Newcomers Shocked To Score $116,000 Worth Of Opal In Their First Week | Outback Opal Hunters

opalzilla we call this she can feast and put through a lot of dirt at the heart of their operation opal zilla a 10 ton processing plant capable of sifting through mountains of pre-mined earth for the smallest trace of opal we need opal zilla to find our way for us i wouldn't be taking on cooper peter like we are without it first thing we do we fill the hopper up with dirt then it runs out the conveyor you've got a conveyor belt running out of the hopper which goes into the trouble the trouble's turning and that's basically your sieve taking all the dust off the final stage is opal zilla's secret weapon the opal bearing rocks just rattle their way through into the dark room and the pickers sit there picking it off the belt because in the dark room we've got ultraviolet lights and it makes the opal really glow and stand out so you can't you can't miss it but if we don't get the dust off it properly it it's coated and you won't see it when you get the real big like almost cigarette packet sized pieces come through it's just like oh is it is it a hot color until you open the door and go have a look at the light yeah pretty well could be anything you want it to be in the bucket when hit by the ultraviolet rays of the black light water electrons inside the opal become excited releasing energy and fluorescing worthless uncolored opal known as potch through to rare valuable red opal all glowed yeah i don't know about today eh what do you mean it could be pot city not much to look at that's the last thing we need man likes a slow days just we'll need some money just to pay for costs of coming out here you know living costs diesel costs no point going home empty-handed because that's pretty disappointing makes you always think you know is it worth it worth coming back kuberpedi newcomers the blacklighters are getting desperate they have 12 mouths to feed and have found no opal if you don't know what you're looking for it all looks the same they're hoping local knowledge gleaned from veteran miner james combs will help when i was digging with the loader i was targeting the sort of level dirt that he showed me and i think just those little tips he gave me and just helped me isolate where the actual open was coming from out of the dump oh in the glower it was a glower nice and fresh the rock bearing belt moves at one meter a second requiring fast hands to grab the opal before it's dumped off the conveyor so what's coming through much actually we had a good spell there where it was just like we were she couldn't keep up awesome yeah in that muddier stuff that way yeah that's down deep i'm just starting to get to that we'll keep bringing that through and i reckon we're doing a rolo if the buckets are filling awesome at this stage in here jesus there could be you know a lot of money in that bucket right there we just don't know until later it's too hard to see what anything is in here all right another big day a bit better than yesterday was that oh yeah i think so overlooking the sun eh slowly picking up a little bit oh oh look at that that is blinging oh wow we need some more of that wow dude i'm a bit happy with that i'm actually really happy with that that's magnificent let's head for home and see what we got eh the black lighters have uncovered six kilograms of rough opal even though they're experienced miners this is the first they've found in cooper pd and have no idea of its value it seems like most of it's got most most colors in it it's different to me to me but it's still so beautiful i'm gonna bring my mate james because um he's sold some parcels from pretty close to where we're working anyway so he might have a bit more of an idea on what we're gonna get for this material so we don't make a mistake well let me put some glasses on so i've classed and sold a lot of this stuff so that'll help hey got some nice kicky stuff here don't you that'll add up into something let's kick out all the top ones yeah there yeah look at that yeah that's one of our favorite you've been here a week and you've done it bloody hell you're not doing bad are you nice red eye yeah some people dig for 20 years and don't find this much oh look at that my goodness the black lighters have high quality white and crystal opal it features the full spectrum of colors including the most desirable and valuable red we'll weigh this stuff up and see what it comes to that's 1 1162 carats oh yes you wouldn't take less than 100 a carrot minimum holy moly holy moly okay now they're talking oh my god that's what we want to hear yeah that's what we want yeah that big bugger your kingston that's a couple of thousand dollars a carriage in dollar value that's about 116 200 dollars that's just stunning top opal that's absolutely stunning people can change lives 1162 carats or 232 grams worth an estimated 116 thousand dollars the boss has lost it yesterday it's awesome work guys unless you're sorry this is just the start hey just the start it was awesome the last thing you're expecting we can afford to set the kids up with everything they need up here and get them nice and comfortable when we've got the best ground pegged in the area i reckon and we're not going to walk away from it no way oh it was a massive relief the amount we got was just phenomenal pretty well just an all-round amazing day for me oh yeah i can break down i don't i don't know what to say you

Channel: Aussie Gold & Opal Hunters

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Id: HdNBAmCiREg

Length: 7min 31sec (451 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 20 2021