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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 471756" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Ha! I wish. And those would be the most useless gold-pans that I have ever seen.</p><p></p><p>What is interesting though, is that it was like this on the early Australian goldfields. I read the original reports from the 1850s, and they talk of gullies where they picked up nuggets "Like potatoes" (about 5 tons of it at that gully near Castlemaine). At Ararat there was no water so an Afro-American collected nuggets at surface using a dry-blower. At the dry "potato paddock" near Bealiba they just turned over the soil with shovels and collected the nuggets (the "potatoes").</p><p></p><p>We were born in the wrong century.....</p><p></p><p>A geo friend saw a youngster panning in China - he asked him how he was going and the kid reportedly pulled out a bag with a couple of kilos of gold in it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 471756, member: 4386"] Ha! I wish. And those would be the most useless gold-pans that I have ever seen. What is interesting though, is that it was like this on the early Australian goldfields. I read the original reports from the 1850s, and they talk of gullies where they picked up nuggets "Like potatoes" (about 5 tons of it at that gully near Castlemaine). At Ararat there was no water so an Afro-American collected nuggets at surface using a dry-blower. At the dry "potato paddock" near Bealiba they just turned over the soil with shovels and collected the nuggets (the "potatoes"). We were born in the wrong century..... A geo friend saw a youngster panning in China - he asked him how he was going and the kid reportedly pulled out a bag with a couple of kilos of gold in it. [/QUOTE]
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