Broken Excavator Makes The Gold Gypsies Explore Abandoned Mine | Aussie Gold Hunters

with their new 88 000 target set the gypsies are using all of last season's profit to cover a repair to their broken excavator so which is here we go i've got 15 grand for it i just hope the price is not going to be any more than that because if it does it's going to put real pressure on the season what's happened his number two ring is broken okay and then he's blown out through here and scored all the blocks at the moment probably what we're looking at is about 20 20 grand it was that bad it was that bad yes when do you reckon she'll be able to take away probably looking at about three weeks give me three weeks to find five grand all right guys all right thank you thank you very very much again the 20 000 repair bill leaves the gypsies 5 000 short with only three weeks to find enough gold to cover the cost when he said that my heart sunk and i'm thinking i just want to cry 14 ounces gone it'll last you already oh that's a huge setback greg and chris have to find five thousand dollars of gold in just three weeks so they can get their excavator out of the workshop no damage to the machine at this rate worry yes the ground's getting harder and harder is covered with a thick layer of calcrete a hardened natural cement found only in arid climates such as the australian outback the sound that bucket's making is really some of the hardest stuff i think this load has ever had to push i'm just worried about the bucket if we don't push it i don't think they're going to get gold eh [Music] oh isn't that part how many teeth do you have six i think you're missing one oh my god i'll just show you how vicious this ground is it's so frustrating i've done damage to the machine already this is not the right machine to do this work full and i can't really just give up and go somewhere else the force this this was putting into the ground i'm not surprised the tooth ripped off i've never ripped the tooth off on any machine i've ever operated i've got to say i don't want the loader working like this anymore i can't risk damaging my load of pushing around it's only a 14 tonne later i'm going to stop pushing for the time being and chris and i are going to take a little walk over and have a look down the mine shafts and see if we can't pick up some gold around or in those [Music] here's an old mine shaft here babe here's a money maker well that's about 20 foot deep this one's still intact i'm going down okay what no i'm going down it's such a risk well what are we gonna do it's going down into the blackness yep into the abyss yeah bless all right yeah but that's all i can think of doing at the moment chris all right now i'm going to lift this up yeah i'm going to lower it in there it's going to go entering abandoned mines is fraught with danger but with a 55-ounce season target on the line and their machines out of action it's a risk that gypsies have to take got the compact protected the 2300 it's got a real sensitive head on it that's what i'm going to use basically i'm going to do the floor and the walls with it the other detectors i can't get up on the wall the roof they just make too much noise too much interference [Music] there you go there's the gopro it's already running for you gotcha don't touch anything can you see any you see yourself now yeah i can see that's what i what i need to do you know wait wait till i get there because i really want to hold that ladder for you okay i'm just gonna go down and check it out i can feel the temperature change here yeah you're nearly there on the floor now i'm safe oh molly you want to see what it's got here oh i died you're making me so i'll excited you what this looks like there's a heap of quartz lines running in through here right can you see it yeah i can see it yeah we should be able to find something here there's just too much work here for them not to have found nothing yeah yep you can see the pigmented quartz in here it's got yellow stuff in it but i don't think it's gold it could be bloody pyrites but it weighs a ton the bit that really interests me the most is this little piece i plucked out of the wall this is a quartz run sitting in the middle of all this i want to take this home and dolly this and i want to see if there's any fine gold in it because these buggers didn't do something down here with dynamite for something to do i can tell you now you want some company yeah come down always have three points of contact three points of contact got you the ladder gotcha the latter rung yep yep i'm coming you got three rungs to go three two three one bottom floor watch your step hey i'm here right i'd be detecting these court seams the gypsies start detecting the quartz veins sections of the bedrock fractured by tectonic activity it's very really awkward detecting conditions down here i will never again complain about detecting this is called extreme detective it's either that or you're desperate desperate to find a bit of gold you can't get your legs in the right position i don't know really good target up there after two hours detecting in the cramped claustrophobic conditions greg hits a target in the floor of the mine [Music] oh come on it's very sandy please i don't know what it is we are the gold miners hey this is weird this could be watercourse alluvial surface gold is rare to find down mine shafts for this 200 nugget to end up here it could have traveled through an ancient clay-based riverbed known as a watercourse the first minecart history grammy made before grammy nice nice good well where there's one there's got to be more okay you'll have to crawl up in there a little bit you got it up here didn't you yeah about there i got it well if that's what i think it is it's you i'll tell you what i don't need to pick i could just do this with my hand let me just no oh no oh i'd say all right smarty bums [Music] gypsy queen matching pants oh god i love this mine hi the second alluvial looking nugget helps prove greg's watercourse theory i mean it's only fifteen hundred dollars really but like i said it's fifteen hundred dollars better in our pocket it's fifteen hundred dollars less we've gotta pay on the excavator that's a big positive you

Channel: Aussie Gold & Opal Hunters

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Keywords: Discovery Australia, Aussie Gold and Opal Hunters, Gold Rush, Outback Opal Hunters, the gold gypsies, the gold gypsies explore abandoned mine, abandoned gold mine, gold nugget found in abandoned gold mine, old australian gold mines still have gold left, the gold gypsies new lease, gold gypsies broken machine

Id: DVbTVxpjEmI

Length: 7min 25sec (445 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 05 2021