be a massive piece of a granite-type of rock with the same lumps of gold oozing out of it in the state museum in north perth. i used to wonder why dishonourable people never took a hammer and cold chisel into the museum and chip away at it when no-one was watching. my little specimen seems to be the same sort of granite,
@@billingmetals , i just spent time on the wa museum website and found absolutely nothing on it. it used to be in the courtyard on a plinth. that was over 30 years ago. the website is very short of pictures. idiots. neither could i find that magnificent flying wing shaped meteorite that was on a stand. i gave it a good tap and it rang like a bell. and it was still ringing when i wandered past it about 10 minutes later. i went back to the museum just to see these two exhibits. i havent been there for over 30 years.
Hi mate. Good video, just one piece of advice if you’re not already doing it. SD 2300 will not pick up that fine Gold. I’d crush all what you’re taking out of that nice little reef. Surprising what you can’t see. Lived in my youth use crowbar. Watching you gives me callous,s on my hands . Go for it. Good job.😮
Thanks heaps for the comment mate, yes it will all be crushed and processed. I've got about three tons of lower grade stacked but I'll be doing a video on the crushing and processing at some point, I need to make a proper shaker table too. It's hard work, better than the gym for making rock hard arms though!
@ thanks for your reply. We spent 5 years in WA Prospecting, Met some amazing prospectors, with incredible knowledge . You can never stop leaning from those guys. Look forward to next instalment. Rob.
Thanks heaps mate, glad you enjoyed it. Gold free hey, you probably have Roman era stuff to find detecting though ;-) I'm going to come over and find me a Roman coin one day, it's one thing I've always wanted to do.
@ I live in a village called Thaxted,it’s a very old settlement,couple of years ago a very nice Roman gold ring was dug up on farmland on the outskirts of the village,there will be stuff from the Bronze Age up but most of it will be under the village! Got a few mates that detect over here,they’ve had some fantastic finds over the years but if you think you did a lot of rubbish over there,I’m told the trash finding is epic here 😆 Just watched one your paddock eluvial vids,bloody interesting mate! 👍
@@MyCastleHepworth That's amazing! I'll look up your home town mate, incredible history. I suppose having thousands of years of metal junk dumped in the ground is going to build up! There is enough here in a couple of hundred years!
Another very enjoyable Video Toby, hope you broom up all the spoils out of the hole and process it all. Good to see you a few weeks back I ended up with 3 silvers and a token. See you come back and was waving my arms at you but you couldn't see me. Look forward to the next vid, keep them coming. Cheers
@@detrackozi6292 thanks mate, it was indeed, we should catch up and do a collaborative video soon? Thats pretty good going, I've found a lot of Silver's there but only a few tokens.
@@detrackozi6292 sounds good, we'll tee it up soon hey? Nice, in the diggings or the steep country behind? Lots of rubbish in those Diggings but a fair bit of gold too.
@@billingmetals Toby, Handed over an old map to those that were in the opp shop at school yesterday, I gave it to them to put in a frame to be hang up in your community meeting room, hope you see it there soon.
@@detrackozi6292 Thank you very much mate, that is a lovely bit of history to have in our historic school hall. We are on the committee there too. For anyone else reading this, the historic Berringa School, now a hall and op-shop, it's a great building and worth a look if you are in the area.
great stuff mate good info still looking for my first piece detecting 3 years ha ha dont know if its me or what tried a couple different locations only junk like watching you vids
First bit is the hardest, I really don't know why but it's really common to hear stories like yours. Once you get that bit it's easier ;-) What detector are you using?
@@pkgoldopalhunting You'll find some with the 4500, they are a really good detector ;-) I don't know much about the monster but some people swear by them.
It would yes, I really should sort the paperwork so I can drill and blast here! I do need a pinpointer, I've never really used one but it would be ideal for this sort of mining/detecting.
@@billingmetals I forgot about the bureaucracy again. But if it works, then turn it into a multi-billion dollar mining corporation. The guys at the stock market are crazy.
I hope you wash all the dirt you remove from that reef. If you are you should show a video of how you go about it and how you go doing so... get find mate. Have you got a Equinox 800 by any chance? They go off on species and live the small bits too! With the 6 inch coil, it's alot easier to pinpoint with. Thanks for sharing mate. I wish you pockets full of gold. Good Luck & Happy Swingin' mate. New sub here 🍻
Hi, thanks for the comment. Yes it will all go though an impact crusher and get processed for the fines, I'll do a video on the process at some point ;-) I use a GPX4000 and a SDC2300, they do the trick too and if it's too hard to pinpoint it gets crushed and gold recovered anyhow. Thank you, best of luck to you too, may there be gold in every hole.
It would work yes, messy but also one of the oldest techniques for breaking rock! They did that before blasting powder was available in the early days of mining. I'm sure it was used here by a few miners who couldn't afford drills or powder too.
Very good viewing, wink wink nod nod if you need an excavator with a hammer and a auger , off camera of corse let me know Caterpillar 1 ton 😂 . Cheers Andy Poverty prospecting Australia and OZ geology sent me! 😊
Thanks mate, I watch your channel too! 😁 I really appreciate OZ Geology's shout out, makes a big difference getting that sort of support. Hmm, I may need some 'work' done on the property...
@ ive busted my share of bedrock and pulled enough boulders dredging to know when i see hard work ✌🏼never did any dessert mining with that caliche ill pass lol
@@billingmetals yes I have seen quite a bit of gold coming from Australia and new zealand , You have a great setup excellent work thats not easy to do unless you know what your doing Ha :)
Lit vid mate one of the better ones I have a few reefs I'm about to smash so good to see you doing well. Any tips on working around shafts would be good.
@@klaasic_e8650 If it's fairly shallow cover work out where the reef runs by looking at the old workings then dig a cross cutting trench to bedrock til you hit the reef or reefs and sample from there. Same for detected patches. It's very effective. Don't forget to tell us all about any finds ;-)
Hey Toby, I saw some Vivianite you were selling on Facebook. I have been to Anglesea at least 5 times in search and have never found any. Did you find yours at low tide past the collapsed cliff section by point Addis? It seems every man and his dog has some vivianite, so I must be doing something wrong. Thanks!
Hi, it is hard to find outside the mining claim a greedy sod put over what was a popular collecting area. It has to be ultra low tide and you can find it either side of the area under claim sometimes. look it up on geovic to see claim boundary's. Good luck, sometimes you'll get pocketful's, sometimes not a piece.
@@ManfiCat No I didn't either, when the claim was applied for I assumed it would be denied but no, it was successful somehow! Thanks mate, I'll be doing a whole lot more reef mining the next few weeks so fingers crossed.
@@billingmetals ended up finding some good bits! Looking forward to polishing them. However, they went black once i got home. How do you prevent this? Clear nail polish or something?
@ManfiCat Well done! When you polish them they tend to stay green/blue, it is light that starts the process of darkening I believe, possibly only the green wavelengths of light interestingly! Why it won't do it after being polished I don't know.
Those minelabs seem such a nuisance to me... Always with the irritating whine and hard to isolate the target.... Give me my trusty ol Gold Bug... That's for me!
I've never used a Gold Bug but I hear they are pretty sensitive? I've used Minelabs since I stopped using a Garret Groundhog rather a long time ago. there are a lot of good detectors on the market these days though.
Thanks for the comment, I often do use a hammer and chisels but the tap tap tap method with a crowbar is also highly effective. It depends how I'm feeling when I get down there ;-)
This is just the kind of work I dream of doing for m’self. Thanx so much fer sharin’ an’ keep on livin’ the dream.
Thanks mate, it's a lot of fun.
Nice work mate good to see how the old boys would of done it. So much more interesting then watching some walking around with a detector cheers
@@scottbilinski5705 thanks mate, I'll be doing a few of the wandering around with a detector ones as well but yeah, this is way more exciting too, every bit out is new ground 😀
Just a note too, all the gold specimens on my website are now sold although the ebay ones are going strong, thank you so much for your support! I'll be adding more on both ebay and the website ASAP
Another awesome example of how it's done. Your content is some of the most informative on the net. Thanks for your efforts 👌
@@nathanmarcroft2555 Thanks heaps for the comment mate, much appreciated and I'm glad you got something out of the video 😀
I can imagine the amount of small cuts on your fingertips playing in the quartz and I speak with experience. Love the digging 👌. Well done. Cheers 🍻
Yes that is a painful side effect, it's amazing how tough ones fingers get, and how much hand sanitiser stings! Thank you.
Well done Toby. Hard work pays off. I dream of such a reef. Good on you.
@@philbophilbo4945 thanks mate, hard work and persistence verging on insanity is essential for reef mining 😁 There are a lot of good reefs out there just waiting to be dug...
Thank you for taking us along.
Thank you for watching, glad you enjoyed it.
@billingmetals just to make extraction of the quartz easier, you could always roast it by setting up a larger fire in the trench. Then after a few hours dousing it in cold water to fracture and make the quartz brittle.
@@Robert_Shannon That is really a highly effective way of breaking rock, slow but steady. it's been used for thousands of years too. It makes timbering hard though I'd say ;-)
I have the licence to use explosives but need a whole lot of worksafe and mines department approval first.
It's always a nice feeling finding bit of gold.
It is indeed, a feeling that never goes away no matter how many bits you find, I still get a massive thrill with every single piece.
Rewatching this. Fantastic work Toby. Congratulations on 1k subs! I'm going to shoutout your channel in my community section today or tomorrow so I hope that will bring more views and subs and the video will be up soon too! I'll mention your website and ebay in it too. I love the specimens you got in this. I can't imagine the amount of fine disseminated gold in the quartz.
@@OzGeologyOfficial Thanks heaps mate, I really appreciate your help and support too, it means a lot. I'll be doing a video of running the stone though the crusher and processing it as well at some point, it's had 40mm of rain on it so I'll need to dry it for the impact crusher
Awesome stuff Toby - great backyard mate
Thanks mate, it is indeed pretty great out there ;-)
Very nice work, even though it's hard work found some beautiful gold
Thank you, it's very much worth the hard work when it pays off like this ;-)
Hi, just found your channel, so will be binge watching fora while. Just a suggestion for when you are chipping out a target like at the beginning of this video. I always have a half worn out painters brush that I use to clean off the seam as I chip at it, to help find the target as soon as it is exposed. Great work and video
Thanks for the comment and sub mate, hope you enjoy it. That is very good advice! Very helpful, although as all the gold I miss in this one is going though a crusher and being processed so I'm not as careful with recovery as I would be out in the bush.
i found a lovely piece of granite with gold encrusted on it in the perth cbd. honest! about 40 years ago we had a demolition job stripping everything out of a whole floor of mineral house where the wa department of minerals was based. there were some boxes of rock samples. they went to my place. most of the samples were of the sorts of rock used for gravestones. but there were some other interesting rocks including the piece with gold on it.
Nice find! Gold in granite is unusual but I know of a few occurrence's in Victoria, may be more over West. Great thing to have in your collection.
there used to be a massive piece of a granite-type of rock with the same lumps of gold oozing out of it in the state museum in north perth. i used to wonder why dishonourable people never took a hammer and cold chisel into the museum and chip away at it when no-one was watching. my little specimen seems to be the same sort of granite,
@@vsvnrg3263 That would be cool to see! I wonder what mine it came from.
@@billingmetals , i just spent time on the wa museum website and found absolutely nothing on it. it used to be in the courtyard on a plinth. that was over 30 years ago. the website is very short of pictures. idiots. neither could i find that magnificent flying wing shaped meteorite that was on a stand. i gave it a good tap and it rang like a bell. and it was still ringing when i wandered past it about 10 minutes later. i went back to the museum just to see these two exhibits. i havent been there for over 30 years.
i seem to remember the big rock at the museum was from kal. but dont trust my memory on that.
Hi mate. Good video, just one piece of advice if you’re not already doing it. SD 2300 will not pick up that fine Gold. I’d crush all what you’re taking out of that nice little reef. Surprising what you can’t see. Lived in my youth use crowbar. Watching you gives me callous,s on my hands . Go for it. Good job.😮
Thanks heaps for the comment mate, yes it will all be crushed and processed. I've got about three tons of lower grade stacked but I'll be doing a video on the crushing and processing at some point, I need to make a proper shaker table too.
It's hard work, better than the gym for making rock hard arms though!
@ thanks for your reply. We spent 5 years in WA Prospecting, Met some amazing prospectors, with incredible knowledge . You can never stop leaning from those guys. Look forward to next instalment. Rob.
@@robertwithers4041 That would have been an amazing experience! Very true, always learning.
Well done on finding the reef.
Have subscribed to your channel..
Cheers Famo59🍻⛏️
Thanks heaps for the comment and sub mate, there will be a fair few more videos from this reef coming up soon.
Enjoyed this mate ,love to see it coming out of the quartz!
I’ve subscribed,hello from entirely gold free North west Essex,England 👍
Thanks heaps mate, glad you enjoyed it. Gold free hey, you probably have Roman era stuff to find detecting though ;-) I'm going to come over and find me a Roman coin one day, it's one thing I've always wanted to do.
@ I live in a village called Thaxted,it’s a very old settlement,couple of years ago a very nice Roman gold ring was dug up on farmland on the outskirts of the village,there will be stuff from the Bronze Age up but most of it will be under the village! Got a few mates that detect over here,they’ve had some fantastic finds over the years but if you think you did a lot of rubbish over there,I’m told the trash finding is epic here 😆 Just watched one your paddock eluvial vids,bloody interesting mate! 👍
@@MyCastleHepworth That's amazing! I'll look up your home town mate, incredible history. I suppose having thousands of years of metal junk dumped in the ground is going to build up! There is enough here in a couple of hundred years!
Another very enjoyable Video Toby, hope you broom up all the spoils out of the hole and process it all. Good to see you a few weeks back I ended up with 3 silvers and a token. See you come back and was waving my arms at you but you couldn't see me. Look forward to the next vid, keep them coming. Cheers
@@detrackozi6292 thanks mate, it was indeed, we should catch up and do a collaborative video soon? Thats pretty good going, I've found a lot of Silver's there but only a few tokens.
@billingmetals Yes we will have to do so, my brother in-law is just down the road from you having a swing with is 7000, east of big dam "K"
@@detrackozi6292 sounds good, we'll tee it up soon hey? Nice, in the diggings or the steep country behind? Lots of rubbish in those Diggings but a fair bit of gold too.
@@billingmetals Toby, Handed over an old map to those that were in the opp shop at school yesterday, I gave it to them to put in a frame to be hang up in your community meeting room, hope you see it there soon.
@@detrackozi6292 Thank you very much mate, that is a lovely bit of history to have in our historic school hall. We are on the committee there too. For anyone else reading this, the historic Berringa School, now a hall and op-shop, it's a great building and worth a look if you are in the area.
great stuff mate good info still looking for my first piece detecting 3 years ha ha dont know if its me or what tried a couple different locations only junk like watching you vids
First bit is the hardest, I really don't know why but it's really common to hear stories like yours. Once you get that bit it's easier ;-) What detector are you using?
@@billingmetals i got a monster 1000, but now using a gpx 4500
@@pkgoldopalhunting You'll find some with the 4500, they are a really good detector ;-) I don't know much about the monster but some people swear by them.
An air hammer and a pinpointer might be useful tools for you.
It would yes, I really should sort the paperwork so I can drill and blast here! I do need a pinpointer, I've never really used one but it would be ideal for this sort of mining/detecting.
@@billingmetals I forgot about the bureaucracy again. But if it works, then turn it into a multi-billion dollar mining corporation. The guys at the stock market are crazy.
@@knutblume907 Yep, the whole world is crazy I think!
I hope you wash all the dirt you remove from that reef. If you are you should show a video of how you go about it and how you go doing so... get find mate.
Have you got a Equinox 800 by any chance? They go off on species and live the small bits too! With the 6 inch coil, it's alot easier to pinpoint with.
Thanks for sharing mate. I wish you pockets full of gold.
Good Luck & Happy Swingin' mate. New sub here 🍻
Hi, thanks for the comment. Yes it will all go though an impact crusher and get processed for the fines, I'll do a video on the process at some point ;-) I use a GPX4000 and a SDC2300, they do the trick too and if it's too hard to pinpoint it gets crushed and gold recovered anyhow.
Thank you, best of luck to you too, may there be gold in every hole.
Would it work if you build a fire in the hole might crack the quartz in the ground.. make it easy to dig
It would work yes, messy but also one of the oldest techniques for breaking rock! They did that before blasting powder was available in the early days of mining. I'm sure it was used here by a few miners who couldn't afford drills or powder too.
Very good viewing, wink wink nod nod if you need an excavator with a hammer and a auger , off camera of corse let me know Caterpillar 1 ton 😂 . Cheers Andy Poverty prospecting Australia and OZ geology sent me! 😊
Thanks mate, I watch your channel too! 😁 I really appreciate OZ Geology's shout out, makes a big difference getting that sort of support.
Hmm, I may need some 'work' done on the property...
Great work Toby. Keep the videos coming.
I'm assuming your going to crush sample a section of that reef?
Thanks mate, I'm working on a few at the moment ;-) Yes I'll crush a hundred kg batch soon as a test run.
heck yeah nice free gold gorgeous
Yes indeed! Hard work for them but well worth every minute ;-)
@ ive busted my share of bedrock and pulled enough boulders dredging to know when i see hard work ✌🏼never did any dessert mining with that caliche ill pass lol
@@vinivv Thanks mate, it is hard work but a lot of fun. We can't use dredges here, it's a pity as it would be brilliant in some of our creeks.
@@billingmetals yes I have seen quite a bit of gold coming from Australia and new zealand , You have a great setup excellent work thats not easy to do unless you know what your doing Ha :)
@@vinivv Two very gold rich countries indeed. Whereabouts are you from?
Lit vid mate one of the better ones I have a few reefs I'm about to smash so good to see you doing well. Any tips on working around shafts would be good.
Thanks mate, glad you likes it. Be damn careful working around shafts, are you working from the shaft or just in close proximity?
@billingmetals nah just close proximity looking for weathered areas, alluvial and drill hits from surface. But not sure how to go about it.
@@klaasic_e8650 If it's fairly shallow cover work out where the reef runs by looking at the old workings then dig a cross cutting trench to bedrock til you hit the reef or reefs and sample from there. Same for detected patches. It's very effective. Don't forget to tell us all about any finds ;-)
Looks like that’s been opened up with a machine. Nice
Thanks mate, nope, all pick and crowbar. There is a good reason I'm thin and fit (and possibly slightly insane) ;-)
@ yeah the machine I’m referring to was you 😂
@@Ful-OGold Ha ha, thanks mate, we should do a collab video out in the bush one day soon.
@@billingmetals Please do a collab. I'd love to see that!
@@OzGeologyOfficial It sounds good to me, maybe we could do one too one day? Different styles of videos but I'm sure we could make something work
Hey Toby, I saw some Vivianite you were selling on Facebook. I have been to Anglesea at least 5 times in search and have never found any. Did you find yours at low tide past the collapsed cliff section by point Addis? It seems every man and his dog has some vivianite, so I must be doing something wrong. Thanks!
Hi, it is hard to find outside the mining claim a greedy sod put over what was a popular collecting area. It has to be ultra low tide and you can find it either side of the area under claim sometimes. look it up on geovic to see claim boundary's. Good luck, sometimes you'll get pocketful's, sometimes not a piece.
@billingmetals oh wow, didnt know you could claim the ocean! Alright, ill try that. Hope you find the big one in your diggings soon!
@@ManfiCat No I didn't either, when the claim was applied for I assumed it would be denied but no, it was successful somehow! Thanks mate, I'll be doing a whole lot more reef mining the next few weeks so fingers crossed.
@@billingmetals ended up finding some good bits! Looking forward to polishing them. However, they went black once i got home. How do you prevent this? Clear nail polish or something?
@ManfiCat Well done! When you polish them they tend to stay green/blue, it is light that starts the process of darkening I believe, possibly only the green wavelengths of light interestingly! Why it won't do it after being polished I don't know.
what type of detector do you use?
Hi, I use two Minelab detectors, a GPX4000 and a SDC2300, both brilliant on the gold.
What is the name of detector machine.
Hi, it is a Minelab SDC2300, tough, sensitive and compact so it's perfect for this sort of detecting.
Those minelabs seem such a nuisance to me... Always with the irritating whine and hard to isolate the target.... Give me my trusty ol Gold Bug... That's for me!
I've never used a Gold Bug but I hear they are pretty sensitive? I've used Minelabs since I stopped using a Garret Groundhog rather a long time ago. there are a lot of good detectors on the market these days though.
Do as you like but ide be using a heavy hammer and chisels. Far less shock on your body. I would do it seated.
Thanks for the comment, I often do use a hammer and chisels but the tap tap tap method with a crowbar is also highly effective. It depends how I'm feeling when I get down there ;-)
Which one's mine Toby? 😆
You dug your own ten years ago about 1.5 meters above this spot Steve ;-)
@@billingmetals 😁
@@CrocoArt Keen on swinging a crowbar Steve? ;-)
@@billingmetals In Tassie at the moment, otherwise yes!
@@CrocoArt Nice, enjoy your trip Steve.