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[@jerrywoods9989]

Highlight of the video is Fern at the end.

[@nuru666]

A piece of carpet and a tire?!! That is the MOST Aussie Outback Solution I have ever seen! Mick you god damned mad genius XD

[@nuru666]

Good Morning from Canada, Chris!

[@aggressivegold7330]

Yeah micks a total legend best bunch of lads an rofl to the intro luv ya guts brothers

[@mishham6388]

Straya mate

[@mackdickson1209]

Chris: Put the silencer on so we don't get complaints from neighbors. Mick: None that we will listen to anyway!! I like Mick, hes got balls...... lol

[@weekendwarriorprospecting817]

"Getting the air out of the riffles before use." See!! Little things like this are a godsend. I would've completely overlooked that 😂👍🏻

[@linda54wood]

Nothing better than the love and joy a dog brings into our lives. Not even gold. Gold can give you joy... but not the love a snuggles.❤ Great luck on that vein!!! Congratulations!

[@JacobE-23]

Look how tiny Fern is! She's adorable! Didn't realize how young she was seeing her in your newer videos. Still pretty new to the channel lol. Loving the content Chris!!

[@shaunandsqueak]

Hey Chris you can put a lid on your concrete mixer with a seal which will allow you to "tip" your mixer further and carry more "product" :) the metal clip lid off a 40 gallon drum or possibly the next size down drum works well! Also has the added bonus of making the unit way quieter lol As alway love ya channel ferns a sweet dog with awesome ears love seeing her wantin to listen and please ya :) Anyways.......... ONWARDS TO THE GOLD ME HEARTIES!!!! AARRRRRGH!!😉

[@hardrockuniversity7283]

You can also use hard, rounded river cobbles instead of or in addition to the steel balls for more grinding surface.

[@grandaddave1519]

Mick and his heavy balls!! Lol Fern at the end was so funny. She is a joy.

[@allansgoldmining]

That is sooo awesome Chris !! Forget everything else. Start drilling and blasting that vein ! Super nice show on the shiny ! We use to have a lode mine. Had a crusher, impact mill, sluice and shaker tables. Made enough $$$ to pay expenses and purchase a tractor and drilling equipment. We didn't get nearly the gold from such a small sample. Go for it mate !!

[@Aco747lyte]

Always check for specks of gold in your magnetics. What a wonderful video. Loved Fern! 😀

[@andrewharris9974]

Chris, once again I'd like to thank you!!! Finished up a nice long week of work here on Colorado USA and got to enjoy another great video of yours. From 20 seconds in, till the end once again, you had me giggling like a little school girl. You and Mick keep it up. Thank you. Heavy pans.

[@alvaroordoneznunez9830]

It need more balls of the big size

[@clintdoolittle1576]

CHRIS AND MICK you guys need to go back there asap to find the best stuff can't wait to see those videos. Mick that is Pure genius That's Cement mixer is a game changer lol Freaking AWESOME 👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦

[@ccarter0069]

Either your doing a better acting job or you are genuinely happy. Congrats, that's not easy.

[@mrgreenswelding2853]

Try putting carpet underlay around your cement mixer to deaden the sound. That's what we have done at work.

[@Anokaman]

We attached old carpet to every square inch on a big tumbler and it made a big difference. Good stuff here!

[@VoGusProspecting]

That's a great idea!

[@gnomespace]

I have a mixer-mill also. I use balls from 3" graded down to 1/2", use as much balls as ore and it gets ground down to powder. They key to size is that the ore will only be guaranteed to be ground to the inside walls of a tetrahedron of your smallest charge. The smaller stuff is from random impacts so is just a buy-product of what is happening. More grading of charge will get your ore powdered faster, and you have to have it somewhat crushed to start with rather than just tossing boulders in there. Heavy pans mate!

[@johnnywadd9918]

MICK'S NEIGHBORS REALLY LOVE HIM... with much glee in his voice. Hahaha

[@papasstuff6381]

I love when puppies try to help Dad! Owers is just over a year old and is still possessed by a velociraptor spirit.

[@chuxxsss]

After Chris and mick, great set of balls.

[@insolentstickleback3266]

Yes, you may call me, Old Moldy Balls! 🤣Balls of crushing destruction! This cement mixer mashup is awesome!

[@mikeweeks4669]

Nick's must be the most popular on the block 🤣

[@GrumpyGrunt]

I hope you keep finding good gold and get yourselves a claim soon!

[@richardsmith9798]

If the noise is annoying next door, try putting a couple of magnetic rubber pads on the outside of the drum, it should decrease the noise for the neighbours

[@VoGusProspecting]

Were going to run tyre cut offs on it in a similar way

[@TrevsOutbackandGoldAdventures]

Good work Vo Gus. Excellent result from your ore and interesting ball mill. I have a few suggestions which may have made your vid even more interesting from my point of view.Firstly, I noticed after you had finised the ball mill session and isolated the bigger rock fragments ,that there appeared to be some shiny ,clean rock faces that would lend themselves to a close examination through a lupe,to assess if any visible gold was present and an analysis of other intersting minerals such as pyrite,amd other sulphides ......Secondly,if you have been watching Jason of the chanel 'mbmmllc', you would know how the gold can be locked up in sulphides and that various methods of oxidising sulphides can reduce them and liberate some of this hidden,(usually discarded) sources of gold. In your video you could have isolated the sulphides from the sluice run tailings ,and from your magnet captures,and tried an oxidising technique, e.g. oixdisation with peroxide and or roasting the sulphides. then the reduced sulphides could have been sluiced and analysed for freed up gold. To my mind these 2 suggestions would have made your video even more captivating. Just my thoughts and I hope they are some value for you thoughful consideration.................In addition, if you haven't made a video yet of this aspect of gold recovery,(since I haven't been through all you works),I would love you to see do a video on Magnet fishing for gold......(see 'Prospecting River Gold With A Magnet!?' by 'Klesh' chanel). ..amazing and unexpected results. That's all for now my man.Keep up the good works.Good golding to you. p.s. don't do any golding or videos atm due to other demands of life.But would love to get back into it soon.

[@alfster1969]

Excellent Results! Well Done Chris, I’ve been waiting for this one since you showed that reef the pup found lol Please stay awesome and the great videos coming!

[@danpyle2947]

That was funny chris great blooper

[@frankharrington5565]

So happy for you Chris. May the gold Gods bless you for your years of dedication.

[@user-hp2um3jb3i]

As a song i remember from the 1980. I will change the word i to Mick gots big balls

[@andrewmitchell402]

i bet Mick's neighbours absolutely adore him.........

[@HR.DarkFire]

Hahahaha that ball mill its just so LOUD, he has got some balls.

[@gilbertdwight608]

If it does work out for you Chris ,you might be able to get a new windcheater and you can give that old one to Fern to add a few new holes

[@nickvie71]

Neighbors shall not complain. The more gold you can process, the sooner you will move out there ;)

[@VoGusProspecting]

This is a good point

[@TalRohan]

cool reveal and ball crusher.... and a very cool ferny scoop just realised Ive seen the video before and commented but still good fun

[@kenlyneham4105]

It's great to see you out in the bush, laughing at the antics of your dog.

[@johngibson4321]

Greetings Chris, good use for a cement mixer & hopefully it can be reverted back to it's main use when needed. Just need to refit the original blades back in if at all possible. " Mostly used for crushing no doubt ". " Very cool & brilliant idea " +1

[@mary-ruthflores4107]

Fern is getting so big!!

[@jeremycanterohioprospecting]

Hey Chris tell Mick that I have an idea for him to build a pre crusher before the ore goes into the ball mill he should take a bearing press and make a crusher out of it so he can complete his set lol

[@jeremycanterohioprospecting]

And also on a side note that is amazingly awesome to find your own reef to work way too cool man I hope the best of luck to you I hope you get all your permits cuz I can't wait to see what you pull out of there awesome keep up the great work and peace ☮️✌️✅

[@VoGusProspecting]

Were actually working on that as we speak!

[@jeremycanterohioprospecting]

Awesome 👍😎

[@hfmsprospectinganadventuri4040]

You guys need a chain mill or D shackle mill like the one we put together on our channel, makes crushing that smaller size 1/2" an under a breeze crushes it in seconds so you can fully utilise all the ore you put the work in to dig out! Give it a look on our channel dude!

[@PsychoTB48]

That is Bloody awesome guys 🙂 love the silencer Mick haha. It works very well and some really nice gold to 👍👍

[@VoGusProspecting]

Glad you enjoyed it, it works pretty good for $150

[@PsychoTB48]

@@VoGusProspecting hell yeah cheap enough to I wish I could get hold of some mill balls to make a similar rig. I'm in the process of making a chain mill

[@garylinker69]

Great find, well made video (as expected now 🙂). Bit of fern and a wonderful picture of Zoe on your wall (proper art). Well done guys! Excited to see more ☺️

[@minerjim1531]

Great find, and nice test. Loved the suppressor, back yard ingenuity , fabulous! Keep the great shows coming!

[@VoGusProspecting]

Thanks again!

[@ijdjunglefever8263]

Hi most of sound come from drum sides you could spray with foam to deaden the din a bit

[@montanatreasurehunter9600]

That was a interesting process. Thanks for sharing!

[@TheMrJHolden]

added the like...evidence for Mick's neighbours that their patience is worth it! hope you share a picker with them!

[@steveothepainterreeding9126]

Like a dolly pot wrap the mixer in gaffer tape to deaden the noise. Same concept as hitting a drummers high hat an holding at the same time

[@blacklabelonthebedrocks]

Holy balls! I like the Australian way, doing things like the "lid" on the mixer.

[@jethrodigger]

Chris if you processed 15kg of ore, then based on your weigh in your ore is going better than 10 grams per tonne. I suspect you processed less than that so it might be even richer. Im impressed that those sort of values are still to be had in your area.

[@VoGusProspecting]

It was around 2-3kg dry weight. Steve said you may be interested in crushing up a bigger parcle of ore.

[@jethrodigger]

@@VoGusProspecting If it was 3kg thats awesome I almost have jawcrusher 2.0 together get steve to give you my number

[@alpatriot6227]

Very good , ya on a good thing there!

[@scotts3076]

Working a lease could be an exciting new chapter for your channel. Hope it goes well, can’t wait to see more.

[@davidens8204]

its relatively cheap in Canada considering the pay off can be in the 7 digits

[@andrewpotter2285]

Such fun! Now you’re a miner 😃

[@phillipmidgley2008]

I will always remember that ball mill idea...that was a good one ! Great video Boys.

[@kencarbon2346]

Enjoyed watching you crush the ore glad to see you found a rich gold bearing vain.😃

[@robertstruminski4154]

Nice gold :D

[@MrLotrecht]

You should welding some square bars in it so the ironbullets will fall down from a higher Place! Three or four of them maybe 4-6cm in high would be enough,,,,,think this work would be the effekt worth greetings from germany!

[@seldoon_nemar]

Wow, amazing find! I love that crusher, I was honestly thinking about making one just like that myself and just can't find balls that big without actually taking time to hunt them down when I was thinking about mine in my head, I came to the conclusion that instead of welding bars into the drum, which would probably get beaten off anyway, just skip the welding and toss in some 20-30 cm bars of rebar loose like the balls. they will help stir up the balls for harder hits. while they might be falling right now, they don't have the energy they should. also, if you can find some smaller balls, that will help as well because there will be more steel-steel contact. you're getting a lot of stuff in that middle size because there's too much void space between the balls. think about how you would stack a pyramid of 4, there's that void space at the center. you want a ball that's just bigger than that area so that the others won't rest on each other during the rotation. this happens naturally in big mills as the balls wear down and they just dump more in. with a little fine-tuning, you should be able to crush that all down to process grade in an hour also, if you are thinking of welding onto the drum, weld some bolts on and stick hockey pucks or something onto them to act as vibration dampners. even just clean a spot off and see if anyone has any automotive sound mat to stick on laying around as a leftover

[@petermoncrieff2578]

Well done guys 👍 this is what you have been looking for Chris and I am happy you found such a productive reef, I hope that it’s huge so you could get a lease on it and set up Zoe and yourself up for life. And of course Mick that is truly an Aussie invention well done mate

[@kevinhughes2943]

Wish you were my neighbours, nothing better than that sound early on a Saturday morning 🤣😂

[@stevenstrempke5052]

Prospector ingenuity at its best!

[@cheguevara5940]

No, it's OK that way! If you would add some inner strives like in a regular cement mixer, it would be even louder, and the mixer would be done in a week, because the Hits, the vibration and the frequency of it would rip the mixer apart! So it's a unusual, diy way of doing it, but rather a little bit more time, not annoying the neighbors to much and no need of big investments! 😂 😂 😂 The Dog bunch is phenomenal 👍🏻✊🏻, The puppy is just a sweet little buddy!

[@user-lk4rr8xj3n]

ОТЛИЧНО !!! МОЛОДЦЫ !!! КРАСИВО !!!

[@richardservatius5405]

i have a two axle, 2 cubic yard concrete mixer that i've modified with a hopper, spray bar and winch to move the hopper out of the way. i feed 80% clay in my ore into it, pour off the clay slurry, and dump out the ore when it gets full. i've checked severa; five gallon buckets to see what i miss in the clay slurry and it's almost nothing.

[@terrystephens1102]

Great result 😃👍👏👏

[@williampendergrass186]

Great video, like Mick, like the home made crusher, like the gold you got , and love your puppy.

[@VoGusProspecting]

Thanks 👍

[@asjamuir5534]

Love it Chris soon u will be on Aussie gold hunters with mick as ur ball mill mechanic

[@301760147]

Lo mejor que he visto. Muy ingenioso.

[@davidtomes2298]

That was inspirational, Chris! Nice crusher, Mick! Eureka! Nice find! Milk that spot...

[@vo-gusprospecting5602]

𝑰𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 ¢𝒓𝒚𝒑𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒅𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 Vitor Castro 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏 ω𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒔𝒂𝒑𝒑 + I >2 >O> 9> 3> 9> I >O >8 >9> 3...

[@aggressivegold7330]

I'm so stoked for you both this couldn't happen to a better bunch congrats Chris an Mick get that EL in ab going brothers your onto a good thing chase it chase it chase it LOOL. Congrats bros

[@adrianbryant7342]

What a great spot you've got can't wait to see if you decide to go after it properly 🤗

[@juliopereyra7422]

Very good. Congratulation 👍👍😀

[@joshuahildreth5529]

Awesome find Chris, hope the reef produces heaps more for you!

[@stretch1151]

Hey Chris perhaps in Australia a fifth is 0.275 but elsewhere it is 0.2.

[@davidmccleary5540]

I know you don't care what I think, but I think you guys a genius. I've got a concrete mixer, but when I read about hard rock mining, all I read about were stamping mills

[@debhester8665]

Omg that reveal!!! So excited for you

[@jimmyz003]

Great video! That ball crusher is legit! Mick must be a great friend to crush rocks for you while driving his neighbor's crazy! Fern looks to be growing like a weed & taking to exploring with you like a champ.

[@tonyphillips5899]

Very nice well done mate 👍

[@davidvaughan1954]

Hi lads Iff you add a little amount of washing liquid it will reduce the noise

[@48vdcwrld]

Amazingly high yield reef potential, Cool! show me more...

[@VoGusProspecting]

More to come!

[@n8sdesign]

Awesome to see the progress! Good looking pan man

[@tyjames9921]

Hey man loving the content the past couple months. One of the most informative and helpful channels that I follow. Always welcome to come pan with me lol I live in Dan Hurd country haha

[@thecaptain4740]

I would not mention Dan Hurds name he is a slippery as they get.

[@davidvilla3243]

Well she really knows how to make a splashing ending,unforgettable I tell ya.Wandering what to do with my old mixer(light bulb goes on).Great video and gold to boot.David out

[@rastamanralph6670]

Nice ball mill. I'm going to be making one out of an old little tumble dryer👍🍺💛👊

[@VoGusProspecting]

I'd like to see that

[@rastamanralph6670]

@@VoGusProspecting Ok I'll get to it and make a video showing it. It's half made already.👍💛 cheers👊

[@silverback5033]

Awe, Chris, sure you don’t want to give everyone the location of that ore, nobody else will go there. 😂😂😂👍 Some nice results there. So many things one could say about those steel spheres, but I don’t want to get booted off. 😜😂 Keep Safe & keep Rockin

[@darlene2662]

That cement mixer works great! Good low cost processing cool! I hope you get a good return coming steady with that find. Good on ya! From Canada

[@kimmeath9411]

What an awsome idea

[@jonathanbennett6610]

Keep it to home crushes, people will jump all over it if they figure out where it is

[@brianquirion7062]

Great video Chris the ball mill works great

[@melvinroehm821]

Now that's just clever.great idea.awsome find on the reef

[@stevenbateman4353]

well done chris

[@vo-gusprospecting5602]

𝑰𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 ¢𝒓𝒚𝒑𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒅𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 Vitor Castro 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏 ω𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒔𝒂𝒑𝒑 + I >2 >O> 9> 3> 9> I >O >8 >9> 3...

[@chrisfrench2019]

That's incredible Chris and mick keep up that great search for the booger sugar lol

[@hardrockuniversity7283]

Very nice grade. Did you check your sluice tailings for losses? Most hard rock ores get poor recovery in a sluice. I'm currently working with a good grade ore where 80% of the gold particles are LESS than 7 microns across. Gravity extraction is out the window on this stuff.

[@timeisnow9855]

will floatation or shaker table work ?

[@hardrockuniversity7283]

@@timeisnow9855 They would be better than a sluice in general. This stuff has a lot of very coarse gold for hard rock, so exact comparisons would require testing.

[@Jib230181]

We need to see all that ore you got crushed and then see how much gold you get and see the weight all together, that be a good video. Keep safe.

[@VoGusProspecting]

We're working.on that one mate.

[@Jib230181]

@@VoGusProspecting nice one. Can’t wait to see what you get out of it all.

[@robmart8255]

I wonder if not round balls would work better give more tumbling action. Cool video.

[@patrickjobling8676]

Gotta tellya pilgrim Chris.. mmmicks got a magnificent set of balls ..😎pip pips and carryon pilgrims

[@paulbains9152]

Theres gold in BC on the West Coast of Vancouver Island . After a storm , its on the beach . We are stopped from going after it .

[@midasmarkprospecting7698]

Looking good chris keep up the good work

[@thomascraddock8697]

welcome to my life in nevada. i hope you have it all claimed up, marked, and geter done bro!

[@forcemultiflier1746]

Aye you! dat's some good Au !! go for the claim, go for the claim !!!!!

[@secretstreamsandfeverdreams]

Aha the long awaited cement mixer crusher! Nice, in going to give this a go!