Much like what happened in Downieville, CA, USA. They were doing work on one street, digging a deep trench and piling the dirt on the street. Someone took a panful of dirt, panned it out, and found a small gold nugget. By the time the trench was to be filled in, they had to bring in 12-13 semi trailers full of dirt because so much had been stolen! (And a LOT of gold found!)
My mums side is from Ballarat and I grew up in Ararat where my dads side is from. Pop told a story of where they were laying bitumen near the train tracks. Yes, bitumen. And as they finished one of the guys noticed a spec of gold. He dug it out and it was a large pice about the mass of a finger and a thumb.
A similar thing occurred in north-east Tasmania at a place called Warrentinna. The tailings out of some of the small gold mines, after they had been through the stampers, were then used to form parts of the road through the thick forest from the nearby small township of Branxholm. Apparently there was even an article in one of the English papers of the time, about the latest gold mining venture opening up, and how the road was "paved with gold"
I have a number of pieces of quartz that I found on a tailings dump from Hill End which contain traces of gold. You’ll probably never get rich by going through these tailings dumps but it’s still satisfying when you do find it.
I'm not too far from Ballarat and there's a town near me that had the roads entirely made of the left over rock from the mines. Apparently there should be slithers still in there but they are still getting random gold from the creek thru there. I should go up with a detector and get around the roots of the dead fallen trees because I'm sure some will be missed from under the 100+ year old trees.
@@OffGridInvestor I’ve recently been to Hill End and Ophir recently where gold was first discovered and there’s got to be gold in and under all those tree roots in the creek. I did find a few specks while panning which tells you there’s still gold there, I’ve got a pile of quartz from Hill End and you can see the traces of gold in them. I’m thinking of polishing them instead of extracting what little gold is in them, make nice paperweight.
If you look around the roads in Smythesdale and golden plains shire you see that orange sago hill sand. Which comes from the sago hill quarry that was an old gold field. I panned some of it on a road side out of curiosity and got a few specs in it. They used it to lay road base around here and then ashpelt over it.
And often the contracts let by councils for the laying of basalt-lined gutters, laneways, etc, specifically required that the basalt pitchers, flagstones, kerbstones, etc, be bedded in gold mine tailings, much of which was strongly auriferous. Furthermore, the once prominent mine tailing dumps, which were dotted around Ballarat and district, were used in brick and tile manufacture, especially after WW2, when motor trucks and excavators became available. Similarly, the once numerous mine mullock dumps, very often quite auriferous, were reclaimed and used for building and road-making fill. Ballarat is truly "a city built on (and roofed by) gold," as we children recited back in the 1950s!
Wow! You're right! It's roofed with gold too! Hahaha that is amazing thank you for sharing this! I was completely unaware that it was included in brick and tile manufacturing. I wonder how much gold the current day quarry that's near the town center digs up without realizing.
My Great Grandfather was a partner in a Quartz reef mine at South Welshman's reef near Castlemaine during the mid 1870's. It was quite profitable until the Victorian banking crisis and then later when gold became much cheaper to mine in South Africa. I'd hasten to say that there would still be a lot of quartz gold around there.
Much like in kalgoorlie, they paved the sidewalk of the town in what they thought was worthless pyrities but it was crystalline gold. Some of it is still at the museum in their gold vault
Kalgoorlie had rds and building made from gold telluride because they hadn't discovered tellurium and that gold telluride was a thing... like it's 50% gold so there was a second gold rush and some rebuilding 😅
I heard a similar story about Maryborough, that the streets were deliberately lain over a large gold reef. I don't know how true it is, but it's an interesting thought...
My father was a policeman in Kalgoorlie in the early 1970s and his house had a long 'gravel'' driveway along the side. It was absolutely glittering with tiny gold specs which he assured me were not real gold. Holy Moly.
@@OzGeologyOfficial Wanna swap Oz for Blighty? Some nice Blue John this way much better than gold or opals mate...Honest🤞On the down side. no sharks, crocs snakes, spiders or jellyfish to keep the tourist population in check.
Oh I KNOW. I had a property between Ballarat and Maryborough that was riddled with trenches and holes from chinese mining. I sold it about 13 years ago and SHOULD HAVE ran a detector over it before the sake finalised because it had last been done in the early 90s when detectors were crap. Had a creek going thru it.
@@conclaveofthelost513gold is best, hands down. We got enough opal to sink a battleship in Australia but it's value is ow now. My uncle used to mine it in the 70s and I have multiple family connections to gold including a mine that bought up amount AU$360 MILLION over 20 years in Bendigo that my great great grandfather was CEO of. Very powerful man with plenty of money and influence. Especially politically.
I remember as a kid some friends of ours father walking home from the Black Hill pub down Peel Street and specking a 3 oz nugget on the road. They had scraped the bitumen off and were re doing the road at the time
I have seen another channel cleaning the cracks in the pavements in Ballarat and finding small pieces of gold, but I wonder if London England had the same sort of thing for a while because numerous nursery rhymes and old folklore talk about the streets of London, being paved with gold
there was a huge subculture of mud larks etc who used to brave London's sewers and drainage system looking for treasures that had made their way down the drains. From coins to silk ribbons and handkerchiefs to buttons and hairpins to the countless little trinkets available in pre-Victorian era London as the city industrialised and a wealthy middle class emerged. A silk hair ribbon fished out of the mud and cleaned properly could be quite the find for a starving child, and finding a broach or hairpin set with jewels etc could be a life changing find (it would be like us finding a 30 grand watch or wad of cash in the gutter. If you have nothing but the literal rags you're wearing, that could get you and your friends literally out of the gutter and into a better life.....if you can hold onto it without getting robbed and/or murdered). I wonder if anyone did any real panning. I bet they would try to sieve the deep mud in gravity traps as best they could. Maybe ask Nicola White Tideline Art or Syfinds. They have awesome mudlarking channels. Some of the stuff they find is mind-boggling. The age of some finds is always surprising as well as how good condition some stuff is thanks to being protected by the mud, to slowly get buried, then unburied and washed ashore countless years later. Its always eye opening and they're amongst my fav channels on YT, along with this one lol
Heard somewhere that it was Pyrite inclusions that made Londons streets golden. I think this is more likely than actual gold, but you never know, it could be possible.
I've watched a few videos on this! And have even considered doing it myself. I also had a phase where I watched mudlarking videos on RUclips and it was amazing to see some of the finds even with the 'yuck' factor of it.
thanx for the video as usual. amazing how geo plates and volcanoes bring the m minerals and ores to surface. want gold just wait for time and it will surface. interesting feature in namiba. 20°49'14.8"S 16°07'50.8"E
Not unusual road workers in the Kalgoorlie-Boulder /goldfields in WA were often distracted by finding gold when they dug the roads. My mother who lived in nearby Coolgardie told me that after rain evryone would be walking eyes down looking for gold. She found a gold nugget outside her front gate this way. They would even have a cast iron mortar and pestle they nicknamed a "poverty pot" to crush and pan any quartz they could see gold in.
Which was the big nugget that was found when it broke the cart wheel? Was that the welcome stranger? I don't quite remember the story exactly or the name of the nugget. 🤷♂🤔
Not the first time someone’s stopped for a pee by a tree and found a nugget, the tree brings up what’s lying underneath it as it grows so little gems like this abound. Here in the west some of the river beds were littered with nuggets because the aborigines had no use for it until wadjela came here.
Doing anything more on the mega tsunami or is that done? Cause its clearly the most viewed topic you've done but no new videos for a long long time, seems weird to can the most popular thing
Very interesting thanks!! Do you think there's a possibility that gold was formed from the death of terrestrial creatures? When a human passes away, blood gathers & pools at the lowest point of the body.. I'm not sure whether the gold in their body gathers at the lowest point as well. Now I'm curious to know were the terminology 'veins of gold' came from😂
Have you started narrating your videos with an AI version of your own voice? The last few videos sound very similar, compared with your earlier videos.
But yet modern day road techs can’t build roads that don’t crumble or collapse or develop massive potholes? Maybe time to rethink the Cobble streets and roads again 😊
Another good film, but may a make just one point. It is not "ashfelt" or "ashfalt" It is assfalt" asphalt. And it is spelled with an aitch, not a haitch. Sorry to be a pedant.
@@OzGeologyOfficial We also say "Essedon" and "Reservore" and "Berrick" and "escavator" All wrong, as is "ashfelt" Nothing more than mispronunciation. The word is spelled asphalt. æs.fɔːlt
Would ash felt It's for not as fault as FAULT asphalt that's it's pronounced I was APH in there but that shouldn't change it as fast felt you're branching ASSFELT as felt it's not felt it's as fault you seem even weirder than the English do he said their asphalt tarmac armacadam there's a three terms used to indicate tar covered pebbles spread down and then compressed to make a roadway macadam is the latest only because it's more of a technique than a substance they use a machine that makes keeps the tar hot mixes the gravel in tumbles it spreads it out and compresses it tarmac is any flat service could be concrete or asphalt to make tarmac I think tarmac actually means **** macadam. mcadam is the man who created the device to make tarmac for asphalt
@@OzGeologyOfficial i do agree with you but a12000 mile trip to make a huge financial loss puts me off, i dont fancy being bankrupt again, recon it would be an adventure though!
Much like what happened in Downieville, CA, USA. They were doing work on one street, digging a deep trench and piling the dirt on the street. Someone took a panful of dirt, panned it out, and found a small gold nugget. By the time the trench was to be filled in, they had to bring in 12-13 semi trailers full of dirt because so much had been stolen! (And a LOT of gold found!)
Thanks for sharing! Very interesting stuff.
My mums side is from Ballarat and I grew up in Ararat where my dads side is from. Pop told a story of where they were laying bitumen near the train tracks. Yes, bitumen. And as they finished one of the guys noticed a spec of gold. He dug it out and it was a large pice about the mass of a finger and a thumb.
Lucky fella! It would've been so difficult for me to not rip the road they just made up and get the gold hahaha.
So good to hear from you, thank you, great story, Cheers
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
A similar thing occurred in north-east Tasmania at a place called Warrentinna. The tailings out of some of the small gold mines, after they had been through the stampers, were then used to form parts of the road through the thick forest from the nearby small township of Branxholm. Apparently there was even an article in one of the English papers of the time, about the latest gold mining venture opening up, and how the road was "paved with gold"
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing! It's amazing to know that more places had this happen.
I have a number of pieces of quartz that I found on a tailings dump from Hill End which contain traces of gold. You’ll probably never get rich by going through these tailings dumps but it’s still satisfying when you do find it.
I'm not too far from Ballarat and there's a town near me that had the roads entirely made of the left over rock from the mines. Apparently there should be slithers still in there but they are still getting random gold from the creek thru there. I should go up with a detector and get around the roots of the dead fallen trees because I'm sure some will be missed from under the 100+ year old trees.
@@OffGridInvestor I’ve recently been to Hill End and Ophir recently where gold was first discovered and there’s got to be gold in and under all those tree roots in the creek. I did find a few specks while panning which tells you there’s still gold there, I’ve got a pile of quartz from Hill End and you can see the traces of gold in them. I’m thinking of polishing them instead of extracting what little gold is in them, make nice paperweight.
If you look around the roads in Smythesdale and golden plains shire you see that orange sago hill sand. Which comes from the sago hill quarry that was an old gold field. I panned some of it on a road side out of curiosity and got a few specs in it. They used it to lay road base around here and then ashpelt over it.
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. It's amazing how much gold is just lying there without anyone noticing.
Great piece of geo history my brother very interesting & entertaining story..OZ GEO Rocks.greetings from Adelaide
Glad you enjoyed it
And often the contracts let by councils for the laying of basalt-lined gutters, laneways, etc, specifically required that the basalt pitchers, flagstones, kerbstones, etc, be bedded in gold mine tailings, much of which was strongly auriferous. Furthermore, the once prominent mine tailing dumps, which were dotted around Ballarat and district, were used in brick and tile manufacture, especially after WW2, when motor trucks and excavators became available. Similarly, the once numerous mine mullock dumps, very often quite auriferous, were reclaimed and used for building and road-making fill. Ballarat is truly "a city built on (and roofed by) gold," as we children recited back in the 1950s!
Wow! You're right! It's roofed with gold too! Hahaha that is amazing thank you for sharing this! I was completely unaware that it was included in brick and tile manufacturing. I wonder how much gold the current day quarry that's near the town center digs up without realizing.
My Great Grandfather was a partner in a Quartz reef mine at South Welshman's reef near Castlemaine during the mid 1870's. It was quite profitable until the Victorian banking crisis and then later when gold became much cheaper to mine in South Africa. I'd hasten to say that there would still be a lot of quartz gold around there.
There's whole ounces here and there in the golden triangle. A guy my dad knew was still getting quite a few bits around 8 years ago.
It's nice to see you again brother. Missed your videos Oz
Thank you kindly Kishen! I'm still here, just very busy with studies and some side prospecting work.
Excellent piece... Thank you.
Thanks for listening
Much like in kalgoorlie, they paved the sidewalk of the town in what they thought was worthless pyrities but it was crystalline gold. Some of it is still at the museum in their gold vault
Truly incredible. Crystalline gold is so rare.
Haven't been to your channel for sometime, still see your suffering from Gold fever.
Same in a small town on Far South Coast,NSW. The roads were built on the tailings of the goldmines nearby, then covered in bitumen. Fair dinkum.
Thank you for sharing , never herd of this before great video.
Kalgoorlie had rds and building made from gold telluride because they hadn't discovered tellurium and that gold telluride was a thing... like it's 50% gold so there was a second gold rush and some rebuilding 😅
I heard a similar story about Maryborough, that the streets were deliberately lain over a large gold reef. I don't know how true it is, but it's an interesting thought...
My father was a policeman in Kalgoorlie in the early 1970s and his house had a long 'gravel'' driveway along the side. It was absolutely glittering with tiny gold specs which he assured me were not real gold. Holy Moly.
yep, my house has a concrete slab oit the front that has gold in it.
Pirite they call it (fools gold)
Ever get the feeling that you live in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Yup! Everyday. Hahaha :)
@@OzGeologyOfficial Wanna swap Oz for Blighty? Some nice Blue John this way much better than gold or opals mate...Honest🤞On the down side. no sharks, crocs snakes, spiders or jellyfish to keep the tourist population in check.
Oh I KNOW. I had a property between Ballarat and Maryborough that was riddled with trenches and holes from chinese mining. I sold it about 13 years ago and SHOULD HAVE ran a detector over it before the sake finalised because it had last been done in the early 90s when detectors were crap. Had a creek going thru it.
@@conclaveofthelost513gold is best, hands down. We got enough opal to sink a battleship in Australia but it's value is ow now. My uncle used to mine it in the 70s and I have multiple family connections to gold including a mine that bought up amount AU$360 MILLION over 20 years in Bendigo that my great great grandfather was CEO of. Very powerful man with plenty of money and influence. Especially politically.
@@OffGridInvestor Gutted! Bet you won't make that mistake again.
I remember as a kid some friends of ours father walking home from the Black Hill pub down Peel Street and specking a 3 oz nugget on the road. They had scraped the bitumen off and were re doing the road at the time
I have seen another channel cleaning the cracks in the pavements in Ballarat and finding small pieces of gold, but I wonder if London England had the same sort of thing for a while because numerous nursery rhymes and old folklore talk about the streets of London, being paved with gold
there was a huge subculture of mud larks etc who used to brave London's sewers and drainage system looking for treasures that had made their way down the drains. From coins to silk ribbons and handkerchiefs to buttons and hairpins to the countless little trinkets available in pre-Victorian era London as the city industrialised and a wealthy middle class emerged. A silk hair ribbon fished out of the mud and cleaned properly could be quite the find for a starving child, and finding a broach or hairpin set with jewels etc could be a life changing find (it would be like us finding a 30 grand watch or wad of cash in the gutter. If you have nothing but the literal rags you're wearing, that could get you and your friends literally out of the gutter and into a better life.....if you can hold onto it without getting robbed and/or murdered). I wonder if anyone did any real panning. I bet they would try to sieve the deep mud in gravity traps as best they could. Maybe ask Nicola White Tideline Art or Syfinds. They have awesome mudlarking channels. Some of the stuff they find is mind-boggling. The age of some finds is always surprising as well as how good condition some stuff is thanks to being protected by the mud, to slowly get buried, then unburied and washed ashore countless years later. Its always eye opening and they're amongst my fav channels on YT, along with this one lol
Heard somewhere that it was Pyrite inclusions that made Londons streets golden. I think this is more likely than actual gold, but you never know, it could be possible.
@@conclaveofthelost513 ah that would work too, either way its not going to make anyones fortune lol
I've watched a few videos on this! And have even considered doing it myself. I also had a phase where I watched mudlarking videos on RUclips and it was amazing to see some of the finds even with the 'yuck' factor of it.
It seems incongruous that the early streets were so bad yet they managed to built magnificent structures at the same time.
thanx for the video as usual. amazing how geo plates and volcanoes bring the m minerals and ores to surface. want gold just wait for time and it will surface. interesting feature in namiba. 20°49'14.8"S 16°07'50.8"E
Kalgoorlie was the same, and a lot of old concrete slabs have gold in them.
My heart is made of 24 carr
Gold but there's one problem
You can only find one piece
Thank you
You're welcome! Thank you for watching!
Not unusual road workers in the Kalgoorlie-Boulder /goldfields in WA were often distracted by finding gold when they dug the roads. My mother who lived in nearby Coolgardie told me that after rain evryone would be walking eyes down looking for gold. She found a gold nugget outside her front gate this way. They would even have a cast iron mortar and pestle they nicknamed a "poverty pot" to crush and pan any quartz they could see gold in.
This is amazing. I wish I lived up there honestly what an astonishing place.
I went to Bathurst in primary school, and found gold on the surface right near our cabins. They told me it was pyrite. That was bs!
Which was the big nugget that was found when it broke the cart wheel?
Was that the welcome stranger?
I don't quite remember the story exactly or the name of the nugget. 🤷♂🤔
Not the first time someone’s stopped for a pee by a tree and found a nugget, the tree brings up what’s lying underneath it as it grows so little gems like this abound. Here in the west some of the river beds were littered with nuggets because the aborigines had no use for it until wadjela came here.
Doing anything more on the mega tsunami or is that done? Cause its clearly the most viewed topic you've done but no new videos for a long long time, seems weird to can the most popular thing
Very interesting thanks!!
Do you think there's a possibility that gold was formed from the death of terrestrial creatures?
When a human passes away, blood gathers & pools at the lowest point of the body.. I'm not sure whether the gold in their body gathers at the lowest point as well.
Now I'm curious to know were the terminology 'veins of gold' came from😂
a big nugget was found in the main street of Wedderburn in the 80s.
Heathcote Victoria was notorious for its surface gold
in the Northern River mine,s it was the Banks who ownwd the land that had the mines
Mate I'm a big fan of u
Awwww! Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoy these videos mate!
Have you started narrating your videos with an AI version of your own voice? The last few videos sound very similar, compared with your earlier videos.
There a whole mess of arsenic stored in the old giant mine in yellowknife nwt canada.apparently a quarter million tons...😮
But yet modern day road techs can’t build roads that don’t crumble or collapse or develop massive potholes?
Maybe time to rethink the Cobble streets and roads again 😊
Many in Australia are✌️
just go to the car park for the super pit in Kalgoorlie
Same thing happened in Kalgoorlie & they had to rip up the Main Street of Kalgoorlie it was that bad
Another commenter said they unknowingly lined the streets with crystalline gold in Kalgoorlie which is just mind blowing to think about.
The lucky country ❤❤❤❤
Trust me when I tell you that the "terrible roads" aren't any better now in 2024.
Hopefully this might bring some Victorians back home 🤞
Kalgoorlie was the same
Gympie is the same….
Wow! There's so many places that appear to have had this happen based on the comments I'm receiving. Truly astonishing.
Ballarat is such a sh$thole now days……
Hah
Another good film, but may a make just one point.
It is not "ashfelt" or "ashfalt"
It is assfalt" asphalt.
And it is spelled with an aitch, not a haitch.
Sorry to be a pedant.
There's a bit of a misunderstanding here. In Australia we pronounce it as "Ashfelt".
@@OzGeologyOfficialthat we do, I've only ever heard it called 'ashfelt'
@@OzGeologyOfficial We also say "Essedon" and "Reservore" and "Berrick" and "escavator"
All wrong, as is "ashfelt"
Nothing more than mispronunciation.
The word is spelled asphalt.
æs.fɔːlt
I always thought it was pronounced "asshat"?
@@subaruthug No one does willful pig ignorance like a bogan, sorry, Australian..
Would ash felt It's for not as fault as FAULT asphalt that's it's pronounced I was APH in there but that shouldn't change it as fast felt you're branching ASSFELT as felt it's not felt it's as fault you seem even weirder than the English do he said their asphalt tarmac armacadam there's a three terms used to indicate tar covered pebbles spread down and then compressed to make a roadway macadam is the latest only because it's more of a technique than a substance they use a machine that makes keeps the tar hot mixes the gravel in tumbles it spreads it out and compresses it tarmac is any flat service could be concrete or asphalt to make tarmac I think tarmac actually means **** macadam. mcadam is the man who created the device to make tarmac for asphalt
There is alot of assfelting in Canberra...
It's pronounced as "ashfelt" in Australia for some odd reason. The English language sure is a strange one.
if only my dad had gone with his parents to oz in the 70s that could have been my playground too!
There's always time to go and do it now! There's loads of gold just waiting to be found by a knowledgeable prospector.
@@OzGeologyOfficial i do agree with you but a12000 mile trip to make a huge financial loss puts me off, i dont fancy being bankrupt again, recon it would be an adventure though!