Gold Bearing Quartz Reef Discovered in Australia | Home Made Ball Mill! 

Highlight of the video is Fern at the end.

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

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!

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

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!

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

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!!

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

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

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

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!!😉

Omg that reveal!!! So excited for you

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

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

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

Awesome to see the progress! Good looking pan man

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 !!

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

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 👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦👍😎🇨🇦

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 ☺️

That was a interesting process. Thanks for sharing!

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.

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

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

That was funny chris great blooper

Great video!!! Loved it.

Looking good chris keep up the good work

Good luck on the discovery!!

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

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

Great video Chris the ball mill works great

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

Congrats on the find!

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

Exciting stuff! Good work.🍻

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!

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

Nice find! Fern too.

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

Great result 😃👍👏👏

Very nice well done mate 👍

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

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

Very good , ya on a good thing there!

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

Prospector ingenuity at its best!

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

Good job and good luck on the next hunt

Fern is getting so big!!

What an awsome idea

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

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

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

Awesome video Chris 👍 lol cool ore crusher

Good job👍

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

Very interesting!

great work guys. that was cool indeed. GOLD SQUAD OUT!!!

Very good. Congratulation 👍👍😀

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

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

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

Great video

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

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

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.

well done chris

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.

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

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

After Chris and mick, great set of balls.

Boing!....hugs brother!

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

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

Awesome

Man that looks good

Lo mejor que he visto. Muy ingenioso.

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

Good on ya. Keep crushing.

Good goin guys

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

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

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

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

Cool stuff 👍

Good work guys! Grizzly is shining down upon you!

Good luck hope you find a ton

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

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

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

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

Such fun! Now you’re a miner 😃

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

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

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!

Time to stake a claim buddy! Congratulations!!!

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

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

Nice gold :D

That’s a heckin good result! Very good idea with the concrete mixer. Question though, would metal lawn bowling balls work as a tumbling media? I imagine those large steel shot to be worth as much if not more than the mixer. Also, spraying the outside of the mixer with tub liner would silence it quite a bit more. Maybe even plasti dip... BIG LOVE!