We Found a URANIUM MINE in the Victorian Goldfields

I bought 11 acres at Wedderburn and all I found was fence wire,metal bedheads and rubbish.The dams on the land yeilded amber rocks that no one realised were industrial saphires.I sold the land to a water drilling company that pulled over a million bucks of sapphire from the site.My immediate neighbour was pissed off that his 5 acres didnt have any sapphires

[@Trevshorses]

Wow what a fascinating video! Well researched and the way you overlaid the photos from then and now was brilliant. Congratulations on your tenacity in finding the site. I bet you were beside yourself with excitement!

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thank you, yes we were very happy to find the place 🙂

[@roberthayward9299]

I love the overlay of the old photos over your footage. Thanks for your work.

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks 🙂📸

[@davidwilson9988]

Fascinating story, great video, really enjoyed it, thanks so much, cheers 👏👏

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thank you David 🙂⚒

[@stevemurrell6167]

Fascinating video, so glad you found the spot......and those old photo's superimposed over the current ones were quite revealing. Nice work.

[@MitchMiller123]

Fabulous video, really interesting and well put together. I’ve spent a little bit of time metal detecting with John, absolute legend in the gold fields.

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks, yes John is a very clever man 🙂⚒

[@adriaandeleeuw8339]

My great uncle Eric told the discoverer of Rum Jungle Uranium mine about the rocks he was looking for... Eric Spry didnt have a Geiger counter, White did.,and while White may have still found the deposit, because there was also Malachite everywhere there. Eric Spry was a long time Tin tantalum and gold prospector and miner in that region of the Northern Territory., That region now is seeing an upsurge as there are lithium deposits.

[@petertseglakof4568]

OUTSTANDING WORK!!

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thank you 🙂

[@greghutchison6690]

Excellent filming and editing. The overlay of 1950s and contemporary photos was very well done.

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thank you, I was amazed how little the place had changed, all their workings were still very evident. Cheers 🙂

[@davidbarton575]

Brilliant work again Michelle, great research and a fascinating story. Thanks for your amazing efforts to record our mining history. :-)

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks David 🙂 This was lots of fun to put together 🙂⚒🌿📸

[@TheSilmarillian]

Hello from NSW opal miner here, great uploads indeed.

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thank you 🙂⚒

[@nuggetella]

Never knew there was uranium in Victoria, always thought that the Geology was far too young... @goldfieldsguide, trust John Tully to dig up such a rare treasure..! 👍

[@michaeldallimore8590]

Fascinating. Been following your videos for a while now and always learn something new about mining in Victoria. Thanks for making them.

[@PeterMoore350]

Another great video!! Very informative. Cheers from this Aussie living in NZ 😎🎸🤘

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks! 🙂

[@PeterMoore350]

@@goldfieldsguide yw 😎🎸👠💕🤘

[@knowname7289]

Brilliant work again , those overlays of the old-timers are genius.!

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks! 🙂⚒📸

[@offgrid4wd708]

Great educational information! Thanks for providing these fantastic videos

[@goldfieldsguide]

Cheers, much appreciated! 🙂📸⚒

[@colinmountford5476]

Hi, you are exactly what I have been looking for. Someone with the ability to source the right information on the history of our generations past. It may only be a subject of the Victorian era, but the significance remains. Your approach to history and documenting the subject in an easy way without the gibberish will help anyone learn of the gold rush days, as I am. Thank you for your incredible keeness of wanting us to know what we should know about our past. I look forward to seeing more of your videos. We should all know what made this country of ours, Kudos to you..

[@ryanpendlebury645]

I live not far from here and that is amazing! Makes me want to go in my own hunt

[@goldfieldsguide]

It’s an awesome area 🙂

[@rocdoc6969]

Another well researched and edited documentary. The overlays are brilliant. Love ya work.

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks Jason 🙂⚒

[@Journeyman53]

Interesting history. Love the narrator's voice.

[@OPIXdotWORLD]

same

[@pjgold8018]

Never knew that, impressive put-together documentary. The overlays were perfect 🙂

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thank you 🙂⚒ much appreciated!

[@maclova7933]

Awesome, as always so dedicated to discovering the stories of the past. Love the way you overlayed the old and new photo's!

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks, very much appreciated 🙂⚒📸

[@andypandyAU.6669]

What an amazing adventure. You bring history to life. I find it amazing armed with just old photos you managed to find it. Well done

[@goldfieldsguide]

Was great fun, cheers! 🙂⚒

[@brendangrray8017]

Thank you for your wonderful and insightful tours through Victorias gold and mineral history,, please keep up the great educational stuff .. Schools get on board 😢😢👍

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks, much appreciated 🙂

[@Clllll220]

Love your work on the history of the gold fields

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thank you 🙂⚒

[@craigparry5648]

👍 excellent video, very informative, love the way you placed the old photos over your tape. Well done.

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thank you, I was very happy with how they turned out 🙂📸

[@neilmahomed4926]

Great video, love your voice and narration of the history

[@soulsurvivorlifecoaching2190]

Another great video! What a fascinating part of Inglewoods history. John’s knowledge is quite incredible.

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks, yes John is brilliant 🙂

[@theGoldWolf]

Thanks for your work during the year, merry xmas!

[@stewartcorkill8144]

Another fascinating look into Victoria's mining history. Thanks for your great work

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thank you 🙂⚒📸

[@stevenbateman4353]

very interesting to know love our history

[@petereaton6740]

Being a full-time traveller, mainly on the coast for fishing, watching your video's I have been giving some serious thought to visiting Warburton's bridge campground in Glenluce, this was the site of the family home many years ago, it would be great to stay there a week or 2 and do some exploring of the Goldfields like I used to in my younger days

[@goldfieldsguide]

Warburtons Bridge is a beautiful spot. Plenty to see around that area, you’ll have a great time 🙂 www.goldfieldsguide.com.au/explore-location/377/warburtons-bridge-campground/

[@Womble1252]

An old timer local told me it was a chicken farm on the Campground there once

[@CrocoArt]

Congratulations on finding the mine Michelle!

[@DavidAnderson-vt8iq]

Great story, great video. Thank you!

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks 🙂⚒

[@roland3037]

You are quite the talent girl, very well done. Keep them coming

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thank you 🙂⚒

[@jonathanmillichip9296]

Sounds like quite the adventure, it's beautiful country up that way

[@goldfieldsguide]

It was very interesting, was great to find the place. Awesome area, incredible views 🙂🌿👌

[@jonathanmillichip9296]

@@goldfieldsguide yeah it's nice up that way, I've been to the Melville caves and had a look at some other stuff, never even knew there was a uranium rush and I do so much reading about that era xxxx❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@kayboku7281]

welll done on finding the actual site!

[@jakeyb6245]

Another outstanding video. Well done defiantly know how to keep your audience entertained and glued to the screen. Keep them coming

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks Jake! Much appreciated 🙂

[@roberttudor455]

Loved the b&w overlays !!! Great video :)

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks! 🙂⚒

[@markhoward899]

Great history Thanks

[@goldfieldsguide]

Cheers 🙂⚒

[@gardnep]

Most granite will set off a Geiger counter. Great history tour. Thanks.

[@lennytime8057]

Such a well done Video Thank you for the history such a interesting history we have in Victoria very interesting that they were after uranium.

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video 🙂⚒📸🌿

[@stevewelchcinematographer4552]

Another great production. 👍😄

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks! 🙂📸

[@glenbalk8350]

Another Awesome vid!! Top work and thanks for creating 👌🏼

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks 🙂

[@shanedoyle3444]

Thank's for the interesting video, Good Stuff !!!! Cheers.

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks Shane 🙂⚒

[@goldfeverreliever]

How do we subscribe twice 🤔 thanks for sharing that was super interesting. I love how accurate you were with the overlay shots. Spot on 👌

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks so much, I’m very happy with how the overlays turned out 🙂⚒📸

[@michaeloneill5961]

Thanks Michelle that was great really in my backyard now I'm just one hill over from there😊❤❤❤ also a crystal mine not far from there😊

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks Michael 🙂 yes I was up at the crystal mine the other day as well, very cool place 🌿

[@michaeloneill5961]

@@goldfieldsguide my son found some great crystals up there

[@Sid.Rek71]

I have property in Inglewood and this is the first time I've heard of this. No wonder the area is protected.

[@tomelder2230]

Thank You

[@bono1961]

Very interesting 👍

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks 🙂⚒

[@120downunder]

Awesome stuff

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thanks 🙂

[@splintergg]

What an awesome story! Very interesting 👍👍 I have found out that there was a silver mine on the Morewell river in the Latrobe Valley but I cannot find any history on it at all. Do you have any suggestions how to find out more?

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thank, glad you enjoyed the video 🙂 Trove can be a great place to start, as well as GeoVic, local heritage studies, and old geological reports.

[@Dave_Sisson]

Victoria does have a viable uranium deposit on an old goldfield. North of Omeo on the Glen Wills goldfield, not far from the astonishingly rich Maude and Yellow Girl gold mine, there is a large uranium deposit on the slopes of Mount Wills.

[@goldfieldsguide]

I was reading about the Glen Wills discovery as well, very interesting 🙂⚒ cheers

[@norsehall309]

G'day, I have read about that discovery in the Kingower area at the Dunolly Museum, and thanks so much for your description of that historical even, pity or blessing, that it didn't eventuate, that area is so unique and needs to be preserved for our future, mining ⛏️⛏️⛏️ still goes on around the hills mostly for Gold let's hope it's not too damaging, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.

[@murraysaunder9210]

Was that a typo on the Mines dept report? Mt Kooyoora is 20 miles due EAST? of Inglewood.

[@riveridge]

There's another trace amount that was found and drilled I believe in the King Valley as well..

[@goldfieldsguide]

Very interesting, cheers 🙂

[@dmystify1381]

Wow.

[@fatwombat2611]

Great series of videos. Very interesting and informative and thanks alot for talking clearly with out that extremely annoying Californian vocal fry that seems to have taken hold everywhere. It drives me nuts.

[@iwaswrongabouteveryhthing]

GPS location?

[@turnyourbacktoit]

Cool. I'm there ! Refine my own isotopes in suburbia to power my backyard nuclear reactor.

[@scoobyisadog]

Did you get an impression of how hazardous the radiation levels are? For example if you were doing rock climbing or camping next to granite regularly?

[@Ghostontherun]

It's only bad if you chew on it

[@professornuke7562]

@@Ghostontherun not even that at these levels

[@pkgoldopalhunting]

good history girl

[@goldfieldsguide]

Thank you 🙂⚒

[@curvebuster]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮

[@shane9606]

I would like too show my son. Any chance on getting location?

[@soverignisle]

Absolutely sick of the adds on your web page, how can any body read and follow this, is it the same situation on the members page, if so I will not sign up

[@TheSilmarillian]

Use Brave browser built in add blocker.