How To Find Opals!
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2023
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The rains fall once again!
This week we are back fossicking the white cliffs opal field, making the most of the wet and muddy conditions.
Generally it’s hard to mine when the rains come so getting in a good fossick helps keep us occupied and making some income!
As a bonus sometimes we also pick up some really awesome bits!
The field hasn’t been this muddy in a while and while it’s good fun there isn’t a car wash in town!
We managed to find ourselves a lot of small chips of opal and a handful of cuttable material.
Some we set aside the solid stuff as the majority was doublet material. I did end up cutting all of that and it came up really nice!
Here hoping we can get back underground soon and find more opals!
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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!
It’s a bad day to be a rock! - Розваги
Love your show & watch all of your videos! I treat myself once a month or so to a Opal Hunters paydirt & I have some beautiful chips in my little jars, but no petrified WOOD with opal in it :)
Congratulations you have been randomly selected to win the piece of opalised petrified wood! Shoot us your postal address on our Instagram or Facebook and will send it off asap!
On a mullock heap the two dudes stood,
Noz and Jaymin thought that they should,
As they were feeling quite hopeful
So they hunted for opal
And they found some opalised wood.
Which was fortunate, that's certain
Because earlier young Noah was hurtin'
Jay rushed into help
When he heard his bro' yelp
What danger had Noz been with a flirtin'?
None, as it so came to pass
Scrunched face like he'd stepped shoeless on glass
That's not what happened
Magnesium perhaps he be lackin'
As cramp set Noz down on his arse.
lol 😂 Anna, you are a very talented poet/prose! Haha I didn’t realise it was you, until I wanted to reply. I fair dinkum almost died laughing when I read the Noz on his arse! 😂 pure gold! 🏆
This is a comment I left this arvo.
I was dialling in my gold detector and learning how to use it, I watched a UA-cam video which said to bury a gold chain or ring etc in your back yard and practice locating it.
I was shit at using the detector and after 3 weeks of digging up the back yard and having the police turn up (twice) because my neighbours thought I was burying bodies in my back yard, I decided to hire an excavator or a professional gold detector prospector from Miners Den , but he wanted to charge me $200.
I thought well I may as well cut my losses and pay up as it was my Grandfather’s gold chain passed down to me, which when I had it cleaned I also got an evaluation of around 15K. Another neighbour called the cops again on me for digging up my yard supposedly burying bodies again, ffs! as I thought I’d give it one more go. The second cop that came around happened to be a gold detector hobbyist ! On the next Sunday on his day off, John the cop came over and bingo! He found my chain in like friggin 5 minutes! Mate I felt like a goose, John brought his detector, but showed me how to use my Gold Monster. John said next time wack a house brick over the gold chain, (like who would have thought!?….. Right! 😂)
What a champ John was, he even helped me fill in most of the holes that I had dug for another hour! It only cost me a slab! 🍻🍺🍻🍺🍻🍺 John didn’t ask for any payment whatsoever, but before John came on the Sunday, I nicked down to Dan Murphies and grabbed a slab.
I sort of lost confidence and enthusiasm in the whole gold detecting fiasco bullshit with the cops, the neighbours and the whole dead body thing and restraining orders crap and the drama, so I stopped watching Aussie Gold Hunters and started watching Outback Opal Hunters.
It looks heaps more easy than walking up and down bloody hills all day in the bloody hot sun!
I got me an 80 series for the gold detecting fully fitted out totally off grid capable and want to know Noz , where to head to for my first Opal prospecting expedition? I’m in Sydney but will go to Coober Pedy or up White Cliffs via Dubbo, (I know a nice Sheila in Dubbo no worries.)
Thought I’d check out some old shafts and surface pits and black light old mullet 🐟 heaps at night.
Cheers 🍻
Ps, oh btw do they sell Opal detectors in town up there? I’m hoping to trade my gold detector for one.
Maybe I should ask Graham?
Wood, I swear I can’t get enough of watching you guys digging out the most beautiful stone man can find, good luck and happy hunting 🏴💙the opal fields are calling meeeeeeee
How to find Opals. Step 1. Move to Australia.
Yes please
Wood!
@@adzoutnabout8666 very good.... i like you
Step 3. Don't move to Sydney.
Step 4. Learn to drink more beer
How To Find Opals!.. nice sharing vidio
I WOOD luv it. Cheers boys, great watching you.
Glad you found the nice piece of wood.
One of the best family holidays I remember was fossicking at White Cliffs in 1985... we just had a necklace made for my mothers 80th birthday with the opal we found...
Wood is my new interest ! Thanks guys !
Wooodddd pol that wood is amazing
wood! that piece is beautiful with that purple striping
Wood! 😂
Thanks for the new video! Love ya blokes! 🤙
Wood. Love to see the stuff you find. Fascinating!
Love the opal in wood. Miss you guy need to make more videos.
#Wood much love brothers love watching u find Opal can't wait for u guys to find that 1million dollar pocket.
The fossilized WOOD is so cool!!! ❤️
I like the fossilized wood! Keep sending the great videos.
Nice wood. Lots of color on those chips
I wood love a piece like that. Nice find!
Wood! So exciting and so pretty. We hunt gold and get exciting every piece we find big or small . Kudos
I’m dying to come look for opal… a dream I’m hoping to fulfill 🥰🙏🏼😍
Wood, Thank you all your videos Myself and family love watching.
I love to see opal in petrified wood it just looks so beautiful
I love a good bit of wood! Sorry couldn't resist! 😂
Its always good to find good wood. Keep it up!
That wood has some nice colour in it, such a nice speci
Love witching all your videos boys especially the fossicking ones around White Cliffs it brings back memories when i had a trip there in the 90"s. Like the wood that you found to.
i wood love that wood! Great video as always.
WOOD!!!! :)....with Leg cramps! lol Thanks for the vid!
Another great video, thanks for sharing your adventures with us! Love the wood!
That fossil wood is beautiful, wish we had opal here in Alabama, that's what I'd be doing, digging and finding opal. Beautiful country guys....
Wood. Good job fella’s
I've seen fossilized tree bits in the Dakotas, never with opal. Sure WOOD be nice to win a bit! Good stuff guys.
Wood. I just found your channel about a month and half ago. Love watching you all. Opals are my favorite stone
Wood. Great to see you can still make some stones just by looking around the piles. Best of luck 🤘👍
As a child I was fortunate enough to travel to Australia. What a beautiful place. Wood recommend.
Love love love the WOOD! And absolutely LOVE you guys! From Las Vegas USA!
never would have been able to think of hearing the term fossicking wood
✌️🐝➕
Wood is nice! It looks like the rain stopped for awhile. Those are quite the opals you make!
Wood. 😂
Always a good day when you guys upload a video.
Awesome finds yet again! Well done team. Nice wood too!
Opal chips mixed in with some clear resin could make some cool projects.
you never know what a piece of wood might bring. nice video!
Some beautiful wood.
Good fun
That wood be very nice!
Wood, I was looking into finding fossilied wood in around the Brisbane area after seeing one of my friends who found a peice. I was amazed how heavey it was. Planning a day out with the kids at the gold mines when I get a chance. Great work keep it going. The hard work pays off. I bet with the black tourch at night over the piles would find some nice examples.
Wood!!!! Gorgeous piece!
Worth the wood ❤
Wood !!
It’s amazing what you all find. Well done Young Guns. 👍🏻
That was a beautiful piece of fossilized wood with opal!
Opalized wood is incredible. Best of both worlds, IMHO. #wood
Love the wood petrified wood like that with opal going through it Stunning good luck and happy hunting
I wood if I could be there. Nice pieces guys.
WOOD great job guys
This is the first time seeing this so i just❤ your video & the woods
Great work
I had never seen petrified wood like that, with opal going through it. Stunning. Thanks for showing us so much beauty.
Wood can’t get enough of your videos can’t wait to get back out there
WOOD! I "Wood" love to see that piece up close. Love the videos, guys.
Wood. Love opals. My husband gave me my first opal ring 46 years ago.
be great finding the wood with the opal in it i love seeing petrified wood etc
Great video guys. It's nice to see how you make the most of the smaller pieces. It would be interesting to see where you were fossicking at night under black light, I bet the whole place ••wood•• light up.
Wood! I certainly would (lol) love to have a piece like this. I love petrified wood but have never had any with opal in it - or any opal at all for that matter!! Here's hoping and thanks for the great videos, absolutely love em
Nice bit of WOOD there boys
Opalized😍wood! I love your videos you are fun to watch. Opal mining is very much like the dreams I had as a child that inspired me to Major in Geology in college. Opal is so mysterious, so beautiful, so elusive.
Wood!! Loving the videos ... so addictive!
Glad you like them!
Just ordered your paydirt and Exavation kit.
can’t wait to see what treasure we find!!!
Wood :-) Love seeing how it is in real life. Happy fossicking
Love it when you post up new videos. I hope the weather has been decent during the opal season for you guys. It's been pretty cold all summer up here in Alaska. You all found some really nice pieces, take care (oh yeah, WOOD)!
Love that wood!
WOOD! Love the channel
Fantastic WOOD Love it You guys ROCK !!
You guys be safe out there
Beautiful wood!
Wood be cool to pick opals some day in my life ❤
Opal is so beautiful. I wood love a piece
Hell of love to just walk around all day filling tubes with chips of color
I wood love that bit for a first piece.
Wood.
Thanks for taking us along, guys. Stay safe.
Great video! Wood!!
Love it 🤙 and wood
Wood , nice find , love watching you guys
Love the wood
Wood, awesome, love watching your channel
Wood!! Keep up the good work boys.
Ty love you guys
Wood-n't you know it, you found opal. Cheers on your amazing finds.
Wood! Love your channel. Keep up the joy.
nice as opals fella's cheers for the video
Hope more videos coming soon!
WOOD....... YEAH BOYYYYYY❤❤❤
That wood be perfect. Lol. Cheers
Wood =). Love the channel, so much fun seeing you all hunting for opals.
Awesome Wood.....
Wood, Thanks for the awesome video.
Wood. Wewd love that for my collection
Awesome guys and very interesting to Watch 🙌👌👏🏻👏🏻☺️
Good luck lads.
Great stuff boys for WOOD one hundred 💯 wowser 👍👍
Thanks 👍