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0:00Dude, no way. Look at that. Is that a
0:02diamond? Oh my god. Last year, my
0:04grandma got scammed by a jeweler when
0:06she went to buy a gold necklace. So
0:08today, I decide to take matters into my
0:10own hands and fly to the jewelry capital
0:12of the world, aka New York's diamond
0:14district. But we're not here to buy
0:16their overpriced jewelry. We're here to
0:18mine their gold. One month ago, we came
0:20here and found $260 worth of golden gems
0:23after mining for just 6 hours. But this
0:25time, we're going to search the entire
0:27day with one goal. To make $1,000 to buy
0:30my grandma a real gold necklace. All
0:32right, it's currently 9:00 a.m. We're
0:34supposed to be here at 7:00, but we
0:35slept in. So, let's clock in. So, first,
0:38I used this tool to loosen the dirt
0:40while Clem sucked it up and dumped it
0:42into the bucket. People actually buy
0:43this stuff. I'm serious. There are
0:45people that sell New York City tater.
0:47We're going to be panning out some New
0:48York sidewalk scotch. Hopefully, we find
0:50some golden gems. We're here getting it
0:52for free, bro. Why don't we just sell
0:53the dirt? I actually never thought of
0:54that.
0:56You ever seen anyone dig out here
0:58before? Yeah. You have? Been here 18
1:00years. My other friend used to do it.
1:02How do you make good money? Made $1,000
1:05a week.
1:07All righty. We'll do, man. We'll do.
1:09Now, after getting some motivation from
1:11a local, we kept mining one crack at a
1:13time despite people looking at us like
1:15we were crazy. A lot of people are
1:16laughing at me right now, but they're
1:18not going to be laughing when I find a
1:19$5,000 diamond. This is just as boring
1:21as the first time. This is way more fun
1:22than a 9 to 5 clown. Dude, what even
1:24happened to your grandma's other
1:25necklace? Pisses me off, man. Basically,
1:28she went into one of these shops and
1:29spent her hard-earned money. I know.
1:31Real necklace. That turned green 2 weeks
1:33later. That's tough, man. And that's why
1:35we're here to get our revenge. So, we
1:37got back to work clearing cracks past
1:39rows of jewelry stores knowing any
1:41handful of dirt could be worth hundreds.
1:43When something caught my eye. Look at
1:44that. That's not a rock. I got it. I got
1:46it. Oh, no. No. Oh, grab the tweezers.
1:48That could be a gem. No way. That's not
1:50glass. What is that? I think that's a
1:51garnet. That's crazy. How much is this
1:53worth? At least $ 20 to $30. What are
1:56you guys doing? We're just mining for
1:57treasure. Mining for golden diamonds.
1:59Can't be digging up the ground on the
2:01sidewalk like this. Oh, we can't. No. As
2:03long as we like clean up all the dirt.
2:05Are we good or no?
2:08We make sure it's spotless. Well, you're
2:10digging up into what's keeping the We
2:13made sure not to like dig up the rubber.
2:15We've just been like finding areas with
2:16just dirt cuz obviously we're not trying
2:18to tear up the ground. This part here is
2:19all dirt as you can see, but like we're
2:21not going to dig up this.
2:23I'll do that. Appreciate it. Now that I
2:25think about it, I have a feeling one of
2:26these jewelers reported us. No way.
2:28Actually, yeah. We're just mad that
2:29we're sharing our treasure hunting
2:31secrets with the world. Soon enough,
2:32there's going to be 10 people out here
2:34mined for gold, and we're going to put a
2:35hole in their pocket. Now, despite this
2:37jeweler trying to scare us off, we
2:39refused to back down and kept digging
2:41harder than ever, determined to reach
2:42our goal. Keep your eyes on the prize,
2:44one pound at a time. But eventually it
2:46got harder to find good cracks and we
2:48started falling behind. We've been
2:49mining 2 hours. We have maybe 2 lb of
2:51dirt. It's not going to cut it. We're
2:52going to need at least 40 lb if we want
2:54a chance at making it 1,000 bucks. So we
2:56decide to make our way farther down 47th
2:58Street and invest in the crack sweeper
3:009000 to give my back a break and help us
3:03mine even faster. This is a good crack.
3:05It's deep. It's full of dark dirt. This
3:07is where we're going to find the golden
3:08chest. We're going to mine every crack
3:09in this city, guys. Then as we were
3:11digging, another local told us something
3:13crazy. What did you find in the streets?
3:14$2,000.
3:16Damn. Were you you were panning it out
3:18and like No, I was just walking and it
3:19was a yellow Canary Tiffany ring. Holy
3:23This was a couple of years ago.
3:25What was your reaction? Do you think it
3:26was real? Yeah. When I saw Tiffany, I
3:28said yes. I thought 20. They said 32. I
3:30said bring it on. Easy money, bro.
3:35We'll do. Appreciate it. What do you
3:36think's the most expensive gemstone
3:38could find? Oh, you could find the $30
3:40$50,000 stone. I find gemstones on the
3:43ground when I'm sweeping in my store.
3:44The little ones and then you be like,
3:46"Oh, there's a jewelry piece that's
3:47missing a stone." This is a $30,000
3:49parcel. You drop one of these stones,
3:50it's about $3,000. Oh wow. Then not even
3:53an hour later, I spotted a massive gem
3:55buried in the sidewalk. Look at that. Is
3:57that a diamond? Oh my god. Get the
4:00tester. Grab the tester. I got it. No.
4:03No. It's fake. Fake. Yeah, it's a big
4:06one. Beautiful. It is though. Wow.
4:08That's crazy. Maybe since
4:114,000 million 4,000. Yeah. Wow. So, we
4:15got to find a real one. Now, even though
4:16that gem turned out to be fake, we knew
4:18there were still real ones down here.
4:20So, after 6 hours of collecting dirt, I
4:22decided to split up and mine a few other
4:24spots while Clem kept working the
4:26diamond district. Guys, I'm working my
4:28off out here. I have no clue where Claw
4:30is. Nate is running the buckets. I'm
4:32getting tired. I don't know if we're
4:33going to meet our goal. It's going to be
4:35close. Hopefully, he's having better
4:36luck than me.
4:39Got a little apple charm. I don't have
4:41to buy a souvenir. I know Central Park
4:42might sound like kind of a reach, but I
4:44figure thousands of people passed by
4:45here, so I feel like there could be
4:47something worth finding. So, for the
4:48rest of the afternoon, I continued
4:50collecting dirt from a few busy spots
4:52while Nate ran buckets back to the
4:54hotel. Each pound giving us a better
4:55shot when we panned it out.
4:58As you could see, the sun has gone down,
5:00but we're still out here working. The
5:02streets are empty, minus a few
5:04crackheads. So, let's just keep our eyes
5:06open and lock in. Now, after mining
5:08these streets for 9 hours, we were all
5:10pretty tired. But we'd come too far to
5:12quit now. Everywhere I looked, there was
5:14either a rat or a crackhead. Clen,
5:16there's only a few more hours until the
5:17sun comes up and the crackheads will be
5:18gone. Then, as the night went on, we
5:20kept at it, scanning every crack, hoping
5:22to find another gem. Look at that. Is
5:24that a gem? Wait, Clen, come. That's
5:26glass. I thought we found another
5:28emerald. Now, in the last video, we
5:30found about $250 worth of golden gems
5:32after panning 20 lb of dirt. So, I knew
5:35if we wanted any shot at making $1,000,
5:37we had to step it up. Everything you
5:39got, guys, you can't disappoint my
5:40grandma. So, we kept running over rats,
5:42sweeping cracks, and running buckets,
5:44determined to hit our 40 lb goal before
5:46our flight left in just a few hours. We
5:49can't miss any cracks. Oh, it's 4:00
5:51a.m. Just give me 10 more minutes. Come
5:53on, CL. Look at that. That's our biggest
5:56piece yet. That's what I'm talking
5:58about. Then, just as we were getting
5:59close to our 40 lb goal, Nate vanished.
6:04hasn't texted us back in over an hour.
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6:48Now, let's get back to the video. Claw,
6:51come check this out. Come here. He's
6:52trolling. He's trolling, bro. This isn't
6:53glass. No way. That's the real deal. Oh
6:56my god. We haven't even started panning
6:58any dirt yet, and we already got a
6:59diamond. That is the find we needed. Our
7:01diamond tester is dead. So, let's go
7:02ship this dirt, pan it out, and get this
7:04appraised with whatever else we find.
7:06Then, as the sun came up, we carefully
7:07started bagging all the dirt. This is
7:09disgusting. I know. Let's just get it
7:11over with. What if we get caught in the
7:12airport? Listen, we're going to triple
7:14bag it. No questions asked. Then, we
7:16went to the airport and smuggled the
7:17dirt back to Buffalo. All right,
7:19everyone. We just made it back to the
7:20compound and we got all the supplies we
7:22need to pan out this dirt. So, let's get
7:24to work. So, first we began running dirt
7:26through the old three-phase screening
7:28process to separate the lighter stuff
7:29from the heavier material. I see a
7:31little something. We got a piece of a
7:32necklace and a gold clasp. Could be
7:34worth a couple bucks. You got anything,
7:35Clump? Nope. Now, we didn't spot
7:37anything crazy in the first few pans,
7:39but luckily, we still had 38 lb of dirt.
7:41So, we continued patiently sifting until
7:43we spotted our first sign of gold. Now,
7:46that's what I like to see. We got a few
7:47tiny specks of gold right there. And the
7:49price of gold is up right now, so this
7:51stuff's definitely going to add up.
7:52Yeah, but we're going to have to find
7:53something else if we want to afford that
7:54necklace. I agree. We need diamonds,
7:56guys. We need diamonds. So, we continued
7:58panning for another 30 minutes and found
8:00some worthless metal, a cheap earring
8:02stud, and our first potential gem. I
8:04don't know what this is, but it might be
8:05a gem. That just looks like a button. I
8:07don't know. I guess we'll just have to
8:08wait and see what the jeweler has to
8:10say. Now, after panning through 20% of
8:12the dirt and barely finding anything, I
8:14was starting to get nervous. I feel like
8:15we might have missed something. Are you
8:17sure you double checked? I feel like
8:18you're kind of rushing the process here.
8:19What are you doing? I'm just seeing if
8:20we missed any gold. You're like Gollum
8:22from Lord of the Rings. We need to spend
8:24an entire day in New York City to come
8:26up short clown. We just got to be
8:27patient. All right. All it takes is one
8:29gem to change everything. And things
8:31finally started turning around when we
8:32found a 1 g silver bar, a gold chain
8:35link, and our most interesting find yet.
8:37What? No way. I think that's a pearl.
8:39How did we not see that? If this is
8:41real, this could be worth a lot of
8:43money. This is the momentum we needed,
8:44guys. I'm telling you, all the good
8:46stuff's going to be on the bottom of the
8:47suitcase. Fingers crossed. Then just
8:49three pans later, Clem spotted what
8:50could be our most expensive find yet.
8:53Oh. Oh my god, dude. I think that's a
8:54diamond. You see it? Pull it out. Pull
8:55it out. Dude, dude, dude. Look. I think
8:57you're right. If this is real, we could
8:59sell this for at least1 $200. That is
9:01huge. Got to keep it going. We're going
9:03to have to find as many diamonds as we
9:04can if we're going to pull this off.
9:05Now, although we were finally having
9:07some luck, each pan was taking nearly 8
9:09minutes to sift through. So, we decided
9:11to upgrade to the slle to speed things
9:13up. Now, the SLE is going to carry all
9:15the heavier material downstream and help
9:17us separate anything valuable. You see
9:19anything, Clen? Just rocks and
9:20cigarettes. Keep your eyes peeled. We
9:22can't afford to miss anything. Then,
9:24after just a few minutes of running dirt
9:25through the slle, we spotted glass, a
9:28coin, and our first sign of gold. Is
9:29that gold? Yes, it is. Got a few tiny
9:31specks in there. Every little piece
9:33counts. We're going to need all the help
9:34we can get, guys. Then, after just a few
9:36more scoops, something shiny caught our
9:38eye. Oh. Oh. Oh, what is that? That has
9:40to be a gem. Looks like it might be
9:42jade. Maybe malachite. what I'm talking
9:43about, Clem. Then we kept feeding the
9:45SLE one scoop at a time, hoping to find
9:47enough to get my grandma that necklace.
9:49We're down to our last 6 lb of dirt.
9:51This is the moment we trained for. It
9:53all comes down to this. Then after
9:54searching the last six lbs, we managed
9:56to find two more gems. And not just one,
9:59but another three potential diamonds. If
10:01this is real, this is our sixth diamond.
10:03I did not think we were going to find
10:04this many diamonds. All from the
10:06sidewalks. Guys, this is a great haul.
10:08Now, after searching all the dirt, we
10:09headed to Kirk's Jewelers to get
10:11everything appraised.
10:13Hello.
10:15Hello. Long time no see. How you been?
10:17Good. How are you? Not bad. All right.
10:19Let's cut this and get to business.
10:22[Music]
10:23Let us know how much you think they're
10:24worth. Didn't do that. Then I sorted our
10:26finds into three groups. Random jewelry,
10:28gemstones, and diamonds. Now, first,
10:31Adam's going to take a look at some of
10:32the random stuff we found and let us
10:33know how much it's worth. Okay. Okay.
10:35So, this is this is fake. Okay. Chain
10:38link. This looks like sterling silver.
10:39$5. This is actually pretty cool. It's 1
10:41g uh worth of silver. Maybe a dollar.
10:43What about the class? This actually
10:45looks like gold. That's good. That's
10:46promising.
10:48Probably $15. All right. Slow and
10:50steady. Now, what do you think about
10:51this pearl? It's real. Let's go. All
10:53right. Well, how much is it worth? 60
10:55bucks. Yes. That's what I'm talking
10:57about. Now, we didn't know what these
10:59were, but we were hoping they might be
11:00gems. Okay. This is nothing. What is it?
11:03Looks like glass. Can you check it one
11:05more time? It's worthless. But this this
11:07is Onyx. Probably get 20 bucks. I knew
11:10that wasn't a button. Now, after sorting
11:11through all our random finds, Adam
11:13weighed all our gold and went to the
11:14back to inspect our remaining gems. Got
11:17four gems here. What do we got? The
11:18first stone, it's synthetic, so it's
11:20worthless, basically. All right, guys.
11:22We still got the diamonds. So, this one
11:24is a parado. Oh, what? Parido. It's a
11:26green stone that you find in the desert
11:28or in dry areas. Is it expensive for
11:30this size? 30 bucks. We mined 40 lb of
11:33sidewalks, guys. Got to make it $1,000,
11:35right? I It's going to be hard. Got a
11:37lot of diamonds, though. Oh, take a
11:39look. Okay, so next what we have is a
11:41sapphire. Oh, I forgot sapphires could
11:43be green. Yes, it actually can be many
11:45colors like red, pink, yellow, orange.
11:48All right, so how much is it worth? Come
11:49on, dude. We don't have all day. Uh, you
11:52can probably get 70 bucks. That's what
11:54we needed. Is that a garnet? Yes, this
11:55is a garnet. I knew it. That was the
11:57first gem we found in the sidewalk. It's
11:58a good size. Probably can get 30 bucks.
12:00All right. Guess it all comes down to
12:01the diamonds, guys. They don't call it
12:02the diamond district for nothing. That
12:04was terrible, bro. So, Adam took all our
12:07diamonds to the back and began testing
12:09them one by one while we anxiously
12:10waited to see how many were real. After
12:13mining 40 lb of sidewalk dirt, it all
12:15comes down to this. We need at least
12:17half them to be real. Okay, I got some
12:19good news and I got some bad news.
12:20What's the verdict? These two stones
12:22that are bigger, CZs, not real. But what
12:25about these ones? Out of the five, two
12:28are diamonds. The three are fake. Okay.
12:30All right. How much are we talking for
12:33both of them?
12:36150 bucks.
12:38But Claw, you could still get a nice
12:39necklace for your grandma. Solid gold
12:42with some stones in it. Actually, for
12:44only 460. Yeah, you can get a beautiful
12:46necklace for that. That's what I'm
12:48talking about. Yeah. So, I picked out
12:50the best necklace I could and headed to
12:52my grandma's to surprise her. How
12:53exciting. Wow, look at that. It's
12:56beautiful. Thank you so much. This is
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