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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 639626" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Sounds a bit more that the problem could be your technique, looking in the wrong place or both. There are plenty of places. It is worth going out for a day with someone knowleagable - seeing them get gold will rejuventate your interest and they will probably tell you where you are allowed to go at a local level as well as show you technique. The fact that you have seen no gold at all suggests a serious issue re technique or locality - I can get a few specks within half an hour in any gold-bearing area (even the Melbourne suburbs until it became illegal). Got out plenty of gold around Omeo (eg down Cassilis way and Glen Wills) and was getting lots around Beechworth when I was only 14 - it was great there In those days I found I got better gold out Hillsborough way high in the gullies when panning rather than in the creeks downstream of Beechworth that have had tens of millions of tonnes of barren sand wash into them from large-scale sluicing upstream. But it was still there if you got into crevices in bedrock.</p><p></p><p>Go out with someone knowledgeable....and check where it is also legal (the places I mntioned her may no longer be).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 639626, member: 4386"] Sounds a bit more that the problem could be your technique, looking in the wrong place or both. There are plenty of places. It is worth going out for a day with someone knowleagable - seeing them get gold will rejuventate your interest and they will probably tell you where you are allowed to go at a local level as well as show you technique. The fact that you have seen no gold at all suggests a serious issue re technique or locality - I can get a few specks within half an hour in any gold-bearing area (even the Melbourne suburbs until it became illegal). Got out plenty of gold around Omeo (eg down Cassilis way and Glen Wills) and was getting lots around Beechworth when I was only 14 - it was great there In those days I found I got better gold out Hillsborough way high in the gullies when panning rather than in the creeks downstream of Beechworth that have had tens of millions of tonnes of barren sand wash into them from large-scale sluicing upstream. But it was still there if you got into crevices in bedrock. Go out with someone knowledgeable....and check where it is also legal (the places I mntioned her may no longer be). [/QUOTE]
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