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Just making a new thread to post future prospects and digging outings! The weather has come forth, sun starting to gleam and the waterways low - back into the action and start getting some color again!
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Met up with Albundy today for a dig down a local creek and some recon to suss out a new location. Looking for bedrock, we trecked upstream ( we totally missed bedrock until returning to car ), managed to access a couple of areas where rock had been accumilating from the recent rains. First few pans were no show, so took to walking further upstream, hacking through the bush and finally hit a few specks resting in the first pans on a nice pointbar inside corner. We made this our resting place and dug for roughly an hour just enjoying being out in the sun and water. Each pan showing dusts of yellow, but all in all was awesome to get back into it again. Though one of us ended up wet arsed falling in the creek.. *cough* Al *cough*, it was a great reminder of how much fun it is to just go and have a dig, relax, even if the prospecting results are small. Great day mate, cheers!

Nice day, nice spot
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Nugget in there somewhere..
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Small.. but at least a trace ( plenty still stuck in the black sand )
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Not a bad little show of colour AR, could be some better potential there somewhere on the creek, looking forward to see how this thread progresses.
 
Got out again today into another creek to pan with a bloke for 2 hrs, small yield again but great to get out!
We are digging on the tail end of an alluvial fan that can be seen along the bank walls as you progress upstream. It seems most the gold today sat within an old flood layer of goop and white fragile clay. Sun was shining whole time, great fun :D

Behind a fallen tree
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Old alluvial
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Gravel layers showing color change
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2 hrs yield
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Nice looking spot AR, old flood layer sounds good. It's always nicer to be out bush when the sun is shining. :D
 
Looks good Ar...i would be over the moon getting that much in 2hrs...I think i might have to move back to the deep south :eek: :D
 
I managed to get up to the GT with an old mate for the new years weekend, left late Friday ( 11pm haha ), and got back home Tuesday 5pm. At the first camp site where we have been before, we had a few swings unfortunately my eureka coil copped a rock whack, overloaded and never wanted to ground thereafter, so when my mate got tired, I got to have a swing with his too. The usual bits of lead, nails, shot or cartridge remains and good old little rolled up dots of alluminium foil :lol: ..no gold had shown under the coil for the whole trip, but it was still fund to have a swing with them again. I did take the Ace 250 which seemed to handle the mineralisation o.k and pulled some more crud.

Between the camps and dodging the suns rays, we sampled and loamed a few areas, moving overburden out the way to clean the sandstone bedrock with crevace tool, but still only a couple of dots had shown after these efforts. The alluvial wall was still producing gold, but the difficulties of crushing wasnt what we wanted to be doing this trip, we did one or two pans to just see a few specks again from the gravels, but after moved onwards to the next campsite.

A lovely quartz hill trickled white rubble all over it and what seemed a possible mullock heap which we decided to setup camp nearby. Was a great view of all around, and the night sky was even better (except the last night when it seemed a storm was going to hit! ) At this location we cantinued some more detecting, still no gold had shown, so we set for one more last panning session that turned out rather bland again with only a few specks. I managed to follow some of the quartz and extract a couple of crystals, but they were very difficult to extract, solidly attached to the reef still.

So not heaps of gold, but again, a bloody nice trip just out and about on the field. We made a few detours to check out some views my mate had not seen yet, and to also get him away from alluvial diggings for a change to some surfacings and deeper workings. Sorry, bit if a boring one, am still to upload photos of crystals and specks of gold found lol cheers

Oh yeah- after we packed all the camp up and set to leave for home... flat tyre :lol:
Also brought back a bucket of rock to crush up and pan, fingers crossed

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Nice one AR :) Sounds like the mighty Falcon didn't want to go home with out a big nugget :p Is that a scorpion under uv? :eek: 8)
How is there no motorcross bikes there with all them mounds around :eek: there must be a crazy bush jump in there somewhere :lol: :lol:
I gota get out bush for a while, this suburbia s#$t is driving me nuts :lol: :lol:
 
silver - lovely country indeed. Lots of wildlife to hear and watch, plenty of rocks to lick, and plenty of grass seeds and burrs 8) :lol:

Albundy - your tine will come mate hehehe :D

B5 - Yes indeed that is a scorpion under UV mate! I went for a few walks using the torch and noticed these bright green suckers running all over the place, had to get a photo of one! Lol @ motox, there were two that went by going for a cruise closeby :D
 

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