Why I moved to Australia, and what's next for this YouTube channel.

As I'm uploading this video, I'm busy setting up my new 3D printer which will be my creative outlet for gold related inventions for the next year. I have too many ideas I want to try out right now, so I'll be focusing on the basics and learning how things work. Let me know any ideas you have, especially ideas for how I could make a better sluice study that actually answers everyone's questions on sluice mats once and for all.
Thanks for watching!
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[@FlourgoldWizards]

Welcome to the 4 hr drive club….🤣✅✌️

[@johnroberson4841]

Muskallonge Lake State Park is a 5hr drive for me... 😮‍💨 But still worth it😏

[@jaredput]

You are in the land of big gold and you found something more precious than elemental gold. Canada will miss you.

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Thanks Jared!

[@inquisitivealbertan1712]

Grats to Carol and yourself for the move to Oz. Rumor has it that Oz has bunnies whose tracks dwarf the bunny tracks that you and Chris saw next to the NSR in November 2023. Sounds like you will have a blast with your 3d printer. My son made a small lightweight, 6 inch wide by 36 inches long highbanker for me last summer. Will be testing it again this summer after he makes some adjustments to the legs of it.Thank you for posting

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Thanks! Those giant Aussie hopping bunnies are pretty cool! Best of luck in your 2024 prospecting season!

[@pamdaly9035]

Oh Kyle I’m so happy for you and Carol!! 🎉 🎉🎉🎉 I kind wondered……thanks for your advise on my questions a couple weeks ago. Enjoy!!

[@adhawk5632]

Cant wait for the first trip out. Aussie gold is shiny and pure. Grab a pan and sieve, some good boots, see ya on the creek👍👌🇦🇺

[@goldprospectingpugsley3563]

Awesome mate welcome to Oz if you end up down in Vic yell out and I could show you a couple spots down here in the golden triangle Bendigo

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Thanks mate! It would be a heck of a drive but a heck on an adventure one of these days!

[@goldprospectingpugsley3563]

Yeh any time mate would be more than glad to show you around down here

[@MetallyCorrupted]

Living the dream i never made come true,,, yet. A fresh start is healthy for the soul. I call myself bound by children, LOL a few more years and they can go on their own, the mom and dad time.

[@herbertboelk7545]

As a detector tinkerer, I should have done it some 30 years ago.

[@rossgee2950]

I wish you the best for your exciting new pursuit and I am looking forward to the Aussie vids, whatever they may be.

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Thank you!

[@Superminigoldtrommel]

Congrats on the move. It sounds like you have a good brain on ya. Looking forward to seeing more!

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Thank you!

[@brendacollinsdeeks7268]

It sounds like you’re settling in nicely, Kyle. Good luck on your new adventure!

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Thanks Brenda!

[@droning2239]

Good luck on your new adventure

[@paraglidingprospector]

As a didgeridoo player, I approve of this move! Congrats! You’re gonna need a Highlander or a pickup truck / Hilux! Good luck prospecting! Go hunt for some opals too! 🤙🏼

[@Aaron_Hanson]

Welcome to the Central Coast Kyle 😊👍🍻🇦🇺

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Thanks Aaron!

[@gorillagoldhunters]

Awesome video buddy:) absolutely awesome adventure!!

[@UtmostOutdoors]

It's going to be one heck of a ride!

[@craigosgold5940]

3 hr flight from there to the south island new zealand you can dredge here if you have a claim lot of gold mines in my area but land basedmostly trommel sluice beds set up. further south theres a lot of dredging in the otago area

[@John-ir2zf]

Glad to see you have arrived and getting settled in !! I look forward to whatever comes for utmost outdoors. A thought for possible uses for the printer (and potential tests), is there a better riffle design for gold pans instead of the standard, 3 or 4 step riffles common in most every pan ? Maybe a slanted V design, etc ?

[@fittergrips2010]

as a purest I use an old steel pan with no riffles and use combinations of techniques .One that I have seen no one use. But it is very difficult to put into words, but works well for flour gold

[@herbertboelk7545]

Congrats for your move! 3D printing will be a revolution in your tinkering... and thinking. I mostly optimized some existing systems. The nice thing is that your files can later be machined into metal. But be prepared to run into trouble with low temp melting plastics in hot Australia. Will contact you.

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Thanks! I have lots to learn... I started learning fusion 360 and I can see I have a long way to go. I'm busy learning about a good filament to use for the outdoors... I'm thinking maybe ASA?

[@edwingolddelirium]

you can create vacuum in two ways with water and if that can recycle with stacking suction holes 1/3 from diameter off the throat all around the pipe,cause a venturi is 3D and put a bigger pipe over it for the inlet suction and do with pvc.with that you vacuum dry ground in an inline bucket. It's also an airco, cause the water is getting colder and colder by the rotation.

[@littlegriffoffgridalberta6837]

Wow Man ! Hey you missed the Polar Vortex that we had :) You probably seen it on the news -50c temps lol ! Hey i am not so much for the little killers in the night I'm ok living with the Bears :) Hope your adventure works out for you & it finds money others miss "

[@patrickguidinger1797]

Holy moly, big move!! Did you completely sell off in CAN, house, boat, all the garage toys, and the Highbanker business?Wow, good on ya, I am intrigued by your sense of adventure!! I have a one night layover in Brisbane every 60 days, perhaps we could connect at some point (still a long way North of you probably). Great to see you are doing well Kyle, take care.

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Hey Patrick! I have my house in Canada rented out and I've kept my boat and car for when I eventually return. I'll be in Australia for a long while just didn't feel like selling by boat! Get in touch via [e-mail] and I'll get your contact info and maybe if the timing works out I'll coordinate a trip to Brisbane one of these days!

[@torrielandsman4625]

I dont think there is a best mat, they all work if you get them dialed in. slope, water flow, and clean out intervals. I think that for Alberta gold you need a mat that holds on to as much black sand as possible when your at the river and separate it at home. Your choice of expanded and miners moss is tried tested and true for holding a lot of black sand so if your not lazy it is the best choice for NS river gold in my opinion.

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Well said!

[@DanyRivard]

Good luck with australien gold !!!

[@randydixon9512]

Hey Kyle, I think you should make an Elutriation Tower. The only one on the market is the Golddrop and it is over $2000. I can make one that works out of PVC and Clear Acrylic tubing for about $50 that works really well. With your tinkering skills you could make a great one for $150 and have a market.

[@UtmostOutdoors]

I think an elutriation tower would make for a cool experiment, but I don't personally see a practical purpose for one. When you classify very precisely they work based on particle size, but in the case of Alberta gold case the black sand and gold at the same size are shaped very differently. so a 50 mesh piece of black sand is round and actually may fall just as easily as the same size flake of gold that is flat. Might work well on local Australia fine gold, but then a cleanup sluice seems to do the trick just fine.

[@randydixon9512]

Maybe that is why there is only one on the market and you are right on the weakness it has. You already have a good system but classifying is easy though and if you look at settling rates and flatness (Corey Shape Factor in studies) 2X classification will separate even round hematite from very flat gold (20, 40, 80, 160 mesh). Elutriation is quicker and more efficient but you wouldn't run each mesh size every cleanup. I think it pairs well with a Miller table since the gold that rolls off the Miller table is ideal for elutriation and vice versa. Also, like a shaker table you have a separate middlings cons which will hold sulfides (not something I worry about but some do). It would be interesting to see your Miller table tailings run through and E-tower. I think sluicing is probably still easiest but an E-tower will beat a blue bowl or spiral.

[@UtmostOutdoors]

@@randydixon9512 That's a good analysis. I like the idea you could run both a Miller table and elutriation column to hit both shape profiles. Smart.

[@PetesGoldAdventures]

Welcome to the land of Oz, I'd imagine this will take a bit of getting use to, especially landing in the midle of summer. Unfortunately your in one of the most restricted states for prospecting, down here in Central Victoria the laws a lot better, allowing trommels, highbanking and panning, with hand tools only, so that means no dreadging, and you can metal detect just about anywhere. I'm sure you'll get plenty of invites out, so just reach out to other youtubers and they'll put you on the gold. Cheers Pete

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Thanks Pete!

[@darcysingler6742]

Yes dredge.i north sask is made for dredge low flow for flower gold.i walked to get to river anyway I just washing rocks

[@jpw.8972]

Welcome to our country bro im in Victoria Australia

[@danhodgins4015]

Great idea for the sluice matting test. Might take you the entire year and a half you're in Australia to do the experimental design and run the tests : ) P.S. I never went to Australia back in my single days, as I knew I would never come back home to BC. Definitely understand the appeal, I could have easily lived there back in the day!

[@UtmostOutdoors]

I might be in a bit over my head with that idea... but I'd love to give it a good hot go! If/when I move back to Canada, I'd like to head to BC.

[@danhodgins4015]

​@@UtmostOutdoors - interesting.You'll have a lifetime of exploration to look forward to in BC : )

[@gregknister1842]

good luck im still stuck in alberta

[@craigosgold5940]

i would love a 3d printed dream matt mould so i can poor liquid silicon into for my own replacement matts

[@marcleblanc2026]

Next video...Kangaroo boxing

[@gregknister1842]

have that printer good buy

[@UtmostOutdoors]

It's impressive!

[@spoiledrottenranch]

Awsome adventures in the future... What did you do with the boat?

[@UtmostOutdoors]

The boat is safely parked until I'm ready to go for another Canadian adventure :)

[@jpw.8972]

Watch out for our drop bears lol

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Every tourists greatest fear ;)

[@user-sf8te9ng3v]

Australia is great. You can have a great life there. Actually only two things wrong with Australia. They talk funny and they drive on the wrong side of the road. 😂😂😂

[@randydixon9512]

Are you familiar with Dimagnetism and gold? A magnetic field will slow or repel a moving piece of gold, but it has to be moving. There have been a couple attempts to use this to process gold but none seem to work. My idea for an experiment is to remove the magnetics from cons, run the rest in an elutriation tube with either a strong magnet or electromagnet and the gold should be slowed or completely stopped while the rest of the material flows past. I don't know if it makes a practical difference but it is an original method? technique? that I have never seen done before.

[@UtmostOutdoors]

I have seen some people try using magnets like that in their river sluices. I guess they have one magnet at the head of the sluice on top to remove black sands from the flow, and then a separate magnet further down the sluice to try and slow the passing gold to force it to drop into the matting. I guess I just decided to go the route of wider mats with lower flow rates and found the recovery was good enough using just water. I imagine that the effect would be present in anything conductive, so even if you magnetically separated your concentrates, depending on what minerals you found in your area, the diamagnetism might effect both gold and the other heavies. If you are having a lot of trouble with final gravity separation using just water, perhaps the concentrates could be run through a ball mill (cement mixer) and crushed a bit, then re classified for a re-run? I just never saw enough losses with the setup I was using back in Alberta. We will see what situations I run into here. :)

[@randydixon9512]

Yeah, it's just a cool thing to me, I don't think it is practical or at least it isn't necessary. I think clean up recovery for free gold is in the 98-99% range already, no improvement is really necessary, though processing time needs improving. I've also designed an "improved gold pan" although that too isn't necessary, its just fun to think about these things.

[@Side85Winder]

Welcome to Australia! Just go with if its a spider or a snake it can kill you and you will be fine. Out of all the states NSW has the worst gold prospecting laws. Basically nothing mechanical no electric or petrol water pumps. The better setups are gravity feed water highbankers/ sluices and rocker boxes.

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Yeah, I managed to travel 13,000km just to wind up in a place that's restrictive on mining AND away from the gold fields... I'm still assuming I'll just stub my toe on a potato sized nugget any day now!

[@Side85Winder]

@@UtmostOutdoors i honestly thought these trips to Australia were for your highbanker. I suspected you were consulting with gold rat (they have a hq in QLD) were going to produce it to sell 😅. Panning and detecting is good in NSW also snipping. I forsee a gravity fed highbanker in your future a 4-6" inlet sized down to a 1.5" hopper. Not sure on the boat prospecting here. I live in vic and prospect the middle eastern golden triangle. If you ever come down i am happy to take you out and camera man for you and use my equipment 👍.

[@shanefrericks2070]

It might be a little over your head. Because it also has to do with the gold shape size weight. All that will vary your test you can use the same gold over and over but can you use the same gravel's clay dirt over and over. You are going to have some variance I'm afraid variance I'm afraid no matter what. But it will be interesting to see your results and your machine

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Yeah, if I manage to put together something useful, it won't be perfect. I guess I'll just have to do my best and try to make sure the results can be replicated multiple times in a row or something.

[@shanefrericks2070]

@UtmostOutdoors yeah because gold isn't the same and no two areas also you know what I mean different soil types different Rock size classifications different gold size classifications even weights different if it has more silver or copper in it. But it should work. That's why these guys keep fighting and arguing over different matting. Different matting works good in some areas and better in other areas. I've already found that out

[@johnroberson4841]

Yeah those killer bugs....... I guss it's something you'll get used to but man....... I have to suit up for battle when i find a wolf spider in my house 😂 Not sure that i could afford enough armor for a Australian spider....

[@MohammedNovalija]

Entertaining tape. Not so sure dredging tapes are the way to go considering Dredging is ILLEGAL in Australia. Even HighBanking is ILLEGAL in NSW. Whatever tapes you put out , I'll ne watching regardless , just Be Careful.

[@FlourgoldWizards]

✌️yo MO ✌️

[@MohammedNovalija]

@@FlourgoldWizards If I could be someone else , I'ld like to be Mr Utmost Outdoors - OR NOT

[@jpw.8972]

Thinking the same

[@MohammedNovalija]

@@jpw.8972 Regarding Dredging or being Kyle ?

[@UtmostOutdoors]

If it's just tinkering with some ideas in a tub in the backyard it should be fine, I've just developed a real interest recently and think it would be cool to test out a few ideas for those of us who are in areas where they can use a dredge.

[@denzelmixvlog]

Good luck in moving there kyle….

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Thanks Denzel!

[@greggparker9932]

I have a niece that married a Australian and now lives somewhere in your general area, what they do have there are chrocodiles, don't get eaten.

[@UtmostOutdoors]

I'm supposedly just south of the crocs... I'll have to re-watch Crocodile Dundee and brush up on my croc wrestling skills!

[@aussiegoldtrolls]

😂😂😂 you got a lot to learn here mate, wait till you start looking into the dangers in the ocean here! My advice is to be vigilant, the bush and its inhabitants are much safer than the ocean here

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Every time I look something up in this place I wind up thinking I'm never going to leave the house! hahaha! But luckily the other day I visited a surf shop and the guy was saying he's been in the water his whole life and it's "perfectly safe"... When in Rome... :)

[@aussiegoldtrolls]

@@UtmostOutdoors stick with those in the know you'll be right mate 👍👍 Let the adventure begin 👌

[@mrkus-nc7od]

Man ! No Jet Boat adventures 😮 oh well ! It be fun watching you survive the out back - 😊 it's the little snakes 🐍 You have to watch out for , the smaller the more likely you don't see them , the size of a Night crawler but deadly, step on there Tail , - iam talking out of experience not spite and would like you to keep making videos - when you said Water 🌊 I thought Crocodile 🐊 in dirty water 😮 with those I have no experience,- But ! Knee high dirty water ? 😊

[@UtmostOutdoors]

I'll have to get in some local boating once I have a bit more disposable income to buy an outboard and see where it gets me!

[@blackout7615]

Good work moving from Canada and getting out from Trudeaus grasp. Too bad you moved somewhere more restrictive and can't have a firearm....sadness but good luck with your new adventures.

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Thanks for the good luck! You can get a firearm in Australia, they are just more restrictive on the type.

[@jpdeneau477]

I gotta say in the beginning where it looks like his girl wants a kiss and he straight up turns away and talks about the fact that its a tropical paradise while going in the room and closing the door..... oof that hit me and i just saw your channel. Apologize and give her a kiss for fuck sake man

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Don't worry, Carol gets all the love in the world, just no need to make a big deal of it on camera...

[@danielberean]

Very very cool. And God bless you guys exceedingly and abundantly above all that you could ever think of or ask. IN KING JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH HOLY NAME AMEN.

[@mw3ken69]

You gonna camp outdoors in nothing but a camping hammock during summer solstice?

[@UtmostOutdoors]

Absolutely! That's a great idea!

[@swedishpsychopath8795]

Smart move to go to Australia (if this is true). Always wanted to go there myself but after watching airport border control on TV I won't go near that fascist state. Just dont make this channel the new "love channel" like "Outback gold fever" (also Australia) did. I stopped watching after she joined up with that dude and made all about romance and home buying. Fun fact: I found your Utmost channel after spelling Outback somewhat wrong. But your wife seems nice, so nothing against her - but please, let's keep the focus on gold related stuff?

[@Xpressd]

sad to hear you left 🥲, can only imagine how much gold you will find in Australia!