TenOunce Tone
tony
G'day, I went out to a field last weekend and brought home some dirt, nothing new, we all do that!
Well, I was cleaning up some gravels that had been classified and I was looking at the left over rock that had gone through the 1/2 inch and 1/8 bucket sieves, again nothing new there. I spied a rock like this in the left overs.
I thought this could have gold in it, it looks like conglomerate and I know the hole it come out of was about two feet deep near the bed rock... So I grabbed my trusty hammer and another piece of the same looking rock / stone..
Crushed it up, after panning it out there was bit of left over gravel that was sitting in the bottom of the pan and acting like gold, sitting in the bottom of the riffle of the super sluice pan and not moving much, I smooshed this bit of mud and low and behold, it held a bit of gold...about 1.5 mm piece.. it is now in the vial from this trip..
Moral of the story.. never ever underestimate where you will find gold.. I have collected the conglomerate looking rocks and will be smashing these tomorrow morning...
I will post up a pic of the gold if there is any.. or just an update tomorow
Good luck out there!
Well, I was cleaning up some gravels that had been classified and I was looking at the left over rock that had gone through the 1/2 inch and 1/8 bucket sieves, again nothing new there. I spied a rock like this in the left overs.
I thought this could have gold in it, it looks like conglomerate and I know the hole it come out of was about two feet deep near the bed rock... So I grabbed my trusty hammer and another piece of the same looking rock / stone..
Crushed it up, after panning it out there was bit of left over gravel that was sitting in the bottom of the pan and acting like gold, sitting in the bottom of the riffle of the super sluice pan and not moving much, I smooshed this bit of mud and low and behold, it held a bit of gold...about 1.5 mm piece.. it is now in the vial from this trip..
Moral of the story.. never ever underestimate where you will find gold.. I have collected the conglomerate looking rocks and will be smashing these tomorrow morning...
I will post up a pic of the gold if there is any.. or just an update tomorow
Good luck out there!