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Great day with some awesome channels !

Victor said Mohammed is the Most FAMOUS person on CZcams. Or was that Most INFAMOUS.

Awesome day don’t regret standing in the rain laughing and having a good time

Great video mate. You're basically immune to the cold weather to have camped out the night before haha! Wish I came along to this meetup. I'll have to do so when a future event is held.

hey Slaty's running!

It was a cracking day regardkess of the weather. Met a lot of great people yesterday. Genuine people just hanging out and supporting a good cause. A lot of laughs and a lot of fun. Cheers to all who made it out and cheers to Victor for hosting the day and donating his time and equipment

Best way to know what others really think of you is to find out what they say and do in private. Victor worked really hard in a restricted schedule to put on these events. And well done those who provided facilities and events and especially shelter from the rain. And to all those that donated prizes , kudos. God bless the children.

A good catch up for sure, seems the weather was typical of winter. At leaat there was water in thw creek. Cheers Andrew Catch up when I am back in Victoria 😊

Thanks, Andrew, for coming out & and supporting the day. I think with better weather, we would have had a few more out there. But it was great to see some who have been to all three events. I can't personally thank everyone who donated items enough & come along to support the day. Really, the Meet-up/fundraiser has never been about me or my channel. It's more about showing people if you just try & do the right thing. Sometimes, you find amazing people out there to help with what you're trying to do. The total raised will be reviled shortly, just waiting on the last donation to be transferred. Keep the 26 of July 2025 free, this will be next year's date.

What a top day. Cheers for catching a bit of it on film. What a cracking day on the crevices the day before. Imagine if we had our matt's creviceing tools hooks we would have moved twice as much material 😉 spewing I didn't stay still long enough for creek talk it was a good segment. Cheers mate

Great effort, away with good people, for a good cause. We'll have to check out the links we'd not checked yet, too, what Pete said. Our healthy interests growing in number and stronger has grown from these folks sharing and is in everyone's interests, get into it with caring and sharing. All take home that prize, some also won great gear! And thanks!

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You damn legends thanks Soo much for the shout-out ❤️❤️❤️❤️✌️

100% agree with your views on the litter surrounding the prospecting areas. I’m a “cripple” and not only do I take my own trash home with me, but I also take whatever I can pickup from other people! There’s just simply no decent excuse for leaving rubbish behind. It’ll get the access to the places we all enjoy visiting restricted! Unfortunately the first group of people that will be affected is the prospectors, who are not always responsible for the lack of respect of the grounds in which we like to frequent. I enjoyed the podcast mate.. first time listening to you in the podcast format but I am subscribed and view your videos often. Cheers Andrew 🍻🍻🍻🇦🇺

Sounds like it’s going to be the biggest one yet (weather permitting) 🤞 Hopefully I see many of you there at Creswick 👍 Cheers 🍻🍻🍻🇦🇺

Another awesome episode of "the prospecting podcast" absolutely love the history side of the show. The "shout out" to others in our community. Cripple prospecting is 1 of my new favourites, having a crack after some very difficult challenges in life. Some are physical, some are mental struggles. It seems most of us come to this hobby from some form of difficulty in life. Great to hear "Luke" on the show. He is a top bloke, I have had the pleasure to share a spot with him a few times now. And hope to share more adventures with him and your good self in the future. May we all benefit from the combined wisdom. Fantastic to see your channel growing, the podcast is great. Keep putting out the content mate. Catch up again one day, somewhere, sometime, somehow. Cheers Andy PPA 👍 😊

Good listening, Andrew. Liking a lot the hotspots talk, in this one, what was considered paydirt or not, with the set price of gold, or at times richer ground to work nearby, understanding the history also, like the 1890s land boom and bust here in Victoria. That you've rabbit warren thinking, from the many holes, digging histories, the role of the forestry commission, and later buybacks, in creating the state and national parks systems, that tens of thousands of people had lived in areas hardly anyone lives in today, it's interesting to consider goldfields revegetated, either in pine, or regenerated bushland. Many people used to live in what is now the Dandenong Ranges National Park, Paddy's Ranges, other places you might not consider having lost populations. On the line of surveyors and needs of diggings and the communities that pop up, a great story is of Janet Bowman and the Jordan Valley diggings, she ran a pub on the Cardinia Creek, all the way past Healesville, a road she constructed took 10 years to get the Colony to pay up their promised reward. The surveyor's report led to a mate's ancestor to be a policeman at Benalla to aid the gold commissioner, gold escorts and local policing. The local diggings you uncannily spoke to at Berwick, the Bowmans Road were aka Bowman's Track and also aka "Chinamen's Track", as it were the path the Chinese took, some all the way on foot from Keith, South Australia, avoiding an enormous immigration tax, specifically on the Chinese. I like a good yarn you can tell. Be well!

Thanks for having me on Andrew. Looking forward to catching up with you and a bunch of people out at Creswick.

New subscriber , nice hobby

An excellent example Andrew, of what I term diagonal thinking, ball of fire fusion reactor 8 light minutes away in the sky. I thought it was for the reason of cheering or jeering crowds that it's better at night... detecting, that is, ha. Is the GM waterproof? Creek detecting is the thought, we'd seen the GM used to look for concentrates of heavies, rather than just on the search for nuggets, but enough flakes or specks sets off that detector. We'd have said wind and rain are good cover for the noises detecting and panning involves, maybe not flooding rains and falling branches and trees, they're unexpected finds you don't want to make. Were going to do a long explain on three-colour low-vis, but certain white lights don't work well at night, attract insects... and people! Yellowy incandescent light shows yellow metal better than LED whites. As you're techy, have you looked into this? Our angle was using a UV torch looking for sapphires in gravels, they shine pink, with the heavies centred, and a strong bike torch, waterproof and USB rechargeable, for looking under the water. Good gear display, btw. We'll have to get our nephew a rod bag, we've been on the lookout for a sizeable cricket gear bag for the Water Rat sluice, so any onlookers might wonder, where's the cricket ground I'm taking a shortcut through the bush to?! Onya, G of Narre.

What a good Video, I may have to throw one back at ya! I do not think I will do what I take with Trommelgedden! Thats ridiculous what I have to take to feed the beast! But another good vid mate. Great to see the subscriber's climbing up! It is a hard thing to grow the channel. But you sir are doing it very well! Bump into you again for sure. Cheers Andy PPA

You forgot the kitchen sink.

Not bad. If that’s from where i think it was, the gold there was unexpected, but good

WOW - I am happy with 0.01 per bucket - and ecstatic with 0.02 per bucket. O.6 per bucket with 10 buckets quickly dealt with with a small highbanker - Thats 6 grams - YIKES. I think the math got hijacked somewhere along the line. Looking forward to the tape of the session.

.6 per bucket! That's definitely highbanking territory. Nice work, mate.

Joizus….Not too shabby for a quarter bucket 😮 See ya down at Slaty on the 27th good people 👍 Cheers 🍻🍻🍻🇦🇺

not bad man

Yep, the creeks overflowing about Dandenong, Narre Warren, lots of parts. The panning in the garage is perfect, maybe not the lighting, ours is a dark hole, too! Lesson is to fill the pan bottom, maybe three scoops, otherwise we're remembering the mounded up pans, half magnetite, and we've seen large flakes float off in the rapid flow as it doesn't stratify at all well with that much black sands, but that's the novice or lack of experience, the gap in our teenage years, but going to the same spot on that creek has always produced, hard to get to, never spoken about, except for that one mention I'd read as a kid, one of those spiral-bound local history collection of family stories. A ship's doctor disembarked illegally at Melbourne, 1853... Enough yacking, taking 90yo mate shopping, too wet for her to drive. Her ear gets chewed for info, of course. Her house growing up had bottles of mercury, former gold commissioner's! Onya, stay safe, slippery mud even with 4WD treads, slidey slalom gullies😮

I was thinking 0.13 but nope lol lol Still gold though well done Hope they have a dry day for the event It’s a nice spot that camp Cheers 🍻 CrouchOz

Nice Au indeed fam. Keep at it. Gold Squad Out 🤠

Gday I’m new to the hobbie, I find a lot of one tree hill on google . Where would be the location

great stuff man

Id be rushing back to where you got that nice gold from and a coin for your troubles l. Nice day out. Cheers mate Luke

Beautiful pans Andrew, thats a better spot!!

He lo bạn tốt ❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

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Great stuff I like the saw might see what I have, I put a like and a sub cheers Glenno.👍👍😎😎

It was a good corner, I'll try and weigh my gold up in the next few days

good creek gold man

Great idea with the saw👍

Nice

gold is gold mate least you got some

Great video and gold. The crevicing tool looks like it works great, nice idea. New subscriber here hope you return the same my friend!

Can't be to sad about that.

Good one Andrew, nice little patch. Gotta love it when it all goes well. Good luck with the concentrate's in your bucket. May you get a few nice chunks in it. Regards Andy PPA

Well I wish you did get 0.33 , but that would mean I suck because I tip 0.21 or less , way less

Sounds like your very close to the road.

Clever idea with the saw. I don't know why everyone says your so dumb Agarn.

I'ld like to swap dexterity for toasty. Do you have a Link where I can see your lovely gloves

Good video brother, it is a long way from Arizona to that park for the outing. I may not make it.😂😂New sub to you👍👍Thanks for sharing .😎😎⛏⛏🔥🔥