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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...

With the weather cooling off a bit on Wednesday it was time to head up into the Hills and do a bit of Hard Rock sampling. The Picture below shows a small Lode of broken slate and what looks like Feldspar as well as some clay, its about 4ft below the natural surface level in the side of a cut the...

As the title says. Prospecting is back on the can do list. So first thing tomorrow (not working I hope) im off to retreive the stone I piled up the weekend before lockdown :P

As the thread title suggests, Show us what you are doing to keep the cabin fever at bay while not being able to get out prospecting. It doesnt need to be prospecting related. Heres My Very old stamper project that I started to build about 20yrs ago. I should be able to get it nearly finished...

Sooo just to reinvigorate an old thread. https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=29669 I was up on the eskdale spur on Saturday to help my dopey son & soninlaw recover their Motorbikes that they had to leave in the bush for a week after a communal brain fart last weekend...

Friday morning dawned cloudy and very humid up here in the High country of Victoria. Perfect weather for a day in the creek. The rapid Gold pursuit Ute had been loaded up the evening before with sluice boxes, pans, prybars, snorkel gear buckets shovel yabbie pump and Kayak. The plan was to load...

Hi All. Im looking at putting a PV solar array on my house and was wondering what experiences others have had with the various makes of panels and inverters.

As the title says tell us about your old Nanna's, or Pa's the family remedies. One that I remember vividly was bluebag laundry bleach that nanna but on my first ever bee sting. I was about 4 or 5 at the time. and had gone up to the neibour's place about five doors up. I remember the pain being...

Hi All I need to get rid of my old apple phone that my daughter gifted me after I drowned my HTC android phone a couple of yrs ago. Im not interested in plans or spending thousands on an unlocked watchamacallem I actually dont use it that much. A 30dollar aldi card lasts me about 3 months. Ive...

Hey All. I cleaned up my workshed last weekend :o So I decided it was time to get onto another project. :) Im getting sick of panning down all the crushings from my jaw crusher and rod mill so I thought Id have a go at a shaker ( wilfley ) table. It will be along the same lines as a Gemini Table...

Hello all. This morning, I was running some extremely hard stone that I had collected on a field trip recently, through my little jaw crusher. As it wasn't breaking very well and making a screaching popping sort of noise I was giving it a helping hand with a Hammer and Gad. I gave one bit of...

Hi all just wondering if anyone has visited the Spotted Dog Gold mine near Mallacoota Vic? Is it accesible from the lake and if so Is it an easy walk? Worth a look or just another hole in the ground? Any Info would be appreciated.

G,day all, I'm looking at getting a USB microscope for inspecting mineral composition of quartz / gold ore etc. My eyesight is not what it used to be 20/20 and im finding that a hand lens is getting hard to see with. So I thought if I could enlarge the image & put it on the computer. that would...

Hi All As there has been a bit of discussion regarding sampling & crushing hardrock I thought I would put together a video or two of my plant & technique. You;ll have to excuse the video quality , I'm better at finding gold than making how to vids. Anyway its a 2 part series so far. The first...

Hi all I turned up a nice looking sample from the side of an old shaft a couple of weeks ago. it was a very small sample as I only had a small geopic at the time, but when crushed & panned it showed a nice little tail of gold. So I decided to go back (with a mate) and take a bigger one to see if...

Hi all. Ive been watching with interest some of the excellent digital cartography that the members on here can turn out using "memory maps" so I downloaded the program freeware version and set of files for eastern victoria. However Im having trouble getting the base map to zoom in close enough...

Hi All, I finally got around to making a video of the flail crusher I built for crushing quartz & sampling Hardrock ore. Heres the link Its my first attempt at youtube, hope you enjoy.

Hello DYI people Ive noticed that there are quite a few people on here that turn out some pretty good looking machines. As the title says Im looking at purchasing a lathe for my work shed & would like to hear for anyone that either own a lathe or have access to one the you are familiar with the...

So Im only about 2 months late in getting my Flail hammer mill up and running but it will be assembled as soon as the paint drys and given a long test over the next couple of weekends. Its the small details that seem to take the most time. If I ever build another one I will beg buy or borrow a...

I have been reading an old text book on assaying and refining of gold & silver ores and have decided to give smelting a go to recover the almost microscopic gold I am getting from ore left on old mullock dumps. I have a small wind forge that could be easily converted to an enclosed furnace to...