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Looks to me that you've already got it worked out
Well Done mate. Mackka
On the way back to the city so I stopped at Creswick near campground 2.
Got this giant quartz bit with a bit of gold in it and a couple of small bits.
Don't have a funds jar so I've had to put the 2 bits in my tobacco pouch.
Hope I don't end up smoking them lol
Got this giant quartz bit with a bit of gold in it and a couple of small bits.
Don't have a funds jar so I've had to put the 2 bits in my tobacco pouch.
Hope I don't end up smoking them lol
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or flicking them out in the dark thinking they are a bit of stem
On the second piece, is that gold insitu in the quartz or is it a bit of alluvial stuck to the quartz with some mud? Or is it a bit of both? Hard to tell from the photos but it looks like two rounded alluvial bits stuck and 2 reefy bits that are actually part of the quartz…?
I think they are all in the quartz @Northeast . I tried to pick them out on site but they wouldn't budge. I'll try again in the morning.
I'll crush it and see. I don't think there is much in there. That's probably about it. It was the only side the detector was going of on.
The Mother Lode, you found it!
I got em @sand surfer . I was sure I found another bit making 3 all up but I couldn't find that tiny bit and I started thinking the heat had gotten to me. Got it in the end. Just smoked more lolor flicking them out in the dark thinking they are a bit of stem
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You must have had a very memorable year!
Well done, mate - that's great stuff and thank you for sharing the pic with us.
Remember over in Meekatharra some years ago getting a distinct signal from one side of a large quartz boulder. Just didn’t have anyway to smash the gold out of it and It was far too large for me to carry back to the car so I just turned it over so the signal side was face down and just left it there.
A few years later on my next trip I found the boulder again, rolled it back over and the signal was still there.
Had a mate with me this time and we got it back to where we had some more effective rock breaking tools In the car. Brushing a bit of dirt away from the boulder to see if we could spot the gold, the signal vanished.
The gold had just been a nugget stuck to the outside of the boulder by clay.
Could have been a disaster if it had fallen off anytime while we were busting our guts rolling/carrying it about a hundred yards.
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My best so far. Found the large nugget 9g and the specie 8g on the same day! 17.76g on the day. 10x my previous best day.You must have had a very memorable year!
Well done, mate - that's great stuff and thank you for sharing the pic with us.
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HaHa, from a distance they looked to be chunks of a rich reef of gold, perhaps they were.......
Yeah possibly were at some time. There are a lot of places around Creswick where there are squillions of quartz rocks strewn around from all the old time diggings.HaHa, from a distance they looked to be chunks of a rich reef of gold, perhaps they were.......
Crikey, I really thought they were bigger than that.
Out this morning for 2 hours with the daughter. Always nice to get some yellow when one of the kids is tagging along.
1st bit for 2023 
Beautiful. I'd be happy with that
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