$1.25 of Gold Per Shovel | Insane Gold Deposit

first time i'm always wrapping so i'm trying to see how deep this layer is and the shovel's still going down what's up guys my name is chris from vogue's prospecting if you're new to the channel a big one welcome andrew an old moldy hat like this one welcome back today i've got the whole crew out on this gravel bar because it is the richest gravel bar i have worked in the last four years this is what a one shovel test pan looks like from this spot that is insanely good one of these pans can take about two and a half shovels so we brought out a special system to work it let me show you that we have dubbed this the mcmatting system after its inventor mr mick the leprechaun mick took a video i did earlier which i'll link up here on youtube where i simply shovel gravel out of the pay zone and into fast water and at the end of the day i gabby pumped up where i was throwing the gravel and i got really good decent results but everyone said why don't you put some rubber matting in there and i'm just literally throwing gravel onto this section here and when i fill it up i push the rocks down the sluice the overburden and a little bit of gold get caught in that but most of our gold should be in there at the end of today so let's get this big matting system working you think there'd be a gap but it's just [Applause] not so so when i put my shovel in to push the gravel off i'm not actually scraping the mat with the tip of the shovel i'm just putting it in maybe an inch or so on top of the dirt that's in there and pushing the overburden down that helps stratify everything and it's really only getting rid of the light stuff i want to leave everything heavy that's on the bottom of the mat in place [Applause] the leprechaun's already on it [Applause] [Applause] so [Applause] so the thing about this system is you don't even need this loose at the front all you'd have to do is be a little bit more careful about how you remove that overburden so you can get sluicing literally for like 15 bucks worth of matting and it works really really well i mean i'm going to prove that at the end of the day when you see the goal but for now just know it works really well i've seen my first pieces of leprechaun candy check it out oh yeah boy we know there's going to be more in this mat too dietary fiber [Applause] so the soil changed consistencies as i got deeper i just wanted to take a test pen to see what kind of gold was hanging around out on this soil change and by the looks of it some okay freaking bits yeah we didn't get as many as the top pan but we got some nicer sized flakes and a heap of micro stuff so this layer is going to be interesting to explore [Applause] so [Applause] so i've discovered the deeper you go the smaller the bits get so we're going to stick to the top two layers hopefully there'll be candy there big rocks oh come on i got ya it's time to do some ruger gold on the front of that thing about this setup right now is that it's not actually perfect realistically i need to be in the fast water like over there except it doesn't quite work because it's too deep and on an angle when you get this mounting system in the fast water with the front edge turned up basically it creates a trough and all of your lights blow off and itself stratifies i'm having to manually stratify and remove the big rocks at the moment which is a little bit slower but still how easy is this is there any rainbow treasure a couple of times tiny rainbow treasure the rest of it must be on your v-manny ah it's in the snuffer bottle yeah well that's okay this is the stuff that was in the mats that i don't recommend working properly i am giving my lower back a rest and having a look in the solution i have seen some okay pieces in these top cells so we've got a couple of little bits in the letters here but if you watch these two cells here you'll see flashes of gold they look like decent sized bits and all of that is our super concentrate senor gadzi is struggling with his um one whole sluice he had to i don't know what oh man the story of this loose just that thing if it gives you any gold it's done well found it down the hole get a bushfire layer you can tell because usually it's a lot of silt and clay filled with charcoal and i'm just going to take a test fan of it so this is the stuff it's a little bit sporadic with the ash but basically what you'll end up seeing is this really fine grain sand charcoal charred rocks all embedded in what is basically a weird sort of stretchy clay the reason bushfire layers are so rich is because when the fire goes through it removes all the root systems there's nothing holding the soil left and you get a lot of erosion so usually end up with a decent amount of gold [Applause] so we'll soon know if this bushfire layer is holding any gold we really hope it is see a little bit in the corner yeah that's not a bad test pan look at that be 20 good specs in there all those people giving kids who played in the mud a hard time who's laughing now a whole lot of play i've run about 50 60 shovels worth of dirt and now we're going to clean out i just pushed the vast majority of the dirt down through this loose so we're going to see a good clean out in the sluice but i want to see what's hiding on the matting we've got gold in the lettering we've got gold in pretty much all the cells up the top and we've got a lot of iron stone i think this might be a real tasty looking cleanup this is going to be pretty good this is going pretty good for a 60 shovel run [Applause] stupid yellow rocks oh the anticipation at this point look at it all coming out through that gravel yeah that's that's a respectable little take that's just out of the river sloughs [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] way too much a little bit you can see the bit get off go on my bed so that was not the easiest thing to wash out i'll be the first to admit hopefully that awkwardness is going to pay off in gold leprechaun booty [Applause] well it certainly caught all the very fine gold look at that and that mat is not 100 clean yet that's what we got out of this loose and this is what we got out of the v mat so most of the chunky gold was caught in the sloughs most of the fine gold was caught in the v-map and i was pushing it all through at the end i was scraping the mat unlike at the start but as usual we are on a tight time schedule because there is a massive thunderstorm coming our way so we have to get out of here because this creek floods hard and i do not want to become a boat right before we lay out the gold i want to know if you're serious about safety pick up your own switch safety squint t-shirt today the link is in the description below this is all the gold we collected with the mcmanning system next to a clash guitars pick and let me tell you once i got that mat home and scrubbed it i found a lot of fine gold but it's time to get this on the scales i am pretty sure that even scarface would be happy with that line or booger sugar so we're gonna weigh it up i'm thinking it's close to or over a gram let's go for the pessimistic viewpoint nine five one oh we are climbing oh can we do it [Music] 1.032 that is a stonking amount of gold 1.032 grams of gold is worth 74.70 australian at the time of recording which is a pretty good take for just a couple of hours work i only shoveled in and around 60 shovels worth of dirt and then i almost got hit by lightning in the thunderstorm on the way out the point is a little bit of research and leg work there are still really good deposits of gold out there you just have to go sniff them out that has brought us to the end of the show i hope you did enjoy my short little gold prospecting film and until next time please give your dog a scratch behind the ears for me your cat a scratch underneath its chin and your goldfish a little tickle on its tail peace and i'm out

Channel: Vo-Gus Prospecting

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Id: -4X6OvSMrKQ

Length: 13min 17sec (797 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 19 2021