Opal mining Donna’s Rush slip continued… BIG GEMS!
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- After finding about ten grand running along a slip on Donna’s Rush, the Graceopal boys return a few weeks later to see if it continues through the pillar, and sure enough! Another ten grand!! A few minutes in the colour starts appearing and about half way through absolutely beautiful whopper seams of crystal.. Not to be missed! Like and subscribe to see more!
Music credit: Vadim Krakhmal - Komedie
Amazing find. Spectacular job. With the music and digging it was like watching a Indiana Jones movie. Awesome!
Haha! Thanks! It is a bit of an ‘Indie’ vibe.. lol.
Nice seeing you find a seam pocket like that, must be a good feeling.
That is crazy opal!!!
I recently purchased a parcel from World Class Opal, and awaiting delivery. In the meantime, it's super rad to be able to watch videos of the guy I bought opal from, digging opal from the mine. Cool stuff. I like this kind of video, more than watching the overproduced hooplah that is outback opal hunters.
And the music is perfect. This is more exciting than any adventure movie, like this music is usually recognized for. Lol
I can now see why the mine is so huge, can't help but smile when it's big and cheesy.
Haha, yeah, stolen from outback opal hunters Rod Manning.. 😄
Yes! the big hole made by John Dunstan and Paul Reynolds along with a few others produced almost half a million all told.Or so the story goes! ;-)
Excellent!! Nice work too🤗 I just love the Opal show of yours👍👍👍
And Thank You for sharing the good stuff🙏
Thank you for watching!
Go for it guy's, good luck, some awesome stones
Hey cheers bro! Hope you are well mate, would love to catch up in Coobs like old times one day!
Great video, wow great colour and it was a good thickness to. Good job.👍😁
Cheers mate!
Loving your mining videos too mate, love it!
I love opals! What stellar stones ypuve found! Wonderful!
Thank you for watching!!
That ride on BOBCAT was sweet, I so want one.
It is pretty awesome!
I'm still waiting for someone to find a gold nugget in austrailia in a lamproite host rock with opal filling in the cracks
Awesome!
Fill your boots!!! 🤠
Haha! Yes Boss! We will have a fair dinkum crack at it! 😅
What a great score... beautiful chunky opal....damn I got excited for you
It was a bloody beautiful couple of days in paradise! 😁
@@Opaldigger ..hell yeah
Do you guys sell any rough?...I'm looking for some to put on the wheel
@@None888. Yes Sir, you can see what we have up for sale here opalauctions.com/stores/graceopal
@@Opaldigger thanks I'll check it out
Would like to connect with you for Rough and Polished Opals purchasing.
I love watching opal mining, but I find the music really distracting, I'd rather hear the chat of the miners, and the "blurred frame' format cuts out some of the main focus of the shot.
Thanks for the feedback mate, I actually agree and aren’t really happy with the music, I might re-submit one with none at all, it gives a real idea of the vibe on the fields..
LOL funny. If Opal Miners made a video, it would look like this.
@@patrickkillilea5225 Haha, yeah mate, we are pretty much amateurs at everything, but we give it a red hot crack!
@@Opaldigger Yes sir!
Love the Goonies adventure music
Haha! Thanks! Do you think it adds or detracts from the overall video experience?
It makes for a cozy little adventure. Perfect
@@iamnoone4495 Yeah, it’s almost never a hole this big, and open and easy to move dirt, and almost NEVER so easy to dig or such gorgeous weather with spectacularly easy ingress and egress.. It was a real dream, only thing that would have made it better is maybe about a hundred times more opal!! Lol.
I’d be happy just digging. No proper opal within a couple thousand miles of me. I pan gold but rivers have been high here. Can’t dig above standard river bank so fishing and grinding Aussie opal it is
@@iamnoone4495 oh yeah, we are definitely happy digging, only we have to find and sell stuff so we can keep doing it! It’s a long way from anywhere and it gets depressing pretty quick if you can’t shift enough dirt to actually find something!
I've noticed that with a lot of seem opal that gets mined in videos, that most of the material has already been fractured, and split into pieces before it's even pulled out. What causes this? Settling? Earthquake?
I reckon it’s basically, that as the opal forms, it’s like a jelly slab, the ground is still moving slightly from tertiary faulting but mostly is now in the secondary weathering drying stages.
So most of the changes are occurring immediately ‘around’ the opal and not so much ‘to it’ as the opal has cures it contracts and breaks up much like a mud slick, then the secondary in fillings of material around the opal of various types of clays and mud staining continue to permeate the weathered shale. During this secondary stage is where I believe the termite populations of ancient rainforests burrowed up to 70-80 feet deep into the bulldog shale that was eventually filled with topsoils. These can be seen all throughout the Coober Pedy opal fields Today. So yeah, basically Coober Pedy seam and verticals are ‘pre-shrunk’ by the earth prior to final ‘curing’.
That’s my theory!
@@Opaldigger awesome of you to take the time to describe all that in such detail. Mahalos!
nice color, but are there lots of cracks throughout the opal?
No Sir, the opal itself is good quality, it does have some selenite inclusions here and there. you may be referring to how it breaks apart coming out of the ground, it’s like a pizza I guess, it forms in a seam, but during and after the curing process (natural hardening over millennia) the movement and contraction around the seam causes it to break apart naturally and the weathering process of the shale continues. This is why it appears cracked, but it’s just the natural formation of the opal..
Good on you men nice find what field is that from
Donna’s Rush 50ks north of Coober Pedy mate, thanks for watching!
The material in this video, how much would you estimate the value at? I've bought a bit of opal before, but that was too nice for me to even do a good guess.
The best of the best in this video went for about four thousand per ounce, but that was only a tiny percentage of the material, the average price of the whole lot was probably about $250 per ounce or about $8 per gram.
It’s hard to say as we split everything up and sell it as small parcels. We did keep a few stones to make doublets with and they’ll be in our stores soon in jewellery.
We still have a bit of this material left at opalauctions.com/stores/graceopal If you’d like to check it out! 🙂
Nice video. I just found it hard to watch on my phone please can you guys film in horizontal. Thanks 😊
Thanks for watching! Yes I’m trying to tip the phone as often as I remember, old habits.. 🙃
Please! Lose the music.
Our last one has none! I tend to agree.. Thanks for your feedback. :-)