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  1. Shep

    Home rock crushing setup

    Slapped together my crusher and clean up sluice. Seems to be working well so will try and get a bit better dust control and tidy things up a bit
  2. Shep

    SDC2300

    Selling my SDC, approximately 3 years old. In good used condition and comes with Padded bag and cover Good pick and new scoop New SP01 booster, cover, twin speakers and patch lead 18650 battery adapters and 8 new LG 18650 batterys and smart charger SS300 headphones with SDC plug Coiltek 14x9...
  3. Shep

    Mystery coin/medallion

    Does anyone know what this is? I found it amongst a heap of old coins that were given to me by a relative Slightly larger then a 5c coin
  4. Shep

    DIY Refining gold

    The gold I have been finding is pretty low grade with assays coming back at between 79-83% gold with most of the rest being silver. Is it possible to separate the gold and silver in a home workshop?
  5. Shep

    Full time fossicking and tax

    I am considering taking a year off and looking for gold full time. How do people handle tax etc as it would be hard to claim that its the product of a hobby if its the only income? I have had a brilliant year finding gold and work is getting in the way of my fossicking.
  6. Shep

    Dry blowing around Alice springs

    I am spending a week camped down at gem tree near Alice, would there be anywhere within 200km that would be worth setting up a dry blower? In the past I have detected at ARLTUNGA (FA29516) with out success.
  7. Shep

    Prehnite

    Does anyone have any tips on how to clean up prehnite to see if it is worth processing further? I dont want to just hit it with a hammer as it has a good chance of being clear and jewellery quality. The photos are to big to attach however the prehnite has a hard shell of some sort of proper hard...
  8. Shep

    digging a hole

    i have found a spot the has had a fairly good amount of nuggets found on it, it is only around 10 x 20 meters and is on the side of a hill. would it be worth digging a hole and putting the contents through my little high banker? as yet i haven't found bedrock so am unsure how far down it is. i...
  9. Shep

    G'day from shep

    First post. Live in Katherine and have been doing a little bit of panning without much suscess, have decided to get a little serious and now have a GS11 sluice with Honda firefighter pump. My work takes me all over The NT and into some very remote places, the sluice will be coming with me so I...
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