Baby Kangaroo Rescued An Thousands Made From Opal Fossicking!
It’s not every day rain falls in our small corner of the world, but when it does it’s time to fossicking.
With news that rain was on the horizon myself and my sister Elaura head to the opal fields to meet up with Noah to fossick for Opals.
On our way we made the sad discovery of a mother kangaroo hit by a car and the Joey left abandons in the pouch.
We stopped and I managed to remove the baby, we turned the car around and drove the 100kms to the nearest town with a wildlife carer Wilcannia.
After dropping him off we made our way back to unfortunately to late to begin fossicking.
Noah however had a busy day and found some fantastic gemstone!
The next day we set out as a team an managed to find a few nice bits and pieces as well as an old bottle with a marble inside.
I spent the afternoon cutting and rubbing the opals and some turned up quite nice, some didn’t make at all and some I still need to consider how to proceed before I finish them all up.
All in all a nice bit of weather and a good pocket full of opals.
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It’s a bad day to be a rock!
Glad you guys got the Gemfish flashlight.. I'm sure you will find many inclusions with it. And thank you for featuring it. 🙏
It was awesome to use and definitely makes a difference when it comes to working on an opal in the cutting room!
We need a Collab of some sort boys!!!
Looked so cool in the pineapple ! Cool toy
@@cflwhat would be a dream to do a collab with Justin!
Great you’re looking out for the up and comings Justin: The boys are doing a great job here. Love both Chanels.
Thank you All for caring for Jemmy the Roo♡♡♡♡
Oh my beating heart 😍❤️ oh and elaura is good on the eyes as well 😁
yes she is.
The bottle is a Japanese drink called Ramune. The cork is the marble you found inside. Typically once it's depressed into the bottle theres no way to close it. Looks like someone corked it
it is a Codds bottle, invented about 1880, used commonly until about 1920, revived for special drinks since. the gas pressure of the drink held the marble in place until the marble is pushed in letting gas . as children (1960s) we broke them to get the marble. an unbroken codds bottle might be valuable
That pineapple has got to be the coolest thing I ever saw. Such a cool formation. Is that the opal taking the place of calcite as a quasicrystal? I'm jealous as a one legged man watching a foot race.
I love listening to Australians, it always sounds like you are asking questions while making statements.
not all aussies talk like her.
Great video guys and bless you for saving that little joey .. x
Cool, always glad to see underdogs with heart make something from sweat and mother nature. 😅😅
Thanks for watching! It’s always fun out on the opal fields!
Thanks for the video🎉… Good to see y’all safe and happy… back to hunting
Mad heart guys saved kangaroo means you deserve to find treasure ❤❤❤
Nice Rescue on the Baby Roo, I love that you have it in a Travla Esky, where there logo has a Kangaroo and it's all Aussies owned and made beer. Great work guys.
You guys are so good spirited! Happy beautiful people..
I wish I was Australian. I daydream of rockhounding opal 24/7. I really enjoy your videos and would do almost anything to be doing what you're doing. Also Jason at Black Opal Direct, huge fan. I've watched and thoroughly enjoyed every one of your videos.
I utterly adore y'all! Happy to see the little Joey made it to a safe place, and that y'all got a good grip of opals! Till next time! Hello from OK, USA!
Happy we could help him :)
keep posting. love u guys
I had a great week fossicking in whitecliff’s one of the nicest places full of awesome people. Can’t recommend going here and spending some time enough.
Saving the baby was better than any Opal find in the outback!! , He's so precious, life is precious. Thank God he wasn't injured too, just his little ears scuffed up. Shouting out a Super Thanks ❤, and much love to all of you guys for what you do, and saving the little fellow was just the icing on the cake as we say here in the southern US. ❤.
Nice to see Justin's helping, both with inspiration, advices and even tools now haha! Always will watch you guys, thanks for sharing the epic content, wishing you the best of luck in your future adventures!
Thanks for watching!
Y'all are awesome. So fun watching every time
Thank you for continuing to follow our adventures!
I enjoy watching every episode you guys make. It’s really fascinating learning about the opal Outback and the different day to day you guys live. Great plug-in with Justin. It’s great to see how everyone in the KZhead space are connected together.
I would take the dremel to that sand, best bet in my opinion to get through the sand more precisely. Great haul, i look at that crazed one and the crazing if stable would have a ton of character in a pendant. Spiderwebbing 🤔🤔 Awesome video!!👍👍😁
You guys are just the best.
Good work guys and girl. Be good to catch up to use at the Ridge again you went down of one of mine with Ben i was there.
Amazing what you can find just walking around and kicking the dirt. I would love the chance to go and look for pieces like that.
After a rain walking the opal field is a must!
A very good educational lesson into the qualities of opal. Thanks. 👏😁🇦🇺
Thank you for watching and glad you enjoyed it!
Not bad wages for being outdoors hiking around. Nice finds!! Take care guys an see on the next one. I love fossicking, never know what you may find.
It’s rare we get the rain but when it does it’s always worthwhile fossicking the field! They say you can make an average person wage in a day! On this video we did a bit better then that!
I dream of someday fossicking!
3:50 wow the rain at the perfect time to wet some opal
The rain makes all the difference that’s for sure!
Codd bottle! Awesome! The marble was to hold fizzy liquids in, the pressure would hold the marble in place.
Hey thanks for that had no idea why it was in there! We find old bottles all the time out here!
@@younggunsopalhunters Bottles can have some value, not like gems, but they can be a really cool hobby. Lots of people in America go digging in old dumps and outhouses for them.
Well done 👍 guys. Love the pineapple 🍍 opal.. Well it’s definitely cooler weather now.. to work in.. Cheers from fellow KZheadr Famo59 👍🍻⛏️
Thanks for watching mate!
Crazy beautiful, good luck on your next hunt. 😊
Thank you next one should be a good underground adventure!
Great that you're grinding/polishing the stones to get max value.😎👍
Gotta make what you can on what you find :)
She’s quite a bit prettier than the opal 🤩
Kevin has his back ...love your work❤
13:39 if its still around as a specimen ill buy it lol
If your interested it’s listed up on our Etsy! www.etsy.com/listing/1502294911/opal-specimen-rough-opal-specimen
21:13 to
If you still have them let me know ! Any cool colorfull specimen
@@younggunsopalhunters sounds good, hopefully its there in a week when my cheque clears
Who’s the new gal , I know it’s your sister 😁 nice rescue mate 👍
Wow your eyes are as beautiful as opals
good on you guys for checking the pouch
That's not something people outside of Australia would think of.
Had to ❤
The bottle is a bottle for feeding animals! There was one at my grandmother's house because my grandfather worked in a laboratory...
This week on outback animal rescue 😅 Great finds all and it was nice seeing you taking us through more of the processes you do.
Ahahah just another day in the outback
Beautiful stones guys!! What can anyone just walk out and find those?? I can't having a bad back all of the uneven ground would kill me. Great job saving the baby joey!! Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Thank you for watching! We have tourist come out here all the time and find spectacular opal picked up off the ground!
Love those pineapples, so beautiful
I’m glad you saved that little guy thank you so much for that
“thank you”..? They weren’t doing it for you mate,they were doing it because it’s what any normal decent person would do 🤷♂️ I think the correct term is “well done” ...
Glad we could help him out :)
Definitely worth a walk around on a rainy day. On the stone I'd slice for 2 stones and then the sandy bit take down clean for doublet material if you do them or sell as.
Great day to day video. Would like to see some more! Where is your other mate at? I see the three of you working together quite often. Did you break his other leg? Lol Now he can't work? Glad little Joey is healthy and has a new friend.
You guys have always been my favorite crew! You always seen to find good opal! Keep digging and finding that color! 🎉❤🎉🎉❤
Love your channel guys. Keep up the good work
Thanks it’s an awesome job!
Great work guys It might sound odd but I realy liked the look of the specy with all the hair line cracks in it gives it a unique look Great to see the joey doing good
Love that poncho
The new close up high res clips of the individual finds along the video is a great addition as well. 🏆💯
Definitely make a White Cliffs video! 🏆🏆💯
Hey thanks! We are shooting everything now on a Sony A7r4 but had to go back to the GoPro for this video because of the rain and just do the close ups with the good camera! Glad someone noticed 😂 🙌🏻
@@younggunsopalhunters all of it looks clean and professional. Your doing great, looking forward to the next ones. ✌️
Good onya's, thanks for that 🤙
Good job , sooo cute!!! The roo aswell ;)
Yes , Fosters is the potch of Australian beers , practically worthless 😂 Cool channel and a good crew , cheers 🦘👍🍻🍻
Onya lads!!
Nice finds. hope your season has started well.
Doing well so far maybe this will be the million dollar year hahaha
I would literally move to australia if there are ladies half this cute and badass.... goodness someone hook me up!!! id be an opal miner in a heartbeat! lol
Hahaha thanks!
We're all super excited when we find out yall got a new video!!!
Well thanks for sticking around and watching! ……….. there might just be another video coming some time towards the end of next week too 🤠⛏️
Good on you both. Much love Mates.
You two look so much alike! The eyebrows really show you are family! Good on you for saving the joey. Question: can anyone fossick and do you have to buy permits/license or purchase a piece of land to do it? My bucket list (not much time to fulfill it) includes going to Australia and looking for opals which are my birthstone! Cheers!
Hahaha we definitely do! People just come out to white cliffs and fossick all over the place we are a pretty friendly town!
Love you added the cutting process. Why isn’t more Dremel work used?
Glad you enjoyed it was made easy with the gemfish!
Feral Cheryl trashed what was the original salvation army person's dugout @ Yakannia rush years ago. Myself and others used to stay there amongst the cave crickets and a resident bat. It's a shame that she trashed it.
Hey thanks for this info I’ve not heard much about it really just that it was there and she was in it. Thanks
What was the Feral Cheryl story?
Great vid! Love the longer ones
Looks like you found a Victorian bottle with a glass marble in. Often contained cola :) collectable 😊 find them here in UK from time to time
That bottle is a Japanese orange flavored soda called ramune. It's an interesting bottle with a glass ball in the neck. But not very rare, or old. And all Foster's sold in America is made in Canada, and yet the commercials and ads always say "Australian for beer" it's funny. I never knew it was an actual Australian beer until this video. Learn something every time. Lol
Hahaha that’s so random!
That Codd bottle dates from the 1880's to 1920's so that's old in my book and there are neck variations like single pour side or double pour side marble retention not to mention embossed makers name types. They where made even rarer because kids used to smash the tops off them to get to the marble inside or they were burnt in rubbish pits and the glass discoloured from the heat. They are collected by antique bottle collectors and some makers can fetch big bucks. I sold a "time warp" and probably the only one in existence Schweppes Codd bottle still with its original paper label in very good condition to a collector in Hong Kong. There used to be good money in collector beer cans, old glass bottles & demijohns but I don't know what the market is like nowdays but it's still a nice collectable bottle from a few lifetimes ago.
@@dustyfarmer cool to know. I wasn't aware that bottle style had been in production for such a long time. I just assumed, like a dummy, because I never started seeing these bottles myself until about ten years ago. That's what I get for assuming things
A cool vid from Justin AND the Young Guns in the same night? Perfection!
Great episode. So pleased that you rounded off with the joey. He looked so forlorn in the car and yet looked so happy with his mate, Kevin. Loving those specimens. Cheers you three. Glad to hear that Foster's isn't what any self respecting Aussie would drink because VB is better and it tastes like piss. 😬
Awe very cute nice job i dent a shelagh I know called lady luck your way hope you hit paydirt obviously worked watch for snakes and scorpions 👍🦊🐾🇬🇧🍀
Young Guns are the real deal. My favorite channel
Thank you for watching its awesome to be Abel to do this job and share the adventures!
I would love if you guys could share a little info on what it cost to purchase a mine or any of the equipment. or the time you guys take to get setup and operating etc. I find this channel terribly fascinating and it feels like there's so many questions. I probably have a lot of videos to catch up on first though. Keep up the great work fellas
justin might be a goofball but he is an amazing cutter
Reclaim that feeling....falls down a hole again
Hahahahah
Ought to call the little fella Lucky :)
Very true!
Awe you guys are cool!!! Thanks for taking care of the baby Roo!!! Good luck to you all
Just glad we were there to lend a hand :)
Cool
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I'm curious. Can you use a sand blaster but use a particular abrasive not to damage the stone? I would love to just walking around picking up gems of the ground. Can anyone camp out there and just pick up gems off piles? Great video Young Guns.
I was thinking the same thing... like a dremel sized high pressure water stream or something...
Great video enjoy watching you guys search for treasures, keep up the grind and shine guy's.😊
You broke the golden rule and took a step backwards in an opal feild 😂
That old bottle is worth good money do not take the cork out!!
Yes i will run into microcrysraline particals that will pop off and drag across the surface. Some times increasing water flow will fix or orie😅nting the stone parallel to the direction you were polishing. But alas there are are times when you have to say, "stop, that's enough." before you grind away the whole stone. I find out mostly in black volcanic glass abd it akw as ys shows up in tbe final polish. I just keep pressing on. Thanks for sharing! 😷⚒
Nice find
Drank Fosters in Oz Great. Brewed in the UK. P155.
Would it not be a good idea to go out fossicking after dark with a UV torch and a rake ? I imagine theres going to be a lot of stuff in those old discard piles given how much these guys have pulled out of backfill holes.
Why don’t you map out with spray paint safe zones and go back with black lights at night? That’s what I would do. You’d have to definitely mark off safe places being the holes and danger of shafts but you and I know those black lights are definitely the easiest way to find opal.❤
Not a bad idea at all we will have to do a proper blacklight fossicking video in the future!
I wonder if it might be effective to have a black light/regular light high frequency strobe. So its still lit by the regular light, but also the opal being lit up by the blacklight. If it strobes high enough it can just seem like regular light but strobing between with the black light could illuminate the opal and make it visible.
Brilliant suggestion. Seems crazy to dig tunnels when there’s piles of material that needs sorting.
That bottle would have been from the turn of the 19th century😊
That one piece I would have used a Dremel to get the rest of that dirt and make it a free form stone for the pendant.
Will be up on our Etsy soon hahah
I like learning all these Australian English terms like "Esky" for Cooler.
Nice fossicking scores! Please do more of this style hounding. Thanks and good luck from SE Pennsylvania. Plenty of mining was done in this area. A lot of quarries and coal mining also. Decent quartz specimens. I hear there is garnet but haven't found the spot yet.
Honestly that nice biggish piece with dirt on that one quarter make a nice as is pendant necklace
why don't you use a Dremel with a diamond tip to take away this dirt? at 20mins
Laura my new KZhead crush 😍
poor little sad guy :(
Hope you didn't throw that bottle away looks like a codd neck bottle can be worth some dollars prity shore Alan and I were under that tree noodleing and got some nice pieces as well ..well done keep up the good work
You guys found an old Cod Bottle.
We had no idea what it was hahah
Wouldn't media/nitrogen blasting be better and more accurate than the cutting wheel ?
That bottle is worth a good quid too. Old soda bottle
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Yewww
Love it boys 🌈
Subscribed. How can I buy some rough from you? I'm in Texas
It's mad how the old timers didn't see value in them and tossed it if they was still about today they'd be kicking off
I would like to have a talk with you about the large cracked stone.
Feel free to message us on Instagram or our Facebook page. Or on Etsy where the stone is listed etsy.me/3mSG7uI
Enjoyed this guys,great natural commentary whilst you were cutting mate as well,I find it very hard to watch the “reality” bollocks format.. but this is genuine! Keep up the good work 👍