Gold Trommel. Sampling some very rich ground!

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The Goldmans Channel

Ай бұрын

#gold #nuggets #trommel #gravel #panning #sluice #recovery #creek #australia

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@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Seems to be a bug with the comments section sorry folks. Ill try to pin this, so you're all aware. Please feel free to comment, hopefully they become visible to everyone soon

@nathandean1687 29 күн бұрын

now do u check your rock tailings at all?

@TheGoldmansChannel 29 күн бұрын

Sure do mate, buzzed over them with the 5000 before we left. Didn't pan them, very confident in my equipment 🤟🏿🤟🏿

@mygoodspirit8655 26 күн бұрын

Why do you take apart your sluice box when your water is running? By taking it apart while the water is running, the low-pressure zones become high-pressure zones again, causing your gold to flow out of the box again. I really think you should check your rock tailings. I love mining videos on KZfaq! I have never seen a miner disrupt his sluice box when the water is running. It gives me the when I see you do it.

@TheGoldmansChannel 23 күн бұрын

You'll just have to trust me on that one mate, but seen as this is a comment I receive quite regularly, ill actually do a video on it, and we can all bust a few myths 👌🏿

@nathandean1687 22 күн бұрын

@@TheGoldmansChannel but doing a random spot check cant hurt. no matter how much you spent on your gear.

@Mark-in-California Ай бұрын

Thank you! I love your channel, I've seen all your videos. Keep up the good work. Mark in California

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Thanks Mark! Send some nice warm Cali weather over our way too please 😆

@johngacsi7000 Ай бұрын

LOVE. YOUR. TROMMEL. ❤❤❤ ! . GREAT. OUTING. ❤ . THANKS. FOR. SHARING. ❤! .

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Onya John! Cheers

@gavinhogg6552 Ай бұрын

Nice work 👍🤓✌

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Thanks Gav 👍🏿

@trevorwhat Ай бұрын

Glad you’re back to posting. Always interesting, always educational.

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Onya Trevor! Cheers mate

@garrettmillsap Ай бұрын

Oh boy ive been waiting what feels like an eternity for another upload from you! Lol. Damn fine job!

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Haha cheers Garrett! Glad to help mate 😎👍🏿

@garrettmillsap Ай бұрын

@@TheGoldmansChannel I appreciate it lol

@trudisutton8505 Ай бұрын

Bloody great to see another video mate ya made. As always

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Thanks Trudi 😁

@SavageProspecting Ай бұрын

Awesome trip mate and that gold looks beautiful🍻

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Thanks mateeee

@laskyland8526 Ай бұрын

Dang Nice trommel and beautiful field repairs. its not easy hunting liberty! Keep em coming bud.

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Thanks mate. Liberty's the goal! Gold is the means 😎

@jdl.1234 28 күн бұрын

Thanks for the adventure....

@TheGoldmansChannel 28 күн бұрын

My pleasure JDL, thank you for tuning in 😁

@robstone9628 Ай бұрын

Always enjoy your videos, thanks.

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Thanks Rob 😎👍🏿

@MhdkhusrinKemilauemas 12 күн бұрын

Amazing

@Gippslandgolddigga Ай бұрын

Top job young fella👍🏻

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Cheers 30 block! 😝🍻

@wadelintick9538 Ай бұрын

Some nice nuggets, well done.

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Thanks Wade! It's great to get a few Lil chuckies now and then 😁

@jph8266 Ай бұрын

This was an awesome surprise to see this morning! Great trip

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Glad I could kick your day off with a bit of colour JPH! Yeehhaaa

@aaronlbuchanan9861 Ай бұрын

Live and learn, still a nice haul. Thanks for sharing.

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Thanks Aaron 👍🏿 😊

@LAWRENCESmannjr-tm5kn 26 күн бұрын

Thanks for this great video

@TheGoldmansChannel 23 күн бұрын

My pleasure. Thanks for taking the time to drop a comment Lawrence 😁

@Pa.PatriotProspecting Ай бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2320">38:40</a> it sucks hauling out! 😆😂🤣 that's a hell of a clean up! Great work my friend! ✨️⛏️

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Pack up day is always the worst! 😆 especially with the trommel haha. Cheers mate!

@raygongaware8647 27 күн бұрын

Great Video thank you.

@TheGoldmansChannel 23 күн бұрын

My pleasure Ray, thanks for leaving a comment mate 👍🏿

@annagray4208 Ай бұрын

Fixing, digging, persevering. That's what makes a goldman.

@Mimundo-pf7rh 26 күн бұрын

Exelente video❤

@TheGoldmansChannel 23 күн бұрын

Thank you 😊

@insAneTunA Ай бұрын

👍

@michealklonowski5267 26 күн бұрын

yup it's good to have friends that let you access there land it very nice of them.

@andypandyAU.6669 Ай бұрын

Bloody awesome, that is sooo good! I love a trommel, my trommel is about to have its shake down run on this Sunday 🤞. Hopefully it all goes well, I don't think I will go as well as that. But ripper effort, thanks for the adventure ❤it 😊 Cheers Andy

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

I reckon you're going to get double what I did Andy! Because I know you're going to put in double the work 💪🏿

@andypandyAU.6669 Ай бұрын

I don't know about that. Just me and my dog, I am nearly 60 years old. Bits that hurt big time. Plus the shake down run is in an area that has very fine gold ,plus mercury! But I will definitely give it a crack! Cheers Andy

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Mercury is always welcome in my sluice, tends to pick up quite a bit of gold as it travels. Best of luck mate. 👍🏿

@andypandyAU.6669 Ай бұрын

Yes, it captures all the fine stuff for sure. I have also built myself a retort and works well. Cleaned a bit up before in my videos. I also keep all the fine gold ,then smelt it into a button. 1 day it will be my million dollar bar 🤣 (long way off yet). I think your channel is 1 of the most genuine KZfaq guys in OZ. Love what you do, keep it up. Cheers Andy

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Thanks mate, I appreciate that. I'm aiming for genuine in the vids. The way the gold price is going lately, a little may be worth a lot one day. So your million dollar bars aren't out of the question brother 🤟🏿

@au_gmentedreality Ай бұрын

Hell yeah doggy!

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Hheeeellll yeahhhhhhhh AR!

@jeffholmes1362 Ай бұрын

Nice job, how good is that bleed valve on the pump, reminds me of my bathroom in the 80’s.. nice to have some water to run the trommel, thanks for sharing

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Cheers Jeff. Yeah the top tap is a ripper isn't it, it came back to me like that after my friend Jeff borrowed it recently believe it or not 😆. It did have a modern 1/4 turn washing machine tap on it when I dropped it off. But I like the old one heaps better haha

@jethrodigger 29 күн бұрын

2.25 grams for fifty buckets makes me feel a bit better about my last efforts . But man your gold is sooo much chuncker and prettier than the flakey stuff I get over this side of the hill.I remember making multiple trips to cart my trommel in and out of spots too. What a pain when you dont have enough fall to run a river sluice. great video as always Bryan.

@TheGoldmansChannel 29 күн бұрын

It certainly is beautiful gold hey Jethro! Were only about 500m from the structure it shed from, so that's why. Seems there is another reef close by also, purity of approx 75% if I had to guess. This gold looks to be 97%+. Which is very nice colour indeed 😀

@brianmcintyre8940 20 күн бұрын

The first thing I noticed is the pump is soo close to the water. Might fall in ?😢 Good video

@TheGoldmansChannel 19 күн бұрын

Had that happen a few times over the years 😅. Not for a long time though, I'm careful with the positioning. Finding the perfect balance between a safe spot for it to sit, that's also close enough to the water to reduce load on the engine and in turn, save on fuel costs 😁

@mevlutsel9366 25 күн бұрын

Thankyou

@TheGoldmansChannel 19 күн бұрын

Thanks right back at you 😄

@adzoutnabout8666 Ай бұрын

Very tasty ground mate. Shame our laws up here have banned everything fun.

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Do what you can, while you can mate. They arent likely to become more lenient for some time yet 😜

@mudripper2367 26 күн бұрын

i like the green tool

@TheGoldmansChannel 23 күн бұрын

Pelican Pick, they're fantastic!

@mudripper2367 22 күн бұрын

@@TheGoldmansChannel Thanks!!!!!!!

@pkgoldopalhunting Ай бұрын

cool set up mate what drives the turmoil

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Cheers mate! GOD drives the turmoil I've been told. Gold, Oil and Drugs 🤣. But a little petrol motor like a GXH50 drives the Trommel. Spider coupled to a worm drive reduction gearbox, and chain driven from there.

@pkgoldopalhunting Ай бұрын

@@TheGoldmansChannel thanks man

@Mavturbo Ай бұрын

Chunky boi's

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Bout time I reckon! Hopefully more to come, further down stream though.

@darrenbooker8144 Ай бұрын

Good stuff mate, are you testing your sluice tailings? If it was me I wouldn't be altering the flows with my hands while the water is still streaming..

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Thanks Darren! I didn't sample my fine tailings this time, no. I rarely do, to be honest. I stopped worrying about losing gold about a decade ago. Did a heap of experimentation with sluices, flow, and feed rates to establish recovery rates. The end result was clear. Gold doesn't like leaving the box. Bugger all of it even makes it into the blue miners moss, let alone coming out the end. And I always "swish" out my boxes by hand to reduce volume. Many years ago I lost a big flat flake by being a bit aggressive with my swish. But that was in a clean up sluice with 10 or so grams packed into it. Like I said, gold ain't easy to kick out of a good box 😁

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

I did detect over the fine and course tailings with the 5000 before I left though. You just never know when a nugget is going to pop up.

@darrenbooker8144 Ай бұрын

@@TheGoldmansChannel thanks for the reply mate, I realise you know what your doing! Your mat set up would rarely loose gold, and you would of tested the F out of it, I'm just envious I can't use a trommel or highbanker legally up north🤣enjoy your videos mate👌

@TheGoldmansChannel 29 күн бұрын

Nsw I gather? I feel for you mate! The rules up there suck. No doubt Vic will suffer a similar fate before too long either. But I won't stop diggin' either way 😝

@darrenbooker8144 29 күн бұрын

@@TheGoldmansChannel Queensland/NSW, qland is the pits for prospecting, can't do shit, NSW is heaven compared

@cliffignorant 24 күн бұрын

i suppose the creek runs more freely

@rickmilburn2447 Ай бұрын

Great Video, who make the pick either scoop head?

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Thank you Rick! It's called a "Pelican Pick" here in Australia. And Cyclone make them. Cheers 🍻

@rickmilburn2447 29 күн бұрын

@@TheGoldmansChannel Thanks for the reply, Happy Trails from California!

@TheSarvaks Ай бұрын

Weld a 90 angle iron on the shovel saves you putting holes in your boots

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Fantastic idea, the arch of my boots do tend to cop a flogging from that. 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

@66bigbuds 28 күн бұрын

If the women don't find you handsome ,at least they can find you handy.

@TheGoldmansChannel 28 күн бұрын

🤣 well I am pretty handy BigBuds, I've got 2 of them!

@drewclarke5920 27 күн бұрын

Red Green would approve...lol keep your head down, stick on the ice and keep plenty of the handyman's secret weapon onhand...

@TheGoldmansChannel 23 күн бұрын

Is that duct tape, or zip ties? 😆

@rodwilson2114 19 күн бұрын

nice going just looking a the nuggets some of them tell a story, if you know how to read them cheers

@TheGoldmansChannel 19 күн бұрын

They sure do Rod! What do they tell you mate? How far from the reef are we?

@rodwilson2114 17 күн бұрын

@@TheGoldmansChannel spot on we expect to see more from that location cheers mate

@shineyrocks390 Ай бұрын

AND YEAH YOU'RE GONNA GET WET 😂

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Notice the leak in my top spray bar early in the vid? Trommel wasn't set up correctly and the barrel rubbed a hole into the pvc. I got dang wet on day one, fixed it that night though 🤣🤣

@wadelintick9538 Ай бұрын

Lots of Yeet needed on that job

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Most of my missions seem to involve generous amounts of yeet 😆

@shineyrocks390 Ай бұрын

Finally 😢 Where the hell have you been friend 😊? I love watching your videos! OMG I can't wait to get wet and dirty again. So I decided to go back to school at age 46 to study and become a geologist. I'm just getting started in school. I already know most of it from my own experience. It's the stuff I don't understand when I look at the land that I want to know to become a better prospector and miner. One day at a time and I'll eventually get there. Until then I'll watch how it's done and watching you inspires me to keep going. I won't lie tazzy boys and Jeff Williams are also an inspiration. At least y'all don't post fake gold painted rocks for click bait on KZfaq. Thank you and good on you mate 👍 Rock on!

@TheGoldmansChannel Ай бұрын

Took me hours to meticulously paint all those tiny specks of sand with the metallic gold paint too Shiney! But don't tell anyone please 😉🤣. Good to be back, I had considered giving away the videos. It's quite time-consuming! But I couldn't let you down man. Not when you're working so hard to better yourself as an adult academic. Good on you, keep it up!

@lesterleporesr5228 29 күн бұрын

Not Bad A-Tall Bro' 🦾👍😎👌

@TheGoldmansChannel 29 күн бұрын

Thank you Lester 🤟🏿

@au_gmentedreality Ай бұрын

Numero uno mofos]]!]

@michealklonowski5267 26 күн бұрын

wow yeah i was wondering what happened to your channel.

@TheGoldmansChannel 23 күн бұрын

Still here! Just gone a bit quiet. I continually um and arr about continuing to put content out. But I'll keep it up for a while yet!

@frankbritt6166 22 күн бұрын

Where have you been

@TheGoldmansChannel 19 күн бұрын

Walking the hills, patiently searching for that Motherlode 🤑

@jeffbybee5207 28 күн бұрын

Crazy that you disturb your sluice before getting a catch baison under the end of it. picking up the black mat over the v mat likly lost some gold and also change in velosicty of water goofs up the retention behind the riffels. Like your trommel very much. Seems to me water flow under the riffels through the miners moss will hinder gold retention. I used a highbanker with 35 feet of sluice and friend were amazed that I had gold all the way down it. Have to compliment you however not kicking over the concentrates pan hauling the pump and trommel passed it, that's my usual trick. Curious would it not been more productive to have used time spent paning cons on the creek running another 20 minutes through the trommel?

@TheGoldmansChannel 23 күн бұрын

Video coming soon to hopefully put an end to this myth mate. I've been slowly aggravating people with that one over time, with the intent to clear that issue up 😁