Sniping vs sieves, which technique will find the Sapphires?

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Finding blue Tasmanian sapphires in the rugged wilderness of Tasmania's old tin mining country, two friends Levi and Des, set out on a two day adventure to search for sapphires and precious gemstones. Levi a modern day prospector will be using the sniping technique to see if he can revolutionise the way Sapphires are found, while Des will be using more traditional methods using sieve to sift through the gravel and rock. Des has years of experience fossicking for gemstones while Levi is a rookie and relatively new to searching for gems.
Let's see who comes out victorious and what can we learn about these two prospecting methods.
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@Zdynio 4 месяца назад

Levi, Beautiful sapphires, wonderful color and a great adventure. In Poland, we recommend using a hand pump made of PVC pipe to extract gravel from gaps between large stones. It draws several liters of gravel from the bottom, which we immediately throw into the sieves. The slots are cleared to 0 and we don't have to dive. A shovel is of no use between such boulders. Good luck, maybe see you someday. Greetings from Polish Gold Prospectors

@MorganOlson-i1j 3 месяца назад

Here in British Columbia we just call those hand dredges, work awesome tho and greetings from Canada id love to visit Poland my great grandma came from Warsaw

@bbunch44 4 месяца назад

Gotta love how Des just eats his as he finds them. Too funny. Cool trip!

@desgray5420 4 месяца назад

Haha it's the only place to store them that I won't drop them whilst working

@bbunch44 4 месяца назад

@@desgray5420 I got a good laugh out of it. 😆

@Amandapand71 3 месяца назад

And can regurgitate on demand! 😅

@andypandyAU.6669 4 месяца назад

Love the gold, but gems are a bloody beautiful thing to find. Rare around my creeks , but have found garnets, sapphires, zircons. As well as gold around Creswick. My wife and I had a fantastic couple of days at Billabong Blue Sapphire Park. It's a farm/campground/working Sapphire mine (1 of 2 left) just out of Inverell NSW. Fantastic place , camping, + fossicking for a fee less than a camp site at a caravan park. Well worth a visit. If you ever get the chance. Loved this episode, Levi. You rock! 😂 Cheers Andy

@andrewgroom1806 4 месяца назад

Beautiful stone Levi. Thanks for the adventure. Sapphires are my favourite stones to cut.

@donmeredith9762 4 месяца назад

Tasmania has it all, gold and gems. You enjoy both. Great video

@tassiegirl50 4 месяца назад

Pretty blue… watching now 💙

@pattimessenger6214 4 месяца назад

You live in a land filled with beauty, gold, gemstones, and hopefully a few Tasmanian tigers who have learned to avoid people!

@SECRETCREEKPROSPECTING1776 4 месяца назад

Excellent sharing Levi & Des , enjoyed watching all the way to the end. Thanks for sharing your hard work with us. Beautiful Gems for sure 👍👊✌️🏆🇺🇸⚒️⚒️⚒️⚒️ 8:20 WOW

@marcussmith1768 4 месяца назад

I absolutely love Sapphires. By far my favorite gem. Great Video as always.

@kevink3836 4 месяца назад

So you are not allowed to sell your tasmanian gold, because england could claim it. But it is allowed to sell gemstones? Des is a really cool and genuine guy. I like him :) Awesome video as usual!

@nopelindoputraperkasa5869 4 месяца назад

Love your Vidio.. greeting from Indonesian traditional gold Prospecting 🇮🇩⚒️⛏️💎👍👍

@bondioneohfourthree7488 4 месяца назад

Great vid. Levi and Des.

@trudytaylor1365 4 месяца назад

Thankyou Sunday & sapphires with a cup of tea 😁looks to be a similar technique they use to find diamonds, congratulations on all the finds ,, well done 👋😊

@officialtassieboysprospecting 4 месяца назад

Thanks Trudy

@billdgen116 4 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing my friend. Almost 200k let me be the first to congratulate you. Great job

@jonathanhodgkin6546 4 месяца назад

Wow what an abundant place we live in,the country is beautiful,and the jemmy stones gorgeous, thanks for the great adventure,best wishes to you both cheers the old lenahvalley boys. ❤

@gorillagoldhunters 4 месяца назад

Moved to the area for the stones!! Love this guy

@desgray5420 4 месяца назад

Haha I'm a tad obsessed

@PerkBuilders 4 месяца назад

Just here to say I’d watch gemstone videos just as much as gold videos. I’m almost MORE into it!

@terry8728 4 месяца назад

Love the gold but the gemstone adventures are my favourites, thanks so much for showing us this advenure Levi & Des!

@spectrumEDMforever 4 месяца назад

Loving the trance music and the vid obviously 🔊☮️🕺

@burtonwhitaker6849 4 месяца назад

What a great video man keep up the amazing work 👍👍👍

@prospector667 4 месяца назад

I love prospecting\fossicking ,it opens up the hunt ,,, well done great video, love that ya mixing it up

@48thstateprospecting 4 месяца назад

It’s my birthstone so naturally I find them fascinating and I’ve learned a ton about them from watching “Tim’s adventures” on RU-vid he’s in rubyvale australia and mines them underground. Was very excited to see you hunting them again it’s definitely a harder type of prospecting and takes time to understand the deposition of sapphires but once you do you’ll find heaps of them the best place to find them is where there are large groups and concentrations of watermelon to wheelbarrow size rocks near bedrock in area where floods won’t wipe the bedrock clean. Their specific gravity is 3.95-4..03 so they don’t drop out as easily as gold and won’t necessarily be in the same drop zones as gold is much heavier so finding those drop zones takes some practice. Really enjoyed this bit with Des and that one you found is a BEAUTY🤩 well done and thanks for sharing see you on the next one👍🏼👊🏼

@VaughanMunro-js4nr 4 месяца назад

Another Great Video. I'm surprised to see what's hiding in Tasmanian rivers. Thanks for showing us.

@GlennChristie-y8n 4 месяца назад

Well done another new and entertaining adventure with some very nice results 👏🏻👏🏻❤️💙

@lithiumvalleyrocksprospect9792 4 месяца назад

I'm with you Levi.... the magic does happen underwater ..... Half way through watching and the Mrs starts pricing plane tickets to Tas!! Love your adventures mate

@toddrodgers5108 4 месяца назад

That is my birth stone . Bad ass day i do appreciate your time . Blessings sir.

@heidrivandervyver4663 18 дней назад

Great learning opportunity. It's good that you are willing and able to reach out and show interest in the professions of your peers.

@phillipmidgley2008 4 месяца назад

Your videos are always good but this one was exceptional. I love the color of those stones.Keep up the good work Levi.

@pattimessenger6214 4 месяца назад

I love Sapphires! It is so nice to see you find some!

@MurrayRiver1 4 месяца назад

That was really cool. I learned something new. Thanks Levi and Des.

@tazyt3388 4 месяца назад

Des is a legend aye bro you both did pretty well gotta be happy with that hope ya well cheers

@desgray5420 4 месяца назад

Cheers

@TheDadFaxs 4 месяца назад

Dam Levi that's cool. Great find

@YunuguPora-ol3vv 4 месяца назад

I follow and watch your videos all the time. Great to see you do something slightly different today. Regards from PNG🇵🇬🇵🇬

@officialtassieboysprospecting 4 месяца назад

Thank you hope to come to PNG one day

@_TONY_Az 4 месяца назад

Nice Levi something different very cool finds

@sjaakmcd1804 4 месяца назад

Cheers Levi, it's always good to push yourself into something outside your comfort zone.

@timothyhooey9014 4 месяца назад

Very nice

@mikemcguire1371 4 месяца назад

Absolutely brilliant stones

@tassie2348 4 месяца назад

Love this channel. So enjoyable. Watching from the Huon. ❤

@bygonebottlesandgems4531 4 месяца назад

Just a little tip levi, take your sieves or a bucket down with you and fill it up instead of bringing up handfulls at a time. Nice work as usual mate 👌

@Kaffeesuchti1985 25 дней назад

Gold and Gem-Stones all in one place. What a lucky country to have such treasures!

@iancrump4369 4 месяца назад

Cool video nicely done chaps 😎👌

@spiderfireentmt 4 месяца назад

I was just watching your video from about a year ago hunting for gemstones funny you would post a video a day after.

@pamelabelicio9205 4 месяца назад

Lak 👍👏👏 Boa tarde amigo Deus abençoa você e sua família. Mas que pedra linda! Gósto muito de pedras lindas. Parabéns amigo Deus te abençoe sempre 🙏🏻

@jamesgranderson2890 4 месяца назад

Thanks for the adventure!

@mysticprophecyroblox 4 месяца назад

Awesome stuff. At first, I thought he was eating the sapphires haha

@DetectaBull 4 месяца назад

That was so cool & the picture postcard views are incredible. Well done fellas

@scottdilley356 3 месяца назад

Keep them coming I watch them over and over if I can I always get more info each time Keep the faith my friend

@hardyakka6200 4 месяца назад

Well done Levi your good wife will enjoy wearing those. You sure like that water. An ideal area to search for sapphires. Glad you did okay.

@DigDougDig 4 месяца назад

Hello Levi, just wanted to thank you for sharing your adventures. Really enjoy watching you snipe for gold in Taz. I'm located in the Georgetown area of the motherload in California. Come visit, camp and snipe on my remote claim. Short season, June thru Sept. Good Gold.

@sharonmalone8312 4 месяца назад

I love the sapphires,the bright blue ones are my favorite .

@Scano41 4 месяца назад

Some nice finds

@Famo59 4 месяца назад

Well done guys. Cheers Famo59

@BreakOutOfTheAlgorithm 4 месяца назад

I love everything about this channel brother! 👁️👍🔔😎

@meganmeherbanigilbert9762 2 месяца назад

The abundance of the earth always astonishes me. Thank you for sharing some of it’s beauty

@jhallack7491 2 месяца назад

Absolutely love the gemstone hunting, Mate. Good on Ya, Levi!!😮😮

@ccccarriemchardy9216 4 месяца назад

Stunning colour!.

@tassiegirl50 4 месяца назад

Great vid, gorgeous blue stones. Make a nice ring for mum 😉😄

@officialtassieboysprospecting 4 месяца назад

You’ll have to tackle Louise for it 😂

@mijodo2008 3 месяца назад

Top video Levi, I will start researching where sapphires are to be found in our part of the country. Cheers from Michael. Australia.

@christiansmith9195 4 месяца назад

Good job fellas , the yabbie pump wood of been handy , thanks for sharing

@ville1303 4 месяца назад

Greetings from finland

@westroglia4692 3 месяца назад

It's good to see that you are still making videos, sincerely Wes Troglia

@NuggetNinjaAdventures 4 месяца назад

The blue jelly bean at the end was nice! Do you think you’ll cut it for jewellery, you have plenty gold to make a nice piece for your other half 🙌

@deannfrey3469 4 месяца назад

This made my inner dragon tingle.

@Khusringoldminers 4 месяца назад

Very good

@mikegilbertmetalartist9334 3 месяца назад

Way cool adventure! Your definitely living the life.

@martinjervis1558 4 месяца назад

Really enjoyable video love gem stones

@desgray5420 4 месяца назад

Fun trip mate

@fajile5109 4 месяца назад

Its kinda like gold they stand out and have a proud color. I can see them in the pan right before you grab them. I just read that 0.5 carats cut can sell for 600$? Wow imagine needing two of those for a set.

@we.s2872 4 месяца назад

Hello, how are you? Use an ultra violet flashlight inside the river to identify it faster and easier.

@desgray5420 4 месяца назад

Great for pink sapphires

@AdamEdington 4 месяца назад

I find flat bottom sieves don't really cut it. Use a large diameter kitchen sieve with a decent bowl to it ..concentrates the heaviest much better,

@desgray5420 4 месяца назад

If you use a see-saw motion it will concentrate them to the corner of the sieves

@AdamEdington 4 месяца назад

Long slowish circles concentrates large to the centre, long slowish up and down concentrates heavy to the bottom Short circular pitching gathers small to top centre for evac.

@bcbradley 4 месяца назад

Don't be blue Levi. That's a great haul. 😎

@MarkMarvin1983 4 месяца назад

Yet another reason for me to go to the creek!! Did you get any gold as well??

@dartmart9263 4 месяца назад

Don’t sapphires fluoresce when you apply UV light? Imagine shining a UV light underwater and watching them all glow like Christmas lights

@cerahb.1656 3 месяца назад

Not all react under uv lite it's the residual elements that happen to be present in them that react.

@dartmart9263 3 месяца назад

@@cerahb.1656 It would be interesting if the ones on that creek do so

@jeffslusher1973 3 месяца назад

Just rubies I believe

@RendiHermawan-fl9qd 2 месяца назад

Alexandrite stone yang berefek terkena sinar uv

@dargaard3339 2 месяца назад

just those red sapphires called rubies... both blue and red sapphires have the same chemical formulae Al2O3 but for some reason those red sapphires are called rubies...

@markferguson8075 4 месяца назад

Ghost peppers are awesome

@srilankanchannel1439 Месяц назад

This video is super amazing. Most probably there may be a Sapphire deposit nearby. Wish you good luck finding something way big. We are from Srilanka, the gem island. Ceylon sapphires coming from us to the whole world. Keep it up the good work ❤️😇🙏

@Gunsgame1966 4 месяца назад

I live in sapphire country near Inverell’ I think I’ve chucked away some real gemstones 💎 not knowing enough 😂

@janicecooper875 4 месяца назад

Hi Levi, don't forget there are also blue spinels as well as blue zircons. I have a few to make up. They're gorgeous. I must admit l haven't been well enough to get on the jewellery bench lately. Keep hunting Levi. Oh, l meant to tell you that sapphire is my birth stone.

@Fuphyter Месяц назад

I have a blue/purple sapphire ring. I love the color of it ❤

@JayC-kj7ls 4 месяца назад

great vid

@evelynyoung2644 4 месяца назад

cool video Levi, a nice change of pace from gold to gems! I do wonder though how you can distinguish between a pale sapphire and a pale topaz for example...how does one tell them apart when the colours aren't so prominent? cheers

@bonsaifesway432 4 месяца назад

Still watching here in the Philippines,,

@terry8728 4 месяца назад

Levi, I think the lovely Louise deserves a nice Tassie Sapphire ring!

@jimgriffiths9071 4 месяца назад

This was a different animal. I kept looking for nuggies. Very different point of view.

@wingnutbert9685 4 месяца назад

No sapphires around her, but I get pretty jazzed finding blue beach glass! :D

@brodrick3164 4 месяца назад

That was enjoyable Levi. Side note be careful trying anything with a scary name. Ghost pepper no thanks.

@GRUMPYOLDSURVEYOR 4 месяца назад

Just beautiful 🎉🎉

@peterhoy2098 4 месяца назад

Great vid mate, what I want to know is did you find yourself looking for gold while sniping for gems?

@officialtassieboysprospecting 4 месяца назад

I’ve been to this river a few times now and when I first went yes I certainly had my eyes looking about but not now it’s geology is way way different to gold bearing ground

@igvtec 4 месяца назад

Good stuff.

@johnlighton7025 4 месяца назад

Des sound like he was born in cape town

@desgray5420 4 месяца назад

Haha I did 7 years in platinum smelting in South Africa. I guess it hasn't all disappeared

@JackWilson88-i2s 4 месяца назад

How are you doing uncle

@corkkyle 24 дня назад

The zircons are exciting. A couple of pretty sapphires.

@goldmagnet 4 месяца назад

Oh you lucky bugger lol, such an awesome colour buddy, better hide that one from the missus she's already got a ring hehehe. You'll have to cut this one for a matching necklace set in gold and osmiridium I reckon would look awesome.