Opal Found Drilling A Mineshaft In Coober Pedy!

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This week we have the pleasure of hosting another video on our channel filmed by Lachlan Blatchford and his brother Shannon Blatchford at their claim in Coober Pedy!
Some words from Lachlan about the video:
The Grace Opal boys push on with our plan to ream a shaft to make it big enough to get our machine down. With the peril of hard grey billy rocks and huge old machinery breakdowns, nothing is guaranteed... Progress sees us optimistic enough to sink a hole in the line we are hoping will be productive, what we bottom on is very encouraging to say the least! No fortunes made this trip but rest assured Grace Opal is committed to documenting the first fully fledged multi million dollar opal find on KZfaq..
We hope you all enjoy the video leave us a comment and let us know if you would like to see some more mining in Coober Pedy!
Make sure to head over and grab yourself some top quality Coober Pedy Opal:
Lachlan Blatchford:
worldclassopal.net/
Shannon Blatchford:
kimberleyopal.com/
Opal Auctions:
www.opalauctions.com/stores/g...
Be sure to hit that subscribe button here at Young Guns Opal Hunters and make sure to head over and subscribe to Lachlan channel as well:
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@TheGreatestJuJu 5 ай бұрын

Wow. Now that’s what this channel can be. Great storytelling. It’s fun seeing the opal but the journey could make you good money on KZfaq. 👍

@younggunsopalhunters 5 ай бұрын

😁⛏️

@CZ2_Delta 5 ай бұрын

Can't get enough of this! Wonderful scenery and great storytelling. Wishing you the best and hoping to see more!

@younggunsopalhunters 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching !

@neesr13 5 ай бұрын

The only thing on my bucket list is to come to Australia, Coober Pedy in particular, and see the birthplace of my favorite gemstone. But I won't be able to come at this, the twilight of my years. But, still, I dream.

@hyme278 5 ай бұрын

Where do you live my friend? I mean in which country.

@lindagrant3027 Ай бұрын

Take me with you to Cooper Pedy!

@ThatOpalGuy 5 ай бұрын

Great video, thanks for sharing this. And tell those gentlemen thanks as well.

@younggunsopalhunters 5 ай бұрын

Will do an thanks for watching!

@ThatOpalGuy 5 ай бұрын

@@younggunsopalhunters EVERY TIME!

@billiehydrick6417 5 ай бұрын

Magnificent find 🎉❤❤

@uglenddalejones2 5 ай бұрын

Superb vlogging - *A day in the life of an Opal Hunter 👌🙌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻* Hope you are all doing great

@andypandyAU.6669 5 ай бұрын

On your editing program, turn the background music down and the voice over up. Then we may be able to hear you over the music. Still loved it good luck❤ it 😊

@johnlighton7025 5 ай бұрын

Loved the guitars.. cant wait to see what comes out of there

@timofthomas 5 ай бұрын

Love the wee gig - bet the neighbours have no problems with the sound travelling XD

@phildean8797 5 ай бұрын

Loved it. Balance of sound seems fine. Very enjoyable vid.

@MrComfyAustralia 5 ай бұрын

Loved the narration JC. awesome as always

@Onewill818 5 ай бұрын

Yes! Been waiting for a new video. You guys keep rockin on!

@oneshotme 5 ай бұрын

Well good luck on you finding the multi million dollar opal find!! I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

@lenorekoch6494 5 ай бұрын

FABOLUS VIDEO!!!! Ive always wanted to spend a month or two in Australia since childhood- To hear "Dreamtime" stories from Aboriginals, see 'Roos in the wild, and go to Cooper Pedy-‐ The 'rock houses' and OPALS!!! BUT will probably not make it in this lifetime (nearing 70-Lord, thats hard to believe! 🤭) so i truly THANK YOU for the "vicarious" trip!! P.S.-- Lovely stone!!!!❤

@younggunsopalhunters 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for coming along in spirit!

@sachasully3200 5 ай бұрын

Love this video, great seeing other ways of mining and Wow the scenery is awesome👏

@danlundquist3907 5 ай бұрын

This is awesome mates! Hope you find the mother load! Hopefully this means more videos more often from you mates! Cheers on a successful claim 🍻🍻🍻🇺🇸

@AvalonbyNature 5 ай бұрын

Woohoo that was exciting!!

@kompisworld 5 ай бұрын

woho! Looking forward to this :)

@dominicwaghorn6459 5 ай бұрын

I like the voice/music ratio. Eventuates the beauty of the area

@mickellis8747 5 ай бұрын

I'd be visiting Arkaringa as well if I lived in Coober Pedy. Nice vid.

@briandantana8470 5 ай бұрын

1:48 the pattern on the wall looks like a colonial sailor screaming out at someone left of frame. Sounds loopy but seriously can't unsee it haha

@davids3181 5 ай бұрын

Good show... Enjoyed it... Well done...

@TheRealAverageZac 5 ай бұрын

more videos like this please, even the trips to town would be cool to see

@younggunsopalhunters 5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@russellsmith8609 5 ай бұрын

Very interesting to see the opals emerge from the earth. On your next video if you could turn up the recording volume, I can always turn it down here, still exciting stuff, cheers.

@niftysin 5 ай бұрын

I wish you guys posted every day🙏🏽

@younggunsopalhunters 5 ай бұрын

If only hahah

@styleeyo2446 5 ай бұрын

I love the scenery and landscape there

@younggunsopalhunters 5 ай бұрын

It is unique

@emmadowton855 5 ай бұрын

So freaking cool, great vid dudes 🎉

@drunkdunc8738 5 ай бұрын

Opal in the bucket helps pay for Nicks services, he can finally afford a tube of sunscreen and some earmuffs 🤣Great video, cheers guys 🍻

@Opaldigger 5 ай бұрын

😅👏🏼

@leostile8857 3 ай бұрын

Loving these videos lads, I'll follow your exploits for as long as you keep doing it!

@caithomas-jenkins1732 5 ай бұрын

Just discovered this channel, missing you guys from the programme! I'd love to have a go at opal hunting!

@Kipsyz 5 ай бұрын

Only a few mins in, definitely need to sort the music/Voice balance, can't understand anything through the music :(

@stevenhaeding4955 5 ай бұрын

Sounds like they were talking through a respirator, it would be stupid of them to go down with all the dust in a confined space

@doorwhisperer 5 ай бұрын

Captions come in handy :)

@interestings7866 3 ай бұрын

It’s literally fine…

@W.MOpals 5 ай бұрын

I see opal with colour...I hit like. Simple as! The effort you boys put in doesn't go unnoticed, cheers!

@uglenddalejones2 5 ай бұрын

*Well,this needs to be viewed and enjoyed 🔥🔥🔥👌👌*

@jhallack7491 5 ай бұрын

Really neat to see a mine shaft being drilled in....

@JacquesTreehorn 5 ай бұрын

Nice strike. Going to be a good hole.

@younggunsopalhunters 5 ай бұрын

Livin the dream diggin the seam

@JacquesTreehorn 5 ай бұрын

It is going to be a hairy one, with some pink maybe.

@Spudscave 5 ай бұрын

@@JacquesTreehornBelter 😂😂😂

@dianeely9729 5 ай бұрын

Good onya guys keep up the great work.

@phillipbottrell 5 ай бұрын

sweet!

@gregwatson7479 5 ай бұрын

For real guys not the mainstream media BS 👍

@user-kv1sd3wp8n 3 ай бұрын

Very nice find whilst drilling 😂😂😂😂

@clivewiddall3430 5 ай бұрын

Great northern zero a great alternative

@redeyestones3738 2 ай бұрын

Was that JC's voice? Didn't recognize it without the usually loud and excited vibes. Kinda refreshing

@doorwhisperer 5 ай бұрын

I think exposure and time help you to develop inbuilt hearing protection

@michaeleakins5810 5 ай бұрын

Crank up the music. Especially your own songs. Cheers boys.

@BrutalInsights 3 ай бұрын

Young Guns keep the vids coming please 😍

@sammyjones3500 5 ай бұрын

I made an extendable drill, fool proof, can't get stuck.

@timsuttonlovinlife- Ай бұрын

I bloody love watching videos like this mate, Makes me wish I lived in Aus and not “Ye Old Boring England” where the prospects and free stuff you get given are plentiful if………………….you’re NOT a native!! asylum!

@user-di8il8ks5i 5 ай бұрын

How about a short detailed series on how to start opal mining for total noobs, from finding a spot, staking a claim .....

@Altrav4 5 ай бұрын

Do people go through the piles of dirt left up the top of the holes very often? almost looks like it's worth sifting through with a black light at some point.

@scrapbandicoot 5 ай бұрын

The Uranium Scorpion

@younggunsopalhunters 5 ай бұрын

Hahaha love the wild life

@RunningGrass-we7tm 4 ай бұрын

Hope u gave driller that little bit that came out of the bucket

@stephenfawcett3805 4 ай бұрын

Can hear sound voice music perfect

@sonei985 3 ай бұрын

Hey fellas, how could someone go about getting started in the opal mining business? I'm a 20 year old American guy with 0 connections to any miners, let alone opal miners, and I have no experience actually mining (aside from Minecraft and Terraria). I've just absolutely fallen in love with opal and the process of opal mining so I'm genuinely curious about how and where I could get started in this industry. I'm itching to cover myself in dirt to find some gorgeous color.

@danlundquist3907 3 ай бұрын

Mates, will you drop a video soon? Even if you guys are just planning out your season, night prospecting by black light, cutting or polishing Opal, a trip over to Eric's ?(the stone cutter, rubber / whisperer) or just doing your thing. Have you mates every find one of them old gold coins out prospecting? Hope all is well with you mates! Cheers 🍻 ⛏⛏⛏🇺🇲

@tymonkalbarczyk1456 5 ай бұрын

How much does sinking such shaft cost? Not asking for a specific number, but is it in hundreds or thousands?

@ACompletelyRandomWoman 5 ай бұрын

That Toyota looked like a technical from the back... *Maybe an actual technical could help defend the hole*

@oneshotme 5 ай бұрын

You don't check the dirt while drilling to see if you have any opal in it??

@Opaldigger 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, that’s what we were doing when Shannon was yelling about the opal! Haha, but we do have a pretty good idea at what stage / level the opal is likely to be so we go very hard around those buckets and check the rest with a blacklight at night later.

@blackf350 5 ай бұрын

You guys back at the 9to5 life or just in a dry spell?

@dartmart9263 5 ай бұрын

“Booby traps”??? What if someone is just lost or merely a kid riding his bike through the area?

@Opaldigger 5 ай бұрын

They’re not very dangerous ones, just enough to frustrate people who come into his claim. I’d hope unsupervised kids on bikes stayed off the fields as there are many thousands of deadly shafts. Although I was riding a bike out to the field at 13 years of to noodle (fossick) but I have a special condition, 😅..

@Nitrometal1 5 ай бұрын

Where are you selling the opal you are finding?????

@r-d6568 5 ай бұрын

Difficult to to hear thought the music. Still watching though!!!!

@ninjamoves3642 4 ай бұрын

that dust can't be good

@whyitmatterstome 12 күн бұрын

Dig, Drink, Dig, Drink, Dig, Drink, Dig, Drink, Dig, SELL! DRINK! And, back to Dig, Drink, Dig, Drink, Dig, Drink, Dig,......................I wonder why these guys don't put up more content?

@jacobbevers8171 5 ай бұрын

August 2021….wow you guys are waaaayyy behind

@barbarybar 5 ай бұрын

I can see a dog on the rock face.

@saintsfan39475 5 ай бұрын

I didn't see Jaman or Noah or JC, so, Young Guns who?

@younggunsopalhunters 5 ай бұрын

Just posting some more content from our friends up on the channel but if you guys would prefer we could post nothing at all 😂

@sefo_houseko 5 ай бұрын

@@younggunsopalhunterskeep posting i love your stuff!

@calnative4904 5 ай бұрын

Music is not needed at all. Can't hear a word.

@williamackley4952 5 ай бұрын

lessen the music and raise your voice alittle

@snarky_user 5 ай бұрын

That's not surprising, is it? I mean, that's what you were trying to do, right? I sure hope your next video isn't something like: I used a toilet and a turd appeared.

@Opaldigger 5 ай бұрын

It’s actually very surprising! All the drillers I’ve spoken to over 30 years have around the same estimate. Only about one of a hundred shafts drilled contains opal with colour that is worth something. It’s the reason quality natural opal is so expensive, there’s literally miles of dead ground between relatively tiny productive areas. Thanks for watching!

@michi24580 5 ай бұрын

Voice up mate you can barely be heard

@TRyan3 3 ай бұрын

The music is a little much, hard to hear what you're saying. I want to listen to you!

@user-rp5ss8zz7o Ай бұрын

That's way too much dust. Mask or not you won't live to spend what you find.

@Brian-1948 5 ай бұрын

Please lose the music.

@kenmcpherson8976 5 ай бұрын

Congratulations, you’ve discovered the easiest method of making me angry: speak softly and play loud music. The music should be in the background not the foreground.

@Opaldigger 5 ай бұрын

Sorry boss, we are taking notes and definitely adjusting going forwards. Bloody iPhone with an app makes the whole thing on our end and what sounds good on this end doesn’t always come out quite the same! Once we strike the big one we will invest in some good equipment like the Young Guns have! 😊