Opal Found Drilling A Mineshaft In Coober Pedy!
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- čas přidán 6. 07. 2024
- This week we have the pleasure of hosting another video on our channel filmed by Lachlan Blatchford and his brother Shannon Blatchford at their claim in Coober Pedy!
Some words from Lachlan about the video:
The Grace Opal boys push on with our plan to ream a shaft to make it big enough to get our machine down. With the peril of hard grey billy rocks and huge old machinery breakdowns, nothing is guaranteed... Progress sees us optimistic enough to sink a hole in the line we are hoping will be productive, what we bottom on is very encouraging to say the least! No fortunes made this trip but rest assured Grace Opal is committed to documenting the first fully fledged multi million dollar opal find on CZcams..
We hope you all enjoy the video leave us a comment and let us know if you would like to see some more mining in Coober Pedy!
Make sure to head over and grab yourself some top quality Coober Pedy Opal:
Lachlan Blatchford:
worldclassopal.net/
Shannon Blatchford:
kimberleyopal.com/
Opal Auctions:
www.opalauctions.com/stores/g...
Be sure to hit that subscribe button here at Young Guns Opal Hunters and make sure to head over and subscribe to Lachlan channel as well:
/ @opaldigger @world - Zábava
Wow. Now that’s what this channel can be. Great storytelling. It’s fun seeing the opal but the journey could make you good money on CZcams. 👍
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The only thing on my bucket list is to come to Australia, Coober Pedy in particular, and see the birthplace of my favorite gemstone. But I won't be able to come at this, the twilight of my years. But, still, I dream.
Where do you live my friend? I mean in which country.
Take me with you to Cooper Pedy!
Can't get enough of this! Wonderful scenery and great storytelling. Wishing you the best and hoping to see more!
Thanks for watching !
Great video, thanks for sharing this. And tell those gentlemen thanks as well.
Will do an thanks for watching!
@@younggunsopalhunters EVERY TIME!
Magnificent find 🎉❤❤
Superb vlogging - *A day in the life of an Opal Hunter 👌🙌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻*
Hope you are all doing great
Loved the guitars.. cant wait to see what comes out of there
Love the wee gig - bet the neighbours have no problems with the sound travelling XD
FABOLUS VIDEO!!!!
Ive always wanted to spend a month or two in Australia since childhood-
To hear "Dreamtime" stories from Aboriginals, see 'Roos in the wild, and go to Cooper Pedy-‐
The 'rock houses' and OPALS!!!
BUT will probably not make it in this lifetime (nearing 70-Lord, thats hard to believe! 🤭) so i truly THANK YOU for the "vicarious" trip!!
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Lovely stone!!!!❤
Thanks for coming along in spirit!
Love this video, great seeing other ways of mining and Wow the scenery is awesome👏
On your editing program, turn the background music down and the voice over up. Then we may be able to hear you over the music. Still loved it good luck❤ it 😊
Loved the narration JC. awesome as always
Well good luck on you finding the multi million dollar opal find!!
I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Loved it. Balance of sound seems fine. Very enjoyable vid.
This is awesome mates!
Hope you find the mother load!
Hopefully this means more videos more often from you mates!
Cheers on a successful claim 🍻🍻🍻🇺🇸
Yes! Been waiting for a new video. You guys keep rockin on!
Woohoo that was exciting!!
I like the voice/music ratio. Eventuates the beauty of the area
Good show...
Enjoyed it...
Well done...
I'd be visiting Arkaringa as well if I lived in Coober Pedy. Nice vid.
I wish you guys posted every day🙏🏽
If only hahah
more videos like this please, even the trips to town would be cool to see
Glad you enjoyed it
1:48 the pattern on the wall looks like a colonial sailor screaming out at someone left of frame. Sounds loopy but seriously can't unsee it haha
I love the scenery and landscape there
It is unique
So freaking cool, great vid dudes 🎉
Opal in the bucket helps pay for Nicks services, he can finally afford a tube of sunscreen and some earmuffs 🤣Great video, cheers guys 🍻
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Very interesting to see the opals emerge from the earth.
On your next video if you could turn up the recording volume, I can always turn it down here, still exciting stuff, cheers.
woho! Looking forward to this :)
Just discovered this channel, missing you guys from the programme! I'd love to have a go at opal hunting!
I see opal with colour...I hit like. Simple as! The effort you boys put in doesn't go unnoticed, cheers!
Nice strike. Going to be a good hole.
Livin the dream diggin the seam
It is going to be a hairy one, with some pink maybe.
@@JacquesTreehornBelter 😂😂😂
Loving these videos lads, I'll follow your exploits for as long as you keep doing it!
*Well,this needs to be viewed and enjoyed 🔥🔥🔥👌👌*
Really neat to see a mine shaft being drilled in....
Good onya guys keep up the great work.
sweet!
For real guys not the mainstream media BS 👍
Only a few mins in, definitely need to sort the music/Voice balance, can't understand anything through the music :(
Sounds like they were talking through a respirator, it would be stupid of them to go down with all the dust in a confined space
Captions come in handy :)
It’s literally fine…
Was that JC's voice? Didn't recognize it without the usually loud and excited vibes. Kinda refreshing
Very nice find whilst drilling 😂😂😂😂
Great northern zero a great alternative
I think exposure and time help you to develop inbuilt hearing protection
Crank up the music. Especially your own songs. Cheers boys.
I made an extendable drill, fool proof, can't get stuck.
How about a short detailed series on how to start opal mining for total noobs, from finding a spot, staking a claim .....
I bloody love watching videos like this mate, Makes me wish I lived in Aus and not “Ye Old Boring England” where the prospects and free stuff you get given are plentiful if………………….you’re NOT a native!! asylum!
Young Guns keep the vids coming please 😍
Hope u gave driller that little bit that came out of the bucket
Do people go through the piles of dirt left up the top of the holes very often? almost looks like it's worth sifting through with a black light at some point.
Can hear sound voice music perfect
Mates, will you drop a video soon?
Even if you guys are just planning out your season, night prospecting by black light, cutting or polishing Opal, a trip over to Eric's ?(the stone cutter, rubber / whisperer) or just doing your thing.
Have you mates every find one of them old gold coins out prospecting?
Hope all is well with you mates!
Cheers 🍻 ⛏⛏⛏🇺🇲
The Uranium Scorpion
Hahaha love the wild life
That Toyota looked like a technical from the back... *Maybe an actual technical could help defend the hole*
How much does sinking such shaft cost? Not asking for a specific number, but is it in hundreds or thousands?
You don't check the dirt while drilling to see if you have any opal in it??
Yeah, that’s what we were doing when Shannon was yelling about the opal! Haha, but we do have a pretty good idea at what stage / level the opal is likely to be so we go very hard around those buckets and check the rest with a blacklight at night later.
You guys back at the 9to5 life or just in a dry spell?
Where are you selling the opal you are finding?????
Hey fellas, how could someone go about getting started in the opal mining business? I'm a 20 year old American guy with 0 connections to any miners, let alone opal miners, and I have no experience actually mining (aside from Minecraft and Terraria). I've just absolutely fallen in love with opal and the process of opal mining so I'm genuinely curious about how and where I could get started in this industry. I'm itching to cover myself in dirt to find some gorgeous color.
that dust can't be good
Difficult to to hear thought the music. Still watching though!!!!
I can see a dog on the rock face.
“Booby traps”???
What if someone is just lost or merely a kid riding his bike through the area?
They’re not very dangerous ones, just enough to frustrate people who come into his claim. I’d hope unsupervised kids on bikes stayed off the fields as there are many thousands of deadly shafts. Although I was riding a bike out to the field at 13 years of to noodle (fossick) but I have a special condition, 😅..
August 2021….wow you guys are waaaayyy behind
I didn't see Jaman or Noah or JC, so, Young Guns who?
Just posting some more content from our friends up on the channel but if you guys would prefer we could post nothing at all 😂
@@younggunsopalhunterskeep posting i love your stuff!
lessen the music and raise your voice alittle
Music is not needed at all. Can't hear a word.
That's not surprising, is it? I mean, that's what you were trying to do, right?
I sure hope your next video isn't something like: I used a toilet and a turd appeared.
It’s actually very surprising! All the drillers I’ve spoken to over 30 years have around the same estimate. Only about one of a hundred shafts drilled contains opal with colour that is worth something. It’s the reason quality natural opal is so expensive, there’s literally miles of dead ground between relatively tiny productive areas. Thanks for watching!
The music is a little much, hard to hear what you're saying. I want to listen to you!
That's way too much dust. Mask or not you won't live to spend what you find.
Voice up mate you can barely be heard
Please lose the music.
Congratulations, you’ve discovered the easiest method of making me angry: speak softly and play loud music. The music should be in the background not the foreground.
Sorry boss, we are taking notes and definitely adjusting going forwards. Bloody iPhone with an app makes the whole thing on our end and what sounds good on this end doesn’t always come out quite the same! Once we strike the big one we will invest in some good equipment like the Young Guns have! 😊
Nice mask😂