Would You Risk Life And Limb For Opal?

This week we have the pleasure of hosting another video on our channel filmed by Lachlan Blatchford in Coober Pedy!
Some words from Lachlan about the video:
We descend down a hairy 12 foot diameter shaft, weaving through red back nests to fine some beautiful colour in a long abandoned claim where a fortune in top opal may still be hiding! Fingers crossed our renewed explosive licenses come through so we can blow some big holes to get to the big opal.
On the way home we narrowly avoid beasts of feathers and hide and survive to push towards the dream to retire... And go opal mining..
We hope you all enjoy the video leave us a comment and let us know if you would like to see some more mining in Coober Pedy!
Make sure to head over and grab yourself some top quality Coober Pedy Opal:
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Shannon Blatchford:
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[@VondaInWonderland]

Awe, it was nice that you saved the little dragon guy ❤🕊️

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Always good to rescue creatures from the mine

[@thenodiggardener]

I'm glad you were able to save the Breaded Dragon. I think you're bonkers going down those mines, but without you doing it we wouldn't have our stunning opals.

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Thank you for watching! Hopefully it wasn’t too claustrophobic haha

[@steveclark4291]

Thank you guys for sharing this with me ! I live in Kansas in United States ! Take care , stay safe and healthy mates !

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Thank you for watching!

[@steveclark4291]

@@younggunsopalhunters You're welcome

[@kathybrandt6060]

I think the opal you found is beautiful. I wish you the best of luck looking for more. Kathy.

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Definitely some nice bits they found!

[@alexfosse]

I sure do like watching you guys.

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Thanks for watching!

[@uglenddalejones2]

*Awesome Vlog guys- superb quality and presentation and very much worth Watching and Subscribing to the channel KZbin World 💯👌👌🔥👏🏻👏🏻*

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Welcome aboard!

[@stevenpolack4444]

Great job guys, keep up the good work👍 Hopefully those bits will cut nicely for y'all 🤘 Wish y'all well and best of luck.

[@Tom-ce8ib]

Epic adventure, mate. Cheers.

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment

[@joane.landers9151]

Years ago would have loved to visit Australia; then reality sank in.

[@Aoreregoldnz]

Thanks for that crazy adventure im in New Zealand and recently cut Olympic rough

[@jayjames7502]

Lovely voice over

[@younggunsopalhunters]

He’s definitely got a great narrators voice!

[@FishingWithFonu]

Love your work.

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Thanks for checking out the video!

[@Bobby-ho5he]

bro nice one saving the dragon. big chad move - love your work

[@oneshotme]

Nice!!! I'd love to go there just to do what you're doing now!!! I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@6699JAMES6699]

Awesome dudes, have to come and see your mine one day !

[@adrianchilds401]

I got claustrophobic just watching you crawl through those holes. All power to you guys

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Thanks for watching anyway!

[@gingerdude94]

Very chill video

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Glad you liked it!

[@Opalsnz]

Cool video! Keep em coming!

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Thanks! Will do!

[@stevenseltzer3589]

With you guys, absolutely. Remember me I'm the guy who told you that beer is proof that God loves man!😂😂😂

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Hahahaha some beers needed after hard days diggin that’s for sure !

[@steelrain4362]

Loved the video!

[@younggunsopalhunters]

So glad!

[@peterkops6431]

Doing a good job with your channel gentlemen. Make every opportunity pay👍🏻🇦🇺👍🏻

[@elizabethlewis3509]

Surface hunting only but admire those that are willing to work underground

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Always plenty of gems to be found on the surface too!

[@elizabethlewis3509]

​@@younggunsopalhunters Love to go surface hunting around Winton on my next visit.

[@TubeCat]

Was very curious if you fellas ever ran into wildlife while in the mines.

[@joane.landers9151]

❤ Opals. Years ago cut/polished a few Australian opals. and Mexican opals in rhyolite.

[@tymonkalbarczyk1456]

Nice bearded dragon mates!

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Dragon guarding its treasure I reckon

[@tymonkalbarczyk1456]

@@younggunsopalhunters It surely is.

[@grantgibbs8931]

That was some nice pieces ya showed us. Wood of liked to of seen the finished product. And how much you thought you wod of got 4 it? Maybe next time Stay safe take care

[@TheSilmarillian]

Rescued a few lizards and one praying mantis in my time. New Chum LRidge here .

[@engthyekam4342]

thanks

[@younggunsopalhunters]

You're welcome!

[@Englishkyle]

What’s up boys. Hope all is well

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Thanks for checking out the vid!

[@dizzlefshizzle]

9:07 did anyone else see that color shine after showing the piece? 😅😅

[@Opaldigger]

Yeah! It’s phosphorescence. Many gems do it, it’s a slow release of the energy from the initial flooding of UV light.

[@aborch7]

Another awesome video 🥰 I love you guys! 💜

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Thank you so much!!

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Thank you so much!!

[@TheOzTim]

Property pays off.

[@DasOhneEnde]

I so bored there in Austria! Yes I would!

[@ninjamoves3642]

all that silica dust is wild

[@TheSilmarillian]

Yes and not real good for you in the long term luckily my mine is well ventilated . Hello from LRidge NSW.

[@Opaldigger]

It can be nasty, we use high quality half face masks and filters these days.

[@ninjamoves3642]

@@TheSilmarillian makes the gem even more pricey the risk/reward I reckon

[@MrJoelb102]

Yes starting my mine there in about 2 months just getting the drill ready and servicing tunneling machines 😂

[@Opaldigger]

Good luck mate!

[@brodrick3164]

Yes I would be right beside you up to a point.

[@leshil2765]

Yes I would love to.

[@opalmcclellan7376]

Don't know if I'd fit down those holes, but yes I'd risk it, cuz Opals my name 😂

[@joshuajackson6442]

Thanks boys

[@laraineheusser8934]

Love following you guys,watched u on TV then KZbin, any chance u could make longer videos???❤

[@chrisandkaylamitchell2705]

I would love to one of these day i will yall should say hey to the bushmen for us

[@trevevns3242]

I'm keen

[@polishedopals8667]

No. Next question.

[@loongsout]

Love to watch the video fully if your voice is clear and louder. I crank up the volume max but voice is not clear and low.

[@anthonybender2124]

Man I wish I can work with you guys

[@josephpk4878]

20 feet down and I'd be yelling, "Nope! Nothing down here to look at! Bring me up and let's go for lunch." I'm just seeing that chunk at the top of the hole - the one with the big crack and looking very break off-ish. Have a big phobia of being stuck in hole while everything wants to cave in on me. Probably going to have a wicked nightmare, now.

[@Opaldigger]

Haha, I’m not generally claustrophobic but towards the end, my bro is half way into a small hole, I got into that and tucked my legs up and had the worst claustrophobia in my life for a few seconds, a feeling for a few seconds of being buried alive… no thanks.

[@ThatOpalGuy]

im getting old and out of shape. So, probably not. I DO appreciate your activities, however, THANKS!

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Thanks for coming along virtually then!

[@darkleo728]

Limb and life makes more sense to me

[@alexfosse]

first. cant believe it.

[@brucevandermeer]

What sort of winch are you using, good show👍

[@tr4pwolf326]

Wheres this mate amazing find

[@Opaldigger]

Coober Pedy Olympic field mate.. 👍

[@tr4pwolf326]

@@Opaldigger beautiful spot haven't been there yet only whitecliffs lightning ridge and growing, trying to convince this manner to to let me dog underground for him haha at lightning ridge atm :)

[@Camaronantrax777]

I need this job is my dream job❤

[@seldoon_nemar]

VO was very quiet, but otherwise amazing I'm surprized those little UV flashlights are all you use, why not get some big floodlights in that spectrum if you already have power from a genny?

[@Opaldigger]

We find the little ones ideal for our field of vision plus they're obviously super light weight and portable so we get to where the opal is a lot faster!

[@seldoon_nemar]

@@Opaldigger I was more thinking about lighting up already dug workings to look for anything that might have been missed, as well as wen going through piles, the opal would be unmistakable

[@Opaldigger]

@@seldoon_nemar oh yeah for sure, there’s plenty of scope for different applications with heavy duty black lights, a lot of tunnelling machines have vicious uv lights worth thousands attached to them, they definitely work but are extremely dangerous to the human eye. Personally I find the small details are usually what leads to payable opal. Almost all the big signs have been picked over a thousand times..

[@cyclonicsilver2773]

One day I will be out there… one day

[@juriecrous4045]

Yes I would when do I start?

[@bentationfunkiloglio]

Those were some sketchy looking claims you crawled through. I’d probably get myself buried in a day or two out there. Take care.

[@stephennickerson1631]

Probably if I loved my family

[@danlundquist3907]

How many miles do you drive from home to look for Opal on the average day? Good luck mates! Cheers 🍻⛏🇺🇸

[@Opaldigger]

Cheers mate! We have a claim on Olympic that’s about 5 miles out of town, but have been to fields working every day that are up to 35 miles away.

[@slatederwin6599]

Definitely ayye I am looking for a job tho

[@writerblocks9553]

You guys are tough as

[@X_WAS_HERE]

I would

[@stevenbakopoulos3365]

Been there done that almost fell down a shaft

[@Opaldigger]

You were't holding an OBG coffee on that video were you?

[@bigbasil1908]

Ungrateful reptile rejected the half a chicken drumstick

[@AndyFromBeaverton]

Thanks for the Closed Captions. He was difficult to understand.

[@marcoallin]

what's the machine that bore those round tunnel^

[@Opaldigger]

It’s a round tunnelling machine, it has an arm that rotates with rotating heads and tungsten teeth, as opposed to the ‘square’ machine that has a head that just goes up and down.

[@marcoallin]

@@Opaldigger thanks, after thinking about it i think thats how they bore gold ore tunnel over but in giant version . The machine must be dusty as hell, does it shoots water? thanks again for your answer

[@Opaldigger]

@@marcoallin Not enough water around Coober Pedy for this, most use blowers to suck the dust out alomg with the dirt but fans are pretty powerfu these days and masks are good quality for filtration too.

[@marcoallin]

@@Opaldigger lovely, i would love to see that in person

[@aidensnacklad4178]

Any risk of getting a pocket of CO2 and suffocating?

[@Opaldigger]

Not really but CO build up after blasting or from poorly vented claims near petrol motors has killed quite a few over the years.

[@stevenseltzer3589]

You know what? Should make a t-shirt that says beer is proof that God loves man and at it to your merchandise! ❤

[@marcoallin]

would love to give you some of my time

[@kimconley4679]

I wish I could hear you.

[@TheOzTim]

Are ya into searching for Opals on my property close to the NSW border ? We love to invite ya.

[@Opaldigger]

OOh! up near Angeldool and Mehi?

[@kylegawron5358]

do you all ever take some nice opal specimens for your own collection? After you make money to help pay for equipment and any damages that might happen?

[@Opaldigger]

Yeah we collect some of the best stuff for our business to make into jewelry . We found a huge pocket of opalised sea shell fossils a few years back and donated a few of them to the South Australian Museum (for a tax credit) 😁

[@kylegawron5358]

@@Opaldigger nice. opal is so beautiful like a prism of colors.

[@RSOxSPEC4x]

i like working in the dirt as much as the guy but i am not going in the pit

[@louisarmstrong8863]

It's all luck when searching minerals .

[@downwiththesneaker9933]

Would You Risk Life And Limb For Opal? Yes!!!!!!!!!!

[@joke4301]

So is this the dad?

[@Opaldigger]

Nah we are brothers I’m the older one filming and narrating.

[@lindagrant3027]

Not vents but VESTS. It wouldn't let me edit.

[@lindagrant3027]

My post disappeared. Get some cooling vests and horse spray for red backs, non toxic.

[@redeyestones3738]

I have to say that a great channel with consistently good content does not need clickbait titles in their videos. Ever. Very dissapointing. That is trendy bull caca, and makes you guys look desperate for views. If you're desperate for views, just post more frikken content. Cmon boys

[@younggunsopalhunters]

Sorry how is the title clickbait? Do you not see him being lowered down into a giant eroded sketchy shaft via a cable (off the back of a Ute) and sitting on a plank of wood ? Opal mining is a dangerous job and this video in my opinion adequately represents the old saying ‘risking life and limb’ in the pursuit of opal. Please elaborate on how it’s clickbait

[@thabudmaster]

some serious volume issues on this one :(

[@feanorfeuergeist]

If you were to fart down there , how long will it linger?

[@Opaldigger]

Forever 😂

[@aaronsmith5600]

Do you guys not check the audio of your videos that is horrible

[@CaptainRedBeardarrr]

Boo hoo.

[@aaronsmith5600]

@@CaptainRedBeardarrr ?

[@Longbow-jt8jp]

I don't think it's that bad at all

[@aaronsmith5600]

@@Longbow-jt8jp You had to turn up the volume to hear him next you know you're blowing out your ears

[@CaptainRedBeardarrr]

@@aaronsmith5600 im not a earphone person so it may be different. Are you from MtGambier?

[@moonshineexc]

Cool 😎 Best gem i ever found came out of a cave in 12k a carrot i got for it ..

[@0nesinner]

Now it's paid content so I guess I'll say goodbye. Good luck on your endeavors goodbye