My BIGGEST Gold Nugget Was Under This Boulder!!
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- Опубликовано: 26 ноя 2024
- I went out today to mine some nugget gold using my wash plant and I found a big gold nugget under a boulder! When I move boulders I normally find gold nuggets but this one was my biggest gold nugget yet!
I think a 30 ton bottle jack and some cribbing would come in real handy at times.
I agree. I worked in heavy industry for over 30 years. And I haven't seen anything that can't be moved with the right size portable hydraulic jacks. When you properly rig a 100 ton hydraulic jack against a movable object--something is going to give. It's simple leverage at work.
Nice Bucket! Oh ya that yellow rock was OK too..............😉
Dan Hurd Thanks Dan, this bucket rides in the front seat🤗
you guys inspired me to go up to Canada this summer. i just need to kick this Corona virus. no gold here in Seattle.
i seen that too.i was looking and said to myself that's Dan's bucket.hi from carmichael,ca.
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@@ANDYTHRAXX all these gold mining vids give me the get up and go feeling to start mining myself . I have about 40 yrs experience in quarrying BUT, I'm from England . We don't have any thing like you guys here regarding gold dredging but we do have metal detecting and sometimes that gets boring when you have found Roman, medieval coins and artifacts for 40 and a bit years . This is the first vid I've seen about you and I'll def be watching more . Good luck with your prospecting and good day sir . Regards from England 🏴👍
Micro blasters would of made the job a lot easier.if you don't know what they are Dan hurd has a few videos of using them to split big rocks to move them easier.
Hey totally !! If I had another day I really would have liked to try blasting it, sure would be pro
Wow! That's awesome! Nothing but flower gold by me here in Colorado. Took the kiddo out and we moved some old flood plain rocks and had some success. Nothing close to this!!! Great find!
Chris thanks, that’s great you get the kiddo onto gold, flour gold is fun too, sometimes more rewarding because at least you get some gold in every pan 🙂
Thank you Pauly for luring me to this madness. 🔥🍀 great work Andy! Love it.
Lol thankyou
Au-some :)
How about cutting a score line across the middle of that bolder. Then drilling bore holes and then using feathers and wedges to split that bolder in half. I would think it would be easier to move half of that rock than the hole.
Bloody rippa mate!
Man vs rock, I bet there was an old timer watchig from beyond who was cackling his head off watching this!
Hahaha , I bet there was, thank you very much Chris 😜
Had to comment. First you should have pinned the thumb up out of the way. How to pry with bucket, get teeth started under rock, then curl bucket in and stick out and boom down all at the same time. Doing it like this you will not even lift the ass of the machine off the ground. If you still need more pry power place a rock or log chunk behind the big rock and then place bucket between the two. The small rock or log chunk will act as a pivot point or fulcrum for your bucket, use same bucket curl, stick out, boom down. You will find this technic very useful. Good luck from a 45 year equipment operator. Nice find.
Joe Blow yeah that’s a good call, we did eventually pin the thumb out of the way, I will take this advice thank you very much 🙂
He accidentally pryed it at 11:39, moved a fair bit.
That’s a magnificent looking nug , congrats is due !! Many of us go a lifetime hunting one piece like that and it doesn’t come , well done Andy and Brian !!
AUmigo Gold thanks so much, you are so right about that, it’s a nice confirmation to the girlfriend, she said you need a bigger machine😁 haha
ANDYTHRAXX MINING hahaha she’s a keeper lol and I don’t mean just the nugget lol
AUmigo Gold lol
Thanks for sharing. Thinking that next time you might want to use a jack hammer to reduce the size of the boulder.
Kick ass nice find, Hope there is many more in that area!! Keep up the hard work
Thank you very much Tyler 😁
You sure have some great finds too.
GOOD DAY MATE! IN 1979 WE FOUND A 5.5 OUNCE NUGGET IN SNOWS QUARRY, ELDORADO CO. CA IT WAS ROUNDISH, PITED,AND O SO INCREDIBLE. CRUSHING CEMENTED GRAVEL, AT DEEB BLUE LEED, SEEN A LOT OF FULL MASON JARS,WHILE WORKING THERE.
Your doing a great job! Not many people appreciate the effort it takes to mine any mineral, and a bloody damn good effort to tip that huge rock out of the way with a 4 ton excavator, to keep all the ‘greenies’ happy show what a good job you do of reinstating, cheers T
Thankyou very much😀
And yes totally great idea, I will show it all reinstated after.
Thanks for watchibg
Lean a couple smaller rocks against the back, as you budge it they'll roll/tip in under to get another hold. Repeat process till its on its top.
An actual gold miner mining gold, what has youtube come to!! lol Nice to see a real operation showing real finds, this channel will do well keep it up!
i got biger one then that like 10 times biger big nug boy
Thankyou very much 🙂 Were having so much fun and just want to share that reality.
agreed...cant wait for our project to start together Andy !!
I like it...very very real mining....thank you for sharing mate...
I appreciate that very much , thanks
The only way to move the rock is to dig a deep hole for it to fall into
its hard to dig a hole when hes on bedrock
Exactly
You're right. He got there in the end
Good stuff, great video. Regarding the bolder, I would've got the quick cut out, made about 3 or 4 cuts to fit my wedges and split in in half.
Wow, I’m surprised to hear that that’s your biggest nugget… For all your digging! Wishing you lots of more success! Miner’s rock!! ❤️💛💚
Fantastic Mr Thraxx wow! Tenacity and perseverance.
Hook a chain around those rocks. Save alot of time.
Just subscribed yesterday and love your channel bud! You remind me of a cross between Les Stroud and Winston Rothchild from Red Green 😂. I mean that as a compliment, from the Canada of the States….Minnesota 😊 Prospecting here is tough, but it’s around. Take care. Nice nugget too!
Hard work pays off! That's a nice little chub-nuckle of Gold!!
Yogi Demis thank you 😁
So awesome Andy love it your living the dream being able to mine like that much love from Tassie 👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you so much 😁 gold is great eh!!
I’m loving what you’re doing too
ANDYTHRAXX MINING it sure is thanx man
Hay
I love watching gold minding
One tip when you are reaching out always put the scraper blade down as far as it will go to prevent the track hoe from coming up in the rear
I appreciate that, thank you!
Dan Hurd has some explosives he uses to split rocks - drills a hole and puts a cap in preformed, self contained charge and fires it electrically. Scan his videos?
B. James Voorhies yes totally great point, I should have tried that 😄
Present friends, a very large gold discovery, I am very much looking for gold ,! like in my country Indonesia! success always friend,😱💯👍
I wish you the nest of luck , thanks so much for the kind comments
Next time instead of slowly scratching away at a big rock, get some decent metal like crow bars or some long high tensile steel poles and lever it out I could move that sucker by hand with the right tools
Agreed
A thing to try can be to remove the thumb and use your bucket as an crowbar on the backside. Also never lift the machine with the blade pulling sideways you get less stability with half the track in the air 😊 nice video 👍
Mini Machines I appreciate that very much, thank you that’s great info🙂
Well done, you earned that after all the work moving that boulder
Lol, Thank you very much 🙂
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I think it is not empty, as there is a cross mark on the rock. Does it have a historical history? I think the ratio has 2 burials.
Because there is water there is probably a living area. The signs on it are not like the supply ...
umit gunes I’m not sure actually, there was a gold rush here 150years ago 🙂
We learn by tryin', not sitting on our butts whinin' LOL I loved watching you try to make that machine work for you! Gold was cool, too.
That is so true, I have learned such an incredible amount doing this project it’s opened more doors in my life than I ever could have imagined. 🙂
I love the saying “seize the day”
Hahaha I was screaming at you how to move that rock! Watching that shit show was funny and frustrating at the same time! Sort of good job brother. Lol Your a gold finder not a boulder mover. Awesome find in the end. All that work totally worth it! Your the man dude! Good luck.
Any chance of this guy putting the Woods back together before he leaves
HuasoPodrido Hi thanks so much for watching,🙂 good question, yes we go the extra mile putting it back together.
I take it so seriously that my very first video shows that process, called “Andy’s reclamation”
Great find brother! Keep ‘em coming!!!
Thank you very much, next video very soon and I so appreciate you watching 😄
Heck yeah! I'm happy to see records being broken so close to home!✨💛
PioneerPauly 😝
Hey Pauly
@@triple_A_rockhound Hey hey!!
THAT SURE WAS A DIG FOR HIM
I was wondering if he was in that area of the world.
What a beauty!!! Awesome 👍👍 Tibbs
PURPLE NEWBIE JUICE ANTIQUING thank you, gives a guy the fever to keep going 🙂
Dude. I saw another nug next to it on the zoom in. On the left!
Arg I’ve lost sleep over that, it sure looks as though🥺
Yes! It was bigger than the one he saw...
U mean on the right
Definitely something there
The question is, how much material did you move to get access to that boulder contained gold and are you going to process it? It's a mystery finding gold.
After watching the Aussie gold stuff the piece you found looks like a booger.
Seriously. 3g.... so $150 ish?
@@clemente5677 Yeah our gold in Australia is huge man, especially in Victoria.
It really does look like nothing compared to Aussie gold, what do ya do lol.
We’re in Canada so $150.00 US dollars is like enough to live for a year here😜
Nuggets are so much bigger in Australia, with far less destruction of a nice environment.
True! I hear you, Its so moist and fertile here it grows back very quickly.
12:04 surprise*
Goin AWOL wow nice an ad
Play on words "prize" get it?
Dude ur awesome. Just found ur content. . Subbed an watching it all 4 life
Thank you so much, you rock!! we really want to show the excitement of real small scale mining, that anyone can do😄
I appreciate you watching and sticking around.
Are you removing trees to find gold?
We remove trees within the area we’re mining, Nothing older than 15 years.
There are open areas with no trees as well.
Of he's in BC CANADA he's required to regrade it and deposit detritis( wood and mulch,and natural debris).Ontario wants that as well,so for all you the don't do any of this, most provinces want reclamation done after the mine expires or they're done with there claim.
Great find guy.
Where im at there are ginormous boulders.
What i plan on doing is learning how to use a block and tackle or two.
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Yes that’s awesome, moving a big boulder gets you really deep really fast and always holds the big pieces 😁
I've recently watched a few videos on a Lewis chainsaw winch. They look and seem like they work fantastically! Just need some cable,chains,chain locks and such. Looks inexpensive too!
Niceee u got a new subscriber I'm watching alldayyy 💯💯keep living the dream makes me wanna go dig everything up 😂
That’s so awesome, thankyou
How did this get a million views, that was just sad.
clickbait
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Damm straight,...keep working buddy..good job! I found a spot, a lucky spot in the redwood forest on this hill.i managed to dig out about 100 pounds of natural or "native" placer platinum nuggets! They all ranged from about 1 to 6 ounces in weight .Also around the spot where I dug, I also pulled out Lava rock....which made sense considering I had heard about platinum and it's geography. Platinum is deep in the Earth's crust, when a volcano erupts it pushes the platinum, which is in a hot liquid form, to the top of the earth . When the platinum hits the top and the air, it cools and hardens. Didn't mean to give you a platinum. 101 schooling ,just was a special thing to me to find all of that, so I thought I'd share it with you. You seem like you could appreciate my story. congratulations on your finds and good luck in the future!
wow all that work and equipment expense for 5 g. The way he was advertising this vid i was thinking he found one the size of a golf ball or something. ive seen some guys pull 15g out of the river on a days work just scraping and picking . oh well looks fun regardless
Nice nug man , invest in a good chain and or cable and snatch blocks and use your tracks to move boulders like that one . Beats tearing up your equipment.
jetbikes1 100 percent good call on that, going to get a big block and thick cable for onsite at all times. 😁
ANDYTHRAXX MINING and really works for me is a 20’ 4” Choker Strap , seems to grab rock better the the Chain , again nice find man best of luck to ya
jetbikes1 yes I see what you mean there, it tightens as you pull, great idea thanks so much😁
Wow. Look at all the destruction on that hillside. All for gold.
Macky1101 thank you for your comment, I appreciate your concern, we really do take restoring the earth back to new again very seriously, within a very short period of time this small area of designated resource land will be replanted and it’s regrowth managed until maturity.🙂
You realise that the device you used to post the comment has gold in it that guys like these get by similar if not more destructive methods?
Stop using it and people will stop getting it....
Within Sierra blaster you can split that rock many times
I should have tried😕
I will next time 😁
Awesome find! Love seeing small scale mining operations, keep it up.
Thank you very much
5:25Heavy equipment is very supportive to get more gold ...good job👉💪💪🤗
GM 1000 sulawesi yes!! Totally , bigger would be better lol , thanks for watching 😀
@@ANDYTHRAXX are you wellcome guys..🙏🙏🙏
damn Im out in the prairies i could only dream to go and find gold like that here. I gotta find a job working for you guys out there! looks beautiful !
Hard works ,finally you got your gold
Excellent find. Looks like you need to borrow my Minelab GPZ-700. I've found a 1/4 oz nugget 13" deep before.
You’re a smart guy the deeper you do the more change of bigger gold. Interesting watch wish this was in the U.K. I’d come give you a hand 😇
Barry The Baker thankyou , I could go for the help 🙂
Where abouts are you? I mean area not location, I’m guessing you’re Canadian? I’m from the U.K. just subscribed I hope you do well buddy 😇
Man....the woods in that area (was) beautiful. Is there not a less destructive method of extraction?
Hey 🙂 thank you for the question, technically placer mining is the least environmentally impacting of the different mining types, we don’t use chemicals or blast mountains apart which changes the earth forever.
We really try to disturb as little area as possible, one thing we do is work only where logging has happened before, this particular forest has actually been logged 3 times already in the past, my personal commitment is to have these sites reclaimed to exactly as it was and I will show this in future videos🙂
Check out my very first video titled
“Andy’s Reclamation”
I’m so proud of this, it was actually the first video I was proud enough to share, it ultimately inspired the channel.
I was going to name the channel
“Calm Passionate Miner” because I love nature and animals so much, the least I could do was pledge to do better than others environmentally speaking.
I very much admire your passion and concern 🙂
@@ANDYTHRAXX Hey bud - thanks for taking the time to reply. I'm really glad to hear that you're not just leaving the site all torn up. I'm all for enjoying the natural resources - and even the bounty it provides. As a fisherman, I often see people leave their sh*t all over the place - trashing it up. Just makes the experience less enjoyable. I will def check out the video you highlighted, and I commend you for making efforts to improve the area. As you mentioned, if you show the reclamation process in the video outtake, it would ease a lot of tree-huggers like me.
BTW - you're so right about chemical usage...and I'm glad you haven't gone that route. Thank you.
Congrats! nice job, and nice gold! Never give up💪
Why doesn't anyone carry a battery powered SDS hammer drill, long drill bit, a spade bit, metal spikes, and a sledge hammer. That would break that boulder into pieces more manageable for that machinery!
12:12 - Congrats on the find. You deserve it after all that work.
Thanks for letting me watch it from where I wanted to let alone having to watch the whole vid
I just came across your stuff today I think your awesome! I hope you've invested in some metal detectors since this video is 2 years old it looked like you missed some gold! Best wishes I'll be here watching and hoping for the best for you, it's fun to live out your dreams through someone when it's just not possible to do it yourself, so thank you it's a Beautiful scenery always. Thanks
Use a lever on the rock on the hill and lever from the top.
jeff bumbar that’s a great idea thanks very much 😁
You guys need to watch those nugget hunters in tropical volcanic islands who find huge pieces like some of them weighing nearly 2kg and they only shift handful of dirt with no damage to natural environment.
MotionArtist3D no kidding, I’ve seen that, pretty darn awesome🙂
Well done mate that's totally worth the effort very nice piece stoked for ya cheers
tazy T thank you so much 😁
use the old egyptian method light a fire and get the rock hot then pour cold water on it and it will crack apart, no need for explosives.
john witte gosh I really should have tried that, It would have felt amazing pull that off.
Thanks so much 🙂
Such a great video guys👍🏻. It was pure entertainment. I am glad that this giant stone did not tear the excavator into individual parts. Very nice to see your joy in this wonderful find. The hard work was worth it. I look forward to more videos from you. Best greetings from Switzerland✌🏻
THE GOLD BUDDIES 🙂 thanks so much
Perseverance paid off to you congratulations
Just a 16 minute video of a guy trying to move a rock
Interesting ppe, I can't see why the manufacturer thought adding camo was a great idea!since it's supposedto be highly visible!
I curious about the extra arm attachment, I think ive seen one used it can turn sideways,would I be correct?
The location is very potential gold, brother...👉💪💪💪
GM 1000 sulawesi yes!! Hoping for bigger pieces too😃 thank you
Good work. Do you use also a metal detector and a gold sluice? Handy to have where you are.
Thanks, yes We detected it all after we moved the boulder and dug all the gravels out for sluicing. That’s the next video 🙂
Get yourself a ram-hammer attachment for your trackhoe... make little ones out of the big ones 👍
bill underwood such a great idea, thankyou I’m going to look into that, I imagine if I drilled some relief holes too that would help😁
Okay so they make this attachment that has a single Spike on it that uses an air hammer or a hydraulic hammer to hit one individual spot and break that thing apart or and this is a big one use shock rods it's an explosive head the fits on top of set charges that you drill into the Rock and then you blow the rock up it's a small charge it's not huge just designed to break it up so that you can get it out with an excavator no matter what the size may be
That little Hitachi digger reminds me of my Fox Terrier Clyde when i was kid, nothing could make him give up what he set his mind to : D Really fun video thanks!
Hahah that’s great! Thank you so much
While I think prospecting looks fun, you really are tearing up the forest. Do you repair the damage you do after you are done?
Doubt it. Not a fan. Wrecking the land
check his reclamation video ..and more to come..this was a recently clearcut area and the trees were young...the reclamation looks awesome already with fern and such growing even after like a month or two...youde be surprised
You Can drill split it
Mark Bach yes, that would be more fun 🙂
Hello.. At 12:56 into your video, about 2-3 inches to the left of your Gold Nugget, it's just inside that little indent... Is that another Nugget ?
Joe Mac Donald gosh it sure looks like it, if it was I didn’t find it. After seeing this one I could not stop checking every yellow rock lol
Wow! This is beautiful. Congratulations !
Missed the adventure this morning, went to work, and now some gold time...let's GO 🍻
Sure bending those 2 points lol. A rope, around the bolder, a come-a-long, and a pully system, and use the mini as a anchor
god damn you hyped it up like it was the Welcome Stranger
With today's gold prices, that paid for gas ,wages,and a little profit.bout 400 bucks for 2 hours of work and that's without sluicing. He'll probably find half an ounce at least if that was just laying there
@@koalaman9585 Calm down mate, I still think it's cool, I just didn't expect it to look so underwhelming.
Down here in NE Vermont I am using an little device I learned about via one of Dan Hurd's videos. It's called a Micro Blaster. Dan has some great videos of the effectiveness of the wee beast. Knowing well how many traps are on the internet I will not presume to post any links. Thanks for some great videos...My wife has other not quite so polite words describing them. Colorful though...
Wow, congrats for a couple nuggets of gold from under a boulder...at the cost of the entire hillside tho?
江城银 hi there🙂, I appreciate your concern, we’re being very methodical to disturb as little ground as possible, and I assure you immediately replanting it back to new again.
What happened to the hillside?! Did the entire town slide into the creek? Are you his neighbor or something? Please fill us in.
Very Nice Andy. Persistent and it pays
Chris Saucier thanks, that’s right we couldn’t give up🙂
It’s in the shape of Alaska! Good on ya!
Thiah Doherty indeed it is that’s so cool , thanks very much for watching 😀
Buddy!!! Love it ....so much i forgot to comment LOL...Cant wait to get out with ya soon ...Best Season COming ...I can feel it
Canadian Gold Mining haha thanks man, and yes all your work and effort is leading to an amazing summer this season 🤪 can’t wait to see ya
Canadian Gold M
Feel good vid of the month, right on guys
That’s awesome thank you
Congratulations on your awesome discoveries. Best of luck with future digs for color.
Jay Bales thank you so very much 🙂
you go to philippines.mag treasure.hunter.you in me.brought you a detector..there's a lot of gold
Want to know how we deal with big boulders like that We drill them full of holes about 3/4 way through, fill them with cracking powder and come back the next morning and they are laying there in pieces.
Boom ....good idea :) Need special permits and lisenceing here for that
GOOD JOB MAN, 🇬🇧💥🔥👊😎👊🔥💥🇬🇧
Trebor 😜 thanks so much !! Truly appreciate it
Drill a hole. Put in gunpowder in paper tube and two wires. Fill with gravels and you got 10 small boulders
Anders I’d really like to try that. 😁
I can't imagine why you didn't just use a micro blaster and crack it in half. That would have saved your bucket on your loader.
You’re right, I just didn’t think it would be so heavy to move so didn’t have blasted on site that day🙂
@@ANDYTHRAXX Didn't know you had one. Ya they save a lot of time even with some smaller rocks as well.
It's not a loader. It's a mini excavator.
@@howieduin915 Thank you for adding so much to the conversation.
Not saying you didn’t know this but my experience with big rocks and big stumps set with your tracks facing the rock and if you have a blade put it in front of you and you will have a lot more leverage
You waisted more money in fuel than that little guy was worth. I hope you find some huge nuggets. Good luck
shmuck530 lol I see what you mean🙂, it’s surprising cheap running my little machine actually, about
$12.00-$15.00 dollar a day. The main reason we’re digging is to sluice the gravels but finding big pieces sure is fun, and yes a huge one would be great lol, I hope to break a local record 😁
Thanks so much for watching
The money is not on gold it self but its on youtube payday!
Really? That nugget is about 1/5 of an ounce coming out to about $350 in today’s gold prices. Not getting rich, but pays for operating costs!
the money is not more on gold but the real big gold is youtube
Not just to cost of fuel but all the other expenses, lost wage from not having a steady job. And all he ends up with is a life full of adventure. He may not leave his children much money to enjoy. But I doubt he will live his final days full of regrets in a nursing home. ( I don't know this person or his family just speaking in general)
Nice one mate 👌👍 need to take a trip over to Australia get on the real big ones 👍
I love it,!! ❤️🏄♂️🇨🇦🚁
My dad and I found a 3 1/2 pound gold nugget in central Pennsylvania while we were hunting 33 years ago! We were hunting Whitetail 🦌 , not gold