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I Managed to get the Son in law to come along on a Kayak prospecting trip back to the flat gold N black sand creek on Sunday just gone. This was both good and bad. Good to have some company and pass on a bit of local knowledge that I've learned about the deposits on this creek. Bad because I had...

Lots of heavy magnetic black sand as well as cassiterite, Ironstone, and some green stones that I am told is epidote. makes panning down to gold only hard work. I just tip my cons from each pan into a litre container.

Back to the flat gold creek last saturday, a bit better result this time with a about half a gram from a couple of crevises under water. I even snagged a few colours by snuffing them straight of the bedrock.

Hey Jamie, sent you a PM, re the flat gold.

''Cornflakes'' is a very apt description. The flakes are that thin that they will not stratify through the copious black sands that also come with the gold. Planning to head back there this weekend, so I'll collect all the heavies in a bucket this time, take some photos of the cons and the...

Its just a plastic sit on top with a broad fairly flat bottom with only a slight keel. Its good in the rough water and the surf as it is hard to tip.

Results of last saturday's Kayak, crevise n pan session in my favorite creek in N,East Victoria. The water levels (high ) made Kayaking easy and crevising difficult. I was only armed with a scratcher and a couple of fiskars plastic garden trowels . Sorry No location Pictures as I left the phone...

The average age of me is about 56.9. My Knees and Back and Shoulders feel 10yrs older, My head tells me if still in my 30s. So it averages out. I've been detecting since I was 15 and hooked on gold prospecting since I was 5 or 6. First detector (the family's ) was a Whites 5000 d coinmaster...

Very generous Mirrors :Y:

Some ten years ago I worked for a short time for a local freight delivery company driving one of their two S&*t Heap vans. My daily duties included pickup from the National and regional freight distirubution centres, and deliver said packages to their final destinations. Without a doubt from a...

So the gold total from 3 15lt buckets of dirt taken from the bedrock around the edges of that tunnel would not have bought enough rice to make a rice cracker let alone something to smoke and dream of returning home to china a rich man. They may have grown vegatables or tabacco to supplement...

I can say that there are no rnd shafts on this point, and, the shafts that are still intact would be extremely difficult to sink if you were over 5ft tall. Mackka the pictures were taken from inside the horizontal drive that were driven from the shaft bottom.

Following on from my post in 20Xs topic on shaft sinking to find depressions and gold traps in the bedrock, I thought Id share some insights into Chinese mining methods in the upper northeast of Victoria around Mitta and Granite flat. We know from the discovery of chinese artifacts on this point...

Nice going 20x. I visited the Old Chinese workings on that Point on Snowy creek again the other day had a careful look at the bedrock bars exposed in their tunnel workings. decided that a new drive at right angles to the direction the bedrock would be the best bet in the hope of picking up...

About the most excitment the forum has seen lately. :/

They definitely work. Ive never even seen a snake while wearing mine, let alone been bitten by one. Did have a close encounter with a brown curled up under my green waste bin. I was only wearing thongs at the time so I put it down to incorrect footwear for taking out the rubbish. :lol:

I was given a Collection of quartz crystals by an old fella. He stated that one of his favorite spots was around a quarry north of Lancefield.

Thanks guys. I think they can get chains at Khancoban and drop off at Jindabyne. They are old enough now that I can only advise and tell them to be careful. :|

My Son and his Partner are heading over to Tathra tomorrow Has there been much snow up on the kozioscko (spelling ) ranges? His 4by is in my shed halfway through a head gasket repair, so they are taking his partners Little Kia Rio.

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