I found a heap of gold nuggets and a rich gold reef with a metal detector in Australia! See me work. 

Me too Steve! That looked very 'Old School' huh? I wish the Ole Boys would have had cameras ... What they saw! Cheers M8 ...

@@prospecting101 there's a story from the Clermont area of an old timer coming across an area where there was so much surface gold his quote was, I picked up as much as one could carry. Apparently over a 2 day period before he began to cash in the gold, then he was followed. Love it. Cheers 🍻

G'Day Bob ... Thanks for your comment ... I wish I had a few of those dwarfs, they know more about mining than I do hehehee ... Cheerio ...

Thank Ye Shane for your excellent comment ... Appreciate it Mate ;-)

Glad you enjoyed it Big bad Kev! Say, I have a parcel headed your way ... I'll give you the tip ... You won't need your microscope! Cheers M8 ...

Thank you very much, you're the "MAN", I will send you a Opal Cabochon and other stuff shortly👍Cheers Kev

G'Day Bruce, many thanks for your comment M8 ... Yea all those YT channels for DIY ... Can be hazardous! The experts make things look easy huh? It's easy after you've done it a million times hehehee ... Cheers ...

WOW Simon ... You're a Zen Master ... Thanks for your kind words Mate ... Cheers ...

Thank you GR for your kudos ... I'm with you M8, share what we know. I'm not really coming up with anything new, just following the tried-and-true methods of finding gold ... Luckily we have digital cameras to record the journey .. And RU-vid to store the immense amount of data. Cheers ...

Thank you Andy for your continued support ... Cheers M8 ...

Thank you Mike for your comment, I appreciate your kind words M8 ...

Thank you Matt for your comment ... Cheers M8 ...

Thanks OBack, I appreciate your kudos. I suppose it's human nature to want to improve huh? Otherwise ... We'd still be in caves hehehee ...

Thanks for watching EE ! I appreciaite your kind words and am pleased you're getting something from my efforts ... Cheerio ...

Thanks Luke, will do!

Thanks Kev, I appreciate your checking in with me. You're one of my 'OGs" ... Cheers Mate ...

Thanks for your kind words Gorilla ... Cheers M8 ...

Thanks for the sub Chuck! I appreciate it .. And your kind kudos. Cheers M8 ...

Wow, thanks Make for the comments ... I appreciate your recognition. And ta for the kudos M8! I've been prospecting "new country" for almost 40 years, so have learned a bit. I'll give some tips on finding those old company reports aka The Secret Maps ASAP ... Cheerio ...

Thanks for your comment Hot Rod ... I bet you made a few knives before you perfected your craft huh? Yes M8, way too much gear to cart around, It took me three days to fully set up, including getting the water. You know, I enjoyed the process but I look back and now think ... It's those rich reefs like the Honeypot, and Elephant that I'll keep looking for, the kind of gold that you can detect and bend down and pick up ( or dig a hole, pulling out the signals). Hard rock mining isn't for me ... Plus that quartz dust! Cheerio ...

Thanks for the very kind comment Daniel ... I have a few tricks still up me sleeve ;-) Cheerio M8 ...

Thanks for the visit Dean ... Cheers M8 ...

You should make a video of your setup. Sounds very interesting.

Thank you Mr. Croc for your wisdom, I really appreciate it. I have had a couple of dryblowers in the past, but never ran rich ore through them. You reckon that's the-go huh? I'll try it next time! Cheerio ...

Thanks JS for your comment ... Your set-up sounds awesome! Anything on wheels is a bonus huh? Wonder if you found a place to work, and if so ... Did you sluice it? Cheers M8 ...

@@prospecting101 found bit with little barrow sluice ,n other fellow s proved a lease that got heap leached,I worked building the dam n set up re tic etc , about 12 acres of dam so big job ,went ok for owners n they looked after us well , thanks for sharing your experience remind me of so things I'd half known or forgotten , LoL

Thanks 👍 DC ... Hey did you get that nugget I sent to you? You know, the Whopper 1-grammer that you won in the story competition ?? Cheers M8 ...

Thanks 48th for your comments and input, I appreciate it M8. Those shovels ARE special huh? I'm so glad I videotaped them. Part of that clip showed the big pan full in the truck, I cut that out ... Less is more heheheee. Cheerio ...

@@prospecting101 lol did you refine all your gold and sell it in bars or did you sell it straight out of the ground?

My pleasure, Simon ... Glad you appreciate my efforts Mate! I'm happy to maybe make life easier for a prospector or two, the main thing is ... A patch is hard to find, so let's not leave any easy gold behind! You know, the Ole Boys used to leave their gold to chase a new rush, and they'd come back to their find when they were broke, to fill their 'Poverty Pot'. In Australia's east, the miners from the Orient would move in to the abandoned workings, and sweep every speck up, under every rock. This didn't go down well, so in Western Australia there were no 'foreigners' allowed in the state because the prospectors wanted to be able to go back to their patches and get a few bits (for food) .... Anyway ... Any thoughts from anybody? Cheerio ...

@@prospecting101 didnt they ban orientals from california gold rush for the same reasons ??

Thanks for watching JC! And cheers for your kind comments ... Cheerio M8 ...

Hi Woods, thanks for your comment M8. Yes, I'm letting AI speak for me, I tried a voice over but ... Ouch! ... It was painful. Kudos to those that do it. BTW I'm going to re-do all my early vids that had all that scrolling text, a handful of people liked it, most didn't .... Cheerio ...

Thanks Douglas, I hope you get a fix of nuggetcillin very soon. I know I need some! Been all summer hiding away , happy not to be on the BBQ that is the Western Australian desert ATM ... Cheerio ...

HI again Bedrock ... I like your attitude Mate! You know, to be successful in this game, you have to have the right mind-set. Forget about buying the latest gear etc, if you're not a positive person, you might as well stay on RU-vid. Your Elephant is not far away now! Cheers ...

Thanks DJ for your kind comment ... WOW! A genius might have hit 5000 Subs by now hehehee ....

@@prospecting101 go for it mate👌👍

Great to hear SY, I know what you're on about, I have a shed full of failures too heheeheee ... Cheerio M8 ...

G'Day Rob, how goes The Battle? heheheee Kimberley Currency, I like it! I think you chaps drink those big King Browns huh? Straight out of the milk crate, from what I hear. They breed them tough Up-There .... Cheers M8 ...

Thanks mate for your reply, we can have a king brown or a dozen anytime 😊

Thanks Russell ... I appreciate your comment ... And kudos. I try to keep it real, I don't like watching people dig junk and trash, don't think many people do. Almost all of my Subscribers are real prospectors, not here for fluff and puff :-) Cheerio ...

You should check out the rest of his videos if you haven't already, They give you TRUE GOLD FEVER !!! lol

@@prospectingron2.013 I have followed all the way. Most exciting videos on RU-vid I reckon. 👌🙌🔥

@@glendadalejones3753 I was his FIRST VIEW & FIRST SUB...lol You cant argue how GREAT these videos are. Im with ya SISTER...LOL

@@prospectingron2.013 oh wow,that is a special spot indeed. I think I was somewhere within first few hundred. His vids are addictive and full to the brim in wonder and I want to watch more. This is why I will do my hardest in writing a good review with big keywords ,so that it lets Yt know they’re really really good and hopefully attracts more people to the channel to watch and subscribe,everyone deserves to know when there’s a real cracker of a channel. 👌🙌🔥👍

Thank you so much 😀 MS Glenda ... I always appreciate your comments. Cheerio ...

Always welcome DM ... Cheers M8 ...

G'Day JD ... You thawed out yet M8? I saw that blizzard in California! Say, I'm going to do a full length "Aussie Bush Special" ... Just for you! I have some videos that are not all about gold, and I know people like to see All-Things-OZ ;-) Cheerio ...

@@prospecting101 SWEEET" CHEERS" M8!

@@prospecting101 NO thaw yet...was -13c last night...Cheers"

Glad you like them Tim ... Wonder where you live? The USA? Cheerio M8 ...

G'Day Lloyd ... Thanks for your comment ... Yea what's the story? If you do something for 10,000 hours ... You're perfect at it. Suppose I have that much time in this ;-) Cheers M8 ...

Thanks HideNSeek ... But all those lovely specimens got crushed ... Sorry to say. But the biggest one was bought and donated to science ... Cheers M8 ...

G'Day Mark ... Thanks for your comment M8. That info that you refer to ... Is coming soon! They're basically company reports, you can always follow the ASX Announcements, listed mining companies have to report what they find to the market ... Cheerio ....

Thank you

Thanks John for your input ... I found it very difficult to do a voice over, kudos to the pros that do it for a living. I'm still looking for an A-I that does a good Aussie voice ... Cheerio ...

G'Day BB ... Thank you for your comment ... Just keep swinging Mate! And if the ground looks really sexy, don't be afraid to whip out your chain and test a few areas ... Cheers ...

Hi again Kayne ... Glad you got to see my latest vid, how did you like the AI voice? Makes the reading a bit easier huh? Cheerio ...

@@prospecting101 Gday mate , I really liked it , your videos are top notch the AI voice is next level . Hope you are having a great week 🤓

Thanks Bion ... I tried a voice-over but found it rather difficult ... It's just too easy to copy and paste the text into an Artificial Intelligence ... The best one I found doesn't have an Aussie voice (yet). I'm hearing from my channel feedback that any voice is better than just scrolling text, as I had when I first started. I need to go back and improve those original videos ... Cheerio ....

@@prospecting101 Ok I see .. there are plenty of Australian accent voices (narakeet, responsivevoice etc) but maybe they are less good, as you say ..

Plenty gold all over Eastern Washington

@@frankbyrd6726 I knew there was! I have been doing a lot of research of all the mining that has been done around here. I have a lot of places to go this spring and summer can't wait!!! I'm a greenhorn chopping at the bit! Thanks for replying!

It is mostly very fine gold ... Very fine ! You'd cut out alotta wasted time if you get you a set of classifiers initially classify with a 1/8 inch screen into your pan confirm thru panning if there is ang gold in the deposit if so , figure out the size of the majority of the flakes 100 % of the gold I recover goes right thru a 20 mesh , 98% thru a 50 mesh and 95% thru a 100 mesh classifier you will have alot better recovery of fine gold classifying down before you pan out your sample Most of the rich gold deposits down here around my area are high and dry bench placers , a quarter mile or more away and above the river I usually dont bother with any deposit that gives me less than 2 grams of gold per 5 gal. bucket on average ... There are plenty of them around

@@frankbyrd6726 Wow Are you in the South Eastern Washington? I'm in Orient Washington. I will go and get some more classifiers then if need be. I know I can find gold. That's what I have been looking at are the high benches that are flat on the side of the mountain. I have around 50 spots I have been doing research on up here and can't wait. Thanks so much for your wisdom of Washington gold. It's been difficult to get a answer about the size of gold around here. I even went and bought a Gold Detector. My wife thinks I'm crazy and she doesn't believe that I can find anything! Same with her friends and sometimes it gets frustrating when you go out and don't find anything to show. But that's prospecting. If you ever want to go out hit me up if you are around this part of Washington Frank.

I am down by Pomeroy I have done a little looking around up there and yes , theres gold everywhere up there I will get back to you

G'Day Stryk ... You can sit shotgun M8! You know, it's a big country out there, I've only touched a few goldfields in my 40 years. Like ... never been Peak Hill or north i.e. Pilbara ... I remember in the early days, the GURU said ... "Go north Mate, it's untouched" (Kimberleys, he was referring to, I think) ... Maybe still is ??? Cheerio ...

Great info. But still prefer the original Prospecting 101 voice over.

Thanks Christopher for your input ... You know, most of that footage is very old, and I didn't speak much because I wasn't thinking RU-vid. Now, I'll be yammering away when I'm next on metal! Cheers M8 ...

I’m looking forward to it. 😊

Hi Les, hey cool link ... Can you do that with "Clips" ??? Cheers Mate ...

heheheee Thanks Bedrock ... Mate, your third eye has spoken! Look for the source on the ... bedrock! You know, I loamed for gold for years, but it wasn't until I started sinking potholes to the bedrock, and then sampling off it, that I started finding some gold mines ... Cheers ...

I've been thinking of doing some hand trenching out there down to bedrock 3 ft wide and as far as I can dig

'Sup FuzzZ? You coming to OZ this year? You have an itch to scratch M8!

@@prospecting101 plan is uk for a bit get a visa then in for 2024 season,thats the plan any way!moreof a rash than an itch lol

G'Day Billy Bob ... WOW! You're starting 2023 early! I saw that gold mine that you found (that ole engine looked kool there) ... Did you get the GPS for the chap? You see any alluvial workings? Cheers M8 ...

@@prospecting101 The early bird catches all the worms 😂 Yes I have coordinates but no alluvial signs as yet.

Thanks 👍PR2, it's always a pleasure to see/read your comments. That trail of gold behind the rocks tells the story huh? That's where to look in a stream, as we all know. Cheers M8, hope you're not frozen ;-)