Gold Dredging Days - Story Of A Full Time Gold Prospector, Part 2

[@gregoryallan1137]

Thanks to every one for you lovely comments and views.im really quite humbled indeed that our story has recieved so much interest.a pleasure to share with yous all and of course a spesh thank you to Michelle.Cheers Greg.🙂❤

[@earthearthearth-l3l]

Mr McAllan is a great guy. Very funny and knowledgeable!

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[@patricklorkin1557]

Most amazing stories of gold prospecting l have ever heard. l didn't think you could beat the last story of going across the road to get massive nuggets. Without the brilliant photos none of this would be believable. More of these stories please. l have always worried about how you could sell gold without claim jumper's (ratters) spoiling the party. l always thought the safe selling of gold would be the hardest part. Would love to hear how this was done in the 80,s and 90,s. Thanks again for the unbelievably fortunate life of this man!

[@gregoryallan1137]

❤ It was very easy to sell.Even today.One place that I believe still buys alluvial gold is Is Wright.a military dealer in melb hard to believe but they been buying it for years.As long as its genuine alluvial gold wich is pretty easy to see thel buy it at 95 % of current gold price.Got to remember this is not refined so it will have some impurities like copper.silver.ironstone and maybe quartz.if it one gram or 500 ounce they will buy it.payed for with cash cheque no questions asked.Or you can take it to a precious metals refiner like Aussiemint gold refinement in Melbourne and thel weigh it.melt it.and pay you for the gold silver.copper.no questions asked.long as its natural gold you ok.

[@patricklorkin1557]

Thanks good to know. Vogus and others seem to sell on ebay which works for small specimens. Unfortunately in Tassie there seems to be a law preventing sales without the government taking a cut. So not sure how Rob Parsons and Tassie boys prospecting make it pay.

[@patricklorkin1557]

Unfortunately l never went prospecting with dad and his mates in the 70s or 80s. My only story was muck around panning at sovereign hill in the late nighties. 15 minutes to closing and an employee was seeding the creek. But just before that l had done 5-6 pans getting 3 or 4 flakes each. Some Korean tourists who did not speak english tourists (despite the language barrier)asked me how it was done with hand signals. So l dug them out a shovel load from as deep as l could get it into their pans. They both panned out 40 to 50 flakes and were amazed but not as amazed as l was. Of course l acted like l knew what l was doing. LOL

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[@Cathedralwings]

The best! I could listen to him all day.

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[@JohnMillar5312]

Mr McAllen is an amazing prospector, he reminds me of me in 1990’s dredging with a 6inch on the Palmer River. We were in a deep hole before one of the locals said there was a 14 foot croc in there with us. Ran into some Germans who worked the Wenlock with an 8 inch dredge in a steel mesh cage, a 18 foot croc grabbed the cage and dragged it into deep water to try and eat the dredger. They never returned.

[@shanelocke237]

Holy shit man, The poor old dredger would have thought that's it I'm gone, no wonder they never returned

[@gregoryallan1137]

Holy @#$%#.😂

[@melissafarrugia9531]

I’m hoping you mean the Germans never returned back to the Wenlock to dredge They never returned… but I’m gonna assume they survived that 18 footer somehow

[@Working925detecting]

Hey Michelle, really enjoying the stories from days of old. Feels good to go back in time and share the excitement of past prospectors success. Thanks for sharing, hope to see more.

[@hopebear06]

His story is pure gold!

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[@adhawk5632]

Love it👍👌🇦🇺more stories please

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[@liamwake1583]

Part 2 didn’t disappoint, bloody awesome yarns. Cheers 🍻

[@jacklanyon5668]

Absolutely awesome!!! Thank you for such fantastic stories. Very much appreciated

[@nicholassteel5529]

One can tell a real prospector from the way he talks about it!👍❤️✌️Btrilliant. More please. 🙏

[@gregoryallan1137]

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[@MurrayRiverr]

What a time to be alive! Kudos Greg!

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[@solanaceae2069]

Old gold never molds!

[@gregoryallan1137]

So true

[@paulroberts665]

Awesome more stories like that please

[@gregoryallan1137]

There is more to come 🙂🙂

[@Graham_OntheGoldagain]

So good 👍

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[@andrewhall841]

Thanks, Greg, for the insight, and Michelle, you're just smashing it with these videos. Great work 👌

[@gregoryallan1137]

I would also like to thank Michelle too for her proffessional work on her vidio productions.so well done Michelle❤

[@stephenwatson4005]

Great show

[@120downunder]

Bloody awesome

[@gregoryallan1137]

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[@briggsy1382]

Another great historically important story captured. Your content is constantly excellent. ❤

[@bearbait2221]

Thanks for the great stories. I have dredged in Alaska never found the mother load:( I moved on to excavators. AC+tunes+food=waybetter. I do miss my trout fishy friends. Spending 4 months under water I learned fish have personalities like dogs. I had a pet trout that would watch me gold panning I would tap the water he would get into my gold pan full of water and i would pet him every day. I would see him 40 feet away I would tap the water he would fly over for pets:0 I heard a story about an old timer teaching a trout to bring him nuggets for treats. I now think it was true.

[@shanelocke237]

WOW WHATTA AWESOME EXPERIENCE.I LOVE ME TROUT FISHING TOO.ANYWAY A G'DAY FROM BATHURST AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺

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[@valiant69au]

Absolutely loved this

[@miataleica]

So so interesting. Thanks

[@gregoryallan1137]

Most welcome

[@oz2263]

Hello Greg, I'm so pleased you have made these videos to share your stories with everyone. Cheers Ken

[@gregoryallan1137]

Its been a pleasure Ken

[@gregwatson7479]

Unique breed us prospectors mate You are gold 🙏

[@gregoryallan1137]

And you also❤

[@uwesteinki5037]

Thank you brought back great memories. Did the same, dredging the Goulburn river and snowy creek. Lots of gold still lots left behind after it was banned by the nanny state . But so much fun and a great life style. Thanks again for the memories. Cheers.

[@gregoryallan1137]

Yea it was so cool out there hey.🙂🙂😎😎👍🏼👌

[@MickTurczyn]

I worked on one of the last dredges up in the vic alpine region in the 80s just before they made it illegal. Woods point copper even came down at midnight to make sure that we'd pulled the dredge out the night the law changed.

[@gregoryallan1137]

Was a sad day for us hey 😢😭I still spewing about it.😢

[@nickfranklin1867]

Great story!

[@Ful-OGold]

I often talk to dredgers in America and they say they have a lot of fishermen follow the dredgers around because the dredgers holes the fish seem to love and breed there. So much for dredging destroying the habitat.

[@gregoryallan1137]

Yea fishies are our friends.🐟🐟🐟

[@philhofland5501]

Yep. Used to see em hang out at the end of the sluice box all the time. dredging was like welfare for fish .. Basically free lunch

[@BillL-yk2tr]

Fantastic 😊

[@gregoryallan1137]

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[@petereaton6740]

Great series thanks for sharing 👍

[@solvermist]

bring on part 3

[@gregoryallan1137]

It comming.🙂

[@solvermist]

@@gregoryallan1137 i wonder how much in total he would have found through all those years of prospecting.....just a ball park estimate,,,,250 kg of gold?

[@gregoryallan1137]

​​@@solvermistwell I got 53 ozer.3ozer then 37oz reef patch.that be in next vid.mum and dad got the other big ones but I got a share but just giving you what I found here ok .got a 21ozer and a 5ozer then dredging got 71oz nik.63 Loddon.57 mcivor.and about another 40oz from tanjil.latrobe and alberfeldy rivers.then when minelab 2100s came out I prob got another 170oz over 10 years.thats 520 ounces.at the gold prices back then wich was about say 700 to 800 an oz thats $416.000.if you divide that by 20 years its 20k a year.a living hey.but at today's price of $4000 an oz its a staggering $2.080.000.😢😢

[@solvermist]

@@gregoryallan1137 geez mate you are a living legend i remember when an oz of gold was double the price of an oz of weed

[@TheCoffeeBushKid]

Fascinating to listen to. Thanks Michelle 😁👍

[@ProspectingAu]

Hello Greg ,great stories of the good days and many more to come,if we were all born 150 years ago we would be all in our prime,the old timers might of had it tough but they had the best times,thank you for sharing your life with us,all the best Steve 😊

[@gregoryallan1137]

Thanks so much Steve.much appreciated.❤

[@davidsoden1649]

Great video and interview, i myself dredged before they banned it , we were on the crocked river below grant and got a heap of gold , did it for 3 months full time , storey about the eel i can relate to that as we use to suck them up with the nozel, I did do a bit of dregeing on the Nicholson at Deptford but not much but got onto a bit of nice gold , loved the crooked river more , did also do a bit in the east branch of the tyres river and Donnellys creek which was rich ,cheers

[@we.s2872]

You are an inspiration to me, I want to do what you do, may God bless you.

[@gregoryallan1137]

Thank you so much❤

[@nathan_486]

Thanks for sharing your stories! If I could go back I can think of a few pretty good spots! Here in Kal being one. 😂

[@gregoryallan1137]

M sure you have.😅🤣😂🤑🤑🤑❤

[@kimbo3068]

Brilliant Modern Gold Prospecting Story ! yet another example of Negative Govt interference!

[@gregoryallan1137]

Yes.😐

[@ramblinburdenw4563]

I went to the dredge hole in Dunolly today.

[@shanelocke237]

And how did you go mate,did you find any nuggets???🎉

[@ramblinburdenw4563]

@@shanelocke237 No nuggets mate

[@liamwake1583]

Gary that photo of you pointing at an exposed nugget in the ground, was that real or just a laugh for a photo?

[@kaynef6637]

Freaking nice

[@I.Live4oldcars.prospecting]

Good video. Shame we are banned from dredging now.

[@shanelocke237]

I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THAT. ITS A SHAME NOW THE RESTRICTIONS PUT ON US PROSPECTOR'S

[@gregoryallan1137]

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[@Diggers-prospecting]

There's no reason why dredging should be illegal. I've dredged thousands of hours over the years and after every flood the place looks perfect. We remove huge amounts of lead and amalgam. With controls in place there are many benefits to dredging for Australian waterways.

[@gregoryallan1137]

Yes the floods do rearrange it back perfecto.

[@timking8495]

Might be time to start patreon to ya channel if you haven’t already got it.or what Eva they call it.

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