This gold loaded creek changed Victoria forever 

You make gold history in your area fascinating. From your vast knowledge, to showing us how it was done, and even your voice makes this history lesson rich. All teachers should learn from you. Thanks.

Vogus and Pioneer Pauly videos today. Nice!

I tip my hat to you, sir. You knowledge of geology, mineralogy, and history is impressive. While I may never get to apply it, you have taught me much about panning/mining for gold.

I've been following you for close to two years. You've always done a good job of including historical information around the area you're working, especially the hard rock mines, but I am really enjoying this historical series that you've been doing lately too. Keep up doing a great job of creating enjoyable and educational content! Thank you, from someone who lives in an area of historic mining that is different and similar all at the same time.

History helps appreciate the journey, Thank you kindly Chris. Appreciate and respect your knowledge, passion and perspective.

Another great history lesson especially for those of us living in the past in the USA (Australia is ahead of us its tomorrow there lol) so I have little understanding of the gold rushes over there. Nice gold count for sure 🤩. Lynx creek where I prospect was a huge placer deposit so large that president Abraham Lincoln sent a land dredge over to it to help finance the civil war. Their sluice boxes were also not very good and you can still find sluice tailing in certain benches next to the creek one side is large boulders with very little dirt between them and a few feet away you find the sluice tailings (small heavy gravels mixed with clay and very good gold you can usually get a 10th gram per half to 3/4 of a five gallon bucket with the odd picker or two mixed in. Love finding those sections they are unmistakable when you find one and it’s very exciting in my book. Thanks for sharing see you on the next one 👍🏼👊🏼

I'm loving all the history lessons about the Aussie gold rush!

I remember my dad taking me to woolshed creek back in the 1950s, we were hunting gemstones. There was still an abandoned floating giant dredge there at that time

Loving these little snippets of gold history

I know a bit about Oregon and California mining history, it's awesome to hear some from our prospector cousins

Gday Chris. This is a great series you are doing. Really enjoying watching it. Good info and I love the history side of it. Thanks mate for taking the time to show us all 😁👍

You’ve picked up some knowledge over your years of prospecting Chris, very informative mate. Love what you do

Hello sunshine, Now that's friggin awesome. Golden even.... Thank you and God bless you and yours always. Please stay safe out there

That was great Chris! I love learning about the Australian gold rush history, and learning from you is as good as being there! Thanks. Give yourself and your sweet puppers lots of love from me.❤

Awesome work. Love the history behind what made Victoria what it is today.

Great show ChrisCo, your historic knowledge of gold in your area is amazingly awesome. ❤👍🏻🙌🏻❤🇺🇸❤🇦🇺

Love the history behind some of your episodes. Great work.

I don't know what these guys are talkin about Chris I started watching your show for the relaxing humorous simple formula panning for gold taking it home and weighing it up to see how you did for the day relaxing

The Ultimate show would be Chris gold panning with a million subscribers while gold panning and telling us how to read a creek is very informative entertaining

Hey mate, I’ve just started watching your Channel and I just wanted to say you’re an amazing presenter - very original, professional with a fresh fun personality- thanks heaps for being awesome and giving us all great content 💯✅

What awesome video Chris. Great historical information, practical application and some nice shiny stuff. Thanks for sharing

Love the history lesson combined into your video. Well done.

Thanks Chris another informative history lesson, cheers.

Thanks, best of luck. ✌🏻👊🏼

Thank you for your shared knowledge. Love it, a mix of info and history to boot. ❤ it

I love these little history lessons. 🙂

Well done again Chris. Fascinating.

Love the history...Thanks for the lesson!!!

nice gold thank you for sharing the adventure and information 😀

Just another chapter for your documentary! ☺️ Awesome!

Great Video Chris. Lots of historical information 👌

At 3:48 there is a photo of a chinese miner using a rocker box on the Fraser River in BC Canada. Great presentation though, enjoyed it!

I wanna say congrats on your success and growth as I’ve been watching your channel for a long time. Always learn something watching you and your knowledge

Pretty cool..... It would be great to get a high banker there Thanks for the video Chris 👍🤓✌️

Absolutely awesome!! More! Mooorreee! Bravo!!! Totally loving this train of thought; I know a fair bit about our west USA coast gold rushes, but this Australian stuff is all new and you present it very well.

good on you, mate! This is really good. I guess you pick up this historic needs from your earlier mentor. I remember him well. In one of his last videos he told us that hi was keen to do a historic film about gold workings and all effort they have to put in.. Because of my memory I've lost his name and his channel. Chris

Great video Chris - thanks for sharing your knowledge mate

Brilliant video Chris 👏 I love a good history lesson!

Man Chris, you need to Yabby pump those old sluices. You never know what might be hiding in them.

Interesting, once again. Ty chris. Well done👍✌️

G'day Bloke, RedRick here, have you ever heard about the large volume of Chinese that was kicked out of all main mining Ballarat, Bendigo etc, because of the mass volume of Chinese they were sent to Hoddles Creek, Yarra valley,if you're interested I can let you know of creeks and land I grew up on and would like to see would you investigate it, Lot's of us like your pesona through a camera So keep teaching us 👌👍👍👍

Damn! Could you imagine getting a penny weight of gold every pan today.🤯 Imagine the amount of DARE iced coffee you could buy 🤣

Very informative thank you Chris.

I would guess that finding nuggets the size of a golf ball means that fine gold is not worth worrying about. Their sluice boxes caught most of the big stuff even if it missed half of the gold, the small gold. Easy pickings vs hard work.

Thanks Chris!

Old gold history never gets old, it would be interesting to put this under a microscope. I bet there was a ton of beefs going down between farmers and miners. All sorts of nefarious subterfuges, beatings, and murders.

Loving your history work

Very Nice Chris Heavy Pans Buddy!! Cheers JJ

they say the same about creswick creek too, I guess it was just the sludge destroying all the towns ay, amazing stories about Ballarat being buried in silt.

Amazing history! Stand up footage.

Bloody interesting mate and I'm a kiwi living in nz......love your vids !!!

Really enjoying the history lessons

Another great RU-vid clip. Very entertaining.

Great video I hope one day to visit there and try my hand at panning but I will make sure I have all the licensing stuff first as i don't want to be seen as a claim jumper lol.

Love theses history lessons mate 👏

That was really interesting and informative. I wonder if there is anything similar in the US. Thanks!

Really like the history!!

Love watching Chris!! You, Shane (Klesh) and Dan Hurd inspired me to get out there and pan! I even did a Review of Klesh's Gold Strike Paydirt if you'd like to check that out! Ps YES WE LOVE THE LONGER VIDEOS!

Awsome video thanks for filming it

I thought I’d seen Gadsy somewhere before, bloke on the right @33secs

@vogus great vid, and awesome bit of history. Funny as well because I also went to some hydraulic workings just this past weekend. Have you ever heard of Dutch Flat, in northern California? Give it a quick Google search and it may just put another smile on your face. 🍻 mate, from northern California 🤙

Enjoyed the video nice gold always enjoy your information about Australia I was in Sydney in 1970 r@r from Viet Nam

Victorian water board sounds like a kinky situation, a terrible situation, or a boujee situation. Lol It can be interpreted so many ways buts its really just a mundane epa situation

Great video, very informative. 👌

Great video. Glad I subscribed. How do you work an area to find the sweet spot? I watch a video years ago. The guy found an untouched valley. He started upstream. Dug a hole, panned it. Walked about 10-15 steps. Rinse and repete. He marked the heaviest consitraition and work that after his test pans.

Great video

Thanks for the history lesson how interesting

That’s some nice info love it ❤

what ive always wanted to know is how did they decide thats the spot to look, what was the first thing they saw and said "here!"

Victoria, the highands, in a creek, in winter.......I am impressed your voice is not several octaves higher, lucky you didn't die from a terminal case of chilly willy.. And you got a Pan Hub tshirt, so jealous. Take care brother.

They didn’t all run it all through the box with riffle. Most of the material ran through boxes with no Recovery system! They would only run the concentrated material usually at the end of the season. It took 45 men One week to cut 5000 board feet. We have Mills today that can cut over 1 million board feet in a day with less than 200 men.

Yellow sludge just like the Ok Tedi river today in PNG

Hi Vo Gus Prospecting. I have some findings here. I don't know what they are. You can have these findings if you give me a Care of Post office to send them to. I'd like to find out if I found metal. I don't want money or anything 😂

Mountains rise and fall a little bit everyday

Any ideas for a gold prospecting tour in Australia!?

If you could have a magic wand and got all the gold out of that Creek in 50 to 100 years the creek would have gold in it again the Earth is alive it refreshes itself it breathes

The creek moved .

G'day Chris. I'm a newbie prospector from Geelong and I'd love to know where exactly you are panning, if that's something you are willing to divulge lol. My local was dollys Creek, where I have had mediocre success, but during my last outing there I was victim of armed robbery during the night that has resulted in me suffering extreme ptsd and me not being able to return. Any info would be appreciated. Cheers, Scott

Its amazing how weird events manage to make governments form in the way they do, The events at yellow creek are pretty extreme but out of that came something great and albeit a bit of a grind sometimes a great protector of the environment....well hopefully

It is highly unlikely that I'll be walking out in the bush in Australia to go gold panning so a show mostly of professor Chris talking about gold panning is not as entertaining as Chris Gold panning 💥💥

Looks like I'd be there everyday!!! Lol?????

I can't see how the gold on yellow Creek could be stagnant it's just not how it works

Salve salve guerreiro 💎⛏️🇧🇷

Hmmm I wonder if I payed attention in school I would have learnt cool stuff like this..... highly unlikely the teachers were mostly boring

Hi Chris, What's about mercury in the old mining areas? I can't remember you ever found mercury contaminated gold. In most areas of the world, miners used (and still using) mercury to recover/catch the fine gold particles. I'd expect the ground is also loaded with mercury in the Australian gold fields…

PanHub - hahaha

Environmental vandalism

I'm your friend and I'll tell you the truth

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That’s a brilliant idea! Work a smaller pan and quicker to see what’s there! Damn. Didn’t realize it was 4 smaller for one larger. #themoreyaknow

Loving the history you include in your vids👍 Come up and help me with my creek!😅

1st viewer woohoo 😁