⭐ Alluvial Show n Tell

[sand surfer]

well done goody , looks good mate

 

[jamiealdridge]

Couple of hours testing. Taking my daughters boyfriend out next weekend for his first prospecting adventure and have found a good spot to use the highbanker.

 

[DrDuck]

More superfine Oallen gold from a couple of hours testing. Beautiful day out yesterday.

 

[20x]

Continuing from my last post in the same gully..
Went up stream and did 3 X 3hr sample sessions in all the usual zones and got nothing.
End of the 3rd session I went back to where I started to hopefully get some more colour and got nothing again.
Feeling defeated I sat down and rolled a smoke while watching Darth hunt mice. Then I noticed about 10 metres down there was a flat chocke point about 1.5 metres long.
So I removed the chocked cobbles to find a thin layer of dark wash on top of a clayey bottom.
So I grabbed a pan full and started planning it out. When I got down to the swirl off the blonde point I noticed I had a concerntration of shot sized magnetite and iron stone.
Finally I had a smile on my face and under that was a couple of little chunky bits.
Happy with that I went back to camp.
I've just got back from panning that little section out which took about 2 hours.
The result..

Biggest bit is 0.12..what a challenge but I won

 

[Jaros]

Persistence pays hey!! :goldnugget: :goldnugget:

 

[Mackka]

Excellent work as always mate.
Mackka

 

[HippyProspecting]

Nice pan indeed 20xwater

 

[20x]

Persistence pays hey!! :goldnugget: :goldnugget:

Credit goes to Aussie bloke prospector and his mention of choke points.
I've done well in flat zones with clay bottom before but never sampled a flat choke point well above bedrock.
My result is a combination.

 

[Mackka]

Must read up on that point.
Mackka

 

[20x]

Must read up on that point.
Mackka

It's in one of his recent mountain gold vids. Very inspiring prospector erfect:

 

[20x]

PS..
I'm in a NSW state forest but it's a pocket of ground among private property's governed by a conservative group thats video surveyed.
They hate my presence coz I know, so I smile and wave at the cameras lmao

 

[goody2shoes]

Wish I could find some chunky gold in my pan

 

[20x]

Same gully new zone..
Another flat choke point but this time with a basalt bottom, it's blocky with multiple dip and folliation changes.
Main channel had a clayey bottom but no heavy shot material and no gold.
Along one side there is a weed root Matt edge so I spent a couple of hours panning that and got.

At the end of the session I dug a small hole about a metre over down through the weed Matt and down through the clayey blonde wash and found stinky dark material, basalt was rotten and sharply folliated.
Smashed into it and took a pan full, loaded with heavy shot but no colour.
To be continued..
(That bit is 0.11)

 

[HippyProspecting]

Nice score 20xwater ickshovel: :goldpan: :goldnugget:

 

[20x]

Nice score 20xwater ickshovel: :goldpan: :goldnugget:

The problem is mate, I'm making just as big of a mess as I would highbanking the lot.
#wasted disturbance.

 

[goldtrapper]

Don't say that on here or they will ban panning next!!!

 

[G0lddigg@]

nice chunks there 20

 

[20x]

Don't say that on here or they will ban panning next!!!

Did a couple more pans in that test hole and got nothing so it's not worth the disturbance.
Back in the main channel and slowly working my way up the flat zone crevices and starting to get heavy shot and a little bit of colour..

 

[jamiealdridge]

Must read up on that point.
Mackka

It's in one of his recent mountain gold vids. Very inspiring prospector erfect:

he mentions choke points a lot in this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTR_3dtkt6A

 

[Mackka]

Thanks Jamie i had a bit of a read and i get the principle. Thanks I will have a watch.
Mackka