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Damn. A great loss to the community. As Hawkear said, Jaros was always there with help and sound advice. Best wishes and condolences to friends and family. He'll be missed.

Hi. So I thought I'd post some pictures of today's ore crush. Spoiler alert but I can confirm this turned out to be all quartz and iron. Sample was from a mullock heap. Heavily mineralised as you can see. A mix of dirty quartz interspersed with a lot of iron and host rock. Gave it a few good...

Chewy you are a legend and a lifesaver sir. I haven't dared go back to the Stumpy Picks website to see if the manual was right there looking at me. I have enough trouble spotting where I've left my car keys, glasses, wallet each day without adding manuals to the list. 😂 Thank you much for...

Great reply! Many thanks for doing so. I'm typically either sourcing bits of dirty looking quartz from mullock, the occasional outcrop, pickings from my own property (I've found micro flecks panning erosion gullies in our failed dam), and even the odd bit of quartz that gets my detector all...

Ah sorry about that folks. Yup, that's the fella. Thanks for filling in the blanks there Grubstake. :)

Hi Dan, very late reply from me but if you're still on the hunt for pipettes I've ordered from these guys up in northern NSW before. They also supply glass vials that are perfect for gold storage/display. Nice quick service and equipment was/is of good quality...

Hi Folks, I'm now the proud owner of a new Stumpy Pick's Rock Crusher. Seems like a great piece of kit so far. Main concern I have is that it came with no instructions and I can't find any hints or tips online regarding the best way to use it. Trial and error seems to be working so far and...

Late to the party I know but I just wanted to say thank you to all contributors to this thread. Excellent information and a fresh perspective to get me re-engaged with detecting. Fantastic information, and truly inspiring! :)

Couple of books here that I'm guessing will be familiar to most but they were new to me and provided a fascinating insight into the Queensland gold rushes of the late 1860's and 70's. Whilst I'd love to find the volumes of gold they were hauling back then, I'm not sure I fancy the life style...

That's excellent news! Thanks for looking into it. :) I'll make some enquiries and will post my findings on the new thread you kindly created.

I reckon my tick tweezers fit the bill perfectly. Needle points on them and it'll make for a pleasant change from their usual 'work'. :)

I like the sound of that. I do enjoy the investigative side of things. I'll give the one hair brush idea a go. To date I've been separating micro-gold by having two droplets of water on a piece of glass (microscope slide). Using a 40x loupe (with built in LED) and a needle, I've been moving dots...

Many thanks Dihusky. Yup that little grey/blue cubic dude in the middle of the 3rd picture intrigued me too. I'll definitely be paying more attention to my pan's contents in future! Now I just need to explain to my wife why I need to go and buy some gem sieves in addition to all the gold...

Hi Goldierocks. That's great info, and enough for me to make sure I keep my eyes open for something a little larger when panning (now getting flashbacks to what I've been discarding with all the quartz whilst on the hunt for gold. :eek:) Many thanks for taking the time to reply. Truly...

Hi Folks, While on the hunt for microscopic gold, I frequently observe a lot of coloured 'stones' amongst the black sand, and quartz. Grubstake spotted a few in some photos I posted of my micro-gold and suggested I post more pics here to see if anyone could do some ID's for me. All samples are...

Hi Folks. Apologies if these have been presented before. I had a look through the post and couldn't see them though. Ever wanted to know how to make a gold washing cradle out of kerosene boxes? Need a puddling box but only have access to a hollow log? Instructions and plans are contained in the...

Back on the micro-gold briefly, has anyone seen anything like this before? Colour and behaviour matched other micro gold in the same sample so I've assumed it is but.... The piece is centre right, kind of crescent moon shaped. Very, very thin. For scale, it's sitting on top of very fine black...

Thanks for the kind words. :)Yup, I was pleasantly surprised to see the variety of shapes in such tiny pieces. I guess that's normal but it still made the use of a microscope worth it. I'd wondered if I was seeing micro gems in some of my samples. Reds, oranges, and light greens are present in...

Hi Folks. OK, so it's not the biggest haul you'll ever see but with the magic of microscopy and some shaky photos (cell phone camera held over the microscope eye piece) they at least look a bit more impressive. About 50 micro pieces found in total from about the same number of pans. Nothing...