⭐ Alluvial Show n Tell

[Danny13]

Panning skills might need improvement.

Chunky looking gold to miss with a pan.
Get a lease & washplant on that ground erfect:

Its a cost thing mbasko at the moment , but I have 2 other areas that might work . Learning as I go mbasko , what is the price of a washplant ?

 

[Brother]

Good on ya Danny13 awesome mate. :Y:

Hope you have found a top spot and get heaps man!

Rob

 

[mbasko]

Panning skills might need improvement.

Chunky looking gold to miss with a pan.
Get a lease & washplant on that ground erfect:

Its a cost thing mbasko at the moment , but I have 2 other areas that might work . Learning as I go mbasko , what is the price of a washplant ?

Washplant price would be relative to the lease & what you could do there + what would be feasible as far as costs vs returns. I.e Would usually come down to how many tonnes/hour of dirt you need to run in order to get "X" amount of gold to cover costs + be profitable. More tonnes/hour = more costs.
Could be anywhere from thousands through to hundreds of thousands for a small scale washplant & that's without lease start up costs/enviro bonds, earth moving equipment etc. etc.
It's doable but they don't make it easy for small scale operations now in states like NSW. I think we all dream of finding ground that we can get a lease on so good luck with it. :Y:

 

[TheMediocritist]

Panning skills might need improvement.

Chunky looking gold to miss with a pan.
Get a lease & washplant on that ground erfect:

Yeah, pan should be dished side up, not dished side down.

Nice gold though. :Y:

 

[Danny13]

Panning skills might need improvement.

Chunky looking gold to miss with a pan.
Get a lease & washplant on that ground erfect:

Its a cost thing mbasko at the moment , but I have 2 other areas that might work . Learning as I go mbasko , what is the price of a washplant ?

Washplant price would be relative to the lease & what you could do there + what would be feasible as far as costs vs returns. I.e Would usually come down to how many tonnes/hour of dirt you need to run in order to get "X" amount of gold to cover costs + be profitable. More tonnes/hour = more costs.
Could be anywhere from thousands through to hundreds of thousands for a small scale washplant & that's without lease start up costs/enviro bonds, earth moving equipment etc. etc.
It's doable but they don't make it easy for small scale operations now in states like NSW. I think we all dream of finding ground that we can get a lease on so good luck with it. :Y:

thanks mbasko - think one small step at a time and see how we go . Step one is detect a lease and step one goes well do a push and detect . Leases pegged are in WA so washplant is out of the question , more dryblowing country :Y:

 

[Danny13]

Good on ya Danny13 awesome mate. :Y:

Hope you have found a top spot and get heaps man!

Rob

Hey Rob ,

Thanks mate . Hows the rain up in Palmer - hope theres plenty of water for the washplant when you head out mate .

 

[Danny13]

Panning skills might need improvement.

Chunky looking gold to miss with a pan.
Get a lease & washplant on that ground erfect:

Yeah, pan should be dished side up, not dished side down.

Nice gold though. :Y:

Hahaha , yeah the black sands have been kicking my back and ass when panning , hence the switch to the spiral wheel.

 

[Joshlv]

Spent three days testing my new rocker box and im quite happy with the results.

 

[jamiealdridge]

Hi - been a while... no water here so grabbed some buckets of dirt and processed at home.

Still been getting out, just havent been posting my finds... no real reason just lazy I guess...

 

[jethro]

I hope thats a Jam Jar Jamie

 

[goldtrapper]

That's pretty gold!

 

[HippyProspecting]

Thanks for sharing Jamie :drooling:

 

[jethro]

I snuck up to a creek about 40minutes from home yesterday, only to find that there had been a thunderstorm the night before that we didnt getat home and the creek was about a foot higher and dirty compared to the week before. I had a quick rethink of the day plan and decided to check out a new spot further back down the stream and on the oppisite side that showed plenty of bedrock still out of the water. I had to launch the Kayak and paddle upsteam about 400metres to reach the opposite bank. I was lucky enough to drop straight onto a small depression in the bedrock on a flood wash that yielded some nice red gravels and grey clay. This and another narrow crevise gave up most of the .3grams in the pan below.

It was a short day as I had a late start and an early finish when another thundery downpour decided to make things decidedly damp. So I was only on the ground for about 3 hours. :|

 

[jamiealdridge]

I hope thats a Jam Jar Jamie

Haha I wish mate

 

[Pogo]

got out for a bit on my own while on a camping trip in NE Victoria with my son and his mate.

test panned a nice little gravel bar that showed up a bit of flood gold so ran three buckets through a grizzly gold trap sluice.

nice little show of colour in the test riffles in front of the fluid bed.

panned out cons.

might have to put in a bit more time next time Im down that way

 

[jamiealdridge]

Bloody love NE Vic. Gods country.

 

[Pogo]

Probably came from somewhere not too far from where you get some of yours Jamie

 

[Jaros]

Well done Pogo. Must've been nice in the cooler air.

 

[jethro]

Thats a nice little haul you have there pogo well done.

 

[jamiealdridge]

Didnt take long at all to get .35 out of this little hole - and there are so many more to go!