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Young Guns Opal Hunters
Australia
Приєднався 18 жов 2019
Three young fellas that left coastal ease for desert hardship in pursuit of the opal dream.
Jaymin, Noah and Jc are 3 ground pirates that started with shovels and jackhammers and have thrown 4 years of blood and sweat at the Earth.
This channel is dedicated to showing the world the lives of opal miners. Adventures, laughs, triumphs, losses and lots of digging on the hunt for the million dollar strike.
It’s a bad day to be a rock!
Jaymin, Noah and Jc are 3 ground pirates that started with shovels and jackhammers and have thrown 4 years of blood and sweat at the Earth.
This channel is dedicated to showing the world the lives of opal miners. Adventures, laughs, triumphs, losses and lots of digging on the hunt for the million dollar strike.
It’s a bad day to be a rock!
Flooded Opal Mine, Hardcore Digging For Gems!
After months of downtime, we have finally made our way back out to white cliffs to begin a season of mining only to discover the mine flooded!
With thousands of litres of water between us and the opal level we grabbed a pump got it going and focus our efforts on another area of the claim.
Utilising a blower I purchased and refurbished Jc set to work where I left off. After some very hard days work he managed to sink the shaft down to a depth of 34ft and found a bit of opal trace in the wall that eventually lead to a small seam of red multicoloured crystal opal.
With the help of locals Max and Wazza we were able to shift our waste dirt from under the blower and get the digger down into the mine!
A special thanks goes out to our sponsor for the video Opal Auctions who made all this possible!
They have an amazing website filled with everything Opal and we couldn’t recommend them enough!
So make sure you head over via the link below and check out the website! It is the place we sell our opal and where all the best opal is sold!
www.opalauctions.com
All the best and thanks for watching!
With thousands of litres of water between us and the opal level we grabbed a pump got it going and focus our efforts on another area of the claim.
Utilising a blower I purchased and refurbished Jc set to work where I left off. After some very hard days work he managed to sink the shaft down to a depth of 34ft and found a bit of opal trace in the wall that eventually lead to a small seam of red multicoloured crystal opal.
With the help of locals Max and Wazza we were able to shift our waste dirt from under the blower and get the digger down into the mine!
A special thanks goes out to our sponsor for the video Opal Auctions who made all this possible!
They have an amazing website filled with everything Opal and we couldn’t recommend them enough!
So make sure you head over via the link below and check out the website! It is the place we sell our opal and where all the best opal is sold!
www.opalauctions.com
All the best and thanks for watching!
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Thanks legends! Reminds me of when as a young man we opened up some virgin ground with the blower and the only couple grand worth of trace we found i accidentally knocked into the running blower, so dispirited we left it in the dump haha. Can't wait to watch the BIG STRIKE!
So you took indigenous native land, make money off it and don't pay the natives nor honor them. White people.
That digger is genius. Looks like a puppetry insect 🦗
perfect vid
🔥🔥🔥🔥
What I'd like to know is how do you not crush these pineapples. How do you know when to stop digging with the big digger?
Wetsuits?
Hahaha not a bad idea!
Sure miss the young guns. Best out there
Ah legend! Hopefully you will enjoy our next adventure!
It is exciting to see a mine being started from the beginning!
It is exciting for us as well! Instead of digging on from Old timers
Love the loader cam!
Great video. Learnt a lot more in less than 15 minutes about opal mining and the hardship but it got me thinking what it must have been for the miners before all this machinery.
No drama when things break, great attitude, thanks legends!
Were used to everything breaking by now 😆
4:52 What is that mini bulldozer thing called? Is it just a bulldozer or does it have a different name?
The powers that be are playing with God all the desserts are flooding something bad gona happen
Hopefully rivers of opal haha
Great video guys! Hey what’s your business name on opalauctions?
Hey thanks for watching just young guns hopefully we will have more opal up there soon
Good luck. Love the show THX.
Thank you!
We could Huff and Puff at the Honey Pot in the mansions we build getting hard hats
Hahaha
Your earphone was turned to dust in the blower mate, stay safe boys and get after that opal 🤘 🇦🇺 🏴
Hahahah probably
Go hard boys, good lick on all your endeavours
Can you use the gravel suction hose to pump the water quickly? Just wondering. Sewer departments use these . Be safe please and stay as a team! You guys rock here in USA. god bless !✊🏼💙🤗🫡🫡🇺🇸
I love how you guys support other miners and I love you sending people to Justin at Black Opal Direct!
Neighbouring septic tank 😂😂
Yea.. so what biological "thing" did those use to be before they were opals and how did you locate them ?
Why not use the blower to dewater? seems like it would make a nice little rain storm. Also, you should put down a muck sheet in front of the vac line, you'll probably gain a good work circle around the end since nothing can build up
We’re not sure that would work because of the certain type of suck the blower has, also we don’t want to get water in the pipes because when we do suck up dirt if it’s wet it could get the dirt muddy snd stuck. But the muck sheet could be a good idea!
🤣😂 There is no such thing as 100 million years ago! 😂🤣
wow best episode ever⚡
Thanks! Hopefully we’re getting better and better!
F’ing love you guys wish the show was just this for all those seasons no drama just camaraderie
Thanks for watching!
❤
Nice video great work ethic
Thanks for watching
What is the situation with the Government stopping the Opal mining
It’s slow, but we heard there’s some movement, hopefully we are all good by the end of the year!
@@younggunsopalhunters great
It appears you need a bigger Jack hammer. But you are using what you have.
We find these jackhammers are a good balance of weight and power compared to other ones we’ve tried. But we’re always looking for better!
@@younggunsopalhunters I understand work smart and hard
Needed to turn the volume up and listen for it
Hahahah didn’t even think of that damn!
I see you found leverite opal better leave it right where you found it
Hahah ain’t that the truth
Good on you fella's all the best for the season hope ya find heaps. , thanks for the video
We hope so too! All good we enjoy making them!
Great stuff fellas hope you find plenty as yous deserve everything you find👍😏💰
Thanks 👍
I am so glad to see you back mining for opal. I wasn't too sure JC would be coming back but I'm so glad he did. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your opal finds in Justin's expert hands. That's a full circle right there. God bless you boys! Hey there! How about keeping 5 submersible pumps on hand at all times? You are always getting flooded out. That would keep you from losing so much mining time.
We would love to find some good stuff to give to Justin! We will definitely try to be more prepared from now on
Please wear safety glasses while installing band-aids overhead. Last thing you want is metal in your eye.
Oooof too right!
This was a great video! I watched it over lunch at work up here in Alaska. It's around 1.1 Celsius in the mornings up here, but it warms up a bit each afternoon. Looks like you're enjoying nice warm weather. I'll keep my eyes out for some of your rough on Opal Auctions. Best of luck!
It starts getting real cold out here now, certainly not that cold though!
Cawwwww 4k don't get that on Quest lol.... how comes you lot ain't still on OOH just J.C with Rodders now on Rdrt ? Got your 5 minutes of mainstream n had enough of the bull💩 yea.....
Hahahah hey we put in 6 season! But yeah decided to focus more on UA-cam
All Ned's stories began from rampent POLICE CORRUPTION Sadly not much has changed
Thats looks very tough on man and machine. Good luck to you boys, you deserve to strike it big!!!
Fingers crossed!
Why does he not flatten the mounds to make it easier when dumping bigger loads. Making a high mountain can’t be the best way
We trust Maxx and Waz to know what they’re doing!
Watch out for "vibrating white finger" condition from using jack hammer to much ,good luck on your quest
Now that we have the digger should be a lot less on the hammer
These boys are go getters… Just curious if you gents go “fossicking” at night? … buy some black lights on portable stands so you can set them up and just rake through your waste rock piles… Who needs a gym when you’re an opal miner?…
Can I come and play in your mine? I have been cutting opal since 1981 and will never stop. You guys are rockin' this place and I love watching you Young Guns! May you find a pineapple the size of a watermelon soon!
If you ever find yourself in White Cliffs let us know. If we’re around we’ll show you around!
@@younggunsopalhunters You got it!!! In the meantime....go find the Mother of Motherlodes! ....just until I can come. LOL
A rock vaccum....how cool is that. Miners back in the day would have loved that!!!
There would probably be no Opal left with how hard they worked with they had!
Cloud seeding getting to even the dryest parts of OZ