@@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
@@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
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.
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.
@ 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 :)
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.
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 😀
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.
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
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 😀
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.
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
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 ;-)
Awesome stuff Toby - great backyard mate
Thanks mate, it is indeed pretty great out there ;-)
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.