Record Gold from a record 420 buckets!! 

Old mate must have the eyes of a hawk. I can’t see anything 🤣🤣

Yeah I reckon! 2 people got it within a minute of each other. Might need an extra second to see it, and having it on 4k would help too. I'm guessing you're on Skymuster Satellite still though Alec 🤣

good one m8 ! .. had to look for at least 20 secs on the stillframe. Subbed !

is it 13

@@geneoleary6809 I'm not in a habit of losing anything, believe me. I've been cleaning up my gold like that for about 14 years with no problems 😁

Thanks Jeff! Make sure you drop me a line if you ever come down under. We can show Jason from MBMM how it's done with some Aussie hard rock 😉

Haha, Yeah, you gonna get wet! Let's gooooo! Cool to see you here @Ask Jeff Williams

@@TheGoldmansChannel now your talking ....we will definitely do that...thanks

@@Phoenix_Enterprises you betcha ....we love to see the community finding that Shiney

Restrictions slowly tighten over time. Subtlety, slowly, but surely. Water monitors are a big no no here, but yes I can imagine. It would be excellent fun! Our rules here are essentially just to only excavate manually. No machinery. (Hand tools only).

Thanks heaps for tuning in and your comment Samantha. No good on your guess though sorry. 👍

Thanks Daniel! Much appreciated brother 😁

Sorry Nova, no good on that one. Thanks so much for tuning in and having a go though! Cheers

GSDs are genuinely the best! Morgan is 9 this year, so he's getting on a bit now. But he's still a very happy, healthy and energetic boy 🥰

Not the number sorry Rusty, I hadn't even thought of that one. It's just me trying to remember the bucket number though. The simple life's, the best life! Cheers mate! 🍻

Thank you Rick! Any luck spotting the number? It's very subtle

@@TheGoldmansChannel Nah I didn't spot it on first viewing it and thought I would leave it to someone else. I'm after a bigger nugget anyway ;-) Decent downpour of rain. We really don't need it in the vineyard. You deserve all the success you have. You are certainly putting in the effort.

@@MrRickeyH Awhhh, thanks Rick! That's very nice of you to say. I'm also hoping the rain holds off for a while, things are starting to turn muddy again up here. Could use some extra rain water in the tank mind you...

You'll have to keep an eye out for comps in future videos James, I've sent gold prizes all over the world already. The postage is a killer, but a happy subscriber receiving their gold makes it worth it 😁. Thanks for tuning in!

Welcome aboard Rebar! Thanks heaps mate 👍

Yes it does! It's the only secret to being a successful prospector. Cheers!

Why thank you 😘

No Lyn, thank you for tuning in and leaving a nice comment. No good on your guess though sorry. Cheers

Nice to have a run above average, it keeps me plugging away 💪. Thanks Jade!

Thank you Mandy 😃

Thanks 👍hehe

Awesome! Glad to have you on board David. 😁

Thanks Ben, it's grown so much already in such a short time. I'm really happy with the progress and appreciate everyone that tunes in. Cheers!

Thanks Guy! You did miss something though, that was -2.3g, because I tared the white triangle out before putting the gold in it :)

Cheers Rob. Much appreciated mate!

Thanks mate!

Thanks mateeeeee!

Plenty of in the mine videos on my channel and plenty more to come! Cheers

Sniping videos will be coming at some point. I love it, have had great success below the surface in the past

@@TheGoldmansChannel I love it too 👍

Thanks Carl, yes I certainly do! It never goes back the same, but I put in effort to restore it in an environmentally conscious manner. I do have a hyperlapse clip to add to my next trommeling video showing me replace all of the cobble from that bank. Just haven't put that video together yet 👍👍

@@TheGoldmansChannel That is brilliant. I always love seeing what comes from the ground, how the ground is replaced and how nature does a great job of owning it. 👍

I hope so too, thanks heaps!

I do a couple of pans out of the fine tailings per day just to make sure there's no big losses. I've found you've got to be pretty lucky to even get a few tiny specs from the fine tailings. Most of my losses are in the oversized in clay balls. So pretty often I'll run the oversized back through a second time and then discard it. I plan on doing a video in future detailing my belief that sluice extensions are a gimmick. But I'll have to do some thorough testing before I make that claim. It's certainly my opinion though! A good sluice doesn't need to be long

Thank you for tuning in also Chris! Much appreciated brother 🤝

Add some fine mat in an 1ft extended sluice. You might me surprised. Since that water flow looked fast to me, due to the pumps, you might gain some fines at the end... just my thoughts. Check Freddie Dodge's vids from Gold Rush channel.. granted youre running buckets, not Tons... but Gold is Gold.. all the more helps 👍

@@chrishengeveld6117 that's the thing though, I've experimented with sluice extensions a bit in the past (before I sold this same trommel to a friend roughly 10 years ago) and the results weren't impressive at all. Also contrary to popular belief, more water is better than less. Keeps material moving to retain places for the gold to get caught. I've played around with that sort of stuff quite a bit and so far that's what I've worked out anyway. Keeping in mind too, I'm not new to the game. It's been over 14 years since I first got into it, and have found a heck of alot of gold in that time. So I feel that I've refined the whole technique pretty well in that time. Not to sound arrogant, I just really don't believe sluice extensions are necessary in 95% of situations 😝. Manufacturers and suppliers don't want us to believe that though of course.

@@chrishengeveld6117 I'm always down for these discussions though, we've all got different opinions based on our experiences. So it's important to discuss 😁

Thanks for tuning in Michael. I'm glad it was enjoyable 😁

I do test the tailings, a couple of times per day. Would be lucky to get a micro speck or 2 out of them and even then, that's a result of unbroken clays, not lack of catch area 😁

Creek has been hammered through there. That's why we're up in the banks now 👍👍. Plenty of gold to be had in other creeks around here though 🤑

Thats pretty much what we have found also Richard, very little fine gold below that layer but the occasional nugget. Can only imagine how long the nuggets have been hiding down that low!

Saves me getting into trouble from the Mrs for washing them in the shower. 🤣🤣

You did well on yours Steve, and thank you. We will have to do a 1v1 collaboration soon! Bit of friendly competition 😜

But more time also. I pick out the bigger rocks and brush them off before I discard them. But it doesn't get much more efficient than running a full bucket every 1.5 minutes 😁

Keeps me off the streets I suppose Raymond. Cheers!

It was indeed, my mistake. Ill make them a bit easier in future. 😄

@@TheGoldmansChannel a challenge is good, don't make it too easy.

Thanks for watching Chuck! Much appreciated man

Thanks heaps Hib. Really appreciate it

Good morning S.D.I, I run as many buckets through as I can and only do a clean up when I'm ready to pack everything up and move on. In the creek system I'm working in this video there aren't all that many other heavies such as black sands. If I were in a different location that had a heap of heavies I may have to do a clean up earlier. But im confident I could put 1000 buckets or more over that sluice before having to clean it up. 😁

Thank you for the kind comment, mate. And the polite suggestion! The POV ain't fantastic, is it. But I'm a bit too shy for the limelight 😅

G'day Anthony, Vic.

G'day Fabi, thanks for tuning in and dropping a comment. I grab a couple of pan fulls from the fine sluice tailing and the oversized tailings per day. I have no concern whatsoever that I'm spitting gold out of the sluice, if there was a significant amount of black sand present during the work I may be inclined to clean the sluice out on a more regular basis. But typically I'm comfortable to put a weeks worth of work onto my sluice box before I worry about cleaning it out. There's alot of false info in regards to how sophisticated a sluice box needs to be. Prospectors have been getting fooled by equipment manufacturers for hundreds of years but the reality is, a sluice doesn't need to be special. I do spit some gold out the end of the trommel as oversized when the ground is very sticky. Sometimes I'll run the oversized again, but in most cases I'm happy to let it go. It's more productive to just keep feeding it good ground instead of wasting time on the scraps caught up in the sticky clays usually.

@@TheGoldmansChannel This is so true, 100% agree. I've run all day for 2 days (12" Gold Rat highbanker) in an area with loads of ironstone and lost only a few tiny bits in an added sluice extension. Maybe the tiny gold you'd find in 5 minutes of shovelling. Not worth worrying about!🙂👍

Wondering why not take Trammell cons home for cleanout? I thought stream sluices were not very good in high catch rates?

Myth Jeff. I'm not sure where so many people got mislead with that info. But if a river sluice isn't good enough to do a clean up in, how is it going to be good enough to run general material through? A sluice set up correctly in the creek is no different to a sluice set up correctly at home. 😊

I havent been to Rocky yet unfortunately. Some mining history there I gather? I did do some deep lead work in Claremont a few years back, but that's about all I've done in QLD. I'm actually located in Vic 😊

I do don't worry!

I like hearing everyone's ideas, so always feel free to share them! This alluvial work doesn't require crushing though, there's no value in the washed oversized rocks. Unfortunately we also can't use machinery to dig gold here in Australia without acquiring expensive licensing. Environmental rules are pretty strict over here, for better and worse.

There's always a chance in both instances, as long as I keep working hard and never give up it will be bound to happen 🤞

I would have stopped at 400, but there was still some nice looking stuff there when I wanted to finish. Would have been great to do even more, but I had to pack up and get out of there.

We've got a winner! And you got it by a matter of seconds! Another email came in at the exact same time as yours. But your email was technically there first. Well done! I'll email you tomorrow and get your details. 😁😁😁

Yipeee

We've got the SDC with us, always checking over the new ground and oversized tailings. It's good fun to pull out little nugs as we're going 😁

Heck yeah Jonathan! Co ords are -35.746537,143.371478 See you out there! 😉😆

Thats a negative on that one sorry Matt! I may have made the number too subtle. Thanks for giving it a crack though 👍

Missd it by a matter of seconds! So close George!!!

Thanks Mark! Good news for you, there is certainly gold around King Lake. I also visit a friend in that area, I'd be nearly certain my friend knows your friend also, because he loves a drink 🥃 haha. Best of luck when you come back over, plenty of gold for everyone!

Or did you clean the top mat when stopping to check it? Best wishes and admire the work

Might with a little more layflat hose have put tromal close to deposit to shovel into?

Only did one clean up Jeff. Could easily get a week's work on that sluice without spitting anything significant out. I've got plenty more layflat, but have to take into consideration where I'm going to dump all of my oversized and fine tailings as well as where the water is going to go before it runs off. Having it closer to where I was digging would reduce time and effort required to move buckets, but would cost me significant time and effort in having to clear the tailings 2-3 times per day and saves me turning my work area into a mud pit with the water also. Thanks for tuning in! I love answering questions, so never be afraid to ask 😁

Yep, only 60,000 buckets to go!

Because if I dont need to do a clean up yet I can run run run even more dirt and get all the golds that way 😝

Best companions in the whole world. Love my GSD

No lost gold here. Work to hard to just spit it out again 😁.

Myth brother. I don't clean my boxes out for days at a time. 👍🏿👍🏿

@@TheGoldmansChannel how is that a myth if you didn’t actually test your tailings for gold and just presumed? Keene engineers tell you not to let the mat go dry because the oils!

Keene make a living by selling you "advanced recovery products". I can tell you first hand, it doesn't change anything. Gold ain't that easy to kick out of the box

@@TheGoldmansChannel how’s is telling you that you could be losing gold sell them more products? For it to be a myth you need to challenge it and prove it wrong! Besides why work so hard and wonder if your losing gold?

I dont wonder if i lose gold. For me to say to you "I can tell you first hand", that means I've tested the theory. A box that's set up right, can be used for days at a time. Wet, dry, wet, 2 days dry, wet again for the day. It doesn't matter brother. Gold is very hard to kick out 👍🏿👍🏿