What is your biggest cleanout?
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.1 or .2 i think, wasnt bloody much for the effort i put in...........i dont go there any more 8.(
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Mudguts said:
LOL . Now that's gold.
0.000g...... yet to find any. Hopefully there is some in the bucket from when I took the highbanker for a test run at the Ford the other day. One flake is all I need, then at least I can say I've found some....I think it will be like diving for lobsters, the first one is always the hardest and when you finally see one all of a sudden there everywhere.....I can only hope anyway. 
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Built a 6 foot sluice 400mm wide and shovelled through it all day
Got about 1gram' I just stick to detecting these days.
Got about 1gram' I just stick to detecting these days.
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You should mail her your prophile pic an say" hey I traded up ! )...Mudguts said:
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1994, I was still a pup, with two older guys who's fathers had owned a dredge before the ban. Absolute gold nuts, in a gully that has two reefs shed into it (now inaccessable) banking and me panning for some good colour, three consecutive days of solid figures each (in grams not ounces) was awesome. But like every great story there's a down side, gold was worth next to nothing, and so when the guys sold it I brought a nice bmx big and had some pocket money for the next couple of weeks. I often dream of going back there but the current occupier loves two things more than gold, his firearms and his legal rights.
I've had some productive days on my own but never hit double figures in a day. A solid day is getting as close to a gram as possible, over that is good luck. Its surprising how as you collect it up here and there how the weight seems to grow. Often and small returns are more to my liking than going out say 4 times a year looking for a big haul.
I've had some productive days on my own but never hit double figures in a day. A solid day is getting as close to a gram as possible, over that is good luck. Its surprising how as you collect it up here and there how the weight seems to grow. Often and small returns are more to my liking than going out say 4 times a year looking for a big haul.
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About .9g in about 5 hours running the Walbanker for the first time (about 5 minutes walk from my backyard). My aim is to take it out again and top 1 gram in a single day - shouldn't be too hard... just need to scout out a new location!
around 0.9 of a gram from Oallen ford
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Hey Baz did you get 0.9 at that spot yesterday?bazza2210 said:
kleinman98 said:
Nahh yesterday was lucky to be about .1 - still not bad for a dozen or so pans , my .9 was several weeks ago with my highbanker
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never had enough to worry about weighing, I reckon about 50 specs after running about 12 buckets through the highbanker. its never worried me much how much I get, I just love to see some gold in the pan after the cleanout. best part is that I am still digging in the same spot and it is flogged to death because its the first and easiest spot to get to. not to mention that where I dig usually looks a lot different each time I go back because someone else lets me do the main dirt shifting and they go in and cleanout the crevises properly. its all in fun hey. I always have the detector in the car as well and always spend an hour or two swinging, still haven't found a cracker with the detector but I am used to it so I go looking for bullets and get excited with each one I dig, [ it stops the depression]
Best single pan was 3 grams from under a bloody big rock in a river in N,east vic.
Best cleanup was 6 grams for a few days tunneling & shoveling into a trommel.
Best cleanup was 6 grams for a few days tunneling & shoveling into a trommel.
am i allowed to say after the mrs "thai green curry" .............na probarbly shouldnt say that ......just forget it guys 8)
.............na probarbly shouldnt say that ......just forget it guys 8)
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I agree with Pirateandy , as long as you get something at the end of the day, its worth it. Lets face it , most don't do it for the money , as we would be broke. I am lucky if I get enough to pay for the pump fuel . As Tom Massie says , "its not about owning the gold , but finding the gold"
The difference between an average day & a good day is a few pickers, that knocks the weight up.
Our best is .4g for 5 hours
The difference between an average day & a good day is a few pickers, that knocks the weight up.
Our best is .4g for 5 hours
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