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Is this worth further investigation? - Macclesfield Private Property
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<blockquote data-quote="gcause" data-source="post: 639429" data-attributes="member: 1497"><p>See the post I just put up about reading a stream. You want to use a process called loaming. You take samples (a couple of shovels full) at regular intervals about 1 metre apart going from bank to bank. Don't forget to sample a couple of metres up above the bank of the creek as well as gold travels down hill. You work your way up the length of the creek this way taking samples as you go. The old timers used this technique, the would carry canvas scarfs and wrap the samples in the scarfs so they eventually had what looked like a string of sausages around their necks. When the scarf was full they would go back to camp and pan off the samples so they could work out the Gold Line where the highest concentration of gold was. Any pan with 20 specs or more was considered payable gold and worth setting up a rocker cradle in that area. The Gold Line is the line the gold follows down the creek. Gold goes from bend to bend in a creek and typically follows a line down the inside bends of creeks. Look for the heavies i.e. bigger rocks as that is where the gold will be look at the back of these large rocks as that is where the eddy currents will form when the creek is in flood. The vegetation will be bent around these larger rocks so you can see which way the water flows in flood. Dig down at the back base of these rocks to get samples as the eddy currents will drop the gold there. You want to find bedrock or ideally green rock as gold is heavier than anything in the creek so it will drop down. Where you get clay the clay will trap gold also. Blue clay is a good sign as it tends to trap more gold as it is denser than the white clay. Make sure to break up any clay balls you collect as the gold can be trapped inside these. Hope this helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gcause, post: 639429, member: 1497"] See the post I just put up about reading a stream. You want to use a process called loaming. You take samples (a couple of shovels full) at regular intervals about 1 metre apart going from bank to bank. Don't forget to sample a couple of metres up above the bank of the creek as well as gold travels down hill. You work your way up the length of the creek this way taking samples as you go. The old timers used this technique, the would carry canvas scarfs and wrap the samples in the scarfs so they eventually had what looked like a string of sausages around their necks. When the scarf was full they would go back to camp and pan off the samples so they could work out the Gold Line where the highest concentration of gold was. Any pan with 20 specs or more was considered payable gold and worth setting up a rocker cradle in that area. The Gold Line is the line the gold follows down the creek. Gold goes from bend to bend in a creek and typically follows a line down the inside bends of creeks. Look for the heavies i.e. bigger rocks as that is where the gold will be look at the back of these large rocks as that is where the eddy currents will form when the creek is in flood. The vegetation will be bent around these larger rocks so you can see which way the water flows in flood. Dig down at the back base of these rocks to get samples as the eddy currents will drop the gold there. You want to find bedrock or ideally green rock as gold is heavier than anything in the creek so it will drop down. Where you get clay the clay will trap gold also. Blue clay is a good sign as it tends to trap more gold as it is denser than the white clay. Make sure to break up any clay balls you collect as the gold can be trapped inside these. Hope this helps. [/QUOTE]
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