OK, digging deeper (pun intended), here’s what constitutes the final coffin nail for me; diamonds!
In the same location, and without the metal detector, they just dig a hole and find a big old diamond at the bottom of it!
In this particular video, there is a very conspicuous cut between the part where they are digging the hole, and where the diamond is visible inside of it - you can pretty clearly see where they just pushed it into a hole where a piece of ordinary stone came out:
Also note that their 90 gram gold nugget looks to me to be about 5cm x 5cm x 2 cm or about 50 cubic centimeters. In reality 90g of gold would be about 5 cubic centimeters.
That’s the traditional method. And the rebs don’t need no stinking badges.
So yea, I’ve been doing a bit of research so to find out about whom the golden beard is. Gold has always interested me & these vids by Golden Beard Media has flipped me out! I mean like was this as if back in the mid 1800’s in California? Or anytime back when & coming across placer nuggets never ever before been seen for their capitalistic value?
So yea, my first viewing of these vids was jaw dropping & I got to thinking -
Rob did say
because I was listening REAL HARD. Real hard like re-playing that 10 seconds over & over so to be sure. Such was done @ several places & within most of the vids he’s posted on the tube. Now within this community -I now see / read- areas of question.
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So let’s see what’s common & make sense of it.
You guys got me thinking & helped to pull my head back out of the stratosphere back into reality. I’ve dreamt of it being true, yet:
1. Ancient volcanoes are no longer active nor easily recognizable as volcanoes to the non-informed / non-geologically educated. An ancient volcanoe is basically eroded away via the elements within time, time being in the hundreds of thousands & tens of millions of years ago. Even longer. For example, the deep underground magma chambers of some
then are today the Sierra Mountains in California. Batholiths.
2. The size of the nuggets are WAY off for the size of the immediately surrounding rock, sand, dirt (dirt?). I mean Golden Beard Media’s intro vid. has Rob with 2 gals pulling multi-gram nuggets from surface pebbles -surface pebbles smaller than the gold nuggets & just under the water @ locations gold would naturally not settle. Definate red flags.
3. The color of the gold looks to be off -brighter / more shiney as if combined with an alloy for jewelry {ok -could be my 60-inch HD 4k TV}. Yea, Australia has a very pure gold & I believe this
is just north of OZ. Still, I have a red flag with this.
4. Why would “rebels” allow unknowns into their turf? To get & supply the gold for them? Does Rob personally know / is related to these
? And what labels these
as rebels? A dictitorial or socialist government that’s wanting them to bow down so to increase themselves & to not be threated the loss of their controling lifestyle over the working class? Perhaps. Yet . . .
5. Then the shape of most of the nuggets / eggs. I mean so well rounded & smoothed as if washed & beaten & formed over MUCH time. Perhaps they are gold, yet I can see a molten cast here. Ooooo how slick would that be!
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So yea, what a technique for to get the hits & such for that YouTube let-us-do-advertising-on-your-channel monthly check. I mean 2.3 M in 2 months & 2 M in 4 weeks! And altogether @ it for abut 1 year. Some kind-of cash flow via YouTube -do you realize the numbers here$$$ He can
his own gold -hear that Rob?
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OK, so what if this is a real deal?
Then these river nuggets are extremely recent -like within our lifetime. They’ve not truly
. And the eggs dug out of pyroclastic shelf {?} that had exploded up through the hydrothermal vents, melting the now freed gold into balls / eggs, rolling within the pyroclast after landing on land? Or dug out of pyroclastic shelf {?} that had exploded up through the epithermal deposits, melting the now freed gold into balls / eggs, rolling within the pyroclast downhill & though the valleys?
The gold {eggs & river nuggets} came out with the lava? -I think not. Yet this volcanism-gold science is only truly taken off hard core within this new millennium.
6. Then there is the bedrock video.
Either this guy is really good @ deception or
Here’s another couple of things:
They always do the final unearthing of the nugget with bare fingers only - even though this is clearly uncomfortable and ineffective - why? I reckon: because a metal tool might scratch gold leaf or paint off a gilded pebble.
In the video where they are ‘panning’ river gravel with a sieve, the nuggets seem to shake up to the surface of the material being shaken and sifted - they should really tend to settle.
If this island was real then it was almost certainly under the control of one or more European powers as a colony. And we are expected to believe that the super easy to find gold was never found by European’s in all that time? Utter and complete nonsense.
All of the worlds easily found gold was dug up a long time ago. This is an obvious fraud for YouTube views.
A few comments online suggest that it is Bougainville Island, one of the Solomon Islands archipelago (but politically part of Papua New Guinea). The landscape and general description seem to match.
**Colophon **-thanks for the lead. Gonna look into it.
You hoping to go there and dig up some gold potatoes of your own, because I think it’s pretty unlikely
of course it’s fake,lol
there are a ton of these fakers on youtube.
some with nuggets bigger then a football !
not had to see it’s not real, the replies are great! seems a ton of believers out there 
there may be a place that has not been mined yet on earth, but not any of these guys on youtube, only $$$ they get is viewer hits & subs
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OK, digging deeper (pun intended), here’s what constitutes the final coffin nail for me; diamonds!
In the same location, and without the metal detector, they just dig a hole and find a big old diamond at the bottom of it!
In this particular video, there is a very conspicuous cut between the part where they are digging the hole, and where the diamond is visible inside of it - you can pretty clearly see where they just pushed it into a hole where a piece of ordinary stone came out:
That video at 5:55 indicates their ‘samples’ were tested and “can’t be broken by any hammer” verifies that they do not know enough about diamonds to be legitimate. Diamonds are relatively easily shattered by hammers. I assume they put that there on the mistaken belief that diamonds are ‘hard’ and therefore ‘tough.’
I panned for gold at Knott’s Berry Farm & Ghost Town when I was young and subsidized. Much easier than this stuff, if allegedly less remunerative. I’ve never dug for diamonds although there’s an Arkansas state park just for that.
I live above the California 49er Gold Rush country. The Mother Lode’s biggest nuggets were found around my county seat. But most gold came from hard-worked hard-rock mines. Visitors may inspect the works. But those now seeking gold can be found in nearby river gorges with compressors and dredges. Hard, loud work, but at least no firefights with rebels, only with litterbugs.
uTube treasure-seeker channels seem to be mining suckers. That’s traditional.
when did they make Dredges LEGAL again in CALIF.???
From a quick google, it looks like dredging for gold isn’t legal in CA. There were lawsuits challenging the latest (2009) law, claiming that Federal law preempts CA law, but the laws were upheld in the CA supreme court in 2016 and the US supreme court rejected a request to overturn them in 2018. If you’re hearing dredges operating, there’s probably some agencies in the state that would be very interested to know about it.
I surmised “dredges” but I really don’t know dredges from sedges. I just observed apparent hobbyists with power equipment in a nearby gorge last year.
Has voted this year for independence rather than semi-autonomous. In practical terms, PNG has had very little political influence since the rebellion 30 years ago.
On the description, I don’t have any problems with Bougainville. Ancient volcano: check. Detectable nuggets: check. Rebels: check. Access by women in tights: check. Undocumented: check. Antagonistic government: check. Vegatation and wildly varying water levels: check.
Is it fake? Of course. All the world is strange but me and TSDMB. And even TSDMB is a little strange.
I definitely believe that lady in yoga pants and crocs just happened to spend an hour digging in just the right spot to find a hunk of gold the size of a potato. That would be worth like $20,000. What a coincidence that’s where she dug.
Not enough tights.
If the channel were legit, do you really think they’d be posting hundreds of digs where they didn’t find anything?