Mining For Gold Like a 1850s Gold Rush Prospector!

[@VoGusProspecting]

What's your favourite sandwich?

[@nsa_surveillance_orb-42b]

PB an Honey, just slathering with honey

[@wp.sworld.s]

Turkey and swiss cheese and you know KZbin is not sending out the notifications on time once again I didn't get your live feed so sucks I'll watch it again now I'm pretty sure it was good as always

[@micahmann6967]

My man lol never wrong with pbh​@@nsa_surveillance_orb-42b

[@micahmann6967]

I love me in some reconstituted, sweetened and condensed dinosaur though 😂 love you mate keep it up! Finally started bringing a chair out with ya. I've been bringing a foldable little step stool w me lol

[@scottstewart6217]

Ham and Cheese my man 👍👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@kompressahdnb]

Min wage vs gold prospecting is such a fun idea. Nice one!

[@VoGusProspecting]

I thought so, should be interesting to see if its possible to do.

[@kevilrpm]

The rock was obviously Gadziryte! 😉Can't mistake it! Thanks for the stream washing Idea! Pretty fond of Ham and Cheese myself also. Looking forward to the next one! Vote Right! 👌

[@VoGusProspecting]

Oh of course! Gadziryte!

[@ancellsadventures]

That panning chair is the fn ticket!!! Why have I never thought about that before!!

[@eddieeldorado-qw2nb]

you fellers are fun to watch,howdy from hangtown california the heart of the motherlode. i am actually a 1850 type of miner, i own a original 1850 gold mine,35 acres of rock and rattlesnakes i work the mine when i want to,its blasted hot right now too hot to swing a pick.the creeks out here dry up this time of year thats why hangtown is called dry diggins.... my favorite 1850 gold pan is a cast iron frying pan,which is what most 49rs used,, I notice you guys ain't wearing pistols must be a Australian law or something. I always wear a 44 for claim jumpers or mountain lions. click my big green G for how us 49rs operate OLD 49r TIP.. when the miners from china were here they used flat bedrock to chisels riffles into the rock making a permanent sluice box and they are still here, ive used them often in weber creek and hangtown creek. imagine a 150 year old sluice box modern chisels make them deeper

[@dylanjames4537]

Many places in the bedrock in the goldfield that have been made to be a crude sluice or concentration. I have found a few.

[@raphaelsmithwick4363]

What on earth is a 49er 😂

[@seanb3516]

@@raphaelsmithwick4363 It's a 69'er from 20 years ago... XD

[@shanejones578]

@@raphaelsmithwick43631849, California gold rush. That’s why San Fran’s football team is the 49ers. There was a mass migration in the hopes to strike gold in California.

[@gregcollis9688]

Yah love Sundays buckshot, golf and vogus. Wanted to go panning but thought I probably should spend some time with the fam.

[@NovoGold]

Dares on me, or a Whiskey 😂 Thanks for another awesome episode. Cheers👍

[@VoGusProspecting]

Both! Well. Maybe a smell of a good whisky

[@NovoGold]

@@VoGusProspecting 😂😂👍

[@mickryan2450]

Then I did ice then I did ice

[@insidebendprospecting]

That river sluice method is really cool! I'll give it a try when i run across the right setup

[@JustGoofingWithGold]

You are my inspiration to get back on the creek. Thanks for all the videos!

[@joedunlap6276]

Would love some good whiskey talk with the prospecting. I'm interested in the blinds of good whiskey you guys have in Australia. Keep up the great work Chris and Gadzee!!!!

[@lonnieswafford4833]

Ok, American here. The phrase I grew up hearing over and over and over again ( my entire family was involved in and owned construction businesses) was " you just worry about filling the back of that shovel, the front will take care of itself" Total sarcasm but very true !!😅😅😅 Good luck my friend...

[@leighanncronin6905]

😂

[@joannagrimmer]

My favourite sammich is lettuce and mayo wrapped avo and chicken that is showered with shovels of pepper! Delighted to see lovely glitter on those scales, Chris. Most of QLD is warmer than Vic. Nice sapphires and garnets up here in the top end of the state. So for your FYI: as you said the minimum basic wage per hour in 2024 in Australia is around AU$23,23 which is around US15.50/hr. And the 2024 USA mandated basic wage is around US$7.70. But Columbia district has the highest minmum wage of US$17/hr.

[@leighanncronin6905]

This new challenge sounds fun!

[@mocaman99]

Very clever... cheers for the vid Chris :)

[@michaelclark7536]

You can’t really compare gold to money. Gold is gold and money is paper controlled by government. Good work Chris your rich beyond belief in so many ways 🎉😊

[@cindybaehr9500]

Time working includes the time spent cleaning up the gold.. It's part of the job. So you should get paid for cleanup as well as for panning.

[@ministerRichardIanofKerr]

I'm thinking shouting you both airfares along with the accommodation. As you'll need a good 3-7 days to appreciate the islands geology and have a good look around. And I have a spare Rodeo 4x4 Spacecab you can use to save the car hire. All I ask is you take up the offer and share the tale in your uploads.

[@brandonjackson1434]

You guys gotta give it a go bros

[@seantodd393]

I’m subscribing just because you have the right take on Wiskey

[@nsa_surveillance_orb-42b]

The live chat during the premier was so entertaining, I have to re-watch the video now lol Thx for the fun

[@cliff2891]

Bro, I love your humour 😂

[@davidtaylor-xy1ir]

Vegemite and cheese and the ideas you come up with for your vids are excellent. Great work Chris

[@hasmeadali7316]

That river slice is awesome. Keep those ideas coming. It's always a surprise what you will come up with next. Gold bless you guys always and please stay safe out there

[@juju-xx5xn]

I love BLT's (bacon, lettuce & tomato) in the summertime! I put lots of bacon on mine! LOL Great video as always!

[@VoGusProspecting]

So good!

[@seanb3516]

I've been trying to concentrate gold with a 45. A 45° Bucket that is. Find a place in the stream where you can tip a bucket and have the water swirl in the bucket and overflow. Create a vortex. Now spend a half hour slowly shovelling dirt into the bucket and let the water wash away anything light. After a while you will have nothing left but black sand and heavies. It works amazingly well with the right water flow.

[@bjvoorhies]

When using the river to concentrate the bank gold, how about raking the river dumped stuff to stir up it and allowing the lights to leave easier and the heavies to sink? ....like creating a "better full creak natural sluice". Great vid, by the way. Different ways to look at things. Fun. Thanks!

[@VoGusProspecting]

Thats literally what i was doing man, i didnt film most of it due to time restrictions

[@allancolley6306]

Hello from Alabama USA 🇺🇸

[@TheCoffeeBushKid]

Great concept Chris. Will be great to see how you end up for the 38 hours. Good luck 😁👍

[@VoGusProspecting]

I hope its enough for a coffee in the Melbourne CBD

[@Matts_Crevice_tools]

Great video. Will be good to see how you go for the entire week.

[@tommynoel9929]

Thanks Chris!

[@squeak1888]

The sandwich is named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, my fav is peanut butter cause its top notch stuff

[@mooloolahmark9807]

Afternoon chris , still diggin it 😂 . When you coming to Queensland?

[@VoGusProspecting]

This Thursday

[@seanb3516]

I use the 'river-as-a-sluice' idea as a quick'n'dirty test for gold dust. Find a flat rock with some water flow over it and drop a small scoop on it. Wait a moment and in the sunlight if there's gold it sure shows itself. Very fast testing however is susceptible to false signals from Pyrites and Mica, etc.

[@Jagabot_Esq.]

Slices of: ham (whatever is on sale), chicken breast (plain, smoked, fajita, whatever is on sale at the deli), bacon (can be roast beef instead, again whatever is on sale), lettuce, tomato, thin sliced avocado, Havarti, cranberry spread (or jelly), bit of whatever dressing (or mayo) you like, and the bread needs to be something heavy (Manchester malt, Winnipeg light rye, etc.). You'll be eating gourmet sandwiches for life once you try them.

[@bradhile5031]

Criss the best samwich mashed egg with lettuce raw red onion splash of mayo lots of real butter awsome I like ham and cheese to not bad 👍😜

[@Brettster107]

Brilliant idea.

[@NovoGold]

Must agree Chris, cannot stand Beer, i like my Bourbon & Whiskey 👍

[@edwardpawley3061]

Tuna is best when it's very warm weather.

[@TalRohan]

mmmm lots of tuna with half mayonnaise and half salad cream to make it spreadable

[@nickkowal6537]

Could you replicate that river sluicing method by laying 1-2m of some rubber backed carpet in the river. Then just roll it up at the end and process off-site?

[@Amandapand71]

Yeah u can easy

[@Silvereagledude]

Good stuff

[@VoGusProspecting]

Thank you!

[@timothyanderson2108]

Hey what colours water to you That's a thing I'd not even come to thoughts of Still trying to get round the colours an how fun gold must be to find in the cons

[@gavinhogg6552]

I saw HAIRY PALMS at the Fists of Fury contest 😂😅

[@timothyanderson2108]

I'd actually try the sluice creek every time I was there The shovel doggers might go hard in the creek close lol not down the areas it's settled 😂😂😂

[@danielharrimansr773]

Im with you Chris , a ham sand-mitch cant be beat. 😂

[@MichaelCuevas-bg2bt]

I live in a city of California where gold was found 6 years before the official gold rush in 1848 up in northern Cali. Placerita Canyon 1842 Santa Clarita. The first recorded gold found in California, 6 years before 1848 gold rush.

[@ADDeeJay]

It's not dinosaur. It's scale tree from the Carboniferous period. Nothing could eat lignin back then (tree bark). So these things just piled up everywhere and became coal and oil eventually.

[@sugarnads]

Corned beef with ketchup on toasty bread. Yummo.

[@jasonflannery4741]

Especially seeing as the price keeps on going up, it will be a full time job where we have the freedom that some of us seek.

[@gabivalla6279]

Reality teletube, Chris! Some ye olde timey methods of processing worth thinking of for upcoming sessions, especially when stuff gets left at home.

[@DDEC923]

Give us an idea what the uncut, unfinished, undesired value of the various gems, tin, and whatever else you might sell from 38 hours with a shovel and gold pan? If we were really trying to live this way we would need to know about everything we might likely find and be able to sell. Thank you for all your gReAt videos. You Guys are Awesome!!!

[@barhunter2394]

suggestion smacking that hole hitting the the top side of the bush which is top side of creek and right side of cam or left side of water flow to begining of the bushyweeed pod , which is where the heavy would drop first no and if not then the opposite side if you know what i mean basically you were in the middle 1st on top, you middle , and opposite of first bottom of water running

[@hiddentruth1982]

And the price of things will go up at the same time.

[@CavalrySecurity]

Minimum wage of 23.23 is 15.12 US currently, but Aus is expensive all over, in the USA there are expensive states and cheaper states. Federal Minimum wage is only 7.25, Florida set minimum wage to 12.00 an hour currently, but Security ranges from 14-15 or so, Tenn. where I live has a Min. wage At the 7.25 Federal Rate, but Security is around 17-18 or so. I enjoy your channel, my favorite Prospector channel from Aus.

[@mickryan2450]

Your country must hate yous

[@scruggsbuster9458]

Peanut butter and jelly nice thick sandwich you peel a banana and you take a bite with the peanut butter and jelly😋 your quest for gold will pan out I have faith in you but as always enjoyed the video again thank you and I'll see you on the next one

[@jacintagwynne4969]

Just popping in to say that I believe that pretty rock could possibly be Serpentine or Dragon Stone, its like a combination of calcite and hematite. Or fossilised bone or wood.

[@RICDirector]

If the goalhere is to make money, you should be stockpiling tin and including the sale of rocks, right? Gadzees rock looks like schorl ( black tourmaline) in matrix, could be interesting to slice really thin.

[@SkateSoup]

"It's more like sweetened condensed dinosaur" I'm thoroughly stealing that once I stop laughing.

[@VoGusProspecting]

Its delicious and full of calories for your car

[@dynomania]

The tin is quite valuable you should smelt some Jason mbmmllc style 👍

[@breckfreeride]

Brokenfridge Colorado checking in

[@jasonhawes5096]

Hopefully you can get your refrigerator fixed!😂

[@mtnphot]

I had a retired forester tell me that the most useful prospecting tool was the strike-anywhete match.

[@deraldswain5516]

Why did you switch from the swirl method with the potato pan to that tilt and sweeping motion?

[@VoGusProspecting]

I studied how they are actually used. The origonal swirl was shown to me by a western guy. It works just not as well as the traditional methods.

[@ladonnaastle3056]

fav sammi- cheese and tomatoe- but 2 slices of cheese , with tommie in the middle- salt n pepper .

[@VoGusProspecting]

Nice, im down for that!

[@JeanKloth-vm9jh]

Hi from Wisconsin

[@brandoncote7082]

how long does it take to clean up? I feel like that should count

[@adventures-with-joe]

Since you're just chucking the low grade dirt onto the creek bed, wouldn't it work to make a giant 6X10 (feet) rubber sluice mat that you can just unroll on the river bottom?

[@Yuckster]

23.23 wow is that a lot of money there because I’m the USA it’s not bad

[@timothyanderson2108]

More fun then anything Til you find the house size speci 😅

[@ministerRichardIanofKerr]

8.5 minutes in, and I've already cracked up laughing a good three times..

[@scottdilley356]

I hope I win one of those 😮give aways lol lol keep the faith my friend

[@trevdyer173]

The ham and cheese with pickles

[@r-d6568]

38? Should be 40 like the rest of us, Slacker! 🤣 Favorite sandwich is conglomerate.

[@ssnerd583]

I work a decent job in the oil fields of west Texas and SE New Mexico and work has been slow this year....there is a 'slow season' December to end of March out here so that is the usual slow time.....and by end of April, I'm 'out of the red' for the year if not sooner. This year I am still as of August first, still $3800 in the red.....this year sucks

[@VoGusProspecting]

Time to go mining!

[@ssnerd583]

@@VoGusProspecting I would LOVE to go mining but I have NO IDEA where I'd go and what to do...even after watching thousands of vids on it....

[@defn0s]

Maine 🤘

[@rogersmith5910]

If you had the opportunity to look for gold in WA would you take that opportunity?

[@JustGoofingWithGold]

CHAIR!

[@josephknowlton7246]

Liked, shared and commented 🍻🤴🏻🗽 24:57

[@aessedai6540]

that pump thing, is it a yabby pump, a yavi pump, a yathi pump, i can't tell. thanks!

[@dartmart9263]

Are you trying to entice more people to move to Australia? LOL My favorite sandwich is whichever type is prepared by someone else. I can cook all kinds of gourmet dishes with no problem, but I hate having to make my own sandwiches. Somehow they never taste as good.

[@ДмитрийШиряев-ц1о]

Красота 👍

[@ScotlandsGold]

18:07 gadzees over there,gadzees over there,eeoo my daddyo gadeezs over there. You've just been Scotland's Golded

[@Krokmannetjie]

I love a good ham cheese and tamato tosted sandwitch

[@lonewolf1401]

darn we work at least 45 hrs in the states

[@glimmersbytanya]

15 $ an hour! They get 23$ starting….🤬

[@VoGusProspecting]

$23 an hour here is nothing. Rent is on avarage $600 per week for a 3 bedroom house. Milk is about $5.

[@gregcollis9688]

Petrol's $2 litre think its about $8 a gallon

[@gregcollis9688]

It's starting to feel like Zimbabwe must have.

[@cutlassman1]

Do you sell the tin you collect in your cons? And if so does that add into your hourly wage?

[@Red9GearHeads]

Aus. The land of quarts.

[@RatShitGold]

Hey Vo-Gus I've been getting into prospecting the last year and I really wanna start a KZbin to share my adventures. But I cant agree on a name and I love the one you came up with (Rat Shit Gold). Idk why but I feel obligated to ask if I can use it, it's such an awesome name I love it 😅

[@VoGusProspecting]

You should absolutely use it

[@scottdilley356]

Next time bring a pices of capet or a burlap bags then make your old way it should fall on the bag opps yep just wanted to say that it's a cheap sauce box I've done it alot

[@DavidStock-fw1fj]

Love how Gadz measures wages in 8ths 😂

[@Deepwoodsjoe]

Being a yank I don’t know why but, I’d like to try a vedamit sandwich haha and hold the salad dressing. Thanks again.

[@christheobald4982]

Ham and turkey sandwich with either cheese and onion, salt and vinegar or chilli heatwave doritos, crisps in it

[@PowRKord]

^5!

[@Yuckster]

So it’s not all about the gold as well for money you can make money off the tin and gems or crystals as so if you were to hunt and butcher you could probably get some meat to sell ect being out side with your natural resources you could make really good money on all this total up and over time you definitely could do great looking for gold but also making money in different ways . So you might not make 23 a hour on gold but every thing you could do you could make more. Great videos like all ways.

[@gregnz1]

NZ Minimum wage is 23.15 a hour.

[@seasonallyferal1439]

I live in Ontario and can't travel. I don't think there's gold near me. Crap load of quartz though

[@VoGusProspecting]

If you have quartz you probably have gems and crystals

[@dylanjames4537]

I hate beer too, im a whisky,bourbons and rum man.

[@scottdilley356]

Opps I ment to say cut the bag double it where you throw the dirt so you're sluice is abo5 foot long put a couple rows of big rocks so the gold can fall in front and be hind my creeks the water usually run faster dry it my friend it's a easy fast way to find gold in different creeks fast the bag a smaller bucket but a good little shovel

[@VoGusProspecting]

We have tried that and it works really well. We made several videos on it too.

[@scottdilley356]

@VoGusProspecting im a new watcher and supporter good luck

[@stephenfowler4115]

Looks like a mix of obsidian and something else

[@timofthomas]

Ham n Cheese Sarnie :P

[@steven_ewen]

How is your homebrew whisky going Chris?

[@VoGusProspecting]

I dont know what you are talking about, but if i were doing it, it would likely be going well.

[@steven_ewen]

@@VoGusProspecting wink wink. Nudge nudge. Say no more

[@josephfigura5227]

Hey Bama

[@MickH60]

If old mate feels like a "real man", maybe he should try Grindr....!!!

[@johnbarnettjr5830]

this would have been a perfect place for your 3 foot wide sluice maybe two of them side by side