Nexen
Brendan
Hi guys been a while since iv made a post so decided to share a few bits and pieces from the last couple of months. They were not wrong about how fine and elusive our gold is in the south of the state! I ended up making a little rocker box first as most areas iv been looking in has little or no water which is a major pain.. found a few colours here and there but very few and far between so panning was an easyer option. Have been planning a trip away to the west coast for a while now so decided to make a river sluice based on Wals high banker design. The first design is made from local cheap pine 9 inches wide and just under 1m long "sluices in tas must be under 1m".. The second design requires less water and is the same length but only 6 inches wide made from channel. Had to play around with the boiler section and bread create section but pretty happy with the results the rocker and both sluices all catch the flour gold so im pretty happy lol i stuck with the steel pan for a few months then upgraded to using the minelab pro pan now iv recently got the garrett super sluice as a birthday present and has made sampling much quicker and easyer to use. My gold total since xmass is well over 100 pieces but due to it being so fine it still doesnt register 0.01 so its flour gold alright! Photo is of some courser pieces. As soon as i can get to our other gold fields im sure that will soon change "fingers crossed the photos turn out" Cheers