Hi all
We are new to gold prospecting. My 10 year old son got interested after doing a school project on the Victorian Goldfields. He got so keen we got him a pan and we went to Warrandyte. He spent hours panning and to our surprise he found specks of gold. One thing led to another and I spent the winter hauling dirt from a dried creek in Research for him to sluice. Further down the track I get the fever also, we get a break of luck and manage to get us a Minelab GPZ7000. We've (son is 13 now) only been out 5 times but we have found two sub-gram nuggets. The third time we went out we found a specimen but we don't know how to accurately weight the gold in it. Can anyone advise an accurate way to weigh the gold in it. Anyway, its a great endeavour and most enjoyable whether we find anything or not.
We are new to gold prospecting. My 10 year old son got interested after doing a school project on the Victorian Goldfields. He got so keen we got him a pan and we went to Warrandyte. He spent hours panning and to our surprise he found specks of gold. One thing led to another and I spent the winter hauling dirt from a dried creek in Research for him to sluice. Further down the track I get the fever also, we get a break of luck and manage to get us a Minelab GPZ7000. We've (son is 13 now) only been out 5 times but we have found two sub-gram nuggets. The third time we went out we found a specimen but we don't know how to accurately weight the gold in it. Can anyone advise an accurate way to weigh the gold in it. Anyway, its a great endeavour and most enjoyable whether we find anything or not.
