Awsome site, glad to be a member!

[jamescav]

Hi their fellow prospectors, my names James. Ive been checking out this site the last couple of nights and I am super impressed by how inventive and helpful people here are. Straight of the bat I've already built my bunnings sluice. very cool!! Im a south Australian these days but spent quite a bit of my childhood around marybough vic. These days I usually detect over in WA. Thus the nuggs in my profile pick. However just recently ive had some luck in Adelaide. Starting to learn a bit more about prospecting and panning. The pieces I found were barely bigger than a pin head but I know theres more!! Anyway just a quick intro and hopfully some good stories to come. Cheers.

 

[Nugget]

Welcome James and thanks for joining the forum. They're some real nice looking nuggs in your profile pic, I hope the gold gods keep them coming.

 

[Coyote]

Welcome James,
all the best with the prospecting.

CW

 

[headbut]

There are quite a few SA members & I am sure they will be very interested in your LOCAL finds

 

[dryhorrors]

welcome to the forum mate, would love to see your finds
cheers HH drys

 

[Ramjet]

Welcome to PA James.
Nice nugs
Glad you've already found the forum helpful.

Cheers

Ramjet

 

[Twapster]

Now u need to make a Walbanker! Welcome

 

[Reeks]

Hi their fellow prospectors, my names James. Ive been checking out this site the last couple of nights and I am super impressed by how inventive and helpful people here are. Straight of the bat I've already built my bunnings sluice. very cool!! Im a south Australian these days but spent quite a bit of my childhood around marybough vic. These days I usually detect over in WA. Thus the nuggs in my profile pick. However just recently ive had some luck in Adelaide. Starting to learn a bit more about prospecting and panning. The pieces I found were barely bigger than a pin head but I know theres more!! Anyway just a quick intro and hopfully some good stories to come. Cheers.

Welcome James,
Glad your happy with the Bunnings sluice, i'm amazed how many people have made them- thought it would get more laughs than anything.
I am keen to start detecting for gold myself and one day would like to explore w.a
Reeko

 

[jamescav]

Cheers for the greeting all and thanks Reeks for the inspiration, might be a while building a walbanker though Twapster. Ive been watching wal&liz a bit on youtube, pretty inspiring stuff. Im of to W.A again in april so fingers crossed. I usualy go once a year and have gone for the last 5. Awsome country out there. In the meantime its the adelaide hills for me. The stark difference in approach is that you can detect for days in W.A and find nothing, but spend a couple hrs in the hills and at least get a speck. that said it takes alot of specks to equal one W.A nugget hahaha.
One question too Reeks, Do you run "miners moss/carpet" under the riffles?? cant quite tell from the pics.

 

[Wally69]

Welcome James, I would love to amass a handful of gold like yours, great work!

I couldn't agree more with your thoughts on the quality of topics and contributors on this forum, there is plenty on offer to keep the learning curve going.

Good to see you have joined the bunnings sluice movement, I have found this project a great entry point into do-it-yourself prospecting equipment and aim to master a walbanker one day as a result.

Wally

 

[Snowy]

welcome James I too am a relative new comer to this club and so far it seems like a pretty decent one at that

 

[Reeks]

Cheers for the greeting all and thanks Reeks for the inspiration, might be a while building a walbanker though Twapster. Ive been watching wal&liz a bit on youtube, pretty inspiring stuff. Im of to W.A again in april so fingers crossed. I usualy go once a year and have gone for the last 5. Awsome country out there. In the meantime its the adelaide hills for me. The stark difference in approach is that you can detect for days in W.A and find nothing, but spend a couple hrs in the hills and at least get a speck. that said it takes alot of specks to equal one W.A nugget hahaha.
One question too Reeks, Do you run "miners moss/carpet" under the riffles?? cant quite tell from the pics.

I run about 150mm of no matting, then the blue floor rubber (flat side down) then the rest is bayliss door matt loop pile.
I think the mist important part is to have the matting firmly squished against the bottom, otherwise your gold will be flushed out underneath.
Feed it with a small trowel as fast as you want, run it nice and low angle with decent water flow and it will catch mosquito poop size and up.
Cheers
Reeko

 

[jamescav]

Thanks Reeks. My build is lookin pretty good. Will try it out in the next couple days when ive got a bit more gold, wohooo!