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Hi there so I been back a day or two from hill end and well.. i realized how little i new about prospecting.. we went to bathurst from there we headed to sofala/hill end. Now for those that been to hill end you know that graveyard, close to that area there is a old greek/stream and we saw some people prospecting there so we decided to go about 5 minutes walk along the greek/stream line and decided to pan in that area. We came to the edge of the greek/stream where it was dry to stand on (there was a flood and most of the area still had water) there was a few puddles of water so i decided to shovel some dirt from the bottom thinking gold could be trapped there. It was really muddy and had like a black/silver colour to it i think, anyways we started panning some of that, friend found a little gold not even a nugget more like quarter size of a rice. That's all we found! =( I enjoyed the adventure but would of loved going home with a nugget.. We also started breaking rocks and lifting the rocks away and panning the dirt it was sitting on.. that failed..
I mean for me it was a bit scary because I had everything planned out, i googled the area and it was all good but once you get there it just really overwhelms you just the large area of nothing. you start getting paranoid about snakes and spiders and large caves, i also saw foot prints.
So my question is would a sluice be better or a metal detector? I was thinking getting a sluice and just throwing shovels of dirt like no tomorrow in it and hoping the best, but also with a metal detector, that allows you to find nice nuggets but pretty expensive.. so what is the best method?
I know im all over the place with my story sorry about that, it's hard to explain
I mean for me it was a bit scary because I had everything planned out, i googled the area and it was all good but once you get there it just really overwhelms you just the large area of nothing. you start getting paranoid about snakes and spiders and large caves, i also saw foot prints.
So my question is would a sluice be better or a metal detector? I was thinking getting a sluice and just throwing shovels of dirt like no tomorrow in it and hoping the best, but also with a metal detector, that allows you to find nice nuggets but pretty expensive.. so what is the best method?
I know im all over the place with my story sorry about that, it's hard to explain