Today's chase

[Goldtarget]

Last pic for a while, bit of a heavy schedule in front of me, and taking some time off work shortly so I'll put will that together in one proper post. Went to a completely different area today after catching up with a mate. Driving along on my way home saw a good looking signs in the terrain. Grabbed out the pan, got rained on but pulled some more promising colours including a nice picker. Have to keep this one in the memory bank for the next flood.

Took me a while to find my groove that was the result of about 20 pans. Lack of fines due to the dirt, not omitted, just a lack of them, but I'll take the best bits. This really just shows that if you put your mind to understanding stream dynamics and put in a little work in a known gold area the gold will come. With any luck I'll get to putting up a proper post showing good areas to try and why one day soon for the newer guys, it sure helps me.

 

[20x]

kool,ive got some bedrock dip angle, creek material, energy absorbsion deflection theorys to add that may help predict or explain whats down there without digging.

 

[Goldtarget]

That's a conversation that needs to be had.... I'm always looking for new answers to the oldest question.

 

[TTKooAu]

That's some nice colour you have there Goldtarget. I'm liking this topic. I need to understand the signs better.

 

[Barney91]

That would be great gold target. Pictures and explanations to help us all understand those creeks more

 

[20x]

That's a conversation that needs to be had.... I'm always looking for new answers to the oldest question.

a crack at wording it simply...

full/flood flow = boulder/cobble grinding of bedrock. if dip angle is vertical or past vertical(cheese grated)the foliations are absorbing 100% of the boulders energys and peeling peaks back and snapping them at the base or weakest point and at the same time creates large steps that are cleaned out and grinded at high flow.

if dip angle vertical or past vertical(like direction of sluice riffles)the material between peaks and foliations act as support to help absorb or deflect the energy of boulders so even in full/high/flood level flows the goods we want remain longer even when totally exposed.

where possible look at cuts in roads parallel to creeks or the dip angles and foliation directions where exposed. really important if your planning on digging below the usual surface inside bends/behind/below/in front of rocks and structures.

this is what ive learnt so far from doing a lot of working,thinking,sitting and observing 2 particulaly individual and totally reversed prospects of the same creek.

the difference of 1m out of a paystreak can be silver and flat colour, in the paystreak itself(defined by inside bend and lowest point grinded out of bedrock) shotty gold and mongrel mercury.

GT...I got to the bottom of that natural ford spot below the old stamper. colour deteriates the deeper I went. WRONG dip angle is the only explaination....?????

all just theory ok...hope it helps with food for thought for all!

oh and another thing lol...that last pic of the dam loop, from dam wall to below where im standing is fast water/descent drop in elevation over short distance. best gold was just below dam wall(same as ALL my gold drops in first section of sluice)...interesting!

 

[Goldtarget]

I'm going to sit down and dissect this. I come from what you might call a different angle, or viewpoint, on the topic, however this is not at all at odds with what you describe, just a different part of the total equation. My understanding comes from laminar flow patterns, hydraulic push and pull, contour and alignment, and velocity increase and decrease. I'm far from understanding the (total) concepts involved in deposit and accumulation theory, I work from observation and locality to define the patterns that deliver most consistent repeatable results, hence a coffee is my shout in furthering my understanding by explaining to me in detail your angle whenever we catch up. Thank you for your input mate. Anything that helps find the "orange" zone (the size of a typical deposit within a pay streak with the highest yield, the size of an orange) is good theory. Better to pick the oranges than the lemons as my oldest prospecting buddy says.

 

[20x]

I'm going to sit down and dissect this. I come from what you might call a different angle, or viewpoint, on the topic, however this is not at all at odds with what you describe, just a different part of the total equation. My understanding comes from laminar flow patterns, hydraulic push and pull, contour and alignment, and velocity increase and decrease. I'm far from understanding the (total) concepts involved in deposit and accumulation theory, I work from observation and locality to define the patterns that deliver most consistent repeatable results, hence a coffee is my shout in furthering my understanding by explaining to me in detail your angle whenever we catch up. Thank you for your input mate. Anything that helps find the "orange" zone (the size of a typical deposit within a pay streak with the highest yield, the size of an orange) is good theory. Better to pick the oranges than the lemons as my oldest prospecting buddy says.

im mainly just thinking of theorys to bedrock dip angles and that's just 1 dimension of many, throw different elevations,creek widths(some difined by foliation cut width when parallel), foliation directions both constant and changing over distances of creek sections that also change in derection themselves. ...this equation is like decoding the matrix bro

but we will try :lol: