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Alluvial Gold Prospecting
Any good areas for a beginner around Bairnsdale region?
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<blockquote data-quote="ProspectorPete" data-source="post: 165048" data-attributes="member: 3820"><p>Hi there 4x4Patrol, probably the best way to find out where the gold is in a creek once you've located a one that has a history of gold would be to research at home, a quick search on "how to find gold in a stream" on Youtube came up with plenty of great videos on the subject like this one for example</p><p>[video=480,360]<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYjFDAwor4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYjFDAwor4</a>[/video] </p><p>There's also threads on this forum too which go into detail on how to read a creek, the key is to research via your computer then when out at a creek look for the likely places and test pan, sometimes it pays to test pan across the creek at 1 foot apart in a likely spot and you should find a pattern of what ends up in your pan for example: iron stone and black sands are heavy so usually are found where the gold will also be, look for the heavies, but it's all 90% research and about 10% prac in the field until you really understand it.</p><p>I'm about 10 months into my prospecting hobby and still have so much to learn but the one thing I've realised is the more time you devote to research the more "luck" you'll have on your journey, just enjoy the ride.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ProspectorPete, post: 165048, member: 3820"] Hi there 4x4Patrol, probably the best way to find out where the gold is in a creek once you've located a one that has a history of gold would be to research at home, a quick search on "how to find gold in a stream" on Youtube came up with plenty of great videos on the subject like this one for example [video=480,360][url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyYjFDAwor4[/url][/video] There's also threads on this forum too which go into detail on how to read a creek, the key is to research via your computer then when out at a creek look for the likely places and test pan, sometimes it pays to test pan across the creek at 1 foot apart in a likely spot and you should find a pattern of what ends up in your pan for example: iron stone and black sands are heavy so usually are found where the gold will also be, look for the heavies, but it's all 90% research and about 10% prac in the field until you really understand it. I'm about 10 months into my prospecting hobby and still have so much to learn but the one thing I've realised is the more time you devote to research the more "luck" you'll have on your journey, just enjoy the ride. [/QUOTE]
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Alluvial Gold Prospecting
Any good areas for a beginner around Bairnsdale region?
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