Why I moved to Australia, and what's next for this YouTube channel. 

Muskallonge Lake State Park is a 5hr drive for me... 😮‍💨 But still worth it😏

Thanks! Those giant Aussie hopping bunnies are pretty cool! Best of luck in your 2024 prospecting season!

Thanks Jared!

Thanks mate! It would be a heck of a drive but a heck on an adventure one of these days!

Yeh any time mate would be more than glad to show you around down here

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thanks Brenda!

It's going to be one heck of a ride!

Thanks Aaron!

As a detector tinkerer, I should have done it some 30 years ago.

as a purest I use an old steel pan with no riffles and use combinations of techniques .One that I have seen no one use. But it is very difficult to put into words, but works well for flour gold

Thanks! I have lots to learn... I started learning fusion 360 and I can see I have a long way to go. I'm busy learning about a good filament to use for the outdoors... I'm thinking maybe ASA?

Hey Patrick! I have my house in Canada rented out and I've kept my boat and car for when I eventually return. I'll be in Australia for a long while just didn't feel like selling by boat! Get in touch via Utmostoutdoors@Gmail.com and I'll get your contact info and maybe if the timing works out I'll coordinate a trip to Brisbane one of these days!

I think an elutriation tower would make for a cool experiment, but I don't personally see a practical purpose for one. When you classify very precisely they work based on particle size, but in the case of Alberta gold case the black sand and gold at the same size are shaped very differently. so a 50 mesh piece of black sand is round and actually may fall just as easily as the same size flake of gold that is flat. Might work well on local Australia fine gold, but then a cleanup sluice seems to do the trick just fine.

Maybe that is why there is only one on the market and you are right on the weakness it has. You already have a good system but classifying is easy though and if you look at settling rates and flatness (Corey Shape Factor in studies) 2X classification will separate even round hematite from very flat gold (20, 40, 80, 160 mesh). Elutriation is quicker and more efficient but you wouldn't run each mesh size every cleanup. I think it pairs well with a Miller table since the gold that rolls off the Miller table is ideal for elutriation and vice versa. Also, like a shaker table you have a separate middlings cons which will hold sulfides (not something I worry about but some do). It would be interesting to see your Miller table tailings run through and E-tower. I think sluicing is probably still easiest but an E-tower will beat a blue bowl or spiral.

@@randydixon9512 That's a good analysis. I like the idea you could run both a Miller table and elutriation column to hit both shape profiles. Smart.

The boat is safely parked until I'm ready to go for another Canadian adventure :)

Well said!

Thanks Pete!

I might be in a bit over my head with that idea... but I'd love to give it a good hot go! If/when I move back to Canada, I'd like to head to BC.

​@@UtmostOutdoors - interesting.You'll have a lifetime of exploration to look forward to in BC : )

It's impressive!

I have seen some people try using magnets like that in their river sluices. I guess they have one magnet at the head of the sluice on top to remove black sands from the flow, and then a separate magnet further down the sluice to try and slow the passing gold to force it to drop into the matting. I guess I just decided to go the route of wider mats with lower flow rates and found the recovery was good enough using just water. I imagine that the effect would be present in anything conductive, so even if you magnetically separated your concentrates, depending on what minerals you found in your area, the diamagnetism might effect both gold and the other heavies. If you are having a lot of trouble with final gravity separation using just water, perhaps the concentrates could be run through a ball mill (cement mixer) and crushed a bit, then re classified for a re-run? I just never saw enough losses with the setup I was using back in Alberta. We will see what situations I run into here. :)

Yeah, it's just a cool thing to me, I don't think it is practical or at least it isn't necessary. I think clean up recovery for free gold is in the 98-99% range already, no improvement is really necessary, though processing time needs improving. I've also designed an "improved gold pan" although that too isn't necessary, its just fun to think about these things.

Every tourists greatest fear ;)

Yeah, if I manage to put together something useful, it won't be perfect. I guess I'll just have to do my best and try to make sure the results can be replicated multiple times in a row or something.

@UtmostOutdoors yeah because gold isn't the same and no two areas also you know what I mean different soil types different Rock size classifications different gold size classifications even weights different if it has more silver or copper in it. But it should work. That's why these guys keep fighting and arguing over different matting. Different matting works good in some areas and better in other areas. I've already found that out

✌️yo MO ✌️

@@FlourgoldWizards If I could be someone else , I'ld like to be Mr Utmost Outdoors - OR NOT

Thinking the same

@@jpw.8972 Regarding Dredging or being Kyle ?

If it's just tinkering with some ideas in a tub in the backyard it should be fine, I've just developed a real interest recently and think it would be cool to test out a few ideas for those of us who are in areas where they can use a dredge.

Yeah, I managed to travel 13,000km just to wind up in a place that's restrictive on mining AND away from the gold fields... I'm still assuming I'll just stub my toe on a potato sized nugget any day now!

@@UtmostOutdoors i honestly thought these trips to Australia were for your highbanker. I suspected you were consulting with gold rat (they have a hq in QLD) were going to produce it to sell 😅. Panning and detecting is good in NSW also snipping. I forsee a gravity fed highbanker in your future a 4-6" inlet sized down to a 1.5" hopper. Not sure on the boat prospecting here. I live in vic and prospect the middle eastern golden triangle. If you ever come down i am happy to take you out and camera man for you and use my equipment 👍.

Thanks Denzel!

Every time I look something up in this place I wind up thinking I'm never going to leave the house! hahaha! But luckily the other day I visited a surf shop and the guy was saying he's been in the water his whole life and it's "perfectly safe"... When in Rome... :)

@@UtmostOutdoors stick with those in the know you'll be right mate 👍👍 Let the adventure begin 👌

I'm supposedly just south of the crocs... I'll have to re-watch Crocodile Dundee and brush up on my croc wrestling skills!

Thanks for the good luck! You can get a firearm in Australia, they are just more restrictive on the type.

I'll have to get in some local boating once I have a bit more disposable income to buy an outboard and see where it gets me!

Don't worry, Carol gets all the love in the world, just no need to make a big deal of it on camera...

Absolutely! That's a great idea!