@@KRON0S_BTC True, unless you're one of the 38 countries that use plastic or polymer notes, for all or some of their denomination, then again it comes from oil which is under the trees most of the time... Couldn't resist being a pedant, sorry...
A friend of mine was panning in the American river and a loose rock kept rolling down hill. Throw the rock up hill and back down in the way again. Finally he picked it up and was going to throw it into the river, be done with it. He looked once more and washed it off and he was holding a round piece of spider gold the size of a tennis ball. Sold for $30,000 USD not by weight but for a collector of natural art. about thirty miles from the original Sutters Mill 1849 gold strike. Congratulations. I bet your glass will be half full not half empty for some time to come. Hello from California, USA.
@@Steve992.1 Not all kids are turds. I don't know where you grew up but there are homes where the family cares about each other and the children grow up and become happy adults. And that's a nice thing to see. It's not envy. But when you are a turd as a child and still a turds as an adult and stupid on top of that I can understand the anger and envy in you. You fail over and over again. People are mean to you because you never understood that you are a turd.
@@Steve992.1 Dude, your profile picture tells me EXACTLY why you'd leave a comment like that. You've got 5 IQ written all over your face. Read the room, buddy.
My father spent his final years gold prospecting all over the u.s. with a dream of just funding his travels. It did sometimes. Never did find anything bigger than a marble. Boy was he stoked about those bigger nuggets. I can imagine him losing his mind over a find like this. That’s awesome!!
My husband and I are thrilled to bits for you. You have kept your channel going through ups and downs, always humble. Your family really deserves this. Best wishes.
Nothing like chasing that metal detector signal. Short story. Once I was over a foot deep digging. Visions of untold treasure . Found two old window counter weights. Still smile remembering that day . Congratulations on your find .
Congrats on the find. I do find it very interesting the immediate behavioral changes in people when they are that close to something that valuable. It’s almost an eerie “haha yah we’re friends, but don’t touch my gold.” Or “ah great wow, let me just hold it” Imagine how it was back in the day. Ppl would have probably been shot on the spot during things like this.
I genuinely appreciate how at 29:28 You make a good point about including your friend in this moment And how it wouldn't be the same without him. That was really sweet of you to make sure to include him In a very big moment in what would be any of our lives. Goodonya lol
Oh yeah include him in the video but not with any profits. Usual human behaviour yeah. He was just saying that to sound "like a good bloke" don't be fooled, it would have been the EXACT same if his friend was there or not. In fact, his friend would be hurting inside that it wasn't him that found it. Say what you want you butt hurt people but it's the truth😂
@Brandanmayhew How do you know he didn't share any profits with his friend? I must have missed that part of the video, where he sold it and kept the profit to himself? 🤷♂️
Nice work Luke, but do NOT buy that Prado, that will depreciate faster than that nugget falling off the table. Keep the nugget as gold prices still rising. Then finish off paying that mortgage
I’m in the state of KY and I lost a $20 gold piece from 1849 in a creek at 11 years old, I grew up in the creeks and recently ready to retire and going back to that creek again almost 50 years later to retrieve it!!! I took it to school once because we had a book fair and my coin was valued at that time about 40k which got me in all sorts of trouble. After I get my coin back I’m going to the other side of blue ridge mountains in VA to make a go at prospecting in the gold-pyrite belt there in and around Franklin Co!!! Great find so happy for you and your family!
I think it's great. Akin to a story like a thief in prison that hid his heisted bounty and has to wait years in prison to get out and attempt to dig it up. Great luck to you sir.
Well, you certainly pulled out "a 3 grammer or more" 🤣🤣 Congratulations Luke, a just reward for all those years of persevering with the channel and promoting detecting, for going into battle for the rights of detectorists, against over zealous bureaucrats and just for being an amazingly good guy who loves his family more than anything else.
Yeh! Sorry about the camera falling over, it was me, just rearranging my sitting position! Getting comfortable, I'd been hanging to see the end result, after all the lead up to this hunt. Listening to your comments during the lead up to the main event, I have to smile at the "Who knows there might be a bigger mate hiding at the side" little did you realise what was to come! Chasing a full gram! Indeed!... And your plans of what you might do with your previous collections of gold. Then your world changed! It's got to be a 3 ouncer! You were close, you just needed to add a zero on the end of it! I think this is my fourth viewing of this hunt, and each time, my heart starts to race, when you say "Oh! My God Oh! My God"... What an incredible experience! Im glad Andrew was there with you, and I keep wondering whether his 5000 would have picked it up. I imagine it would have! Now get back there with a dozer and take off a couple of feet of soil all around the area and find the rest of its relatives!... I know im a couple of weeks late with a comment , kept forgetting to top up my credit on my phone! And now I can say, "I know a bloke who found a 30 OZ nugget" From one minute to the next, you just dont know whats around the corner! And that was some corner!!!! Cheers Luke, Absolute Magic!
Congrats from the states. Last week I was showing some pics of the 72 and 37 gram nuggets I found last summer in South Dakota. My brother sends me the link to this video and said I’ll want to delete those pics off my laptop. Once in a lifetime score.
Thank you so much @pricklyprospector1208 what a massive turn around it has been from the start of this year. It all goes to show too, hard work and commitment wins out at the end of the day🙂 Cheers heaps again mate, I'll be looking for the next now😉🤝⛏️
Never been on your channel before but i was so stoked to see the lucky luke! As a father of 3 i can only imagine how much of a relief that was, i really does help! Cheers from switzerland!
Well done. If you don't already have one, think about getting an ultrasonic cleaner. They are usually for jewellery, but your nugget would fit in a regular domestic model. The ultrasound vibrations dislodge tiny particles of dirt, and you'll likely end up with a 'clean' nugget with little holes where the quartz, clay and dirt used to be. Any little particles of gold that aren't attached and come off end up in the bottom of the cleaner, not in your sink s-bend. Once again, well done.
Congrats mate,first guy in the universe to see that beautiful nugget,good things come to good people,persistance and low and slow,does the trick. Hope you continue to find many more .Spend wisely
Get yourself a newer house with some land..that's a nice investment or keep that chunk and hope the price just keeps going up..maybe 1 day it will be worth $200k
@@Bob42000 Unfortunately in Oz the median house price in Skidknee is around $1m+ So a $100k nugget would barely cover the selling agents commission and the government stamp duty tax on buying the better house unfortunately. What you said is good advice despite all this other considerations, you aren’t wrong in the advice that you gave it’s just that if he is going to give the whole $100k find to the selling realtor & the Government in Stamp Duty Tax, he’s not actually gaining that &100k in more equity in the house he’s upgrading to. For that reason he might as well have left the nugget in the ground if he’s just going to give it to lazy realtor in commission and tax thrives. He might be better as you said keeping it and waiting for gold price to double or invest it into income producing passive income stream. Buying the Prado is a depreciating asset & probably the worst idea of all. But it’s his nugget & his to do with as he pleases. I’m happy for him whatever he chooses to do with it. Maybe better to invest it into improving his existing house to make that liability into one worth $100k + more in improved value, adding extra bedrooms and en suites etc. At least then he gets the full value from his nugget. His house if he lives in it is actually a liability, his bank considers it a liability on his balance sheet because it takes money out of his account (Annual land rates & water rates, upkeep, maintenance & repairs, payments on his mortgage etc), & it puts zero money into his bank account so as far as his bank is concerned the house he lives in is a liability rather than an asset. Likely the wisest thing he could do is pay down his mortgage to save hundreds of thousands in mortgage interest and reduce his payment term, saving again hundreds of thousands in repayments as well. My 2c
This was like my 10th time watching this video . I was showing my buddy . It's so funny watching people's reaction as you keep digging and digging and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger . That must have been like a fairy tale digging down a d coming up with a HOG like that . A once in a lifetime find ...
What a great find and congradulations! If you do not plan to keep it (or haven't already sold it), I am certain that piece will fetch you much more if you sell to a high end to a collector vs. selling it at spot to a jeweler/refiner. Although it is rounded and has no distinct crystalline features that I can tell, the gold veins running through the native rock make it a beautiful piece. Additonally the fact it was documented on its finding (chelybinsk meteorites sell at a premium because of this) and has a great story behind it will all add value to a collector. Either way congratulations!
This is the first video of yours I have seen! I am so, so overjoyed for yourself & your family!! What an amazing find. Be sure to take your pal Andrew on a camping+prospecting trip in your new Landrover!!!!!
First detecting vid i've seen, hearing the excitement in your voice made me happy :) Also always good to hear a couple of happy Aussies! congrats to you and your mate :)
I don’t know about this hobby, but it looks to me like you could be losing gold sometimes. You check for signal in the scoop, then dump some in your hand and check the scoop again. When the scoop still has signal you throw away the contents of your hand, but you haven’t checked that material for signal. If there is more than one nugget in the scoop you are only going to find one of them with the process you’re using.
Generally you’ll stand up after putting a picker in a your jar and go over the area again with a detector before walking away so if he has thrown a second nugget away he’ll pick it up again with the detector before moving on.
Well done mate! Easily the best production/ post reaction/ cleanup/ reveal I've ever seen! Thank you for documenting this beautiful moment so perfectly and authentically! Made my day over here in Pittsburgh, PA.
I can’t wait to watch this, but at the same time, I know this will make me more than a little jealous, having never found gold myself let alone a life changing nugget. You deserve it Luke after all the hours you have put in to detecting and all you have done to promote the hobby.
Thankyou so much @RickHooper-u6q this day has been a lot of years and lots of holes in the making but I wouldn't have changed it all for the world mate. I have enjoyed every moment of the 7 years detecting and sharing my adventures. This one to come tonight especially😁 Thanks so much again for your support Rick, let me know when you want to go chase your first piece of gold to mate. I'd be more than happy to help👍👍⛏️
I’d 100% like to take you up on that offer. I’m up in NSW so a bit of a drive for me but I hope to make it happen. My other problem is I’m only running the Nox 900 so I might need a more gold specific detector to make it worthwhile. Anyway I would love to take you up on the offer when I can.
Finding a nugget this large so close to the surface is yet more proof that there's still plenty of gold out there to be found. You just have to understand geology to know what to look for and some simple physics such as eddy currents to know where to find the source behind that trail of golden breadcrumbs. You may even find gold that once flowed through the veins of a dragon or a human tens of thousands of years ago when life was much larger than it is today. Right now the amount of gold in your blood is an insignificant speck of dust in the grand scheme of the past and present times but some day in the far future it will be much more useful to humans, who likely will be descendants of your own bloodline in one way or another, due to quantum scaling. All existing life is sustained by previous life, every rock, metal and gemstone was once a living being and through science we are able to give it new life. The old saying "dumb as a bag of rocks" didn't stand the test of time because the very device you viewed this video on couldn't function without rocks. It would be nothing more than an electrical circuit which powers a series of LED bulbs.
Funny hearing you mention the Welcome Stranger, believe it or not i'm actually the great great nephew of the guy that found it haha. John Deason was my great great uncle who went to Australia in search for gold, but almost all of the Deasons still live here in Cornwall, UK to this day. There's a statue dedicated to him and John Oates finding it at the Cornish Gold center just 10 minutes away from me that can be found on google images. Unfortunately he didn't make the smartest decisions with his money and we certainly haven't noticed any "generational wealth" passed down 😂
@@tyarnold4088 of course he did... i dont know why people haven't learned how fake youtube is now... the real gold nugget he found is the views/money he's getting from this fake video
There's a family in CA that has huge gold nuggets that their family traded for horses with the CA gold rush miners in the American River that are this size. CONGRATS ON YOUR FIND!!!
Now THAT just made my Sattidy night 😮 What an absolute beauty. There's gonna be a whole lotta people out in their sheds dusting off their minelabs right now and planning to call sick on Monday.
This is EXACTLY why I hate videos like these. Yeah cool, great for the guy who found it, but not for the poor buggers who havnt found much and then have more idiots coming out into the bush.... watch what you say mate
Thankyou so much @andrewhewes2461 never in my wildest dreams would I think this could happen to me. Although hard work and persistence certainly pays off👌 Cheers heaps for all the support over the years to mate. I appreciate it all🤝👍⛏️
It’s crazy how many nuggets there are still to be found and so few people finding nuggets like this. Like just imagine how many gold boulders are still under Antarctica’s ice, videos like this keep people hunting for the biggins left just in our backyard ❤ much love and congrats on the gold nugget that’s worthy of being in a museum
Alaska has TONS of gold literally everywhere, the problem is the freezing conditions prevents most people from actually trying to find any gold up there. Lots of videos exist of people finding multiple grams of gold all the time there.
What a fantastic find. I am so happy for you and to see it come out of the ground is amazing. Look forward to see a new Prado in the future. Keep up the great work teaching and showing us how to detect. Gold / Coin and Relics.
A massively huge congratulations to you Luke and Andrew. Incredible find!!! The excitement in your voices as the nugget was uncovered was palpable. PERSISTENCE PAYS OFF!!! You boys personify this saying. Well deserved Luke, I am so happy for you. 😊Cheers Marty from Melbourne. (PS. I was excited watching the little nuggets see the light of day- then the big one…NO WAY!!!)
OH MY GOD!!! Congratulations one again mate. All the hours and dedication to detecting and being an ambassador for minelab and coiltek you've truly worked your ar*e off. Not to mention the entertainment and knowledge your providing to all of us viewers and members. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke (and family). Enjoy the next few weeks mate. ❤ From our family to yours.
@@Brandanmayhewwhy? Why even say that? I pray you find your peace in Jesus Christ. He can give you the ability to be at peace and not so hard on yourself
@NathanieltheNet shut up you weirdo. Plenty of people could have deserved that. Don't act like he deserved it over anybody else that's foolish and you sound foolish by saying "couldn't of happened to somebody more deserving"😂 total nonsense
Thank you so very much @minelabaustralia I could never have got this far without all your amazing support shown over the years💯 It's been a ride so far, but I'm sure there is plenty more to follow! Thanks so much again to all the Minelab Team♥️
And suddenly when he saw all the gold he had the strength of a thousand men, he could have dug a hundred deep holes without feeling any loss of strength, purely through your thoughts and feelings you are capable of so much more, Gold Gold gold❤🏄♂️🍀☀️
I loved this video. Congrats mate. I loved the fact you are a everyday guy and that your family will really benefit from the find and that your lovely wife will now not hassle you for all the time spent detecting ha ha. All the best and well done!
Congratulations Luke that was bloody exciting to watch and the reaction of your kids is priceless, that would certainly upgrade my old 90 series Prado 😂
I am shaking my head trying to make sense of what this planet does. Australia has gold just lying on the ground. In the US, in the right location, if you spend days and days, blasting holes, using hammers, power tools, shake tables….congratulations to those who find it
.. Australia is the oldest continent on the earth, hence hundreds of metres of topsoil has eroded away, leaving bedrock close to the surface, in many parts of the country.
Wow!!! I've been watching Gold TV shows here in the states and no one has ever found a nugget that size. At least that I know of. Absolutely amazing. Congratulations to you and your family!
Thanks for watching @andybaldman here's an article showing how fake it is also. www.9news.com.au/national/man-digs-up-gold-nugget-worth-up-to-100k-next-to-historic-ballarat-mine-site/109dd519-5b84-4f6f-b8e5-a37bc10895a5
@@DigItDetecting Sorry, that doesn't prove anything, other than a local news channel (who are desperate for clicks) falling for a fake. Your bad acting in the vid gives you all away.
A big thank you to you for your support. I bought a 800 then a 900 and have been using your coin set up since the beginning and I have done extremely well with having found many 1800 coins and other goodies. Congratulations on your success with Minelab and awesome awesome find, you deserve it mate, well done 👍 👍
Came upon the channel a few days back. This find proves why I am addicted to detecting country Victoria. Well done to you & Andrew, a mighty find! Have subbed and joined as a patreon. Looking fwd to 2025 group weekend. Keep it going lads.
Thank you so much for the sub and the join @1THEMAGUS your support shown in doing so really means a lot to me! We have some epic adventures to follow and an even better event for 2025 to enjoy im certain. I look forward to catching you there for some fun🤝 Cheers heaps again👍⛏️
Great find, just remember the most valuable parts of your video was the 3 people that were looking at you in the video. Keep up the efforts and hope you find lots more . Just remember what is really important. 👍👍👍
Good thing you weren't way out in the outback and were with people you could really trust, a lump of gold like that is how people end up in deadly 'accidents' with a lone survivor and a crazy tale to tell the media.
I've felt this kind of happiness, when I found that $18,000 cash in a bag next to a railway track near Leeton NSW, yeah I SHOULD HAVE handed it in I KNOW. Unfortunately I kept it but the happiness I was talking more and feeling very energetic like you are finding this nugget lol. The beautiful Wife's reaction was PRICELESS 😎
when you find random bags of money anywhere, always take it. Never report it, and just use it to buy groceries and stuff once in a while, don't make any big purchases either so you don't get the IRS's attention. Stuff like that could be getting you free food for years if properly used.
Most welcome anytime @northernpickers the gold game is not always easy but when a big multi ouncer like this pops out...it makes things a little easier👍 Take good care and happy hunting out there mate⛏️⛏️
At first I was like "And all i fakking find is more debt" and then I saw your missus, and kids, and it drove shivers of happiness down my spine. Congratulations mate
Woahhhhhh What a stunning find Unbelievably envious of you 😂 Would my nox 800 have found it 😂 Thanks very much for sharing 👍 Absolutely fantastic Maria 🍀
@@RustyShackleford108 maybe Luke can upgrade his recoding equipment now, he’s always done such a fantastic job with just his phone. He knows what I really think he needs to spend his findings on …. And it’s not a Prado 😂
I've never seen such an unclimactic reaction/reveal in my life. Every one of those humans were instantly racking their brains on how to get rid of everyone else and claim it all for themselves.
3:28 I like the whole process of elimination. But question from this ignorant lay person - can there be more than one piece of gold and you are throwing it out by going "Oh its in there so its not in there" ? Or does the detector indicate there is only one source?
Congratulations! I had a similar experience. Big signal, deep, deep hole, seemed to be un-disturbed ground. So excited. Rusty old miner’s pick head. I still have it. 😂
Money doesn't grow on trees, apparently it grows under them. Amazing chunk!
Its a mix of wool and cotton for notes, so in theory it kinda does grow on trees nowdays.
@@KRON0S_BTC True, unless you're one of the 38 countries that use plastic or polymer notes, for all or some of their denomination, then again it comes from oil which is under the trees most of the time... Couldn't resist being a pedant, sorry...
Moneys made from paper.. Which comes from trees. :p
Heard that!
only in America
A friend of mine was panning in the American river and a loose rock kept rolling down hill. Throw the rock up hill and back down in the way again. Finally he picked it up and was going to throw it into the river, be done with it. He looked once more and washed it off and he was holding a round piece of spider gold the size of a tennis ball. Sold for $30,000 USD not by weight but for a collector of natural art. about thirty miles from the original Sutters Mill 1849 gold strike. Congratulations. I bet your glass will be half full not half empty for some time to come. Hello from California, USA.
What is spider gold
@@pirmenybeI assume he’s referring to gold that forms in a flake like structure rather than a typical solid piece.
@@pirmenybePerhaps like wire gold... Likely!
American river
Crikey , Mate 😳
Look at that family though. He was lucky even before that nugget.
You kidding, he really needs that nugget with all the leeches. 😂
@@Flaggyt praying you never develop a caring family in the near future
huh? weird thing to say, its like envying another person's turd.
@@Steve992.1
Not all kids are turds. I don't know where you grew up but there are homes where the family cares about each other and the children grow up and become happy adults. And that's a nice thing to see. It's not envy. But when you are a turd as a child and still a turds as an adult and stupid on top of that I can understand the anger and envy in you. You fail over and over again. People are mean to you because you never understood that you are a turd.
@@Steve992.1 Dude, your profile picture tells me EXACTLY why you'd leave a comment like that. You've got 5 IQ written all over your face. Read the room, buddy.
Finding a nugget worth like 70k seems like any prospectors dream, congrats mate!
More like 100k with it being naturally formed and one single nugget
Half that at best.
@@UselessCat 2 weeks ago heritage auctioned a similar looking gold nugget (730 gr) for 65k. doing the math this nugget is about 77k
How do you know there is solid gold in the middle? Might have stones ingrained.
@@maximilianmusterhans4659 Well he could use a density test you know 'eureka'...
35:46 Not having a plug over that drain as you’re washing it off here is giving me tons of anxiety while watching it. Lol
Gold is heavy and would sink in the trap under the sink. He would need to open up his sink drain and collect any that washed away.
ah yes the nugget is certainly gonna fall through the 1cm² holes for sure, totally logical
@@ennyyyable SMALL CHIPS, YOU IMBECILE
@@ennyyyable You don't understand, do you?
@@Antek_S I'm guessing it's because he may be losing gold dust/shards?
My father spent his final years gold prospecting all over the u.s. with a dream of just funding his travels. It did sometimes. Never did find anything bigger than a marble. Boy was he stoked about those bigger nuggets. I can imagine him losing his mind over a find like this. That’s awesome!!
Such a sweet story! I'm sure he had so many stories
may he rest in peace, and may you have a good life bro
It sounds like your father had a great time out there searching for gold. May he rest in peace ❤.
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My husband and I are thrilled to bits for you. You have kept your channel going through ups and downs, always humble. Your family really deserves this. Best wishes.
Nothing like chasing that metal detector signal. Short story. Once I was over a foot deep digging.
Visions of untold treasure . Found two old window counter weights. Still smile remembering that day . Congratulations on your find .
Congrats on the find.
I do find it very interesting the immediate behavioral changes in people when they are that close to something that valuable. It’s almost an eerie “haha yah we’re friends, but don’t touch my gold.” Or “ah great wow, let me just hold it”
Imagine how it was back in the day. Ppl would have probably been shot on the spot during things like this.
I genuinely appreciate how at 29:28 You make a good point about including your friend in this moment And how it wouldn't be the same without him. That was really sweet of you to make sure to include him In a very big moment in what would be any of our lives. Goodonya lol
Oh yeah include him in the video but not with any profits. Usual human behaviour yeah. He was just saying that to sound "like a good bloke" don't be fooled, it would have been the EXACT same if his friend was there or not. In fact, his friend would be hurting inside that it wasn't him that found it. Say what you want you butt hurt people but it's the truth😂
@Brandanmayhew How do you know he didn't share any profits with his friend? I must have missed that part of the video, where he sold it and kept the profit to himself? 🤷♂️
@@Brandanmayhew Thanks for that little glimpse into your psyche.
Nice work Luke, but do NOT buy that Prado, that will depreciate faster than that nugget falling off the table. Keep the nugget as gold prices still rising. Then finish off paying that mortgage
100 percent invest collect the interest set up for life.
@@bradleycoe6972 At current prices, the nugget is worth in the area of $66690, at 3% interest that's roughly $2000 annually.
Get a 2016 model low km prado. Good car won't depreciate much over 10yrs. For around the 35k price. Don't listen to these guys
@@Shrivellednutsack don't listen to this guy! Buy doge coin
Dude it’s like 65k lol he’s not gonna get interest that is setting him for life
32:07 quote of the decade
wata foken clump mate
i fuckin died 🤣🤣
Perfect
clicked the timestamp, was not disappointed :')
Bro i was dyyyiyngggggg came to write the same thing hahahaa
I loved when you dropped it on the table with the kids and they realised what it was "holy shit". Sums it up perfectly
I had to watch that part a few times, the reactions were priceless, especially when she asked if he was serious!
I don’t think the younger ones have a concept of how much it was actually worth haha
@simonc1039 You need to watch your mouth you don't start here with a attitude you.
What@@Marc.Martain
@@Marc.Martaincry about it
I would be pitching a tent up and digging a 10 foot raius hole from that point lol... There has to be more there
True. Must be more from where that came from.
Same, I would be digging that out for months.
I’m sure he was certainly pitching a tent after finding that lol
Not necessarily
@@saltysalt397 outstanding
I’m in the state of KY and I lost a $20 gold piece from 1849 in a creek at 11 years old, I grew up in the creeks and recently ready to retire and going back to that creek again almost 50 years later to retrieve it!!! I took it to school once because we had a book fair and my coin was valued at that time about 40k which got me in all sorts of trouble. After I get my coin back I’m going to the other side of blue ridge mountains in VA to make a go at prospecting in the gold-pyrite belt there in and around Franklin Co!!! Great find so happy for you and your family!
That coin's in my pocket now and finders keepers.
@ yes, but the pocket is a bad idea, bury that in a plastic bag in a titanium container in an underground concrete bunker
@@Gentlemutilator So you lost 40k and just waited 50 years before trying to get it back? 🤔
@ no took 50 years to have the resources and time to take on such an endeavor, hope this calms your curiosity
I think it's great. Akin to a story like a thief in prison that hid his heisted bounty and has to wait years in prison to get out and attempt to dig it up. Great luck to you sir.
Congratulations Luke, so happy for you. Helena was almost lost for words! Great we all got to share this with you. How bloody awesome! 🎉
“What a effen clump, mate!”
Such a good line, such a good find! Bravo gentlemen 👍🍻💚
Well, you certainly pulled out "a 3 grammer or more" 🤣🤣
Congratulations Luke, a just reward for all those years of persevering with the channel and promoting detecting, for going into battle for the rights of detectorists, against over zealous bureaucrats and just for being an amazingly good guy who loves his family more than anything else.
I'd say treacherous and treasonous instead over over zealous
Yeh! Sorry about the camera falling over, it was me, just rearranging my sitting position! Getting comfortable, I'd been hanging to see the end result, after all the lead up to this hunt. Listening to your comments during the lead up to the main event, I have to smile at the "Who knows there might be a bigger mate hiding at the side" little did you realise what was to come! Chasing a full gram! Indeed!... And your plans of what you might do with your previous collections of gold. Then your world changed! It's got to be a 3 ouncer! You were close, you just needed to add a zero on the end of it! I think this is my fourth viewing of this hunt, and each time, my heart starts to race, when you say "Oh! My God Oh! My God"... What an incredible experience! Im glad Andrew was there with you, and I keep wondering whether his 5000 would have picked it up. I imagine it would have! Now get back there with a dozer and take off a couple of feet of soil all around the area and find the rest of its relatives!... I know im a couple of weeks late with a comment , kept forgetting to top up my credit on my phone! And now I can say, "I know a bloke who found a 30 OZ nugget" From one minute to the next, you just dont know whats around the corner! And that was some corner!!!! Cheers Luke, Absolute Magic!
@@beergoldI have a sd2200d..I agree
Congrats from the states. Last week I was showing some pics of the 72 and 37 gram nuggets I found last summer in South Dakota. My brother sends me the link to this video and said I’ll want to delete those pics off my laptop. Once in a lifetime score.
A deserved return for someone who has stood up for the rest of us. Great shit, you deserve it!!🍻👍
Thank you so much @pricklyprospector1208 what a massive turn around it has been from the start of this year. It all goes to show too, hard work and commitment wins out at the end of the day🙂 Cheers heaps again mate, I'll be looking for the next now😉🤝⛏️
@@DigItDetecting keep going back in that same area because there’s gonna be more in that area
@@godschild3640fully agree he needs to dig this area out the best he can it’s gonna be loaded and they’re gonna be deep.
I would call it a rock not a nugget. The gold rock is definitely what people dream of and what motivates the adventure and search for gold.
Word
26:00 “Yeah, yeah, yeah just fkn dig it out”. That was hilarious, haha.
Hopefully, you can sell it as a gold specimen. What a wonderful find. Congrats!!!
37:41 I love how she so slyly slid the rock under her jacket! 😂😂😂😂
I thiught i was the only one who peeped
Never been on your channel before but i was so stoked to see the lucky luke! As a father of 3 i can only imagine how much of a relief that was, i really does help! Cheers from switzerland!
Well done. If you don't already have one, think about getting an ultrasonic cleaner. They are usually for jewellery, but your nugget would fit in a regular domestic model. The ultrasound vibrations dislodge tiny particles of dirt, and you'll likely end up with a 'clean' nugget with little holes where the quartz, clay and dirt used to be. Any little particles of gold that aren't attached and come off end up in the bottom of the cleaner, not in your sink s-bend. Once again, well done.
probably best to keep the quartz on it
hey do you wanna tip on how to lower your winnings?
Congrats mate,first guy in the universe to see that beautiful nugget,good things come to good people,persistance and low and slow,does the trick. Hope you continue to find many more .Spend wisely
he was just lucky bro
$103.5k at tonight’s gold price.
There’s your new Prado (plus a few accessories) & for what it’s worth they are worth every last cent. 👍👍👍
Get yourself a newer house with some land..that's a nice investment or keep that chunk and hope the price just keeps going up..maybe 1 day it will be worth $200k
@@Bob42000 Unfortunately in Oz the median house price in Skidknee is around $1m+
So a $100k nugget would barely cover the selling agents commission and the government stamp duty tax on buying the better house unfortunately.
What you said is good advice despite all this other considerations, you aren’t wrong in the advice that you gave it’s just that if he is going to give the whole $100k find to the selling realtor & the Government in Stamp Duty Tax, he’s not actually gaining that &100k in more equity in the house he’s upgrading to.
For that reason he might as well have left the nugget in the ground if he’s just going to give it to lazy realtor in commission and tax thrives.
He might be better as you said keeping it and waiting for gold price to double or invest it into income producing passive income stream.
Buying the Prado is a depreciating asset & probably the worst idea of all.
But it’s his nugget & his to do with as he pleases. I’m happy for him whatever he chooses to do with it.
Maybe better to invest it into improving his existing house to make that liability into one worth $100k + more in improved value, adding extra bedrooms and en suites etc.
At least then he gets the full value from his nugget.
His house if he lives in it is actually a liability, his bank considers it a liability on his balance sheet because it takes money out of his account (Annual land rates & water rates, upkeep, maintenance & repairs, payments on his mortgage etc), & it puts zero money into his bank account so as far as his bank is concerned the house he lives in is a liability rather than an asset.
Likely the wisest thing he could do is pay down his mortgage to save hundreds of thousands in mortgage interest and reduce his payment term, saving again hundreds of thousands in repayments as well.
My 2c
a nugget this size is worth more than spot.
@@wowfreak10 I agree it has collectors value to the right person. 👍
totally collectors value. don't smelt
Showing the family is the best part!
Well done mate, well done!!
This was like my 10th time watching this video . I was showing my buddy . It's so funny watching people's reaction as you keep digging and digging and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger . That must have been like a fairy tale digging down a d coming up with a HOG like that . A once in a lifetime find ...
This must be the only real thumbnail on youtube. And it even turned out to be even bigger in the video, than thumbnail 😮✨😎⛏️
What a great find and congradulations! If you do not plan to keep it (or haven't already sold it), I am certain that piece will fetch you much more if you sell to a high end to a collector vs. selling it at spot to a jeweler/refiner. Although it is rounded and has no distinct crystalline features that I can tell, the gold veins running through the native rock make it a beautiful piece. Additonally the fact it was documented on its finding (chelybinsk meteorites sell at a premium because of this) and has a great story behind it will all add value to a collector.
Either way congratulations!
From a fellow Luke in the USA, it's nice to see another Luke on the other side of the world get a big win!!!
This is the first video of yours I have seen! I am so, so overjoyed for yourself & your family!! What an amazing find. Be sure to take your pal Andrew on a camping+prospecting trip in your new Landrover!!!!!
First detecting vid i've seen, hearing the excitement in your voice made me happy :)
Also always good to hear a couple of happy Aussies! congrats to you and your mate :)
You seem like a good dad. Congratulations from the "Golden State" of California!
I don’t know about this hobby, but it looks to me like you could be losing gold sometimes. You check for signal in the scoop, then dump some in your hand and check the scoop again. When the scoop still has signal you throw away the contents of your hand, but you haven’t checked that material for signal. If there is more than one nugget in the scoop you are only going to find one of them with the process you’re using.
I thought the exact same thing. Came into the comments to find if someone else had said this!
I'm sure that would be a valid criticism before he found that fuckin lump
Still very valid😂. No need to toss away perfectly good gold!
Generally you’ll stand up after putting a picker in a your jar and go over the area again with a detector before walking away so if he has thrown a second nugget away he’ll pick it up again with the detector before moving on.
@@adamhofman4933 that’s good to know
What a find! Congrats brother. They’re still out there!
Well done mate! Easily the best production/ post reaction/ cleanup/ reveal I've ever seen! Thank you for documenting this beautiful moment so perfectly and authentically! Made my day over here in Pittsburgh, PA.
“There’s my Prado” haha I love it. Land Cruiser love.
I can’t wait to watch this, but at the same time, I know this will make me more than a little jealous, having never found gold myself let alone a life changing nugget. You deserve it Luke after all the hours you have put in to detecting and all you have done to promote the hobby.
Thankyou so much @RickHooper-u6q this day has been a lot of years and lots of holes in the making but I wouldn't have changed it all for the world mate. I have enjoyed every moment of the 7 years detecting and sharing my adventures. This one to come tonight especially😁
Thanks so much again for your support Rick, let me know when you want to go chase your first piece of gold to mate. I'd be more than happy to help👍👍⛏️
I’d 100% like to take you up on that offer. I’m up in NSW so a bit of a drive for me but I hope to make it happen. My other problem is I’m only running the Nox 900 so I might need a more gold specific detector to make it worthwhile. Anyway I would love to take you up on the offer when I can.
Every time I watch any video from Australia I get super jealous. One day I'll get down there, even if it's not soon
Finding a nugget this large so close to the surface is yet more proof that there's still plenty of gold out there to be found. You just have to understand geology to know what to look for and some simple physics such as eddy currents to know where to find the source behind that trail of golden breadcrumbs. You may even find gold that once flowed through the veins of a dragon or a human tens of thousands of years ago when life was much larger than it is today. Right now the amount of gold in your blood is an insignificant speck of dust in the grand scheme of the past and present times but some day in the far future it will be much more useful to humans, who likely will be descendants of your own bloodline in one way or another, due to quantum scaling. All existing life is sustained by previous life, every rock, metal and gemstone was once a living being and through science we are able to give it new life. The old saying "dumb as a bag of rocks" didn't stand the test of time because the very device you viewed this video on couldn't function without rocks. It would be nothing more than an electrical circuit which powers a series of LED bulbs.
@DigItDetecting oh of course you'd be happy now... of course... WOW
Funny hearing you mention the Welcome Stranger, believe it or not i'm actually the great great nephew of the guy that found it haha.
John Deason was my great great uncle who went to Australia in search for gold, but almost all of the Deasons still live here in Cornwall, UK to this day. There's a statue dedicated to him and John Oates finding it at the Cornish Gold center just 10 minutes away from me that can be found on google images.
Unfortunately he didn't make the smartest decisions with his money and we certainly haven't noticed any "generational wealth" passed down 😂
That’s amazing!! Luke loves the story of the welcome stranger.
ahh tom, i loved reading that mate.. good on ya pal.
@helenamay..2316 l0l are you his wife you look like you could be his daughter. I thought you were in this video wtf that's weirdddd
Aome freaky shit goen down with them two😂
This guy us real no film crew no scripts and no commentator wow this guy is for real,thanks m8t.
Nope
@davehedgehog9795 you think he planted the nugget?
@tyarnold4088 no not at all.
Why does it look like the hole was predug and the nugget planted in the hole? 🤔
@@tyarnold4088 of course he did... i dont know why people haven't learned how fake youtube is now...
the real gold nugget he found is the views/money he's getting from this fake video
There's a family in CA that has huge gold nuggets that their family traded for horses with the CA gold rush miners in the American River that are this size. CONGRATS ON YOUR FIND!!!
What an awesome moment you shared. Thank you! Helena gets more than a ring I suppose.
Now THAT just made my Sattidy night 😮
What an absolute beauty. There's gonna be a whole lotta people out in their sheds dusting off their minelabs right now and planning to call sick on Monday.
This is EXACTLY why I hate videos like these. Yeah cool, great for the guy who found it, but not for the poor buggers who havnt found much and then have more idiots coming out into the bush.... watch what you say mate
Absolutley fantastic Luke!
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving bloke.
Thankyou so much @andrewhewes2461 never in my wildest dreams would I think this could happen to me. Although hard work and persistence certainly pays off👌
Cheers heaps for all the support over the years to mate. I appreciate it all🤝👍⛏️
It’s crazy how many nuggets there are still to be found and so few people finding nuggets like this. Like just imagine how many gold boulders are still under Antarctica’s ice, videos like this keep people hunting for the biggins left just in our backyard ❤ much love and congrats on the gold nugget that’s worthy of being in a museum
Alaska has TONS of gold literally everywhere, the problem is the freezing conditions prevents most people from actually trying to find any gold up there. Lots of videos exist of people finding multiple grams of gold all the time there.
What a fantastic find.
I am so happy for you and to see it come out of the ground is amazing.
Look forward to see a new Prado in the future.
Keep up the great work teaching and showing us how to detect. Gold / Coin and Relics.
A massively huge congratulations to you Luke and Andrew. Incredible find!!! The excitement in your voices as the nugget was uncovered was palpable. PERSISTENCE PAYS OFF!!! You boys personify this saying. Well deserved Luke, I am so happy for you. 😊Cheers Marty from Melbourne. (PS. I was excited watching the little nuggets see the light of day- then the big one…NO WAY!!!)
OH MY GOD!!!
Congratulations one again mate. All the hours and dedication to detecting and being an ambassador for minelab and coiltek you've truly worked your ar*e off. Not to mention the entertainment and knowledge your providing to all of us viewers and members. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke (and family).
Enjoy the next few weeks mate.
❤ From our family to yours.
Yes it could have happened to plenty more "nicer" people. Stop sounding like a complete fool
@@Brandanmayhewwhy? Why even say that? I pray you find your peace in Jesus Christ. He can give you the ability to be at peace and not so hard on yourself
@NathanieltheNet shut up you weirdo. Plenty of people could have deserved that. Don't act like he deserved it over anybody else that's foolish and you sound foolish by saying "couldn't of happened to somebody more deserving"😂 total nonsense
@@NathanieltheNetI hope you wise up😂
Congratulations mate. You deserve this more than anyone I know. Thanks for sharing the ride.
Thank you so very much @minelabaustralia I could never have got this far without all your amazing support shown over the years💯
It's been a ride so far, but I'm sure there is plenty more to follow! Thanks so much again to all the Minelab Team♥️
Rule N1:Never tell anyone that you find a gold nugget.
At least to your wife... It was the first one to make a joke of hiding it. 🤔 Money, money...changes people.
@@pv24518I thought she was the daughter 😂
And suddenly when he saw all the gold he had the strength of a thousand men, he could have dug a hundred deep holes without feeling any loss of strength, purely through your thoughts and feelings you are capable of so much more, Gold Gold gold❤🏄♂️🍀☀️
Not in the YT era. His vid got nearly 800k views from that nugget find. That's gold on gold.
@@JapanUnfiltered ad revenue is nothing compared to that 😂
I loved this video. Congrats mate. I loved the fact you are a everyday guy and that your family will really benefit from the find and that your lovely wife will now not hassle you for all the time spent detecting ha ha. All the best and well done!
Wow!! Never seen anyone pull a rock of gold like that out of the ground! Amazing
Congratulations Luke, great find and very well deserved
Congratulations Luke that was bloody exciting to watch and the reaction of your kids is priceless, that would certainly upgrade my old 90 series Prado 😂
I am shaking my head trying to make sense of what this planet does. Australia has gold just lying on the ground. In the US, in the right location, if you spend days and days, blasting holes, using hammers, power tools, shake tables….congratulations to those who find it
.. Australia is the oldest continent on the earth, hence hundreds of metres of topsoil has eroded away, leaving bedrock close to the surface, in many parts of the country.
thats why the british colony go there, because of the gold
Georgia has clay in abundance
Also where the worlds largest gold nuggest comes from.
@@coldogno7 Yeah, not so much. The British were trying to get rid of the riff-raff. Little did they know, they were getting rid of the best of them.
So cool! Very happy for you.
You are very blessed to find a nugget like that.
Congratulations. Greetings from Nova Scotia Canada Thank you for sharing
Seeing your hands shake while you pulled that beast from the ground was an incredible sight! Happy for you man! What an expierience 🎉
Wow!!! I've been watching Gold TV shows here in the states and no one has ever found a nugget that size. At least that I know of. Absolutely amazing. Congratulations to you and your family!
These guys didn’t either. It’s fake.
Thanks for watching @andybaldman here's an article showing how fake it is also.
www.9news.com.au/national/man-digs-up-gold-nugget-worth-up-to-100k-next-to-historic-ballarat-mine-site/109dd519-5b84-4f6f-b8e5-a37bc10895a5
@@DigItDetecting Sorry, that doesn't prove anything, other than a local news channel (who are desperate for clicks) falling for a fake. Your bad acting in the vid gives you all away.
@@andybaldmanhis family barely cares either😂 hahaha not a reaction you'd expect from a 100k nugget is it
@@Brandanmayhew Nope. You kinda got the feeling they weren't as comfortable lying.
Well bloody done son, a more deserving bloke you couldnt hope to find!🍻😱
Thankyou so much @jasonthompson5256🤝 this sure is going to be a hard day to beat😉
How awesome! Must be a detectors dream to find a nug like that. Congratulations!
I'm happy for you and your family,great find!!!
A big thank you to you for your support. I bought a 800 then a 900 and have been using your coin set up since the beginning and I have done extremely well with having found many 1800 coins and other goodies.
Congratulations on your success with Minelab and awesome awesome find, you deserve it mate, well done 👍 👍
Fantastic if anyone deserves to find something like that, it's you after all you have been through lately well done congratulations
Thankyou so much @bundy1579 what a huge year it's been for 2024. Just goes to show that never giving up is the key to success🙂⛏️
Congratulations Luke 🎉 incredible nugget! So waiting watching you dig it out!
Thankyou so much @Deanne Lewis such a life changing moment for us all. I'm just happy I got to share it to the world on film😊♥️⛏️
$73,000 .. 30 oz Nug ! ! Salute From CA .. Families reaction was priceless, enjoy the wealth & goodluck on more BIG finds 🍀
Came upon the channel a few days back. This find proves why I am addicted to detecting country Victoria. Well done to you & Andrew, a mighty find! Have subbed and joined as a patreon. Looking fwd to 2025 group weekend. Keep it going lads.
Thank you so much for the sub and the join @1THEMAGUS your support shown in doing so really means a lot to me! We have some epic adventures to follow and an even better event for 2025 to enjoy im certain. I look forward to catching you there for some fun🤝 Cheers heaps again👍⛏️
Anticlimactic reaction at the end 🤣 I’d be running around the gaff…SCREAMING
That’s because it’s fake.
My guess is they are in disbelief/shock. I'd be, too.
That was truly amazing! A very huge congratulations!!
Amazing, congratulations, Luke.
A well-deserved find.
I'm so excited for you 👏🥳
You can see your hands shaking - how exciting!! Well done.
Great find, just remember the most valuable parts of your video was the 3 people that were looking at you in the video.
Keep up the efforts and hope you find lots more .
Just remember what is really important.
👍👍👍
Good thing you weren't way out in the outback and were with people you could really trust, a lump of gold like that is how people end up in deadly 'accidents' with a lone survivor and a crazy tale to tell the media.
I've felt this kind of happiness, when I found that $18,000 cash in a bag next to a railway track near Leeton NSW, yeah I SHOULD HAVE handed it in I KNOW. Unfortunately I kept it but the happiness I was talking more and feeling very energetic like you are finding this nugget lol. The beautiful Wife's reaction was PRICELESS 😎
When you find something that doesn't belong to you, it still doesn't belong to you. You're a thief.
Leeton NSW?.. Now I know where my drug money went. I will find you mate
@@GuizyyPlaysMC Quite possibly 😏
when you find random bags of money anywhere, always take it. Never report it, and just use it to buy groceries and stuff once in a while, don't make any big purchases either so you don't get the IRS's attention.
Stuff like that could be getting you free food for years if properly used.
The wife's reaction was shit she didn't even stand up... sat down whole time
Can't wait to see it all cleaned up. 🎉🎉
Been following you for a long time. Could not have happened to a better guy. So happy for you
WoW !!! Happy day's ! Thank you Buddy! This is what Keeps me going !!!! Big shout from the UK and our northern pickers team!
Most welcome anytime @northernpickers the gold game is not always easy but when a big multi ouncer like this pops out...it makes things a little easier👍 Take good care and happy hunting out there mate⛏️⛏️
Dom casually doing an epic magic trick with his head at 38:56
😂 I didn’t notice that!
What magic trick? Tell me right now
30:48 is the start of the video
Andrew making some quick mental calculations on whether your body would fit in that same hole 😅
😂😂😂😂 you psycho
😂 facts
At first I was like "And all i fakking find is more debt" and then I saw your missus, and kids, and it drove shivers of happiness down my spine. Congratulations mate
Congratulations! That's incredible. I've never seen anyone find a nugget like that only the flecks you were finding before. Well done.
Luckily Andrew didn't go "Ballad of Buster Scruggs" on you.
Nice find
Right?? I was a little worried there for a sec. 😂
Wow. At today’s price in US of $2500/ounce, that’s $75,000!!!
Great job. Crazy
And the value in nugget form should be about double that I believe
Nuggets are not 24k gold. It’s going to be a fraction of that.
I've been trying to tell minelab to start making bigger bottles but they just don't get it
Lol you'll get one
Congratulations! I hope this amazing piece of natural art brings great prosperity to you and your family.
Woahhhhhh
What a stunning find
Unbelievably envious of you 😂
Would my nox 800 have found it 😂
Thanks very much for sharing 👍
Absolutely fantastic
Maria 🍀
Hope you gave Andrew a piece of the pie 😂
Or course he didn't
That's about £54,000 right there!
29:10 "Andrew is definitely NOT a cameraman."
In his defence he would have been just as excited as Luke. What a wonderful experience for them to share 😊
@@Shellchevy The camera would be low on my list of priorities as well! 🤣
@@RustyShackleford108 maybe Luke can upgrade his recoding equipment now, he’s always done such a fantastic job with just his phone.
He knows what I really think he needs to spend his findings on ….
And it’s not a Prado 😂
What an incredible find! Congratulations!!!
Watching from Derbyshire, England, wow that's one hell of a piece of gold, congratulations!! Many would of given up on that target at that depth
Please wait for a buyer/collector that keeps it, and not just melts it down, that would be a tragedy
I've never seen such an unclimactic reaction/reveal in my life. Every one of those humans were instantly racking their brains on how to get rid of everyone else and claim it all for themselves.
No we were genuinely wondering how Luke was tying to pull this as a prank! It was 100% shock
Totally dumbfounded probably, eh? I woulda been! Congrats!
3:28 I like the whole process of elimination. But question from this ignorant lay person - can there be more than one piece of gold and you are throwing it out by going "Oh its in there so its not in there" ? Or does the detector indicate there is only one source?
You always stand up and re detect the hole because yes there can be more than 1 piece in the hole.
First video of you adventures I've seen. Thanks, RUclips algorithm. So happy for you and your family, mate!
Congratulations! I had a similar experience. Big signal, deep, deep hole, seemed to be un-disturbed ground. So excited. Rusty old miner’s pick head. I still have it. 😂