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  1. elbowgrease

    Reedy Creek Beechworth water levels

    Thanks mate Would be great to know. I guess there are still plenty of offshoots worth a poke around which are normally dry, either will need to wait for a weekend with a bit better weather!
  2. elbowgrease

    Reedy Creek Beechworth water levels

    Just wondering if anyone that lives close by knows what the creek is looking like at the moment? Have an itch to get out and dig but with all the rain lately my guess would be its probably in flood. Cheers Adam
  3. elbowgrease

    Reedy creek gold

    I've tried heaps of different ways of separating Reedy Creek gold and black sands but probably the most efficient Ive found is to use a goldpan with a large base, dump all your cons in it, with a shallow covering of water work all your cons to the front of the pan agitating to get the gold to...
  4. elbowgrease

    Reedy creek gold

    I've personally pulled a .33g picker, .21g picker and a few smaller bits ranging from .08 -.12 from Reedy Creek over the last few years, a very good mate of mine who I took along to one of my favourite hot spots outdid me (yes digging out of my very own hole) with a small nugget weighing 0.65g...
  5. elbowgrease

    Crevices Eldrado

    I try and look for consistent 10-15 specs in the pan to set up the gear or the presence of slightly coarse gold, there are still a few pockets around that have coarser gold (you can feel it between your fingers as opposed to the dust type gold you can't feel at all) which make up the weight a...
  6. elbowgrease

    Reedy creek gold

    I normally aim at a gram a day with the banker. I generally dig with a mate and split the proceeds. The last few trips have all been 2g - 2.5g days so after splitting it down the middle both my mate and I still clear a gram each. My less productive days are when I'm testing or set up the gear...
  7. elbowgrease

    Gold sluicing around Albury

    Reedy Creek is on the list of exempted rivers and streams because as a whole prospecting is not allowed in Reedy Creek except the area specifically designated for prospecting. There are parts of Reedy Creek which you are not allowed to prospect in, including but not limited to immediately below...
  8. elbowgrease

    Reedy Creek Beechworth water levels

    Geez thats some dedication, haha I get the shits up doing the drive from Shepparton LOL
  9. elbowgrease

    Only fine gold

    Fine gold :)
  10. elbowgrease

    Highbanking alone?

    My wife won't let me prospect alone, nothing to do with security \ dodgy people, simply shes knows all to well the places I go and the crazy things I try. If I was to bust an ankle crossing rough terrain or be standing waist deep in water and have a rock roll over and pin my leg or something I'd...
  11. elbowgrease

    Reedy Creek Beechworth water levels

    Some stretches are looking pretty narrow and pretty shallow, barely a trickle, but shouldn't be too hard to find pools to highbank from, not sure what its like right down the Eldorado end as I didn't venture that far down but I'm guessing there wouldn't be much flow at all. The upside is you can...
  12. elbowgrease

    Reedy Creek Beechworth water levels

    We'll Saturday was a bit of a fizzer, got to Reedy a bit later than I had hoped maybe 4ish, the spot that I was hoping to dig had a bloke camping there working it named Barney. Had a bit of a chat, seemed like a top bloke and he was doing ok which was good to hear! Ended up trying a spot a...
  13. elbowgrease

    Reedy Creek Beechworth water levels

    I'll also be there for the weekend, up by about Saturday lunch time and all day Sunday. I was there the weekend of the Australia Day weekend which was just after the rain which was the Thursday and Friday prior to. The rain had some flow back in it but even still was still down, don't think...
  14. elbowgrease

    Buckland Valley nearly didnt make it but got there in the end!

    Yeah I'm pretty unfamiliar with the area so I wouldn't really know where else to start looking! Got the camping trip out there in a few weeks time that the wife has organised so I'll give it at least one more crack. I dunno if the gold is deep or how far you need to go in the creek bed to reach...
  15. elbowgrease

    Buckland Valley nearly didnt make it but got there in the end!

    Bloody stupid me never even got the camera phone out! The wife might have a few photos of the young fellas rolling around on the picnic blanket out on the river bank but I don't think that'll be terribly helpful LOL I normally use the square ended post hole shovel as I find it does a better job...
  16. elbowgrease

    good places to detect without getting in trouble

    Hi goldtarget! Tried sending you a PM but says your inbox is full! Sent via email instead!
  17. elbowgrease

    Buckland Valley nearly didnt make it but got there in the end!

    Well the weekend didn't go quite as planned. With the little man sick during the week with his first cold and still recovering, Saturday didn't happen at all. Shame with such nice weather too. Instead we did a day trip Sunday and even that didn't quite go as planned, only manage to finally get...
  18. elbowgrease

    Victorian Prospecting Licence costing $32.10 how long is it valid for?

    Thanks mate! Yeah I was pretty sure back then when I bought it, it was a 2 year licence!!! Ripped off huh can get 10 years for nearly half as much now!!!! Kinda funny they put the wrong on the valid till part.... $32.10 for negative 1 days LOL Cheers Adam
  19. elbowgrease

    Victorian Prospecting Licence costing $32.10 how long is it valid for?

    Yeah the $17 10 year licence came in some time after I bought mine middle of last year. Because the expiry date is written wrong I don't know if I need a new one yet is all. I think you are right though, 2 years sounds about right.
  20. elbowgrease

    Victorian Prospecting Licence costing $32.10 how long is it valid for?

    Hi folks Whipped the prospecting licence out of the glovebox today and noticed the date was filled in wrong when I purchased it last year The amount paid was $32.10 (from the Beechworth visitor information centre) The date filled in was valid from 8/6/2014 valid till 7/6/2014 LOL it expired...
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