Did a little bit of sluicing today.

[aushunter]

Went out to the river and run a cuppla bkts of dirt thru the E-Z sluice and did OK.
Gotta have a lot of water running thru this sluice to work properly and the result speaks for itself.
Nice and quiet until a car load of bogans turned up, music cranked up, but we stood our ground and stayed nonetheless,
Curiosity got the better of them and they decided to see what I was up too.
Nice lookin fish trap you got there bro, one started off with. With a small grin I had to come clean and explain to what I was doing.
After they left I panned out the following colors and to see some had garnets attached was unusual.


A closeup of garnet on the gold.



Had a swim with the boys to finish off the day.
Till next time. Cheers
Brad

 

[Ramjet]

Lovely pieces. Well done

 

[silver]

Ch ch ch ch chuuuunky.
Silver.

 

[Guest]

They look great, mostly jagged and not water worn or rounded.

Me thinks the host rocks are shedding gold not too far away.

A couple of buckets?????? Let me near that spot with the highbanker for a day and I ll show you a couple of grams in an hour!

Is the rusty red stains from gold shedding from an ironstone host? I have seen some red staining on small alluvial gold I have found as well.

Great spot and gold, thanks for sharing the adventure!

 

[yobskin]

Nice score mate! Your up marybrough way hey. Ive been finding some with rusty looking stuff attched just woundering now if its garnet??? What ya reckon...

 

[MJB]

great result there Aushunter...nice looking gold

 

[Bacchus]

"Couple of buckets" reckon I would be camped out on that spot , generator revving , music pumping , with my mega bogan hat on to keep all away while I cleaned up

Well done and good luck to you

 

[G0lddigg@]

very nice indeed go hard mate

 

[Ag Man]

That's a great result Brad.
Taken my nephews out panning a coupla times & also did the swim thing after. Good memories...

 

[Twapster]

How to make everyone jealous! Nice gold there Aushunter.

 

[Tige]

Nice very very very nice

 

[BoydWilliam]

Nice work! Well done

 

[Ryan1981]

"Couple of buckets" reckon I would be camped out on that spot , generator revving , music pumping , with my mega bogan hat on to keep all away while I cleaned up

Well done and good luck to you

Like the BCF add great idea,LOL

 

[Ryan1981]

Went out to the river and run a cuppla bkts of dirt thru the E-Z sluice and did OK.
Gotta have a lot of water running thru this sluice to work properly and the result speaks for itself.
Nice and quiet until a car load of bogans turned up, music cranked up, but we stood our ground and stayed nonetheless,
Curiosity got the better of them and they decided to see what I was up too.
Nice lookin fish trap you got there bro, one started off with. With a small grin I had to come clean and explain to what I was doing.
After they left I panned out the following colors and to see some had garnets attached was unusual.

http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/uu104/aushunter/gold%20with%20red%20stone%205_zpsb9yq47au.jpg
A closeup of garnet on the gold.

http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/uu104/aushunter/gold%20with%20red%20stone%202_zps83hnqwty.jpg

Had a swim with the boys to finish off the day.
Till next time. Cheers
Brad

Wow mate, that looks like a great spot,i would deffinatly be setting up the Hb if i was you, Ive never seen garnets attached to gold before, If you find a big Peice i could be worth some good$$$$$$$ cha ching to a collector

 

[G0lddigg@]

on the point of garnets on the gold i found some specimens like this myself although a little more reefy and fine. I showed my mate whoe's a geologist who told me its actually decomposed pyrites that have oxidized. may not be the case in your situation but it does look fairly similar. I reckon one of the geos could add some point of view.

 

[GaryO]

Did u weight all that up. Im impressed . I wouldnt have shown the bogans what u were doing tho .

 

[GaryO]

I noticed your sig.. " 35 years digging and you arent rich" with results like that the area could just make you rich

 

[yobskin]

on the point of garnets on the gold i found some specimens like this myself although a little more reefy and fine. I showed my mate whoe's a geologist who told me its actually decomposed pyrites that have oxidized. may not be the case in your situation but it does look fairly similar. I reckon one of the geos could add some point of view.

Ive seen some oxidized pyrites in my area heaps of fresh stuff lol.
But i have noticed some gold has it stained on it. Would i have garnet in my area?? .im just started getting interested in the rest of the fossicking gig .

 

[DigginForGold]

Went out to the river and run a cuppla bkts of dirt thru the E-Z sluice and did OK.
Gotta have a lot of water running thru this sluice to work properly and the result speaks for itself.
Nice and quiet until a car load of bogans turned up, music cranked up, but we stood our ground and stayed nonetheless,
Curiosity got the better of them and they decided to see what I was up too.
Nice lookin fish trap you got there bro, one started off with. With a small grin I had to come clean and explain to what I was doing.
After they left I panned out the following colors and to see some had garnets attached was unusual.

http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/uu104/aushunter/gold%20with%20red%20stone%205_zpsb9yq47au.jpg
A closeup of garnet on the gold.

http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/uu104/aushunter/gold%20with%20red%20stone%202_zps83hnqwty.jpg

Had a swim with the boys to finish off the day.
Till next time. Cheers
Brad

Wow....amazing stuff there. Reaaaally good job mate.

 

[G0lddigg@]

on the point of garnets on the gold i found some specimens like this myself although a little more reefy and fine. I showed my mate whoe's a geologist who told me its actually decomposed pyrites that have oxidized. may not be the case in your situation but it does look fairly similar. I reckon one of the geos could add some point of view.

Ive seen some oxidized pyrites in my area heaps of fresh stuff lol.
But i have noticed some gold has it stained on it. Would i have garnet in my area?? .im just started getting interested in the rest of the fossicking gig .

no idea mate.... if you have garnet you'll have garnet sands reall painfull white stuff. you should be able to see smashed garnet in your concentrates