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A Mate has recently got back into prospecting and decided to drag me out as well in the Nerrigundah area.
Up early Saturday morning for the 2 hour drive up the coast we went. I was set on a days crevicing and my mate had a loan of a SDC2300 and hit up the North creek area after a bit of a tip off from some people in the know. We parked the car on a small pad on the side of the road close to the river, we decided after seeing the terrain that we both were in no fit state to be trying to attempt anything to strenuous. kitted up and ready for anything we split up and took a direction each of the river, I went town stream. My trip south ended quiet abruptly as about half a km or so searching for a bedrock show I stumbled across a not so hidden garden bed! Unfortunately I had not hit the mother lode I was after, 3 x 6ft skeletons were all that remained and that a lot of very fresh looking foot prints in the earth below. I was out of there!
After meeting back up at the car we focussed on the upstream areas, plenty of interesting relics show faint tells of past working all along the banks of the river. After some walk I was able to find some attractive spots to focus on with the pan and was able to find a speck around a mm round in the very first pan. After sharing the new with my buddy we both focussed on the pans and after an hour or 2 we had 10 in the snuffer. I found it interesting we did not find any super fine gold all was I the 1mm plus size, best being a small ribbon of around 3mm deep within a crevice. Initially I suspected it my have been operator error with the pan but after slowing things down on half a dozen pans nothing seemed to change.
In all we spent 6 hours on the pan and detector with the pan getting all our finds for the day. It was great to get back out there after close to 8-10 years absence.
For those that are familiar with the area is it worth swinging a detector in that area? open to suggestions as to where to go in the area? after 6 hours of finding close to 100 rusty iron flakes it seemed to feel like a pointless exercise?
Up early Saturday morning for the 2 hour drive up the coast we went. I was set on a days crevicing and my mate had a loan of a SDC2300 and hit up the North creek area after a bit of a tip off from some people in the know. We parked the car on a small pad on the side of the road close to the river, we decided after seeing the terrain that we both were in no fit state to be trying to attempt anything to strenuous. kitted up and ready for anything we split up and took a direction each of the river, I went town stream. My trip south ended quiet abruptly as about half a km or so searching for a bedrock show I stumbled across a not so hidden garden bed! Unfortunately I had not hit the mother lode I was after, 3 x 6ft skeletons were all that remained and that a lot of very fresh looking foot prints in the earth below. I was out of there!
After meeting back up at the car we focussed on the upstream areas, plenty of interesting relics show faint tells of past working all along the banks of the river. After some walk I was able to find some attractive spots to focus on with the pan and was able to find a speck around a mm round in the very first pan. After sharing the new with my buddy we both focussed on the pans and after an hour or 2 we had 10 in the snuffer. I found it interesting we did not find any super fine gold all was I the 1mm plus size, best being a small ribbon of around 3mm deep within a crevice. Initially I suspected it my have been operator error with the pan but after slowing things down on half a dozen pans nothing seemed to change.
In all we spent 6 hours on the pan and detector with the pan getting all our finds for the day. It was great to get back out there after close to 8-10 years absence.
For those that are familiar with the area is it worth swinging a detector in that area? open to suggestions as to where to go in the area? after 6 hours of finding close to 100 rusty iron flakes it seemed to feel like a pointless exercise?