Driving Canberra to Melbourne in early Dec

[user 1769]

Well, I spent three days around Dunolly and Moliagul a couple of weekends ago, and I at least managed not to come home empty-handed.
I found 14 small bits (only 12 in the picture), for a total of 1.3 g, plus a larger specimen with a couple of grams of gold in it. I haven't weighed it in water yet.
Thanks to Gypsy who came out with me two of the days! If you get down to Tassie I hope I can pay you back!

 

[Tathradj]

Very nice haul mate.
Well Done.

 

[Guest]

Great nuggets and speccie Miguel. Good to see ya got a few pieces on your journey.

 

[Chewy]

Very nice haul there Miguel well done mate.

 

[GypsyGoldAu]

...was great to catch up fella, and even better to see you get some of that haul.

Nice to see it's a quartz specie and not an ironstone one like it was looking to be....cleaned up real nice (as did the others).

And for all the members reading, he failed to mention that this little haul ALSO.......rounded off his VERY 1ST OUNCE in weight.....

Modesty also prevented him from rubbing my face in it by failing to mention i got skunked both days i was out with him....and the day after as well... :8

CONGRATULATIONS AND MAY YOU FIND MANY MORE....

Gypsy

 

[GypsyGoldAu]

Oh yeah....being a botanist i bet you have access to some crazy wild microscopes.....do yourself a favor and have a look under one of those...and some micro-pics would be great if possible (especially the specie).



GGA

 

[user 1769]

Thanks Gypsy!
Oh, yeah, I forgot about hitting my first ounce! Might mostly be made up of microscopic crumbs, but an ounce is an ounce!
Can't wait to get back up there, but probably at a cooler time of year, it was mid-high 30s all three days!

It looks like the sign DID lead me to gold! https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=210679#p210679

 

[GypsyGoldAu]

Lol...yeah i read that thread earlier and that was what prompted me to mention it in the first place ( i actually thought how right Casper's response was and that YOU too, are now in the 'know' ) ... ( :8 ....i'm now concerned i've given away a secret ....and now it's too late to change without Admins help )...sorry bout that,....but STILL STOKED for your recent additions...and yeah, i do more on the ground when its late winter/early spring or wait till Autumn/early winter.

I still go out on the warm times, just smartly like we did by early morns/late evenings seems to work best. Even better if the ground has plenty of o/head canopy cover and a few clouds....geez, don't want much eh? :lol:

GGA

 

[Brutus and me]

nice work

 

[Guest]

I'd love to look at that speccie through a loupe. That photo is very cool. What did you use to take the photos? if you don't mind me asking Miguel?

Cheers, NG

 

[user 1769]

Hi Gypsy, NeoGeo,

The photos are taken with a Pentax K5 camera and a Pentax DFA 100mm f/2.8 Macro WR lens, in diffuse light (by a south-side window), on white card paper. They're almost at 1:1 macro. Not as good as a microscope but pretty cool.

I'll be cleaning the nuggets in Alibrite, I can take a picture under the work microscope when they're done.

 

[Guest]

Hi Gypsy, NeoGeo,

The photos are taken with a Pentax K5 camera and a Pentax DFA 100mm f/2.8 Macro WR lens, in diffuse light (by a south-side window), on white card paper. They're almost at 1:1 macro. Not as good as a microscope but pretty cool.

I'll be cleaning the nuggets in Alibrite, I can take a picture under the work microscope when they're done.

Thanks Miguel another pic (super magnification) would be sweet. That side of the speccie has some interesting gold ridges/plates and it almost looks like its got veins of gold? It's probably the ironstone, but it still looks amazing. Gotta get me a macro lens. Maybe a 2x and/or a teleconverter. Ya cant beat insects under macro and nice gold is good too

Cheers, NG

 

[greencheeks77]

Well, I spent three days around Dunolly and Moliagul a couple of weekends ago, and I at least managed not to come home empty-handed.
I found 14 small bits (only 12 in the picture), for a total of 1.3 g, plus a larger specimen with a couple of grams of gold in it. I haven't weighed it in water yet.
Thanks to Gypsy who came out with me two of the days! If you get down to Tassie I hope I can pay you back!
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1769/1450080316_vic_gold_151212_01.jpg
https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/1769/1450080316_vic_gold_151212_02.jpg

Top effort
Don't be put off from Eldorado, My sources told me only just recently they found a 1 gram piece they were either high banking or sluicing and in recent years their has been plenty of small nuggets like between 1 and 3 gram chunks found with detectors that is also around reedy creek and if you were allowed there are seasonal creeks that run into reedy creek that was not uncommon to find 3 and 5 gram nuggets and still just wait to be detected so it really is a top spot but yes on average you only get fine gold from reedy creek and large terminated smoky quartz some as big as your fingers.....