The Whole Sluice Filled With GOLD! MY BEST GOLD RECOVERY 🤑

[@williampendergrass186]

Great find! I understand why you don't want to video the spot, but please tell us why you think this spot was so rich and what were the indicators for such a super hot spot.

[@VoGusProspecting]

Whole area was mined by a drag line dredge. The issue with these machines is often the can't reach all the way to the bottom. And they tend to miss side pay, especially near bedrock. This gold is side pat the dredge missed.

[@VoGusProspecting]

Yes I know, I don't have a beard. Let's move on from that and enjoy the gold 😉😊

[@BeefyPrepperthegolddigger]

Vo-Gus Prospecting 😂😂😂😂 could of swore I saw it behind the sluice hiding

[@leannkennedy6568]

Haha I wasn't going to comment just in case this was a young Chris video...

[@HeidiConanGoldProspecting]

U look great m8. I know when I shave I will take some heat too!

[@Simon-Hebo_Rasmussen]

😂😂😂😂😂😂❤🤪

[@natashablack1101]

It took me a while to miss the beard. I actually thought it was the beanie that was different... for just a moment... love your work

[@michaelboon9546]

Awesome find dude! I am a stone cutter (10+years of cutting), and own and operate a crystal, gem, and mineral store. Just to give you an idea about the garnets, I sell tumble polished pieces for $0.05/gram, however the Aussie ones would fetch a small premium. They look too small for cutting, but if you had a heap of them, they could be polished up. Any questions about stones/crystals, let me know :)

[@VoGusProspecting]

Cheers for the information mate! I know nothing about gems or crystals, I had to base my guess off Google and we all know how accurate that is. We get literally hundreds of these every session.

[@michaelboon9546]

Vo-Gus Prospecting yeah, they are my area of specialty, so always happy to help with anything. Flick me through a message if there is anything I can help with. Would be awesome to find them, Aussie Garnets are amazing when cut, so if you ever find one big enough to cut (usually looking for minimum of 4-5cts for a good stone) let me know :) Best of luck with the rest of the digging.

[@TheSilmarillian]

The Australians one do opal miner here lol

[@mikegeorge2006]

Thanks Chris, so encouraging to a newbie prospector seeing what effort and hard yards can produce. I get heaps of valuable info every time I watch one of your vids. Great stuff!

[@Aco747lyte]

Thank you so, so much - Billie my youngest daughter was really cheered up despite her Upper Respiratory Tract infection! She's coughing like a seal, but laughing at your great personality! Like me, Billie is an enthusiastic gold and gemstone prospector (garnets, topaz and sapphires) - with thanks to you she's been doing so brilliantly all because of your helpful tips these last 2 months! *Hugs* from Wendi and Billie ( only 13)

[@rogermowery3048]

That was awesome Chris, Congrats on a good find all around! Can't wait to see the up-sized sluice in action. Best Regards, Roger

[@benjaminrapp7418]

We used to find garnets all the time while prospecting when we lived in Alaska. Never did anything with them. I'm kicking myself now. I'd love to find a few to make my wife a ring out of them. We both love rustic and we find the raw, uncut stones far more attractive than perfectly cut and polished gems.

[@simplifygardening]

Congrats on 100k

[@longbowshooter5291]

Chris, while you insist you do it a a hobby, and I believe you, I really admire how much knowledge you have about geology, terrain, minerals, techniques, tools, equipment, how to read the streams, and the history of what the original miners did that helps you to find the gold. I know how much more enjoyment one can receive from a hobby the more they know about it, and I can tell from your videos that you, truly, just do it more for the enjoyment of it than the profit. But it's nice when you do "strike it rich" at times, that allows you the funds to continue in what you enjoy doing. I love it when you do, I'm honestly glad for you. I envy your freedom and opportunities to live as you wish, and wish you as much success in what you do as you can wish for. As I've said before, I think you've instructed me so well, that if I was still in the gold mining areas of Colorado I used to live in years ago, I feel confident that, thanks to you, I would be able to find good gold. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@boxingfan2281]

I genuinely like that you underestimate the weight at the end. Really enjoyed the videos and looking forward to watching a few more whilst in this lockdown. Thanks for the effort you put into these.

[@thomaswhite8433]

For some reason doesn't seem to be much black sand for all that gold my concentrator always loads up on black sand when I get gold like that. Did you salt your concentrate for the video

[@michaellorden8150]

Dude you look like 19 years old now

[@garynagle5549]

Chris you seem to be the only one that informs us about removing the air bubbles from the mats before proceeding our clean up much appreciated mate and I will remember this important advice, cheers

[@VoGusProspecting]

Trying my hardest to bring you relevant content.

[@GrotyGold]

Yep that was an awesome cleanup well done mate love it. Cheers for sharing.

[@luvovror02]

Wow! This is one of the first videos I watched. Hard to believe it is 3 years ago. It has been awesome watching you grow and share all the information you have researched.

[@CrispsApples]

You should do a 40 hour "work" week on that same location but not touch the cons until the 40 hours is up. Then do another video. Would be cool to see a 40 hour work week of prospecting and the end results. Just something to consider :)

[@13thbiosphere]

I think he spends 40 hours doing content creation on KZbin ....Like filming and editing film... probably makes more money from KZbin than he does making money from gold

[@maxcloutier5285]

The tiny garnets have a good color. Garnets do not have a high value like sapphires so I am not sure they Worth the cutting fees. But, it is actually very trendy to set rough stones in rings. Jewelers set rows of them and it is very cute. I think those garnets would do the job. After looking a few dozen of your fun videos, I ordered and received today my first gold pan. I looked at Google map and choosed not too far rivers to go practice. Next mild day, I will go.

[@Klesh]

Soooooo Niiiice!

[@questex4340]

I like that Chris likes to measure his gold in terms of Klesh guitar picks. It keeps that international connection. Hope you make it back to Oz when travel is a thing again, coz it was good to see you work with him and to do your own thing as well

[@theguythatlikeslegos7708]

yay Klesh is here

[@drd1924]

Where did you prospect this dirt from? Dont need your exact spot of course, just general area, Country, State, City? I dig for gold in Calif.

[@kennethmurphy3787]

That's planted in the pay dirt. He films everything he can then all of a sudden he doesnt film when he gets his best dirt. Yeah doing it for the views

[@davesaunders4592]

Exactly planted dirt what a Mongol

[@pank524]

Wow that was some rich dirt would love to see more from where that came from

[@deanf7086]

Ummm,never will because it’s in fairy tale land!

[@happycamper897]

very surprised at what you said about garnet price.... north east of Alice Springs around Harts Range, garnet bombs are found on the surface of the ground ranging in size from marbles to oranges, and worth a dime a dozen. So very common.

[@dzymslizzy3641]

IMO, the garnets would be interesting for jewelry even if not cuttable/gem quality. Just run through a tumbler to put a polish on them and smooth the rough edges, and they'd make for nice, casual pieces in necklaces, bracelets, earrings or rings...

[@c-dubmediallc4933]

It's going to take a few to get used to you with no beard. It was a great cause though. You need to talk to Dan Hurd about doing this. I would love to see him without his beard.

[@bobcansee]

LOL

[@finntobin6887]

I thought this was a different channel

[@mikeplant9163]

no ,please don't!!!!

[@clintdoolittle1576]

I don't think Dan would shave his beard off🇨🇦😎👍🇨🇦😎👍🇨🇦😎👍

[@c-dubmediallc4933]

I think it would be awesome for the cause tho

[@monetkaua3622]

2:00 old stone arrowhead from neolith between the stones

[@mitchellmaytorena1137]

MoNetka UA You’re right. That’s crazy. It looks pretty big.

[@mitchellmaytorena1137]

Hopefully he still has it.

[@monetkaua3622]

@@mitchellmaytorena1137 ;)

[@FlourgoldWizards]

Fine looking gold and garnets !!!!! I always say im going to just pan down to a handful and bring it all home but rarely do it.... I just like to see the gold in the pan!!!!!! Excellent job 👍🏻✅

[@DiamondMinerIvins]

Man you get around! 🤙🏻⛏

[@imdawolfman2698]

You left out the stage where you panned out your beard clippings, there had to be at least 0.02 gram of gold dust in there! That was great, thanks for sharing your enthusiasm and, even more, your wide-eyed joy. It was like having a Christmas morning in May.

[@robheathcote8561]

Chris: 4.4 grams, thats awesome Parker: 4.4 grams, your all fired hahahahahaha

[@VoGusProspecting]

Yeah but parkers a dick

[@Desttro73]

@@VoGusProspecting Plus Parker's Overhead for Employees, Equipment, Maintenance & Gas is unreal. I much rather do it your way, almost 100% Profit every time.

[@maxine67torana]

You need long nose tweezers to make it easier to pick up gold and gems. The garnets look small, use a strong light to look through them, any that you can not see any cracks should be ok to facet. There is a highly recommended company Lambert fine gems, in Thailand that will facet tiny gems & if they cant they send them back. Alot of people from my lapidary club use them to cut their small Zircons, Garnet & Sapphires. Thanks for all your hard work and sharing tips, trick and just the how to. I am new to detecting, recently bought Minelab Equniox800 only been out twice weather getting too hot here in SA

[@HR.DarkFire]

Hahaha without the beard you look like Pioneer Pauly

[@VoGusProspecting]

I'm older than him so he looks like me.

[@jgon666brb]

Don't insult Chris like that

[@joshdfox420]

Lol That is EXACTLY what I was gonna say!!! I think we've been had! Vogus and pioneerPaulie are the same guy!! Lol just kidding

[@HR.DarkFire]

@@VoGusProspecting Lol if that's what the truth is.

[@joeljeffery8704]

that's a bald face lie!

[@caesarillion]

Respect for all that hard work! I sold my California house and moved to Thailand where I baught investment gold bars. Good idea really. I also have some panned gold from California that I purchased from a prospector friend before I left. Thanks for the show, Thailand Paul

[@elonmust7470]

The brooming of the gold, for some odd reason made me laugh.

[@revenevan11]

ASMR gold cleanup lol

[@rockymountainlifeprospecti4423]

I keep the garnets as well put them in little jars and trade or sell them at the international gem show! Like you we have garnet rich waterways here in Colorado! And a good indicator of heaviest being dropped in that spot,gold soon to follow!! At least in my experiences..

[@dinosqautch6941]

You might wanna keep the lucky chin! You could always do a handlebar stache 🤣

[@jamessolway3099]

Awesome video as usual gold finger 👍

[@Famo59]

You definitely are living the dream... Thanks for sharing this.. You definitely look 10 years younger now with out your beard 🧔.. Cheers Famo59 👍🤓🍺⛏

[@weetarted3715]

If you place the garnets onto a light you will be able to see how translucent they are and with a glass you then can see if there is inclusions and defects. If they are translucent and smoothing color without inclusions or cracks you should be able to facet them

[@ANDYTHRAXX]

This is the most exciting part of prospecting!! Amazing clean up Chris and fantastic looking gold. Such a rich deep yellow🙂

[@gembomoiky8141]

I ❤this video watching from PAPUA NEW GUINEA 🇵🇬.

[@bill1usmc]

The first time you hit a 60 gram day you'll probably have a heart attack. 🤣😂

[@bigtom3893]

This is third or fourth time I've watched this particular video. You do a great job explaining things as you go. Thank you Mr.Chris

[@rodneyhaley1734]

I couldn’t find the smash Button so I smashed the Like Button instead lol

[@ANIMAL168]

That was cool, Wow, what an awesome surprise. Over 4g. You went to alot to get that gold, but proved your method. Really good video. Benny

[@PioneerPauly]

The button smash like 👍

[@VoGusProspecting]

It's broken, people liked by accident.

[@jmo8611]

Said I'd never watch another prospecting channel besides yours but his title was tempting pauly. I'm so sorry. 😖

[@kaningraja2145]

Loved your gold finding by sluice box. Love u bro. God bless u.

[@WingManWalker]

that's worth $339 Canadian!!1 crazy!!

[@chrisballard7594]

That was very informative. Just one question, I won’t asked where you found the gold. But where did you find the shot gun pellets?

[@omegaseamaster1550]

Who is this guy impersonating Chris ?? Grizzly, is that you ?? ;)

[@TalRohan]

Wow thats a cleanup and a half..... moving into the future by time machine the miller table is going to make clean ups like that a lot easier

[@dkelley4177]

Now,Smoothie, Go clean the Kitchen before Your Wife gets Home, or, We'll hear Her screaming in Arizona.

[@wheresthegovernance4350]

Back during the 2003 Alpine fires we had a CAT D10 put in some fire control lines down to and along a small section of the Dargo River. At night with our headlamps I got to see the glittering with gold as sung in 'stairway to heaven'!

[@tridip20]

Goldddd,🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑👋👍

[@ilonamollema6467]

You did an amazing job at this claim! No wonder you're not filming on site. No one needs to know where it is. I'm happy that you've found such a rich site. Can't wait to see you process more from that claim. Saying hi from the Netherlands. 🤗 🇳🇱

[@WhoTFareyou2]

Man the no beard thing is screwing with me

[@czknightrider2338]

Where were you pulling your water source from in this video?

[@Stufireman]

I'm glad of the intro you usually do, it proves you are who you say you are.... :)

[@VoGusProspecting]

Who else would I be.

[@Stufireman]

@@VoGusProspecting Without the beard some young bloke who knows nothing yet of what constitutes prospecting prowess :D

[@graemecouch5010]

I know a great spot full of crevice gold in river bed but dont have a suction pump to remove it. Any ideas.?

[@jeremygilbreath9480]

Awsome video man. Great cleanup. Just noticed your using the gold hog multi sluice for your water source to feed another sluice for your cleanup. Do you not like the multi sluice?

[@VoGusProspecting]

No point running it for such a small amount of cons is all. Otherwise I'd be using the GH for later clean ups.

[@jeremygilbreath9480]

@@VoGusProspecting oh olay yea that makes sense. was just qurious cause I am a big fan of that machine and use it alot. Great video tho man

[@OG_DILLIGAFIS_98]

Chris mate, where can i get a little cleanup sluicelikeyours for the micro mat?

[@VoGusProspecting]

This is home made.

[@OG_DILLIGAFIS_98]

@@VoGusProspecting love the work mate, could i pm you on facebook for some more advice? Cheers - Casey

[@bradwelch7425]

Bloody Awesome return there Chris, nothing like getting a couple of grammes, a bit like the old days, tis a good feeling. The best I scored was a 6g nuggy, did the crazy dance, thank goodness no-one saw me. Keep it quiet from experience, the flies will come and descend and there wont be a scrap left. Even watched in rear view mirror as I drove away and saw them running down the hill and jumping into the spot I was working, gold does some stupid things to people and you just gotta wonder. Stay safe and go get some more dirt. Cheers Brad...

[@johnharrop5530]

Thanks Chris Awesome all that glitters is Gold and some

[@robertedmonds5567]

Yes.... please show me more about dry blowing

[@rochellesmith84]

What are your thoughts on panning in Chiltern? I live in Wodonga and really want to give it a go 😁

[@VoGusProspecting]

Plenty of gold out there

[@bryonmason6330]

Outstanding young Man! You'll hit it. I have no doubt about it. Good job!

[@VoGusProspecting]

I appreciate that!

[@Null-Red-Blue]

Is the coarse classifier in this vid just a regular strainer? Looks nice.

[@bigfootdarrell13]

at 2:00 is that an artifact in there as well?

[@pkgoldopalhunting]

how long and wide is your clean up sluice and how many mats in it

[@VoGusProspecting]

3 wide about 8 long.

[@pkgoldopalhunting]

@@VoGusProspecting ok thanks , thats inches i take it, so one mat which they sell will cover the sluice

[@whatif8741]

Is your tray 3d printed? I just saw the pinned picture and saw the layer like one your tray

[@ahk0341]

That's really cool man! New subscriber here. Will definitely be watching more.

[@frederickbierweiler8020]

Cris im surprised you are not wearing a Canadian Toque fron BC.. WOW great gold, Great watch keep them coming

[@johnnygoins7457]

That is pretty good for a couple of hrs.we have a lot of garnet here in Idaho .where do you even sell something like that .

[@bexbugoutsurvivor]

Newbie prospector here. Just wondered what the black is in the clean up gold...Black Gold??? Anyone help...Thanx

[@mikemorrison5277]

At two minutes when you were going through the bigger rocks I saw something that looked like a nice arrow head at the bottom or the pan.Did you keep it?And do you ever search for them where you are located?

[@wonka2112]

Nice go baby face! lol Really nice indeed! And the garnet's, what a nice addition!

[@VoGusProspecting]

Thank you kindly

[@BeefyPrepperthegolddigger]

Awesome!! Beautiful cleanup!!! And I love seeing spot put griz in his place!!

[@brown126639]

if this is your full time job, you are a lucky man.

[@robertzavala92]

I also noticed some pretty garnets there too. Nice.

[@VoGusProspecting]

Yeah buddy, theres heaps of them there

[@seanmadill283]

I'm getting gold fever from watching this channel . Thanks Chris

[@debhester8665]

Blue pan+ Gold = Green... ie; I am green! :P What an amazing clean up! Love to see more!

[@brendenbarnes2071]

When I first brought home a few buckets of gully wash from my secret spot, I was unknowingly chucking out sapphires.only little ones but gems all the same but where there's little ones............... I check all tailings from now on.😁 Oh yeah, I ran it through my home made sluice box constructed from a school desk and some shelves out of an old fridge. Works great, held onto lots of flour.👍

[@objectivesovereignty]

Hay man , what do you do with all the left over concentrates after processing the gold out of it ? Do you just chuck it on the garden for now. If so by the time you get to 80 years old or so you'll end up with a BMX track in the back yard.

[@VoGusProspecting]

Normally we take them back to the creek and throw it down the Sluice to load the beds.

[@objectivesovereignty]

@@VoGusProspecting Yer, I commented before watching to the end. You did mention later in video. Cheers.

[@jdlt4235]

Was that an arrow head on the big material??

[@ukulelegoldnuggets1466]

Cowabunga ! That's some fine looking gold! Looks like the weather is cooling down. Thanks for sharing. Where did you say you got that gold? Ha.

[@VoGusProspecting]

From the ground 😉

[@MrRicksta76]

whats not to like. Chris+Gold+cute dogs = 15 minutes of entertainment :)

[@GreenMountainGoldTrap]

Someone is a little chilly now!😁 Yup, that's a super clean up right there Chris.

[@Cakeburgahchips]

I love the videos keep up the good work👍

[@beebob1279]

Fun stuff. There's no gold around where I live (except for jewelry stores) so the next best thing is watching the different ways others find it.

[@brandonjackson7168]

Nice clean up Chris, probably worth going back too huh,wow super nice

[@justanotherfishingchannelMG]

Nice clean up chris

[@woodybatter3896]

I JUST tried out my micro dream mat yesterday😁 I noticed the air bubbles and wondered if it was because it wasn’t “seasoned”. Now I know. I don’t think I’ve learned more about prospecting from any other channel. 😎👍 thanks.

[@stephenpublicover8818]

hey friend, i know of a spot here in nova scotia canada where they dumped tons of hard rock ore from 1870-1895 in to a lake forming a white quarts sand beach, should i try banning some?

[@MADxxDAWG1]

Awesome video!! Got super excited, with you when all that fine gold was showing in the sluice! Thx man!!

[@rockydavies9555]

Awesome job Chris

[@scottmead927]

Where did you get the mat for your tray

[@scottmead927]

Making my own System

[@Hawkido]

gratz mate! nice clean out... is this from an area that dredging is possible? if so give that a whirl, and let us see the results.

[@brodie_brook1748]

bro u are so inspirational to me because my uncle and i have only just started to do sluicing ang panning and sfter watching this im gonna go out and get some gold hopefully

[@DaleDuffy]

Nice shiney, good video Chris...!

[@piranhakeeper4615]

Are the black pieces gold too?

[@frederickbierweiler8020]

chris you know we all love to see the gold! more cleanups from there please great video

[@VoGusProspecting]

You got it

[@Nicktate-f9j]

What angle do run that at? Sorry newbie, Cheers

[@thesurfingprospector6345]

Bloody AWSOME Chris very nice indeed Crouch