ProspectorPete videos

Both Prospector B and myself meet up once a month to do a bit of prospecting around the Gippsland area, the first video was of last months trip to a new spot we stumbled on the month prior. We did a quick clean up after every bucket of 1/2" classified material so we could track the streak of gold, very quick with the AM Grubstake.


The second video was taken yesterday when we returned to search for more gold from this spot.
Although the creek has very limited flow we managed to get my Gold Rat custom river sluice to run (just), it's a credit to G0lddigg@ who built me the sluice for small creek low flow situations, only 2 tiny specks and 2 small species were found in the miners moss, the rest of the gold was in the first 5 cm of hog mat, it was great to get this sluice wet again and great to only do a clean up before lunch and one at the end of the day, the amount of ironstone in the matting and miners moss was crazy for about 20 buckets of 1/2" classified material.
[video=480,360][/video]

Here's one of the little species from yesterday.

nice going PP and PB

What a magical little spot and pretty gold, thanks for sharing

Well done guys you got to be happy after all the hard work to be able to you get some gold at the end of the day.

Nice videos boys, it looks like a top location. Thanks for sharing it with us. Best of luck for the next time. Just a thought, have you tried any material from outside of the water flow? I have picked up some nice colour from a secondary flow line [the flood overflow] in one of the creeks that I have a dig in. Anyway you're having a good run so keep it up. Cheers, Rick

That's a nice piece of gold there Pete! The videos are good too

That's a good point Rick, once we are done in the creek we will probably start looking outside it. Good to hear that you have had some success with this approach, it gives me some hope!

Dry Blowing around Rushworth.
I went out last weekend dry blowing for gold around the Rushworth area and although the results weren't quite as good as the sampling of that spot previously it ended up a fun trip, we also sampled a reef that I'd known about for 12 months and the results are very promising for the next trip.

At first I was going to guess Old lead, but after a couple of views it doesn't show up the burn off.

The candle gums narrow it down to a few other places but not really familiar with where this was shot. Any way I hope you got some good gold.

Nice vid mate really enjoyed it.
Jon

Thanks guys, hoping to get out again in a couple of weeks time to sample some different spots depending on if we get much rain between now and then.

Nice vid mate. I want one of those hand bellows dry washer...on wheels...hahahaha

Great video mate. Thanks for taking the time and effort to put it together.

Cheers

can we use dry blowers anywhere?and do they miss much small gold

My first Kinder Surprise
I decided to hit record on my phone last Sunday after getting the target in a clump of orange clay at 7" deep, had that feeling about it.

Lovely find. Keep it up.

Congratulations Pete :Y: great video and find well done.