though I had some problem with sea water It also ru-vid.comUgkxa-FNYUOM93a388gi9a4brtSCEVmrHgJH land for finding any things very easily. (thought it would work as normal due to it being water proof within certain parts of the detector), on dry land and sand worked well. My first one, so still have lots to learn
That’s so cool! I had some friends that were diving for gold under some falls! They were going to the spot to make their dive! On the trail, one of the guys foot slipped on a mossy rock! The sunlight hit the the and it glinted gold! They dug it out and it was a huge piece of quarts and gold! Not sure of the weight, but an awesome find none the less!
Had a truck ride with a professional mineralogist, just back from a survey, who told me that The Grampian Mountains still have gold nuggets laying around just under the surface. Get a proper legal prospector's licence from the local shire council office before going out. Take survival kits and do watch out for poisonous snakes and do no harm to the National Forest Park.
Even with a nugget that size, there wasn't a really obvious signal due to the depth it was at. The coil was giving some false sounds around the hole at surface level. Well done for being confident there was something there.
looks like during the volcanic activity sometime ago caused it to burp up large amounts of molten gold in the area, and buried over time. good job on the great find !!
Wow! A true Woo!HOO! Moment! That kind of find is why we walk fields in the rain an dry stream beds when it's 114° in the shade. Kudos guys you earned it!
Suspense building.... They HAD to supply that footage to prove they did not plant the nugget. Very cool! I’ve always dreamed of finding buried treasure! I’d settle for THAT any day!
Yeah bro, that's a nugget!! And no one would dare say it wasn't in the ground after seeing you dig it up. And the ground looked hard too.. Well done boys.. thanks for sharing the video. I loved it.
over the years, flooding due to rare heavy rain moves this clay like material and covers the nugget. Over millennia this is repeated and more and more overburden is added. Heat bakes into an almost brick like material. Nugget this size would not be moved very far by water, so it's source lode might well be 'upstream' from it's location. Upstream here would refer to the direction of flow of an archaic stream which carried it from the lode. So I think rather then it slowly submerging into the ground because of it's relative density, it was covered by alluvial mud. tom
@@mrmurmur The only way gold comes "up" is if wind erosion removes overburden (often seen in arid areas). When a placer deposit is originally formed gold migrates down to bedrock or to an impervious layer like clay.
SO far have only found an old pocket watch with the case intact , a old flat iron and a handful of coins, oh and plenty of rubbish stuff. Seeing this nugget has inspired me even more, congrats on a wonderful find.
Because the signal was so faint at first, that they werent even sure they had a target, so they didnt start recording until they had dug a few inches and the signal became a bit clearer. The rest of the dig was into solid, natural, undug soil. Anyone who thinks this was planted is an idiot.
Well there's not doubt about this find ... totally genuine ... so pleased for you guys well done ... I bet you have the blisters on your hands to prove it😊 Hope you find its brother or sister hiding near by ... keep digging ... good luck.
What a skonker, I don't know what that means I just made it up but it sounds Austrailian. Good job guys! It looks like we dig here in Arizona with caliche.
Amazing to recover 19 ounces of gold, with so little ground disturbance. Landscape intact. One little hole in the right spot, you got a small fortune. good work boys
Worried about minimal ground disturbance is the stupidest thing I've ever hear of. In the 1940s they bombed the woods out here. The army did training and bombed the crap put of the woods. We still find crazy bunkers and stuff. It's all green. The birds chirp. Worms do worm stuff. The sun comes up everyday. So quit acting like alme idiot millenials amd worrying about stupid shit. Like every action on this planet MUST BE TO SAVE IT FROM US. Screw off
That's a great nugget guys. It shows how sometimes the signal is quite weak considering the size of the nugget and the depth that 19" NF should have had the detector screaming but it seemed like just a faint signal.
@@stevestaff5240 Yep. running a big coil, always dig faint signals. Sensitivity setting on a big coil is VITAL. Too high, nothing but EMI. too low - missed depth.
HOLY CRAP!! That's a MONSTER!! How is that even possible?!? NICE JOB, FELLAS!!! Thanks for sharing your find. I'm going to be dreaming of that nugget for YEARS!! 😎
@@acha5667 For gullible people to watch and awe at it. Are you really not wondering about the obvious spot, the way the ground looks and the small hole that IS ALREADY THERE?
I call bullchit on that one... they are too calm for such a find. besides nuggets of this size mean there are others near by... at the very least a gold rich area and any large mining firm would have quickly bought up the rights and started large scale operations.
@@renaissanceman5847 It is estimated that as much as 75 million ounces of gold remain in Victoria, in meaty nuggets buried deep in the ground or alluvial fragments drifting in streams and rivers. The world-class central Victoria gold province has produced >2,500 tonnes of gold.
@@renaissanceman5847 To prospect for gold in Victoria, a current fossicking permit (known as a miner's right) is needed. This costs 25.20 dollars (£14) from the Victorian Government's Earth Resources and is valid for ten years. The Central Goldfields Visitor Information Centre in Maryborough has maps and brochures of the region.
The ground over in Australia is a lot like what we have in Texas , Our good old Colicchie. Colicchie is like digging into concrete and we have it all over our state.
That ground is hard! Exactly like my backyard here in California. I used a giant hammer drill to make some holes for a fence. And the big steel bar like you used. Quite a workout. Wish I had a helper. LOL
About a $51370 AUD nugget in today's money, just in gold weight, but a nugget like this won't be melted down and is worth more. Say 10-30% over spot for just gold. $56500 - $66780 etc. depending on who wants it.
That's the first rule of gold mining,,with others,,,and why old prospectors, usually worked alone,,,,, GOD made man,,,,Smith and Wesson made him equal,,,,,,,😎
I hope you didn’t stop checking all around that hole, seems like every channel looking for gold never has any footage of checking to see if there is still a signal
No need in checking around when you planted it there months ago. Come on, do you know any metal detectorist that would not be checking the hole on every other pick swing? That was a really really deep hole, not to many detectors would pick up that deep with a strong signal like they had at the beginning.
What do you guys do with the overburden and the rest of the ground all around the nugget? I hope you're taking a good lot of it back for further processing.
Yeah nice nugget. But in the same amount of time it took you to dig it out, ive seen 3 different Cambodians on RU-vid build an underground house with a swimming pool and water slides. Lol!!🤣
Thats how I knew this was real, he had to pick it out of the ground was so hard. Even machine compacted dirt isn't that hard to dig in. Love seeing the real stuff
It was definitely worth the wait but at 12 minutes in I was starting to wonder if you were building a post and beam Barn when I saw that spudbar get broke out lol 🤣
Congtrats fellows this is the find I have been waiting for.I'm very happy for you as if I found it.The 6 dislikers are definitely the jealous ones.You got a new subscriber.
So excited for you guys watching this, lucky the detector picked it up especially how deep it was, do you remember what settings you had it on. It speaks volumes for the Minelab GPX 5000 with the 19" Evolution Coil combination for that type of country. Sorry but were the scales out or something, my maths works it out to be 20.988 ounces if that Nugget weighted 595 grams.
this has got to be my most favorite video on youtube cheers for sharing and congrats you boys earned it digging that nice sized hole how deep do you think you guys went down?
you can make more money with a good click bait titled video on gold than you can finding it ... some have millions and millions of views - that translates to well over 100k per year in income
I love watching this kind of prospecting. There's no faking that find. You work for your money, that's for sure. That digging bar was wearing ME out. Good on ya from Washington, D.C.
thats an awesome nugget, worth at least 40,000 bucks thats some folks yearly salary in 17 minutes of work, what a rush like winning the lottery best video for sure
@@chumleyk you seriously think they buried a $35000 nugget just so they could dig it up for maybe a couple hundred bucks in ad revenue? Get real. That alone tells me that what they did was real.
Why do I get the strong feeling that this is bogus? The ground for one looks like it has been worked previously a bit before digging that hole. Second, they were digging line they knew exactly what they were looking for and just how deep it was. Anyone that I know would have swung their coil over the dirt that was removed from the hole BEFORE swinging over the hole again. If you notice, there are broken twigs that were also buried there (something they overlooked when they first buried the rock). And lastly, they were swinging the pick like crazy when they knew they weren’t deep enough but took it more gentle when they were right on it. Cans risk hitting it and chipping away that gold paint, eh?? 🙄
Well done lads, all the way from sunny Scotland (North East) that was a serious amount of digging, thank goodness it was a nugget and as for the size, WOW, good on ya lads, you deserved it.
Are you crazy? They started filming after they had dug in a bit. Once you see its deep then its serious. Plus no way they could have faked the 2-3ft of hard packed dirt and rocks they dug through to get it.
I must admit that I was sceptical about the video title and thought it might be clickbait, but there is no way you can fake tough ground like that. Good job!
