Mining For Gold Like a 1850s Gold Rush Prospector!
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Mining For Gold Like a 1850s Gold Rush Prospector!
Join me as I take you back in time to the 1850s Gold Rush! In this exciting adventure, I’ll show you how to mine for gold using traditional methods and tools from the gold rush era. Experience the thrill of prospecting like the pioneers did and see if we strike it rich!
🔶 What You'll See in This Video:
Authentic 1850s gold mining techniques
Traditional tools and methods
Real-time gold panning and sluicing
Historical insights and fun facts
🔶 Why You Should Watch:
Step into the past and discover the challenges and excitement of gold mining during the gold rush. This video offers a unique blend of history and hands-on prospecting that’s both educational and entertaining.
🔶 Support the Channel:
If you enjoyed this video and want to support my adventures, check out my
Pay-Dirt 👉 theoldmouldy.c...
Prints by Pini 👉 www.facebook.c...
Become a Patron 👉 / vogusprospecting
join the GPAA Here (USA) 👉 gpaastore.com/...
Let's uncover hidden treasures together! 🏆✨
#GoldProspecting #GoldRush #1850sGoldMining #GoldDiscovery #TreasureHunting #GoldNuggets #NatureExploration #GoldHunting #ProspectingAdventure #GoldSeeker #GoldProspector #OutdoorAdventure #GoldFinding #TreasureHunter #NaturalTreasure #GoldProspectingTips #GoldExploration #GoldProspectingCommunity #TreasureHunt #GoldProspectingJourney #GoldHuntingGear #ProspectingLife #GoldMining #GoldPanning #HiddenGold #GoldExcitement #GoldFieldAdventures #FindGold #GoldRushAdventures #GoldProspectingTools #GoldFieldExploration #TreasureDiscovery #GoldHiddenInNature #ProspectingSuccess #GoldMiningHistory #TreasureFind #GoldAdventure #GoldInNature #ProspectingSecrets #GoldFindingTips #HiddenTreasureDiscovery #GoldProspectingExcitement
Products I use that you may like
Minelab Gold Pan Kit 👉 amzn.to/3OOc07q
Dream Mat Pocket Sluice Box 👉 amzn.to/3Qv810I
Clean up classifiers 👉 amzn.to/3Yq2ASK
What's your favourite sandwich?
PB an Honey, just slathering with honey
Turkey and swiss cheese and you know RUclips is not sending out the notifications on time once again I didn't get your live feed so sucks I'll watch it again now I'm pretty sure it was good as always
My man lol never wrong with pbh@@nsa_surveillance_orb-42b
I love me in some reconstituted, sweetened and condensed dinosaur though 😂 love you mate keep it up! Finally started bringing a chair out with ya. I've been bringing a foldable little step stool w me lol
Ham and Cheese my man 👍👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺
Dares on me, or a Whiskey 😂 Thanks for another awesome episode.
Cheers👍
Both! Well. Maybe a smell of a good whisky
@@VoGusProspecting 😂😂👍
Then I did ice then I did ice
Min wage vs gold prospecting is such a fun idea. Nice one!
I thought so, should be interesting to see if its possible to do.
That panning chair is the fn ticket!!! Why have I never thought about that before!!
Ok, American here. The phrase I grew up hearing over and over and over again ( my entire family was involved in and owned construction businesses) was " you just worry about filling the back of that shovel, the front will take care of itself" Total sarcasm but very true !!😅😅😅 Good luck my friend...
😂
I've been trying to concentrate gold with a 45. A 45° Bucket that is.
Find a place in the stream where you can tip a bucket and have the water swirl in the bucket and overflow. Create a vortex.
Now spend a half hour slowly shovelling dirt into the bucket and let the water wash away anything light.
After a while you will have nothing left but black sand and heavies. It works amazingly well with the right water flow.
The rock was obviously Gadziryte! 😉Can't mistake it! Thanks for the stream washing Idea! Pretty fond of Ham and Cheese myself also. Looking forward to the next one! Vote Right! 👌
Oh of course! Gadziryte!
That river sluice method is really cool! I'll give it a try when i run across the right setup
Yah love Sundays buckshot, golf and vogus. Wanted to go panning but thought I probably should spend some time with the fam.
Bro, I love your humour 😂
you fellers are fun to watch,howdy from hangtown california the heart of the motherlode. i am actually a 1850 type of miner, i own a original 1850 gold mine,35 acres of rock and rattlesnakes i work the mine when i want to,its blasted hot right now too hot to swing a pick.the creeks out here dry up this time of year thats why hangtown is called dry diggins.... my favorite 1850 gold pan is a cast iron frying pan,which is what most 49rs used,, I notice you guys ain't wearing pistols must be a Australian law or something. I always wear a 44 for claim jumpers or mountain lions. click my big green G for how us 49rs operate
OLD 49r TIP.. when the miners from china were here they used flat bedrock to chisels riffles into the rock making a permanent sluice box and they are still here, ive used them often in weber creek and hangtown creek. imagine a 150 year old sluice box
modern chisels make them deeper
Many places in the bedrock in the goldfield that have been made to be a crude sluice or concentration. I have found a few.
What on earth is a 49er 😂
@@raphaelsmithwick4363 It's a 69'er from 20 years ago... XD
@@raphaelsmithwick43631849, California gold rush. That’s why San Fran’s football team is the 49ers. There was a mass migration in the hopes to strike gold in California.
This new challenge sounds fun!
You are my inspiration to get back on the creek.
Thanks for all the videos!
Very clever... cheers for the vid Chris :)
Would love some good whiskey talk with the prospecting. I'm interested in the blinds of good whiskey you guys have in Australia. Keep up the great work Chris and Gadzee!!!!
Hello from Alabama USA 🇺🇸
Vegemite and cheese and the ideas you come up with for your vids are excellent. Great work Chris
You can’t really compare gold to money. Gold is gold and money is paper controlled by government. Good work Chris your rich beyond belief in so many ways 🎉😊
The live chat during the premier was so entertaining, I have to re-watch the video now lol
Thx for the fun
I’m subscribing just because you have the right take on Wiskey
My favourite sammich is lettuce and mayo wrapped avo and chicken that is showered with shovels of pepper!
Delighted to see lovely glitter on those scales, Chris.
Most of QLD is warmer than Vic. Nice sapphires and garnets up here in the top end of the state.
So for your FYI: as you said the minimum basic wage per hour in 2024 in Australia is around AU$23,23 which is around US15.50/hr.
And the 2024 USA mandated basic wage is around US$7.70. But Columbia district has the highest minmum wage of US$17/hr.
That river slice is awesome. Keep those ideas coming. It's always a surprise what you will come up with next. Gold bless you guys always and please stay safe out there
Great concept Chris. Will be great to see how you end up for the 38 hours. Good luck 😁👍
I hope its enough for a coffee in the Melbourne CBD
When using the river to concentrate the bank gold, how about raking the river dumped stuff to stir up it and allowing the lights to leave easier and the heavies to sink? ....like creating a "better full creak natural sluice".
Great vid, by the way. Different ways to look at things. Fun. Thanks!
Thats literally what i was doing man, i didnt film most of it due to time restrictions
Afternoon chris , still diggin it 😂 . When you coming to Queensland?
This Thursday
Great video.
Will be good to see how you go for the entire week.
Time working includes the time spent cleaning up the gold.. It's part of the job. So you should get paid for cleanup as well as for panning.
Thanks Chris!
I love BLT's (bacon, lettuce & tomato) in the summertime! I put lots of bacon on mine! LOL
Great video as always!
So good!
Could you replicate that river sluicing method by laying 1-2m of some rubber backed carpet in the river. Then just roll it up at the end and process off-site?
Yeah u can easy
Im with you Chris , a ham sand-mitch cant be beat. 😂
I'm thinking shouting you both airfares along with the accommodation. As you'll need a good 3-7 days to appreciate the islands geology and have a good look around. And I have a spare Rodeo 4x4 Spacecab you can use to save the car hire. All I ask is you take up the offer and share the tale in your uploads.
You guys gotta give it a go bros
I use the 'river-as-a-sluice' idea as a quick'n'dirty test for gold dust.
Find a flat rock with some water flow over it and drop a small scoop on it.
Wait a moment and in the sunlight if there's gold it sure shows itself.
Very fast testing however is susceptible to false signals from Pyrites and Mica, etc.
Brilliant idea.
suggestion smacking that hole hitting the the top side of the bush which is top side of creek and right side of cam or left side of water flow to begining of the bushyweeed pod , which is where the heavy would drop first no and if not then the opposite side if you know what i mean basically you were in the middle 1st on top, you middle , and opposite of first bottom of water running
I'd actually try the sluice creek every time I was there
The shovel doggers might go hard in the creek close lol not down the areas it's settled 😂😂😂
Tuna is best when it's very warm weather.
mmmm lots of tuna with half mayonnaise and half salad cream to make it spreadable
Good stuff
Thank you!
Give us an idea what the uncut, unfinished, undesired value of the various gems, tin, and whatever else you might sell from 38 hours with a shovel and gold pan?
If we were really trying to live this way we would need to know about everything we might likely find and be able to sell.
Thank you for all your gReAt videos.
You Guys are Awesome!!!
Slices of: ham (whatever is on sale), chicken breast (plain, smoked, fajita, whatever is on sale at the deli), bacon (can be roast beef instead, again whatever is on sale), lettuce, tomato, thin sliced avocado, Havarti, cranberry spread (or jelly), bit of whatever dressing (or mayo) you like, and the bread needs to be something heavy (Manchester malt, Winnipeg light rye, etc.). You'll be eating gourmet sandwiches for life once you try them.
I live in a city of California where gold was found 6 years before the official gold rush in 1848 up in northern Cali. Placerita Canyon 1842 Santa Clarita. The first recorded gold found in California, 6 years before 1848 gold rush.
Peanut butter and jelly nice thick sandwich you peel a banana and you take a bite with the peanut butter and jelly😋 your quest for gold will pan out I have faith in you but as always enjoyed the video again thank you and I'll see you on the next one
Especially seeing as the price keeps on going up, it will be a full time job where we have the freedom that some of us seek.
Hey what colours water to you
That's a thing I'd not even come to thoughts of
Still trying to get round the colours an how fun gold must be to find in the cons
I saw HAIRY PALMS at the Fists of Fury contest 😂😅
Minimum wage of 23.23 is 15.12 US currently, but Aus is expensive all over, in the USA there are expensive states and cheaper states. Federal Minimum wage is only 7.25, Florida set minimum wage to 12.00 an hour currently, but Security ranges from 14-15 or so, Tenn. where I live has a Min. wage At the 7.25 Federal Rate, but Security is around 17-18 or so.
I enjoy your channel, my favorite Prospector channel from Aus.
Your country must hate yous
The sandwich is named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, my fav is peanut butter cause its top notch stuff
Hi from Wisconsin
I had a retired forester tell me that the most useful prospecting tool was the strike-anywhete match.
Must agree Chris, cannot stand Beer, i like my Bourbon & Whiskey 👍
The tin is quite valuable you should smelt some Jason mbmmllc style 👍
Maine 🤘
CHAIR!
Criss the best samwich mashed egg with lettuce raw red onion splash of mayo lots of real butter awsome I like ham and cheese to not bad 👍😜
Just popping in to say that I believe that pretty rock could possibly be Serpentine or Dragon Stone, its like a combination of calcite and hematite. Or fossilised bone or wood.
Reality teletube, Chris! Some ye olde timey methods of processing worth thinking of for upcoming sessions, especially when stuff gets left at home.
Why did you switch from the swirl method with the potato pan to that tilt and sweeping motion?
I studied how they are actually used. The origonal swirl was shown to me by a western guy. It works just not as well as the traditional methods.
Brokenfridge Colorado checking in
Hopefully you can get your refrigerator fixed!😂
Liked, shared and commented 🍻🤴🏻🗽 24:57
8.5 minutes in, and I've already cracked up laughing a good three times..
Красота 👍
It's not dinosaur. It's scale tree from the Carboniferous period. Nothing could eat lignin back then (tree bark). So these things just piled up everywhere and became coal and oil eventually.
If the goalhere is to make money, you should be stockpiling tin and including the sale of rocks, right?
Gadzees rock looks like schorl ( black tourmaline) in matrix, could be interesting to slice really thin.
18:07 gadzees over there,gadzees over there,eeoo my daddyo gadeezs over there. You've just been Scotland's Golded
First like! Hello from Las Vegas !
fav sammi- cheese and tomatoe- but 2 slices of cheese , with tommie in the middle- salt n pepper .
Nice, im down for that!
I hope I win one of those 😮give aways lol lol keep the faith my friend
I work a decent job in the oil fields of west Texas and SE New Mexico and work has been slow this year....there is a 'slow season' December to end of March out here so that is the usual slow time.....and by end of April, I'm 'out of the red' for the year if not sooner. This year I am still as of August first, still $3800 in the red.....this year sucks
Time to go mining!
@@VoGusProspecting I would LOVE to go mining but I have NO IDEA where I'd go and what to do...even after watching thousands of vids on it....
"It's more like sweetened condensed dinosaur" I'm thoroughly stealing that once I stop laughing.
Its delicious and full of calories for your car
If you had the opportunity to look for gold in WA would you take that opportunity?
More fun then anything
Til you find the house size speci 😅
Love how Gadz measures wages in 8ths 😂
Since you're just chucking the low grade dirt onto the creek bed, wouldn't it work to make a giant 6X10 (feet) rubber sluice mat that you can just unroll on the river bottom?
And the price of things will go up at the same time.
Corned beef with ketchup on toasty bread.
Yummo.
how long does it take to clean up? I feel like that should count
How is your homebrew whisky going Chris?
I dont know what you are talking about, but if i were doing it, it would likely be going well.
@@VoGusProspecting wink wink. Nudge nudge. Say no more
1:07 😂😂😂
Hey Vo-Gus I've been getting into prospecting the last year and I really wanna start a RUclips to share my adventures. But I cant agree on a name and I love the one you came up with (Rat Shit Gold). Idk why but I feel obligated to ask if I can use it, it's such an awesome name I love it 😅
You should absolutely use it
darn we work at least 45 hrs in the states
15 $ an hour! They get 23$ starting….🤬
$23 an hour here is nothing. Rent is on avarage $600 per week for a 3 bedroom house. Milk is about $5.
Petrol's $2 litre think its about $8 a gallon
It's starting to feel like Zimbabwe must have.
that pump thing, is it a yabby pump, a yavi pump, a yathi pump, i can't tell. thanks!
Ok so you all are going up to $23.23 AU per hour for minimum wage. My question is are there any Government taxes,State taxes and other deductions are withheld from your paycheck? And if you do have Gold that you take in and sell, what kind of taxes/witholdings are taken there before you get your money in hand and is your earnings taxed at a higher rate due to you being self employed and selling your stuff through the internet? That to me would help figure out the tales of the 2 sides of the coin to know which is the better value for time? And I am strange... my favorite is a cold spaghetti sandwich.
My guess is that their government probably takes HALF of that $23 in taxes, directly or indirectly.
At least that’s how it is with the sparsely populated Scandinavian countries that all the soy boys and green hairs want the world to turn into.
@@dartmart9263Yeah that doesn't happen in Australia. It's about 36% but our taxes go to health, education and other fundamental things for society to flourish but the liberals have been pushing for an American style system which literally only a handful of wealthy people want here.
No tax on gold until you sell it and that only depends on who you sell it to. Nothing is garnished from your wage if you prospect for gold. You don't even have to declare how much you've found.
Nah we don't have state taxes unless you own a home and pay the council rates. However, no amount of money is going to cut it these days unless you're a multi millionaire because cost of living in Australia is out the wazoo, just like most countries in this hellscape we call "modern society"
@@frenchys_prospecting Oooo, now that sounds interesting!!!
Here in Texas we don’t have State income tax, but local property taxes take a big chunk of our money, presumably for schools … and we never had any kids!
And we have sales tax (8%+, depending on the town.
Federal income tax for the two of us is about 25 to 27%.
We might need to have another revolution to stop that abuse. :)
It's getting pretty ridiculous. The price gouging and corporate greed is out of control here too and don't even get me started on our corrupt politicians @@dartmart9263
Do you sell the tin you collect in your cons? And if so does that add into your hourly wage?
The ham and cheese with pickles
Being a yank I don’t know why but, I’d like to try a vedamit sandwich haha and hold the salad dressing. Thanks again.
38? Should be 40 like the rest of us, Slacker! 🤣 Favorite sandwich is conglomerate.
Hey Bama
I love a good ham cheese and tamato tosted sandwitch
Do you get taxed when you sell gold in Australia or do you handle taxes on a yearly basis with a tax form?
Yes.
Sooo... You went back to the "flat bottomed pan" in the vid. Does that mean that "to make wages" it's better than the Batea pan? Comments on relative utility?
Horses for courses. You only have so much energy and a pan that you can put 3 to 5 shovels in uses a lot of energy
@@VoGusProspecting You're right of course. For a hobby miner it really doesn't matter a few percentage points one way or the other. An individual guy without machines is never going to be more than an artisan miner - in the "first world" at least.
Are you trying to entice more people to move to Australia? LOL
My favorite sandwich is whichever type is prepared by someone else. I can cook all kinds of gourmet dishes with no problem, but I hate having to make my own sandwiches. Somehow they never taste as good.
Ham n Cheese Sarnie :P
I hate beer too, im a whisky,bourbons and rum man.
Aus. The land of quarts.
^5!
4:47 Has to be a Texas guy.
Opps I ment to say cut the bag double it where you throw the dirt so you're sluice is abo5 foot long put a couple rows of big rocks so the gold can fall in front and be hind my creeks the water usually run faster dry it my friend it's a easy fast way to find gold in different creeks fast the bag a smaller bucket but a good little shovel
We have tried that and it works really well. We made several videos on it too.
@VoGusProspecting im a new watcher and supporter good luck
Got some cheese heads here too
23.23 wow is that a lot of money there because I’m the USA it’s not bad
Panfit!