⭐ Alluvial Show n Tell

[jamiealdridge]

Bit of test panning from the other day - hope to get a good run at it this week. Come on guys - more show and tell...

 

[bumdags]

Jamie Your awesome hauls make everyone embarrassed about there tiny takes. Lol. Or it might just be me 8.(
Would love to know the weight

 

[Dave79]

Ha ha ha, haven't got a microscope so it's a bit hard to show what I've been getting but I can tell you that it's not impressive!

 

[HippyProspecting]

Nice gold as always Jamie :goldnugget:

Empty your pan and then feast your eyes on what I have found latley

 

[MrPyro89]

Found a deep pocket behind a large peice of bedrock running almost paralel with the creek at Ophir
At first i thought it would be crap because when I cleared the top few inches of gravel the hole was full of fine plant roots ( like a fine moss ) and very dark grey/black clay.
The first couple of pans I got a few small specks so I ket going and cleaned out the bottom of the hole by then it was full of dark almost black water and muddy clay.
I put it all in the pan and sat by the water and worked through the clay moss/ roots and got rid of all the gravels.
i was shocked to see lots of flaky peices of gold Micxed amongst the fine gravel and sand.
I asked the digger to start recording while i did the last part of the clean up and washed away the sand.
You can hear me saying a few times one pan And it was probably the best pan of the trip too.

[video=480,360]https://youtu.be/1IMGoUlc0Ko[/video]

https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...3863_ce47df8b-4f22-4235-8f80-c3d9fe5e5cd0.jpg

I think i need to get out for a day with you panning!! thats some decent flakes gold you have found there

 

[nucopia]

More ass then class pyro
Mate woukd be good to catch up . Will Pm when we are heading out to Ophir next week erfect:

 

[Punter101]

Very nice gold for some test panning Jamie,
I'd be more than happy seeing that much on a full days take.

I'm keen as to get out for some scratching around but I've got some car dramas after nudging a wombat on Christmas eve, so need to get into a mechanic before any serious k's are done.

I'm hanging out for some colour!

 

[Pogo]

All state forests closed up my way atm, and been very time limited.

Should get a chance to head down to ne VIC early in the new year and might get something to show from that.

Got a Christmas credit to buy a GR Sluice as well, so keen to give it a run when I get it.

 

[Smoky bandit]

Bit of test panning from the other day - hope to get a good run at it this week. Come on guys - more show and tell...

https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...1171_323847ae-64a0-4fa6-bd43-8328298310a9.jpg

Mate with the amount of gold you find you could make a good living out of it. :Y: :beer:

 

[Dave79]

Few little reefy bits from the gully below an abandoned mine.

 

[Smoky bandit]

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/12713/1578207233_rps20200105_175223.jpg
Few little reefy bits from the gully below an abandoned mine.

Noice. :Y:

 

[20x]

This arvo I went to Thanes GPA, parked and went for a walk with my dog from fence to fence in the creek.
The long straight section(I normally go first)was running parralel to the bedrock foliation so had no interest.
Plenty of current workings in the S bend so thought I would set up and sample them first..

Pan mods..

The current workings ground produced 1 colour to 3-4 pans.
So I thought I would check out the ground around the trees growing just offset to the middle of the main channel that's created a long island effect and started digging a narrow trench down to about 400mm.

Sampled from the existing surface down, below 200mm produced 1 colour per pan..

Fun little pan session

 

[LONEWOLF]

I like your modified pan 20X :Y:... Would have been a nice day out there today... And a bit of Gold as well... Bonus...

LW...

 

[jamiealdridge]

Very happy with this for an hour of panning

 

[Jaros]

--and so you should be. Well done.

 

[HippyProspecting]

You da man jamie

 

[sand surfer]

nice pan mate, shame you had to wreck with all that gold in it :lol:

 

[20x]

Very happy with this for an hour of panning

https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...6807_138c355c-29b1-4dce-b5ca-37875818ea18.jpg

Are ya getting leeches in ya pan?

 

[jamiealdridge]

Very happy with this for an hour of panning

https://www.prospectingaustralia.co...6807_138c355c-29b1-4dce-b5ca-37875818ea18.jpg

Are ya getting leeches in ya pan?

I got bit a couple of times today which wasnt very enjoyable but figured the sacrifice was worth it

 

[Dave79]

Back on the little stuff, only specks but plenty of them and in nice easy to process gravel instead of the rock hard clay in the dry creeks around here.